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Il trovatore ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the Spanish play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
1853 Il trovatore (Verdi). This Romantic melodrama is one of Verdi's most tuneful scores. [97] 1853 La traviata (Verdi). The role of Violetta, the "fallen woman" of the title, is one of the most famous vehicles for the soprano voice. [98] 1855 Les vêpres siciliennes (Verdi). Verdi's opera displays the strong influence of Meyerbeer. [99]
Clara Jacobo (c. 1898 – 23 June 1966, Naples) [1] was an Italian opera singer (dramatic soprano). She began her career around 1923 at the Italian provincial stages. She then emigrated to the U.S., where since 1928 she performed at the Metropolitan Opera of New York. [2]
In 1853, she created the leading soprano role of Leonora in Giuseppe Verdi's hugely successful opera Il trovatore. She had appeared in Trieste the previous year as Azucena in Il trovatore by Francesco Cortesi, based on the same Spanish play as Verdi's opera. [3] Verdi prized her for her combination of vocal agility with fervid dramatic ...
This was followed by a nostalgic revival of their famous 1962 Il trovatore production in Vienna and Salzburg, followed by a recording for EMI, all led by Karajan. That fall, Price sang her her first Strauss heroine: Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos The premiere in San Francisco was considered a great success. When she sang the role at the Met in ...
Maria Antonietta Stella (15 March 1929 – 23 February 2022) was an Italian operatic soprano, and one of the most prominent Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s. . She made her debut in Spoleto in 1950, as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, a year later at Rome Opera, as Leonora in La forza del destino, in 1954 at La Scala in Milan, as Desdemona in Otello, in 1955 at the Royal Opera ...
Aida (or Aïda, Italian:) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.
"Di quella pira" ("Of that pyre") is a short tenor aria (or more specifically, a cabaletta) sung by Manrico in act 3, scene 2, of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore. It is the last number of the act.