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Image Giovanni Carestini.jpg thumb 210px Carestini Giovanni Carestini Filottrano , near Ancona , c. 1704 &ndash c. 1760 was an Italy Italian castrato of the 18th century, who sang in the opera s and oratorio s of George Frideric Handel . He is also remembered as having sung for Johann Adolph Hasse and Christoph Willibald Gluck . Career Carestini s career began in Milan in 1719, patronised at the time by the Cusani family hence the alternative name Cusanino . He sang for Alessandro Scarlatti in Rome in 1721. The scope of his burgeoning career quickly began to expand he was at the Vienna Viennese court during 1723, and followed this up with performances in Naples , Venice and Rome again, singing in operas by Hasse, Leonardo Vinci , and Nicola Porpora . He sang in Munich in 1731 before coming to London to sing for Handel in 1733. For Handel he sang the main roles in Arianna in Creta , Ariodante , and Alcina , and also performed in the oratorios Deborah Handel Deborah , Esther Handel Esther , and Athalia . While in Naples in 1735, he commanded a fee higher than that of the renowned Caffarelli castrato Caffarelli . Charles Burney records an entertaining Well, I like it anecdote from this time cquote Verdi prati , which was constantly encored during the whole run of Alcina , was, at first, sent back to HANDEL by Carestini, as unfit for him to sing upon which he went, in a great rage, to his house, and in a way which few composers, except HANDEL, ever ventured to accost a first singer , cries out You toc don t I know better as your seluf, vaat is pest for you to sing? If you vill not sing all de song vaat I give you, I will not pay you ein stiver. Following this peak, Carestini s career began to wane quickly. A London audience of 1740 was indifferent, and he returned to Italy in the early 1740s singing in Gluck s Demofoonte Gluck Demofoonte in Milan in 1743 , but was an employee of Maria Theresa of Austria Maria Theresa by 1744. From 1747 49 he sang for Hasse in Dresden , ... more details
class infobox width 350 align center Image Union flag 1606 Kings Colors .svg 30px 1735 in Great Britain Image Union flag 1606 Kings Colors .svg 30px style background color f3f3f3 align center small Other years small align center 1733 in Great Britain 1733 1734 in Great Britain 1734 1735 1736 in Great Britain 1736 1737 in Great Britain 1737 style background color f3f3f3 align center small Sport small align center 1735 English cricket season Events from the year 1735 in Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain . Incumbents Monarch George II of the United Kingdom King George II Prime Minister Robert Walpole , British Whig Party Whig Events 8 January Premiere of George Frideric Handel s opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden . ref name People s Chronology 1735. The People s Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 13 Jun, 2007 ref 16 April The London premiere of Alcina by Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House. ref name Cassell s Chronology cite book last Williams first Hywel title Cassell s Chronology of World History publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson year 2005 isbn 0 304 35730 8 pages 305 ref 22 May George Hadley publishes the first explanation of the trade winds . ref cite book title The Hutchinson Factfinder publisher Helicon year 1999 isbn 1 85986 000 1 ref 22 September Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street . ref cite web url http www.icons.org.uk theicons icons timeline 1700 1750 title Icons, a portrait of England 1700 1750 accessdate 2007 08 24 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20070817164123 http www.icons.org.uk theicons icons timeline 1700 1750 archivedate 17 August 2007 Added by DASHBot ref Undated William Hogarth produces his A Rake s Progress series of paintings. ref name Cassell s Chronology Edmund Curll tries to publish Mr Pope s Literary Correspondence , the stock of which is subsequently seized. Richard Leveridge writes a melody to Henry Fielding s The Roast Beef of Old England . Be ... more details
Margherita Rinaldi born January 12, 1935 is an Italy Italian lyric soprano , primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s. Rinaldi was born in Turin , Italy, and completed her music studies in Rovigo . She won a voice competition in Spoleto and made her debut there in 1958 in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor . Her debut at La Scala in Milan came the following year as Sinaide in Gioachino Rossini Rossini s Mos in Egitto . Rinaldi sang at most of the major opera houses in Italy, in roles such as Amina in La sonnambula , Adina in L elisir d amore , Norina in Don Pasquale and especially Gilda in Rigoletto . She also excelled in operas by Mozart and Cimarosa . Rinaldi won acclaim as Giulietta in Claudio Abbado s version of Vincenzo Bellini Bellini s I Capuleti e i Montecchi , opposite Giacomo Aragall and Luciano Pavarotti , at La Scala in 1966, and also as Linda in a revival of Linda di Chamounix again at La Scala, in 1972, opposite Alfredo Kraus . She sang a wide variety of roles for RAI between 1963 and 1975, such as Bertha in Le Proph te , Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare , Ginevra in Ariodante , and Noraime in Les Abenc rages . In 1977 she had a triumph singing Amenaide in Rossini s Tancredi opposite Horne at Teatro dell Opera in Rome. The night was broadcast by RAI TV. In 1978, Rinaldi appeared as Adalgisa in a production of Bellini s Norma opera Norma at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. Conducted by Riccardo Muti and starring Renata Scotto in the title role, these performances offered the Florentine public a rare chance to hear a lyric soprano as the younger, more vulnerable character of Adalgisa, according to the composer s intention. In November of the same year Rinaldi sang Ines in Meyerbeer s L Africaine at the Royal Opera House Royal Opera, Covent Garden , opposite Pl cido Domingo and Grace Bumbry . Rinaldi also enjoyed a successful international career, making her American debut at the Dallas Opera as Gilda in 1966. Her debut at the San Francisco Opera was as Luci ... more details
