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Italian, later British composer and music teacher (1846–1916)
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- Kingdom of Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- composer, musicologist, music teacher, singer, opera singer
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2024-04-22
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2024-02-01 07:43:00
Being themselves: the young artists of the National Opera Studio in Simple Gifts, a programme of song from across the globe at Wigmore Hall
2023/2024 young artists of the National Opera Studio at GlyndebourneSimple Gifts: Schubert, Copland, Dora Pejačević, Chopin, Tosti, Gareth Glyn, Rui Zhang, Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Brahms, Ravel, Sibusiso Njeza, Otilio Galindez, Tom Cipullo, Douglas Lilburn, William Walton; young artists of the National Opera Studio, Wigmore HallReviewed 31 January 2024Wonderfully engaging and committed performances in song that moved from celebrating Schubert's birthday to songs by Polish, Croatian, South African, Chinese, Welsh, American, Venezuelan, New Zealand composersDuring their year studying, the young artists of the National Opera Studio are presented with a variety of performing challenges, not all of them operatic. On 31 January 2024 (Schubert's birthday), the young artists of the National Opera Studio had the challenge of being themselves, on the song recital stage, when they presented Simple Gifts - Songs from across the globe at Wigmore Hall. This featured sopranos Rosalind Dobson, Nikolina Hrkać, Kira Kaplan, Sofia Kirwan-Baez and Heming Li, mezzo-sopranos […]
2022-05-30 07:08:11
What a lovely night: an evening inspired by Jenny Lind's charity concerts in Norwich
[…] a collaborative relationship with Lind therefore I thought it most appropriate that he was included in the programme which ended in a good old-fashioned way with Crawford Philips gallantly leading from the piano with violinist Lawrence Power and soprano Carolyn Sampson (now dubbed the ‘English Nightingale’ by Norwich concertgoers) in renditions of a handful of popular and well-loved ‘parlour’ songs. The selection opened with Edvard Grieg’s Killingdans and Charles Gounod’s Ave Maria and continued with Francesco Paolo Tosti’s La Serenata, Haydn Wood’s Roses of Picardy (a most beautiful and serene song written during the period of the First World War) and Harry Williams’ showstopper, It’s a Long Way to Tipperary. It certainly is, Rodney! Originally written as a lament about an Irish worker living in London missing his homeland Tipperary later became a popular soldiers’ marching song. The last two mentioned items were arranged by Stephen Hough who, incidentally, opens the new season of […]
2021-08-19 06:39:36
Technicolour dreams: Anita Rachvelishvili's Élégie on Sony Classical
Élégie - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Otar Taktakishvili, Tosti, Duparc, Falla; Anita Rachvelishvili, Vincenzo Scalera; Sony Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 August 2021 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) The Georgian mezzo-soprano brings rich tones and a full-blooded approach to a programme of Russian, Georgian, Italian, French and Spanish song, yet one not without subtlety too.The Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili is known for her dramatic roles in Italian opera (her appearances at Covent Garden have included Azucena in Verdi's Il trovatore, Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana as well as the title role in Bizet's Carmen), but there is another side to her as well which enjoys the possibilities offered by the more intimate song repertoire.For Élégie on Sony Classical, Anita Rachvelishvili is joined by pianist Vincenzo Scalera for a programme of Russian, Georgian, Italian, French and Spanish song with works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Otar Taktakishvili, Tosti, Duparc and Falla. We […]
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2021-08-17 06:15:00
Juan Diego Flórez sings arias by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini, with Vincenzo Scalera (HD 1080p)
As part of the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival 2019, tenor Juan Diego Flórez presents a recital in honor of the legendary Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Performing alongside pianist Vincenzo Scalera, he offers us well-loved arias from masterworks by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, and Massenet. He is also performing three traditional pieces by Quirino Mendoza y Cortés, Francesco Paolo Tosti, and Agustín Lara. In two of them, Juan Diego Flórez will even accompany himself on the guitar. The encore is the aria "Nessun Dorma" from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" – the highlight of any opera evening. Juan Diego Flórez is one of the most famous and most popular opera singers of our time. Born in 1973 in Lima, Peru, he began to study music at the conservatory in his hometown, and soon after became a soloist with the Coro Nacionál de Lima. From 1993 until 1996, he studied at the Curtis […]
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