Search results for "Italian Opera"
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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 …
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…
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
Il terzo atto al San Carlo di Napoli nell’ultimo trentennio del Settecento: declino, atrofizzazione, scomparsa
2023
In the last decades of the eighteenth century, the third act of opera seria was gradually reduced in importance and dimensions until it disappeared altogether. The article studies this process in relation to the repertoire of the San Carlo theatre in Naples from 1771 on, with special attention to the intertwining of dramaturgical choices and audience’s behavior. The examination of a large number of librettos and scores makes it possible to fix reliable chronological terms. After an isolated episode in 1780, the adfirmation of the two-act model can be traced back to the 1786-1787 season. The new formula quickly took hold, but three-act operas continued to be performed - with ever decreasing …
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…
Una nuova fonte per "Gemma di Vergy". La revisione d'autore per il Théâtre-Italien (1845)
2021
Staged at La Scala in Milan in 1834 and then on countless Italian and European stages, Gemma di Vergy was performed the first time in Paris in 1845 at the Théâtre-Italien, in a version specially reworked by Donizetti (the last work he completed before his death). Long considered lost, the score prepared on that occasion by the composer has re-emerged among the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France - Département de la Musique. The essay describes the new source, reconstructs the genesis of the revision and examines the author’s variants. The latter are responsive to two main requirements: on the one hand, adapting the musical text to contingent interpretive needs, and more spec…
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…
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 …
Verdi e il Théâtre Italien di Parigi (1845-1856)
2019
Quale ruolo svolse il Théâtre Italien di Parigi nella relazione privilegiata che legò Verdi alla Francia? Fino ad oggi gli studiosi hanno lasciato quasi del tutto inevasa questa domanda. Eppure proprio il Théâtre Italien, istituzione votata specificamente all’esecuzione di opere italiane in lingua originale, fino alla sua chiusura, nel 1878, fu di gran lunga il palcoscenico parigino sul quale si diede con maggior frequenza e costanza la musica del compositore. Della storia dei legami fra Verdi, le sue opere e il Théâtre Italien, questo libro indaga le tormentate fasi comprese fra gli esordi (Nabucodonosor, 1845) e i primi trionfi (Il trovatore, 1854- 56). Attraverso un percorso di ricerca c…