In Act 1, Tonio is overjoyed when the Regiment approves his engagement to Marie, and sings the brilliant aria Pour mon ame. Donizetti also provided plenty of fireworks for the title character. In the ...

Gaetano Donizetti is remembered mostly for his operas, but his chamber music gets dusted off for an occasional performance. Timothy Day is the flutist, with bassoonist Benjamin Kamins and pianist ...

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, in contrast, rumbles across the stage as the last in a distinguished succession of basso buffo roles that rose in the second quarter of the 18th century and persisted for ...

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When Gaetano Donizetti wrote his comic opera La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment), in 1839, he was one of the most successful of Italian opera composers. Until not long before, he had ...

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The libretto by Romani, regarded as one of the finest Italian librettists, contributes to the formation of robust characters in the opera. These characters are confronted with dramatically potent and ...

Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland made her name performing coloratura repertoire. Literally meaning ‘colouring’, the term refers to particularly high-octane vocal gymnastics at the top of a ...

The 1838 score for “Dalinda,” which uses chunks of “Lucrezia Borgia,” was found in Naples in 2019. A student company in Cape Town just gave the first staged performance. By Roslyn Sulcas The soprano ...

Donizetti was a truly prolific opera composer, he could turn out as many as three or four a year and was said to have sketched and written the last act of La favorita in a few hours. Imagine composing ...