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2021-01-25 09:04:42
Rinaldo and Armida: from Monteverdi to Rossini to Dvorak to Judith Weir, composers have been inspired by Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata
[…] battle with the knight Tancredi, the princess Erminia who is in love with Tancredi, and of course Armida and Rinaldo. The whole poem was immensely successful, but sections of it were also abstracted to create smaller works from madrigals to operas, as well as inspiring a multitude of pictures. So who was Torquato Tasso? He was born into a noble family near Naples, in 1544 and his father was a secretary in the service of Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, but eventually, the Prince was exiled and Tasso's father followed his patron. So Tasso's youth was spent on the edge of noble poverty. His father was also a poet, (his epic Amadigi was published in 1560), but wanted Torquato to have a 'proper' career. However, a period of study of law in Padua ended with Torquato writing poetry. Despite the fame brought by Gerusalemme liberata and other poems, his life […]
2020-06-22 13:52:29
Orlando di Lasso, 2020
This Week in Classical Music: June 22, 2020. Orlando di Lasso. No, the great Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance was not born this week. We are not even sure when he was born, whether in 1530 or 1532. We do know, though, that he was one of the greatest and most prolific composers of his time. Orlando, often spelled as Orlande de Lassus, was born in the town of Mons in the County of Hainaut in what is now Belgium; at that time Hainaut and the rest of the Low Countries were part of the empire of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. As a boy, Orlando moved to Italy with Ferrante Gonzaga, a condottiero who was then serving Charles V (Ferrante belonged to a minor branch of Gonzagas, the dukes of Mantua). Orlando’s first stop in Italy was Mantua but several months later Ferrante left the city for Sicily, with […]
2020-02-05 15:00:00
Anna Russell on the British playwright April De Angelis’s theatre adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.
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2020-02-03 14:00:00
The Joys Of Listening To Elena Ferrante’s New Novel, In Italian
The book isn’t due to be published until June in English translation. The writer Martha Cooley asks her husband to read the novel – a first-person account by a woman – to her. “Low in pitch and volume, his voice is distinctly male. He doesn’t have a Neapolitan accent but a northern Italian one. Sometimes […]
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