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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lost opera by one of the great Italian composers is to have its world premiere in London almost 180 years after it was written. Gaetano Donizetti was a leading figure in 19th-century Italian music, ...

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 was one of Italy’s most prolific tunesmiths, with almost 70 operas to his name – about as many as Rossini, Bellini and Verdi all combined - whose arias still cut straight to the ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The Metropolitan Opera has apparently decided to open each season with the same opera: Anna Netrebko.

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 ...

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 ...