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 ...

Independent Opera Company will conclude its 2024-2025 season with Anna Bolena, a tragic opera in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito ...

Roberto Devereux is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848). Salvadore Cammarano (1801–1852), the Neapolitan librettist who worked with Donizetti on a number of his ...

How do you strangle a baritone? In the cafe of the National Opera House in Wexford, detailed instructions as to how to do exactly that are being issued as Pietro di Blanco and Michele Patti rehearse ...

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 ...

Today, people who go to the opera don’t blink at the idea of a modern-dress production, but it was a strange concept in 1842, when Gaetano Donizetti decided that was how he wanted audiences to ...

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 ...

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 ...