Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: a guide to listening
The Four Seasons (in Italian: Le Quattro Stagioni) by Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist, is a group of four concertos for violin solo concertante and chamber orchestra. The four concerts of The Four Seasons have been composed with a careful study of the tones: “Spring” has the brightness of the E major; the G […]
La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi
A sincere love is the protagonist of La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera in three acts based upon the 1852 play by Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame aux camélias). Violetta Valery, a young Parisian courtesan suffering from tuberculosis, leads a comfortable and luxurious life under the protection of Baron Douphol. During a party, Alfredo Germont confesses […]
The Top 5 operas played in the World
The website operabase.com provides interesting statistics and data on the world of opera, which is worth pondering. Let’s discover the Top 5 of the most played operas in the world. Italy dominates the charts maintaining its fundamental operatic tradition. Data refer to the 2017-2018 period. Verdi – LA TRAVIATA The most played opera in the world […]
Giacomo Puccini – Tosca
Around the turn of the 20th century the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini reached his artisticclimax, composing his three most famous and impressive operas: La Bohème, Tosca, and MadamaButterfly. Turandot, Puccini’s last masterpiece was unfinished at the time of his death in 1924.Tosca had its world premiere in Rome, January 14, 1900, at the Teatro Costanzi, now […]
