Michele Carafa News
Italian opera composer
- opera
- Kingdom of Italy, France
- composer, conductor, music teacher
streaming
Last update
2024-03-28
Refresh
2023-03-28 04:00:00
Fascination Opera: A virtuoso firework of fantasias and variations (Dorothea Seel, Christoph Hammer )
Variations on The Barber of Seville, Op. 83 (Rossini)Don Giovanni de Mozart, Op. 24 (Mozart)Fantasia on La traviata, Op. 76 (Verdi)Lied vom Abendstern from Tannhäuser (Wagner)Introduction & Variations on Euryanthe, Op. 63 (Weber)Fantasy on Norma, Op. 45 (Bellini)Polonaise on Adele di Luisignano, Op. 8 (Carafa)Fantasie caprice on Themes from Rinaldo, Op. 203 (Handel)Dorothea Seel, Flute; Christoph Hammer, Fortepiano(Period Instruments)Hänssler Classic HC19077 (2020) [Flac & Scans]
2016-11-14 07:14:18
For centuries, the Italian nobleman and composer Carlo Gesualdo has been a figure of fascination, although his fame rests more on the troubled life he led than the unusual, challenging musical compositions he left behind. The main events of his life seem to have come out of a gothic novel, beginning in 1590 when he and several collaborators brutally murdered his wife, Maria d'Avalos, and her lover, Fabrizio Carafa, after setting a trap to catch them in bed together.
2015-03-02 23:59:16
[…] in G Major Purcell Pavan and Chacony in G Minor Pergolesi Stabat Mater Notes by Carol Redman Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) Concerto in G Major Scored for flute and two violins, with cello and keyboard Pergolesi was an Italian violinist, organist and composer. In 1734 he was appointed deputy music director for the city of Naples. In 1735 his already fragile health began to fail, and his employer, the Duke Maddaloni Carafa, granted him leave to convalesce at the Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo. Pergolesi died there on March 16, 1736 at the age of 26, succumbing to the tuberculosis that had plagued him throughout his life. His musical career encompassed just 6 years. Pergolesi achieved some artistic recognition during his lifetime, but it was after his death that his fame quickly spread throughout Europe, due to the popularity of his comic opera […]
2014-11-07 02:38:44
Arias by Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Pacini, Mercadante, Carafa, Valentini. Orchestra and Chorus of the OpA©ra National de Lyon, Minasi.
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Conductors (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): C...