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Gioachino Rossini
…commissioned by the Venetian Teatro San Moise to compose La Cambiale di Matrimonio, a comedy in one act. By 1812, Rossini had written La Pietra del Paragone, for La Scala…
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Thaïs – Full Opera by Jules Massenet
Thaïs opera at Teatro Regio di Torino in 2008 conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Directed by Stefano Poda, with Barbara Frittoli as Thaïs, Lado Ataneli as Athanaël, Alessandro Liberatore as Nicias,…
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La Traviata – Full Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi’s La Traviata, part of the popular Verdi Trilogy, was staged at Teatro Verdi in Pisa. This production was designed for both live performance and video viewing. La Traviata tells…
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Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10 – Mariinsky Orchestra
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 conducted by Valery Gergiev at Teatro Salle Pleyel in Paris on January 7th, 2013….
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
…18, 1869, when he collapsed from yellow fever during a concert at the Teatro Lyrico Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Just before his collapse, he had finished playing his…
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Can Can by Jacques Offenbach, Played by Lugano’s Mandolin Orchestra
Lugano’s mandolin orchestra, conducted by Mauro Pacchin, performed at the Gala concert 2010 at Teatro La Cittadella in Lugano. Website: http://www.oml.ch…
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Gaetano Donizetti – Questo Giorno from La Lettera Anonima
…the director of the Theatro San Carlo. Donizetti’s opera “La zingara” had been well-received, and six weeks later, his single-act opera “La lettera anonima” premiered at the Teatro del Fondo,…
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Donizetti’s Don Pasquale – Fresca Uscita Di Convento
Don Pasquale, featuring Ferruccio Furlanetto, Lucio Gallo, Nuccia Focile, and Gregory Kunde. Conducted by Riccardo Muti. Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1994.
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Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Watch Paolo Marzocchi perform his own cadenza in Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt. The live performance took place in May 2010 at Teatro G.Rossini in Lugo, Italy. You…
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Ouverture from L’Italiana in Algeri – Gioachino Rossini
In 1813, Rossini had a productive year with works like “Il signor”, “Tancredi”, and “Aureliano in Palmira”. He was asked to compose an opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in…
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Rossini’s The Barber of Seville – Sestetto
…Luigi Alva, Hermann Prey, Enzo Dara, Paolo Montarsolo, Stefania Malagù, and Renato Cesari. The Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus are conducted by Claudio Abbado with direction by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle….
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Rossini – Overture from The Barber of Seville
…originally written for “Aureliano in Palmira,” showcases Rossini’s Italian style. It premiered on February 20, 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome under the title Almaviva, or the Useless Precaution….
