Teatro Donizetti News
theatre and opera house in Bergamo, Italy
- Bergamo
- Italy
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2017-07-27 19:11:06
Woman on the Vergy
To correct the relative dearth of serious bel canto here “Trove Thursday” offers the 92nd of Donizetti’s 137* operas, Gemma di Vergy, from Bergamo the composer’s birthplace with the lovely, largely now forgotten Adriana Maliponte in the title role. Gae and I go way back: when I was Opera Pre-Teen one of my favorite tv shows was The Wild Wild West (gee, I wonder why?). I was intrigued by the episode where Patrice Munsel guest starred as a temperamental (of course!) Italian diva who sang about a minute of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_kQxUJoMI Maybe that’s why the next year Lucia became the first opera I attended—I was 12 and went by myself clad in my sports jacket and clip-on tie on a $2 student ticket. Apparently I was not impressed as neither the opera nor its prima donna (Roberta Peters) became favorites. More recently I’ve […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-11-30 20:17:15
It’s 50 years since Riccardo Muti first raised a baton
No more?
Every day soclassiq looks for new articles, videos, concerts and so on about classical music and opera, their artists, venues, orchestras...
Teatro Donizetti ? We have not gathered a lot of content on this topic yet but we continue to search.
or
- map: Opera houses - Europe
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): T...