Falstaff: Verdi’s Last Opera
Falstaff is the last of Giuseppe Verdi’s 28 operas, and also his only comic opera together with his early Un Giorno di Regno. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and some passages from Henry IV (parts 1 and 2), the historical drama in which the figure of […]
Gianni Schicchi: Third and final instalment of Puccini’s “Il Trittico”
Gianni Schicchi is a short, one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. It is the third and final instalment of Puccini’s Il trittico (The Triptych) together with the operas Il tabarro and Suor Angelica. When Il trittico was first performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in December […]
Il Trittico by Giacomo Puccini: Three One-Act Operas
The operatic genre of Verismo (end of the 19th century) is characterized by one-act operas, among which probably the most famous are Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (1890) and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (1892). Giacomo Puccini was no stranger to composing one-act operas. At the beginning of his career, after his years at the Milan Conservatory, he […]
Cav & Pag – a journey into Verismo
Pagliacci is an Italian opera with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Together with Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, it creates an inseparable duo affectionately known as Cav & Pag. Cavalleria rusticana, premiered in 1890, is the older of the two operas, predating Pagliacci by about two years. Even though these two operas weren’t originally […]
Gaetano Donizetti and the horror side of opera
A woman dressed in black appears showing five coffins for her poisoned victims. She is Lucrezia Borgia featured in Donizetti’s opera in a scene worthy of a horror film. It is not surprising that opera knows how to represent death in its most heartbreaking guise. Death intertwined with episodes of macabre madness and delirium. The […]
Giuseppe Mazzini and opera
“Music is the fragrance of the universe.” An intense and passionate phrase that does not belong to a musician, as one might think. The author is instead a man better known as a politician, journalist, and activist for the unification of Italy and founder of the secret revolutionary society Young Italy. In his 1836 essay […]
Plácido Domingo honoured with the Bellini d’Oro award
On the evening of August 11, 2021 the stunning Ancient Theatre of Taormina hosted an extraordinary performance of Rigoletto, produced by the Teatro Bellini of Catania. At the end of the performance, the conductor Plácido Domingo received the Bellini d’Oro award together with the Italian baritone Leo Nucci (performer and stage director) and the journalist […]
Turandot at the Rome Opera House
Turandot is an opera in 3 acts and 5 scenes, set to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, left unfinished by Giacomo Puccini, and posthumously completed by Franco Alfano.
Fryderyk Chopin: the poet of the piano
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music, sometimes called “the poet of the piano” whose poetic genius is based on a professional technique that is unmatched in his generation.
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