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“Lucrezia Borgia”
PROGRAMACIÓN LÍRICA DE A CORUÑA 2017 ÓPERA (en versión de concierto) “Lucrezia Borgia” Gaetano Donizetti Teatro Colón, 23 de septiembre (20.00 h.) PROGRAMACIÓN LÍRICA DE A CORUÑA 2017 EDITA Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña DISEÑO Y MAQUETACIÓN Lamarck Publicidad TRADUCCIÓN Roxelio Xabier García Romero IMPRIME Imprenta da Deputación da Coruña Gaetano Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia Ópera en un prólogo y dos actos, con libreto de Felice Romani, basado en el drama Lucrèce Borgia de Víctor Hugo, y música de Gaetano Donizetti, estrenada en el Teatro alla Scala de Milán el 26 de diciembre de 1833. REPARTO Lucrezia Borgia Mariella Devia, soprano Gennaro Celso Albelo, tenor Don Alfonso Luiz-Ottavio Faria, bajo Maffio Orsini Elena Belfiore, mezzosoprano Rustighello Francisco Corujo, tenor Astolfo Axier Sánchez, barítono Jacoppo Liverotto Enrique Alberto Martínez, tenor Apostolo Gazella David Sánchez, bajo Oloferno Vitellozzo Ramón Farto, tenor Ascanio Petrucci Pedro Martínez Tapia, barítono Gubetta Jeroboám Tejera, bajo Coro Gaos Fernando Briones, director Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia Andriy Yurkevych, director 6 Lucrezia Borgia Ópera en só un prólogo e dous actos, con libreto de Felice Romani, baseado no drama Lucrèce Borgia de Víctor Hugo, e música de Gaetano Donizetti, estreada no Teatro alla Scala de Milán o 26 de decembro de 1833. REPARTO Lucrezia Borgia Mariella Devia, soprano Gennaro Celso Albelo, tenor Don Alfonso Luiz-Ottavio Faria, baixo Maffio Orsini Elena Belfiore, mezzosoprano Rustighello Francisco Corujo, tenor Astolfo Axier Sánchez, barítono Jacoppo Liverotto Enrique Alberto Martínez, tenor Apostolo Gazella David Sánchez, baixo Oloferno Vitellozzo Ramón Farto, tenor Ascanio Petrucci Pedro Martínez Tapia, barítono Gubetta Jeroboám Tejera, baixo Coro Gaos Fernando Briones, director Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia Andriy Yurkevych, director 7 ARGUMENTO El prólogo se desarrolla en Venecia, y el drama en Ferrara, a comienzos del siglo XVI. -
Caterina Corner in Venetian History and Iconography Holly Hurlburt
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2009, vol. 4 Body of Empire: Caterina Corner in Venetian History and Iconography Holly Hurlburt n 1578, a committee of government officials and monk and historian IGirolamo Bardi planned a program of redecoration for the Sala del Maggior Consiglio (Great Council Hall) and the adjoining Scrutinio, among the largest and most important rooms in the Venetian Doge’s Palace. Completed, the schema would recount Venetian history in terms of its international stature, its victories, and particularly its conquests; by the sixteenth century Venice had created a sizable maritime empire that stretched across the eastern Mediterranean, to which it added considerable holdings on the Italian mainland.1 Yet what many Venetians regarded as the jewel of its empire, the island of Cyprus, was calamitously lost to the Ottoman Turks in 1571, three years before the first of two fires that would necessitate the redecoration of these civic spaces.2 Anxiety about such a loss, fear of future threats, concern for Venice’s place in evolving geopolitics, and nostalgia for the past prompted the creation of this triumphant pro- gram, which featured thirty-five historical scenes on the walls surmounted by a chronological series of ducal portraits. Complementing these were twenty-one large narratives on the ceiling, flanked by smaller depictions of the city’s feats spanning the previous seven hundred years. The program culminated in the Maggior Consiglio, with Tintoretto’s massive Paradise on one wall and, on the ceiling, three depictions of allegorical Venice in triumph by Tintoretto, Veronese, and Palma il Giovane. These rooms, a center of republican authority, became a showcase for the skills of these and other artists, whose history paintings in particular underscore the deeds of men: clothed, in armor, partially nude, frontal and foreshortened, 61 62 EMWJ 2009, vol. -
Constructing the Archive: an Annotated Catalogue of the Deon Van Der Walt
