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  2. La traviata discography - Wikipedia

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    The following is a partial discography of the many audio [1] and video [2] recordings of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La traviata.Based on the 1848 novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, La traviata has been a staple of the operatic repertoire since its premiere on 6 March 1853 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

  3. Italian classical music - Wikipedia

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    Italian opera tends to forsake the light-heartedness of the Comic opera for the more serious fare of Italian lyric Romanticsm. Although the ever-popular Rossini is certainly an exception to that, Italian music of the 19th century is dominated at the beginning by the likes of Bellini , Donizetti , and then, of course, for the last fifty years of ...

  4. Tosca - Wikipedia

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    Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. . The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of It

  5. Italian opera - Wikipedia

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    Interior of La Fenice opera house in Venice in 1837. Venice was, along with Florence and Rome, one of the cradles of Italian opera. Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until ...

  6. Tosca discography - Wikipedia

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    SD video: Met Opera on Demand [5] 1993 Catherine Malfitano, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi: Zubin Mehta RAI Orchestra Sinfonica and Coro di Roma (Film Tosca from Rome broadcast live in three parts, directed by Brian Large / Giuseppe Patroni Griffi) DVD: Kultur Video Cat: D4524 Blu-ray: Warner Classics [6] 1998 Catherine Malfitano, Richard ...

  7. List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini - Wikipedia

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    The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas , his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative ...

  8. List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.

  9. List of compositions by Gioachino Rossini - Wikipedia

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    It was commissioned by the Rossini Opera Festival, where it was premiered by Teresa Berganza with the conductor Alberto Zedda.) Cantata in onore del sommo pontefice Pio IX (1847) Instrumental music