Search results for "Italian opera"
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Ad occhi aperti. La notte in cui Puccini incontrò Manon
2021
Il testo analizza alcuni aspetti della biografia e dell'esperienza creativa di Giacomo Puccini con particolare riferimento alla genesi di Turandot (1920-24) e al problema del finale del terzo atto dell'opera The text analyzes some aspects of Giacomo Puccini's biography and creative experience with particular reference to the genesis of Turandot (1920-24) and the problem of the finale of the third act
Da "Anch'io dischiuso un giorno" all'"Abandonnée" (e ritorno): un percorso indiziario
2022
Prendendo le mosse da un aneddoto che circolò sulla stampa italiana nella prima metà del Novecento, l’articolo intende far luce sulla presunta composizione di una versione alternativa oggi perduta dell’adagio «Anch’io dischiuso un giorno» dell’aria di Abigaille nel secondo atto di Nabucco. Attraverso un percorso d’indagine di tipo indiziario condotto su documenti di varia natura, possiamo ipotizzare che il brano in questione fu effettivamente scritto da Verdi a uso di Giuseppina Strepponi, la quale lo avrebbe cantato a teatro in una manciata di occasioni fra il 1843 e il 1846, e che esso fu poi trasformato dal compositore nella romanza da camera in lingua francese L’abandonnée, pubblicata p…
Nicholas Baragwanath, The Italian Traditions and Puccini. Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Bloomington, Indiana Univers…
2017
Lionello Perera: An Italian Banker and Patron in New York
2022
The book presents the long-lost biography of Lionello Perera, principal banker, patron, and philanthropist of the Italian American community in New York at the inception of the twentieth century. Born and raised in Venice, Lionello Perera took over his uncle’s financial activity in Wall Street and developed the family business into a stronghold of the Italian American community. His remarkable career led him to become the Vice President of Bank of America in 1928 as an associate of California born Amadeo P. Giannini, while he also was instrumental to the political success of New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Recognised as a true founding father of the Italian American community of the Eas…
National identity, national music and popular music in the Italian Music Press during the long 19th century
2011
Discusses the notions of national identity, national music and popular music as they emerged in Italian music periodicals during the years 1840–1890, in relation to the process of Italy’s political unification and the dissemination of foreign operas such as French grands opéras in the years 1840–1870 and Wagner’s Musikdramen from 1871 on. Essays and articles by relevant critics and musicians, such as Abramo Basevi and Francesco D’Arcais are discussed. Articles by lesser known journalists such as Pietro Cominazzi and Mattia Cipollone are also taken into account. The use of words like “national” and “popular” is analysed when referring to Italian opera, to its history and to the operas by for…
Morlacchismo, illirismo, involuzioni esotiche. L’immagine degli slavi del sud nel teatro e nella musica dell’Ottocento in Italia/Morlakizem, ilirizem…
2014
Alberto Fortis’ Viaggio in Dalmazia (Venice, 1774) described for the first time the Morlacks of the interior of Dalmatia as the true model of a primitive group, whose characteristics became an exotic source of inspiration for some Italian writers and ballet composers until 1830s. Contemporaneously, the Homer’s paradigm was introduced by Melchiorre Cesarotti in the foreword joined to the Italian version of the poems of “Ossian” (1763), and it was in turn transformed by the composer and doctor of Split Giulio Bajamonti. Even though published in Italian, Bajamonti’s Morlacchismo d’Omero (Venice, 1797) can be considered the first contribution to the romantic Croatian literature. The essay of Ba…
Crítica musical y pensamiento estético en la España de la Restauración: José María Esperanza y Sola (1834-1905)
2015
One of the most outstanding figures of music criticism in the Spanish Restoration was José María Esperanza y Sola (1834-1905), active for thirty years, from the late 1860s until the end of the century. During this period, Esperanza collaborated in different periodical publications and, particularly, “La Ilustración Española y Americana”, from whose pages he informed about the most important musical events celebrated in Madrid, judged according to a conservative aesthetic criterion, opposed to any novelty that infringe the traditional music system. On the basis of Esperanza´s thought, our study analyzes the different subjects that constitute his journalistic production.La crítica musical en …
L’intermezzo, Napoli e l’Europa
2018
The essay is an attempt to summarize the most up-to-date knowledge related to the history of the comic intermezzo. Some crucial examples of the Neapolitan scenic tradition are analyzed in order to highlight the progressive emancipation of comic scenes. An examination of the main dramatic and musical characteristics of the genre follows. The last part of the article concerns the European circulation of the Italian creations, with special attention to the famous "querelle des bouffons", which broke out in the mid-eighteenth century Paris following the performance of Giovambattista Pergolesi's "La serva padrona".
The Italian “National Opera” Imagined from a Southern Slavic Viewpoint: Franjo Ks. Kuhač and Josip Mandić
2019
The national awakening after the revolutions of 1848, and the related phenomenon of new operatic grammar disseminated from Russia and Bohemia to other countries of Central Europe, were the main factors in promoting a quest of musical autonomy either in Slovenia or in Croatia. In the light of the Southern Slavic people revival, the criticisms on the Italian opera and the Wagnerian Musikdrama, written by the prominent musicologist Franjo Kuhač (1834-1911), and the composer Josip Mandić (1883-1959), reveal two parallel points of view, which have not been taken into account until today. The negative judgement of Kuhač on the last works of Verdi, influenced by Wagner formulae, and the praise of …
Melodrammatici e risorgimentali: "I briganti" visti da Parigi
2022
L'articolo si concentra sull'opera di Saverio Mercadante e Jacopo Crescini "I briganti" (Parigi, Théâtre-Italien, 1836), e indaga, in una prospettiva storiografica culturale e ricostruttiva, i suoi significati melodrammatici e risorgimentali. The article focuses on the opera of Saverio Mercadante and Jacopo Crescini "I briganti" (Paris, Théâtre-Italien, 1836), and investigates, in a cultural and reconstructive historiographical perspective, its melodramatic and risorgimental meanings.