(De)constructing the archive: An annotated catalogue of the Deon van der Walt Collection in the NMMU Library Frederick Jacobus Buys January 2014 Submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Music (Performing Arts) at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Supervisor: Prof Zelda Potgieter TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DECLARATION i ABSTRACT ii OPSOMMING iii KEY WORDS iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION TO THIS STUDY 1 1. Aim of the research 1 2. Context & Rationale 2 3. Outlay of Chapters 4 CHAPTER 2 - (DE)CONSTRUCTING THE ARCHIVE: A BRIEF LITERATURE REVIEW 5 CHAPTER 3 - DEON VAN DER WALT: A LIFE CUT SHORT 9 CHAPTER 4 - THE DEON VAN DER WALT COLLECTION: AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE 12 CHAPTER 5 - CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 18 1. The current state of the Deon van der Walt Collection 18 2. Suggestions and recommendations for the future of the Deon van der Walt Collection 21 SOURCES 24 APPENDIX A PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING LIST 29 APPEDIX B ANNOTED CATALOGUE OF THE DEON VAN DER WALT COLLECTION 41 APPENDIX C NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSTITY LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES (NMMU LIS) - CIRCULATION OF THE DEON VAN DER WALT (DVW) COLLECTION (DONATION) 280 APPENDIX D PAPER DELIVERED BY ZELDA POTGIETER AT THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE DEON VAN DER WALT COLLECTION, SOUTH CAMPUS LIBRARY, NMMU, ON 20 SEPTEMBER 2007 282 i DECLARATION I, Frederick Jacobus Buys (student no. 211267325), hereby declare that this treatise, in partial fulfilment for the degree M.Mus (Performing Arts), is my own work and that it has not previously been submitted for assessment or completion of any postgraduate qualification to another University or for another qualification. -
Drugstore Liceo
al salir ... LAUNION Y EL FENIX f1M D RUGSTORE LICEO ESPAÑOL~ ~·s..-- - .......... - MIOAI.LA Ol OIO A1 MOno 1H n SIGUIO revistas postal es foto-cine discos casserres '::00 toda la no0 ... Domicilio Social: RESTAURANTE INTERMEZZO Paseo de la Castellana, '31 i a todas horas ! Estreno en España de CATERINA CORNARO Opera en un prólogo y dos actos 15 cuadrosl. libreto de GIACOMO SACCHERO CATERINA CORNARO música de GAET ANO DONIZETTI Versión actualizada por el maestro REPAR T O RUBINO PROFETA Caterina Cornara MONTSERRAT CABALLE Gherardo JAIME ARAGALL Lusignano RENATO BRUSON Andrea Cornara ANTONIO BORRAS Mocenigo SILVANO PAGLIUCA Strozzi JOSE MANZANEDA Matilde CECILIA FONDEVILA Un caballero JOSE RUIZ Caro General Cuerpo de Baíle Maestro Director CARLO F. CILLARIO INAUGURACION Director de Escena DIEGO MONJO Decorades NICOLA BENOIS DE LA TEMPORADA Maestro de Caro RICCARDO BOmNO Coreógrafo y Maestro de Baile JUAN MAGRifiiA Maestro Apuntador JOAN DORNEMANN JUEVES 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1973 Vestuario: lzquierdo. - Muebles: Miró. - Zapateria y peluqueria: Damaret-Valldeperas. - Atrezzo y armeria NOC HE propledad de la Empresa. 1. 1 de propiedad y abono a noches OROUESTA SINFONICA DEL GRAN TEATRO DEL LICEO Turnos B y Extraordinar(o El vestuario de la Sra. Caballé, es una creaclón de Modas Fefe. ARGUMENTO La acción tiene lugar en Venecia y Nicosia en 1.472 prólogo CUADRO I El salón d e ballPe del alacio Cornaro, en Venecia Los lnvltados estan reunidos para festejar los esponsales entre Caterina, hlja de Andrea Cornara y Gherardo. un joven noble francés. La feliz pareja esta preparandose para ir a la iglesla cuando una extraña mascara se acer ca a Andrea. -
Staged Treasures
