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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.
On February 25, 1857, Marietta performed in Philadelphia as Lenora in Il Trovatore, in the first operatic performance at the then new, Academy of Music. [3] On a subsequent tour to New York (1866–1867) a critic praised her voice as having "greater purity and less vehement forcing of tone". [2]
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]
Leonora, heroine of the opera Il trovatore, the 1853 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1836 drama El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez; Leonora, heroine of the opera La forza del destino, the 1862 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1835 drama Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas
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 ...
She appeared as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore in Parma in 1970. In the following year, she won RAI 's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European and American opera houses , including Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972); Teatro alla Scala (1973); Royal Opera House , Covent Garden (1974); and the ...
The Dutch audience admired her, among other things as Leonora in "La forza del destino" and in Il trovatore, as Tosca, as the title heroine in La Gioconda, and as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana. In 1930 and 1932 Jacobo performed very successfully at La Scala as Turandot .
She performed at the Arena di Verona, where her voice carried well, [1] between 1975 and 1985; [2] first as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, in 1977 as Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci alongside Plácido Domingo in the title role, in 1978 in the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and in 1985 as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore.