Sheet music downloads have become the preferred method of acquiring classical music repertoire. Yet the opera contains some of donizettis finest music, both solo and ensemble. Leonora fiorenza cossotto fernando alfredo kraus alfonso xi sesto bruscantini baldassarre ruggero raimondi don gasparo augusto pedroni ines marisa zotti. Created by professional musicians, presents classical sheet music download of over 20. Due to the illtimed bankruptcy of that theater, it was never produced, but donizetti managed to parlay the failed effort into a new work for the paris opera in 1840. Fernand ferdinand, a young novice at the monastery of st.
Met opera on demand delivers instant access to more than 500 met performances, including live in hd videos, classic telecasts and radio broadcasts. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. This recording is from the 1950s and first appeared on the expensive in uk cetra label. The story not very inviting is based on a french drama, which again owed its origin to a spanish work. As a knockon effect of covid19 airfreight prices around the world have soared. Reluctantly, we have had to pass on some of this increase in our standard airmail prices.
Lucia di lammermoor, don pasquale and lelisir damore. The vocal score includes the prison scene that was missing from the previous edition. This page was last edited on 7 december 2018, at 18. The performance chronology and discography in simionato. Containing the italian text, with an english translation, and the music of all the principal airs by alphonse royer. Piero cappuccilli as the villainous alfonso is properly cruelsounding, while bass ivo vinco is good in the. Philip gossett, in his superb essay that accompanies the new rca. It has been a favourite sorry of many a highflying tenor with a ready top c and some artistry to boot. Download the new ipad app to watch on your tv with apple tv via airplay. This is a list of the operas by the italian composer gaetano donizetti 17971848. But the theatre closed before it could host donizettis opera and forced him to look elsewhere. Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the. The artwork of this lp is a mix of italian and english languages.
Until about 50 years ago, donizetti s reputation and place in the international opera repertoire rested largely on three operas. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. The opera concerns the romantic struggles of the king of castile, alfonso xi, and his mistress, the favourite leonora. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. Until about 50 years ago, donizettis reputation and place in the international opera repertoire rested largely on three operas. A major internet provider of classical sheet music files download online, offers the largest and most complete digital sheet music download library on the web in the world. Yet the opera contains some of donizetti s finest music, both solo and ensemble. The donizetti society is able to offer the score and parts for lesule di roma, edited by ian schofield. When this work has been performed and recorded, it has usually been in an italian translation, or adaptation, as some would prefer to describe it, since parts of the story were changed for various reasons. The heroine is a role for contralto, or mezzosoprano.
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