Italian opera. Staged treasures. Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and Gioacchino Rossini © HNH International Ltd CATALOGUE # COMPOSER TITLE FEATURED ARTISTS FORMAT UPC Naxos Itxaro Mentxaka, Sondra Radvanovsky, Silvia Vázquez, Soprano / 2.110270 Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Plácido Domingo, Tenor / Roberto Accurso, DVD ALFANO, Franco Carmelo Corrado Caruso, Rodney Gilfry, Baritone / Juan Jose 7 47313 52705 2 Cyrano de Bergerac (1875–1954) Navarro Bass-baritone / Javier Franco, Nahuel di Pierro, Miguel Sola, Bass / Valencia Regional Government Choir / NBD0005 Valencian Community Orchestra / Patrick Fournillier Blu-ray 7 30099 00056 7 Silvia Dalla Benetta, Soprano / Maxim Mironov, Gheorghe Vlad, Tenor / Luca Dall’Amico, Zong Shi, Bass / Vittorio Prato, Baritone / 8.660417-18 Bianca e Gernando 2 Discs Marina Viotti, Mar Campo, Mezzo-soprano / Poznan Camerata Bach 7 30099 04177 5 Choir / Virtuosi Brunensis / Antonino Fogliani 8.550605 Favourite Soprano Arias Luba Orgonášová, Soprano / Slovak RSO / Will Humburg Disc 0 730099 560528 Maria Callas, Rina Cavallari, Gina Cigna, Rosa Ponselle, Soprano / Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Ebe Stignani, Mezzo-soprano / Marion Telva, Contralto / Giovanni Breviario, Paolo Caroli, Mario Filippeschi, Francesco Merli, Tenor / Tancredi Pasero, 8.110325-27 Norma [3 Discs] 3 Discs Ezio Pinza, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Bass / Italian Broadcasting Authority Chorus and Orchestra, Turin / Milan La Scala Chorus and 0 636943 132524 Orchestra / New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / BELLINI, Vincenzo Vittorio -
Portrait of Caterina Cornaro (1454 –1510) Dressed As St Catherine of Alexandria C.1542 (Oil on Canvas) by Titian (C.1588 –1576)
ORC48 Box cover and CD faces : Portrait of Caterina Cornaro (1454 –1510) dressed as St Catherine of Alexandria c.1542 (oil on canvas) by Titian (c.1588 –1576). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy/ The Bridgeman Art Library Book cover : Caterina Cornaro by Hans Makart (1840 –1884). © Belvedere, Vienna Opposite : Gaetano Donizetti (Opera Rara Archive) –1– Gaetano Donizetti CATERINA CORNARO Tragedia lirica in a prologue and two acts Libretto by Giacomo Sacchèro Caterina Cornaro............................................................Carmen Giannattasio Andrea Cornaro, Caterina’s father ..........................................Graeme Broadbent Gerardo, a young Frenchman ( in the prologue bethrothed to Caterina ).....................................................................Colin Lee Lusignano, King of Cyprus ..................................................................Troy Cook Mocenigo, a counsellor of the Dieci in Venice and Venetian ambassador in Cyprus .................................................................Vuyani Mlinde Strozzi, a leader of mercenary cut-throats ...............................................Loïc Félix A Knight of the King...........................................................................Loïc Félix Matilde, Caterina’s confidante .........................................................Sophie Bevan Knights, Ladies, Gondoliers, Populace, Soldiers, Cut-throat ruffians, Guards BBC Singers Renato Balsadonna, chorus director BBC Symphony Orchestra Stephen Bryant, leader David Parry, conductor -
EJ Full Draft**
Reading at the Opera: Music and Literary Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy By Edward Lee Jacobson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfacation of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Mary Ann Smart, Chair Professor James Q. Davies Professor Ian Duncan Professor Nicholas Mathew Summer 2020 Abstract Reading at the Opera: Music and Literary Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy by Edward Lee Jacobson Doctor of Philosophy in Music University of California, Berkeley Professor Mary Ann Smart, Chair This dissertation emerged out of an archival study of Italian opera libretti published between 1800 and 1835. Many of these libretti, in contrast to their eighteenth- century counterparts, contain lengthy historical introductions, extended scenic descriptions, anthropological footnotes, and even bibliographies, all of which suggest that many operas depended on the absorption of a printed text to inflect or supplement the spectacle onstage. This dissertation thus explores how literature— and, specifically, the act of reading—shaped the composition and early reception of works by Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and their contemporaries. Rather than offering a straightforward comparative study between literary and musical texts, the various chapters track the often elusive ways that literature and music commingle in the consumption of opera by exploring a series of modes through which Italians engaged with their national past. In doing so, the dissertation follows recent, anthropologically inspired studies that have focused on spectatorship, embodiment, and attention. But while these chapters attempt to reconstruct the perceptive filters that educated classes would have brought to the opera, they also reject the historicist fantasy that spectator experience can ever be recovered, arguing instead that great rewards can be found in a sympathetic hearing of music as it appears to us today. -
