Donizetti News

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Victoria Cannizzo and Robert Heepyoung Oh star in the Tri-Cities Opera production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor." Photo by Randy Cummings When Gaetano Donizetti's classic bel canto opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" opens this weekend at Tri-Cities Opera, its principal singers will get to showcase some of opera's most beautiful and difficult vocal ... (more)

Nino Machaidze showing her comic talent as Marie in Donizetti's "La Fille du RA©giment." A NEW YORK-Gaetano Donizetti was remarkably prolific, composing about 75 operas in his short life, including the tragic "Lucia di Lammermoor" and the comic operas "L'Elisir d'Amore" and "Don Pasquale." "La Fille du RA©giment" is a comic gem that ... (more)

Nicola Luisotti has been appointed Music Director of Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, effective immediately.

Gaetano Donizetti's first international success, his opera Anna Bolena , pits the doomed second wife of King Henry VIII of England against her regal spouse and her successor to the throne, lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour.

St. Paul, Minn. - Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king.

Turning to the cultural scene, the Pomona-based Repertory Opera Company is preparing its next production, Donizetti's "Don Pasquale." I attended a portion of Sunday night's dress rehearsal at First Christian Church.

Two Salem students are among the 10 winners of the Young Artists Debut! The Van Buren Concerto Competition.

After beating the Bearcats by just six points in the Events Center earlier this season, Stony Brook absolutlely pounced on the Bearcats at Pritchard The question has been posed a few times to me as this season has progressed.It usually goes something along the lines of: "Do you think Mark Tri-Cities Opera will present its Operalogue of "Lucia Di ... (more)

Anna Bolena Opera girl power is in full swing at Opera in the Heights as it mounts an exciting and dramatically sung production of Donizetti 's first major work, from 1830.

Student soloists from each of the six Humboldt State University's Music Department areas -- voice, piano, percussion, strings, woodwinds and brass -- will perform in a free Honors Recital on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Fulkerson Recital Hall.

In the Austin Lyric Opera production of "Lucia di Lammermoor" now at the Long Center the most famous scene is a wild and woolly epic run-up to death, a quarter hour that it takes Lucia to paint us the full picture of how completely she's lost her mind.

Eduardo Villa has performed the leading role of Manrico in "Il Trovatore" more than 130 times in opera houses around the world.

Paul Plishka thought back to Sept. 21, 1967, when he made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Monk in Ponchielli's "La Gioconda" alongside Renata Tebaldi, Sherrill Milnes and Rosalind Elias.

On Saturday, January 28 The Met: Live in HD series will continue with an encore performance of Donizetti's Anna Bolena at the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre at 1pm.

Because it was that author's 1981 novel The Hotel New Hampshire that celebrated - well, kind of celebrated, kind of dissed - Gaetano Donizetti 's opera Lucia di Lammermoor , partly by having the Vienna production blown up in a terrorist attack near the story's end.

On Saturday, January 28 The Met: Live in HD series will continue with an encore performance of Donizetti's Anna Bolena at the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre at 1pm.

Repertory Opera Company will present Gaetano Donizetti's comedy of disguise and deception, "Don Pasquale," four times during February.

The opera, covers the tragic final days of Anne Boleyn whose husband Henry VIII spurns her and has her sentenced to death.

It is one of the prettiest cities in Italy, but how many of the passengers landing at the airport go near it? Most make a bee-line for Milan, for which Bergamo is the airport of choice of the low-cost airlines.