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With its pastoral setting and story, La sonnambula was an immediate success and is still regularly performed. The title role of Amina (the sleepwalker) with its high tessitura is renowned for its difficulty, requiring a complete command of trills and florid technique, [7] but it fitted Pasta's vocal capabilities, her soprano also having been described as a soprano sfogato, one which designates ...
Sign showing the path near Ivrea, Italy. In the Middle Ages, Via Francigena was the major pilgrimage route to Rome from the north.The route was first documented as the "Lombard Way", and was first called the Iter Francorum (the "Frankish Route") in the Itinerarium sancti Willibaldi of 725, a record of the travels of Willibald, bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria.
From the manuscripts of Francesco Cancellieri in the Vatican Library new names were added by Crostarosa (Dei titoli della Chiesa romana, Rome, 1893). Eubel, by his own studies for the first volume of his "Hierarchia Catholica Medii Ævi", and with the aid of the manuscript notes of Giuseppe Garampi in the Vatican Archives, was enabled to ...
The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome Opera House) is an opera house in Rome, Italy. Originally opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat Costanzi Theatre, it has undergone several changes of name as well modifications and improvements. The present house seats 1,560.
This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725).. Scarlatti wrote 45 drammi per musica, also 7 melodrammi, 2 commedia per musica (or opere buffe), 2 opere drammatice, 2 favole boscherecce, 2 tragedie in musica, 1 commedia, 1 dramma pastorale, and 1 dramma sacro per musica.
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (/ ˌ k ɛr ʊ ˈ b iː n i / KERR-uu-BEE-nee; Italian: [luˈiːdʒi keruˈbiːni]; 8 or 14 September [1] 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic [2] [3] composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music.
List of operas by George Frideric Handel. All are opera seria in three acts, unless otherwise stated. HWV Title Libretto Première date Première place, theatre Modern revival Notes 1: Almira (Der in Krohnen erlangte Glücks-Wechsel, oder: Almira, Königin von Castilien) Friedrich Christian Feustking, after Giulio Pancieri: 8 January 1705
Act 4, last scene, in the Dresden Opera House (1842) The opera opens with a substantial overture which begins with a trumpet call (which in act 3 we learn is the war call of the Colonna family) and features the melody of Rienzi's prayer at the start of act 5, which became the opera's best-known aria. The overture ends with a military march.