Lucia Di Lammermoor GAETANO DONIZETTI MARCH 3 – 11, 2012
O p e r a B o x Teacher’s Guide table of contents Welcome Letter . .1 Lesson Plan Unit Overview and Academic Standards . .2 Opera Box Content Checklist . .9 Reference/Tracking Guide . .10 Lesson Plans . .12 Synopsis and Musical Excerpts . .44 Flow Charts . .49 Gaetano Donizetti – a biography .............................56 Catalogue of Donizetti’s Operas . .58 Background Notes . .64 Salvadore Cammarano and the Romantic Libretto . .67 World Events in 1835 ....................................73 2011–2012 SEASON History of Opera ........................................76 History of Minnesota Opera, Repertoire . .87 così fan tutte WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Standard Repertory ...................................91 SEPTEMBER 25 –OCTOBER 2, 2011 Elements of Opera .......................................92 Glossary of Opera Terms ..................................96 silent night KEVIN PUTS Glossary of Musical Terms . .101 NOVEMBER 12 – 20, 2011 Bibliography, Discography, Videography . .105 werther Evaluation . .108 JULES MASSENET JANUARY 28 –FEBRUARY 5, 2012 Acknowledgements . .109 lucia di lammermoor GAETANO DONIZETTI MARCH 3 – 11, 2012 madame butterfly mnopera.org GIACOMO PUCCINI APRIL 14 – 22, 2012 FOR SEASON TICKETS, CALL 612.333.6669 620 North First Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401 Kevin Ramach, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL DIRECTOR Dale Johnson, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dear Educator, Thank you for using a Minnesota Opera Opera Box. This collection of material has been designed to help any educator to teach students about the beauty of opera. This collection of material includes audio and video recordings, scores, reference books and a Teacher’s Guide. The Teacher’s Guide includes Lesson Plans that have been designed around the materials found in the box and other easily obtained items. In addition, Lesson Plans have been aligned with State and National Standards. -
Music, Art and ~Ite~Ature . . ; John Vv. Butler
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SWR2 Musikstunde
SWR2 MANUSKRIPT SWR2 Musikstunde Gaetano Donizetti – Meister des Belcantos (5) Mit Ulla Zierau Sendung: 2. Februar 2018 Redaktion: Dr. Ulla Zierau Bitte beachten Sie: Das Manuskript ist ausschließlich zum persönlichen, privaten Gebrauch bestimmt. Jede weitere Vervielfältigung und Verbreitung bedarf der ausdrücklichen Genehmigung des Urhebers bzw. des SWR. Service: SWR2 Musikstunde können Sie auch als Live-Stream hören im SWR2 Webradio unter www.swr2.de Kennen Sie schon das Serviceangebot des Kulturradios SWR2? Mit der kostenlosen SWR2 Kulturkarte können Sie zu ermäßigten Eintrittspreisen Veranstaltungen des SWR2 und seiner vielen Kulturpartner im Sendegebiet besuchen. Mit dem Infoheft SWR2 Kulturservice sind Sie stets über SWR2 und die zahlreichen Veranstaltungen im SWR2-Kulturpartner-Netz informiert. Jetzt anmelden unter 07221/300 200 oder swr2.de 1 SWR2 Musikstunde mit Ulla Zierau 29. Januar – 02. Februar 2018 Gaetano Donizetti – Meister des Belcantos (5) Mit Ulla Zierau und einem Italiener in Wien. Auch am Kärntnertor-Theater liebt das Publikum den schönen Gesang. Die Wiener tragen Gaetano Donizetti auf Händen. Herzlich willkommen zur letzten Folge über den Meister des Belcantos. (0’15) Titelmusik Mit Mitte 40 will es Gaetano Donizetti noch einmal wissen. Er erobert neues Terrain. Der Theaterintendant und Jugendfreund Bartolomeo Merelli lädt ihn nach Wien ans Kärntnertor-Theater ein. Eine willkommende Abwechslung. Zu Hause in Italien ist es ohnehin ein wenig ungemütlich geworden. In Neapel hat sich Saverio Mercadante in den Vordergrund gedrängt und den Direktorenposten am Konservatorium ergattert. In Mailand macht ein neuer Opernstar von sich reden, der junge Giuseppe Verdi. Mit seinem Nabucco hat er Aufsehen erregt. Bereits in der ersten Spielzeit wird die Oper 40mal gegeben. -
Bartók Gergely: „A Török Itáliában…”
„A török Itáliában…” Leyla Gencer portréja Nagyapám, Papp Jenő Imre emlékére Bartók Gergely 2016 „Nem nagyon sok idő telik el, s nemcsak neved és személyed feledi el tökéletesen és maradéktalanul a világ, nemcsak műved emlékét lepi be a feledés pora, hanem műved anyaga is elporlad, a könyvek papírja és vászonkötése elillan a semmiségben, a képek, melyeket festettél, nem láthatók többé sehol a világon, s a márványszobrokat, alkotásaidat, finom porrá morzsolta az idő. Mindez egészen biztosan bekövetkezik, s az idő óráján csak másodpercek teltek el, míg te, s minden, amit jelentettél a világban, tökéletesen és maradék nélkül megsemmisül…” /Márai Sándor/ Gina Cigna, Iris Adami Corradetti, Maria Caniglia, Carla Gavazzi, Clara Petrella, Marcella Pobbe, Gigliola Frazzoni, Antonietta Stella, Rosanna Carteri, Anita Cerquetti… Csak néhány név – a teljesség igénye nélkül – a háború előtti és az azt szorosan követő évtizedek legendás, olasz énekes generációinak szopráncsillagai közül. Egykor ünnepelt, briliáns tehetségű énekművészek, „istennők”, „prima donna assoluták” voltak, kiknek lábai előtt hevert koruk zeneértő és -rajongó közönsége, aztán mintha homokba íródtak volna ezek a nevek, úgy vesztek el szépen lassan a feledés homályában. Művészek fényben és árnyékban… Köztudott, hogy a háború után a szinte tömeghisztériává duzzasztott „sztárcsinálás” éppen akkoriban élte reneszánszát, s olyan ikonokat nevelt ki, mint például az „angyali hangú” Renata Tebaldi vagy a „tigrisasszony” Maria Callas, kiknek neve s művészete, mint egyfajta cégér mind a mai napig garancia a legtökéletesebb minőségre. Az utókor a helyes megítélés tekintetében viszont sok esetben hálátlannak és felettébb méltánytalannak bizonyul, hiszen a „sztárok” árnyékában működött „másod-élvonalbelieknek” bélyegzett énekesnők sokszor éppen akkora tömegeket vonzottak, mint nagyobb celebritással bíró kolléganőik. -
~ Program Notes ~ VERDI
~ Program Notes ~ VERDI August 1, 2003, 8:30 PM Koussevitzky Music Shed Lenox, MA Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano Yvonne Naef, mezzo-soprano Richard Leech, tenor John Relyea, bass-baritone Tanglewood Festival Chorus John Oliver, conductor VERDI Requiem Mass for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Requiem Mass for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, in memory of Alessandro Manzoni First performance: (original version) May 22, 1874, St. Mark’s, Milan, Verdi cond., with Teresa Stolz, Maria Waldmann, Giuseppe Capponi, and Ormondo Maini, vocal soloists, and an especially assembled chorus and orchestra; (with new “Liber scriptus”) May 15, 1875, Royal Albert Hall, London, Verdi cond., with Stolz, Waldmann, Angelo Masini, and Paolo Medini, vocal soloists. First BSO performances: December 1954, Guido Cantelli cond.; Herva Nelli, Claramae Turner, Eugene Conley, Nicola Moscona, vocal soloists; New England Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke deVaron, cond. First Tanglewood performance: August 22, 1964, Erich Leinsdorf cond.; Lucine Amara, Lili Chookasian, George Shirley, Ezio Flagello, vocal soloists; Chorus Pro Musica, Alfred Nash Patterson, cond., assisted by the Festival Chorus. Most recent Tanglewood performance: August 27, 1995, Christoph Eschenbach cond..; Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Michael Sylvester, Ferruccio Furlanetto, vocal soloists; Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, cond. Most recent BSO performances: September 2002 (to open the 2002-03 subscription season), Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos cond.; Barbara Frittoli, Larissa Diadkova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Reinhard Hagen, vocal soloists; Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, cond. Few Americans know the name Alessandro Manzoni, and fewer still are familiar with his great historical novel, I promessi sposi (The Betrothed).