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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda, Act 3: "Deh! Tu di un umile"
Andrii Ganchuk, Antonio Pappano, Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Diana Damrau, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Sara Rocchi
L'elisir d'amore Act I: "Caro elisir! sei mio!”
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Charles Castronovo & Lisette Oropesa
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore: "Una furtiva lagrima" (Adapt. For Cello And Orchestra) [At Musée des Arts Décoratifs]
Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic & Mathieu Herzog
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor: "Tombe degl'avi miei... Fra poco a me ricovero" (Live)
Luciano Pavarotti, New York Philharmonic & Leone Magiera
L'elisir d'amore: "Una furtiva lagrima" (Adapt. for Cello and Orchestra) [At Musée des Arts Décoratifs]
Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic & Mathieu Herzog
Una Furtiva Lagrima
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O luce di quest'anima (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, January 8, 1956)
Lily Pons
Ardon gli incensi (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 18, 1964)
Dame Joan Sutherland
Ardon gli incensi (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, January 14, 1951)
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Mad scene: Il dolce suono (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, May 28, 1961)
Roberta Peters
About Gaetano Donizetti
Artist Biography
Born into poverty in Bergamo, Italy, in 1797, Gaetano Donizetti prolifically manifested Italian bel canto (beautiful singing) in more than 70 operas he wrote over 25 years. He found an early patron in composer Simon Mayr, who funded his studies and placed him at the Bologna Academy; Donizetti’s 1818 debut, Enrico di Borgogna, helped earn him a military exemption. In 1822, after years of minor commissions, the lifelong peripatetic moved to the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, where 51 of his operas would eventually premiere. These included his 1830 historical hit Anna Bolena, the 1832 comedy masterpiece L’elisir d’amore and the tragic 1835 work Lucia di Lammermoor, best known for its pyrotechnic and emotionally demanding “mad scene”. Vexed by Naples’ Catholic censors, Donizetti moved to Paris in 1838, from where he travelled regularly and often to Italy and Vienna. He wrote two more celebrated comedies, La fille du régiment (1840) and Don Pasquale (1843), before descending into madness and dying in 1848.
Hometown
Bergamo, Italy
Genre
Classical
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