Ian MacNeil born 1960 is a British scenic design er. He won the 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for An Inspector Calls and the 2009 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Billy Elliot The Musical . Early life and career The son of news anchor and journalism journalist Robert MacNeil , he became interested in design at an early age, playing with toy theaters and creating puppet shows with his sister in their yard. I still remember the pleasure I took in creating those little worlds complete environments with characters I could manipulate, he recalled in a 1995 interview. ref http www.highbeam.com doc 1P2 4310541.html Chicago Sun Times , November 23, 1995 ref MacNeil studied at the Croydon School of Art ref name PBS http www.pbs.org viadolorosa stage.html PBS.org interview ref and later with Ming Cho Lee in New York City . ref name NYTimes http www.nytimes.com 1994 05 05 garden at home with robert and ian macneil a father and a son growing up again.html?pagewanted all New York Times interview, May 5, 1994 ref He spent a decade designing productions in Birmingham , Worcester , York , and Manchester before moving to London , where he made his West End theatre West End debut with Death and the Maiden play Death and the Maiden in 1991. ref http www.independent.co.uk arts entertainment arts show people ian macneil the joy of sets 1467058.html The Independent interview, December 12, 1993 ref MacNeil has designed for many London venues, including the Royal National Theatre National Theatre , the English National Opera , the Almeida Theatre , the Young Vic , the Barbican Theatre , and the Royal Court Theatre . He has won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design twice, for An Inspector Calls and Ariodante . ref http www.billyelliotthemusical.com explore creative ian macneil.php Ian MacNeil bio at Billy Elliot website ref In 1999, MacNeil staged the international tour of the Pet Shop Boys promoting the release of their album Nightlife Pet Shop ... more details
Sally Burgess FRCM is a South Africa born British operatic lyric mezzo soprano , opera director, and educator. She has been a Fellow and Professor of Vocal Studies at the Royal College of Music since 2004, as well as teaching stagecraft. ref Royal College of Music , http www.rcm.ac.uk ?pg 1584&staff code 760&pnum 1 Staff biography Sally Burgess ref She has also taught at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Biography and career Born 1953 in South Africa, Burgess studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Marion Studholme, and Josephine Veasey. She made debut on the opera stage as Zerlina in Don Giovanni with English National Opera . The ENO gave her a solo contract when she was only 23, and during her career she has sung over 40 roles with the company. Amongst the other companies where has appeared are the Royal Opera House Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where she made her debut as Siebel in Faust opera Faust with Alfredo Kraus , the Metropolitan Opera , the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Grand Th tre de Gen ve , Switzerland as Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen , Houston Grand Opera as Polinesso in Ariodante , and the Op ra Bastille in Paris in the title role of Carmen . A critic for The Sunday Times described her as the greatest exponent of Carmen I have ever seen . ref name MC Quoted in McHugh, Dominic, http www.musicalcriticism.com interviews burgess.htm Sally Burgess Art is an Adventure , Musicalcriticism, 13 September ref Carmen is role with which she has a particular affinity and is one she has sung all over the world. ref name MC Her other roles include Azucena in Il trovatore , Amneris in Aida , Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow , Judith in Bluebeard s Castle , Kabanicha in Katya Kabanova , Ottavia in L incoronazione di Poppea , Delilah in Samson and Delilah opera Samson and Delilah , and Herodias in Salome opera Salome . Burgess appears on many recordings including several with Chandos Records Judith in Bluebeard s Castle Herodi ... more details
File Adelaide Malanotte.jpg thumb Print of Adelaide Malanotte by Giovanni Antonio Sasso c. 1810 Adelaide Malanotte 1785 31 December 1832 was an Italian opera tic contralto who performed in major opera house s in Italy from 1806 1821. She is best known for creating the title role in the world premiere of Gioachino Rossini s Tancredi in 1813. After her marriage, she performed under the name Adelaide Montresor . Her son, Giovanni Battista Montresor , had a career as a tenor and impresario in the United States. ref name oper http hosting.triboni.com triboni exec?method com.operissimo.artist.webDisplay&id ffcyoieagxaaaaabcusb&xsl webDisplay&searchStr Adelaide Malanotte, Adelaide at operissimo.com ref From 1812 until her death 20 years later she carried on an extra marital affair with the poet Luigi Lechi . ref http books.google.com books?id VfPCPOk3fy8C&pg PA151&lpg PA151&dq Adelaide Malanotte&source bl&ots 5SE 63nUeq&sig x65qI s3t Lg2W zmDHroL0e Yw&hl en&ei MCB9TN OMoKasAOQw9yCBw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 7&ved 0CCgQ6AEwBg v onepage&q Adelaide 20Malanotte&f false Divas and scholars performing Italian opera By Philip Gossett ref Life and career Born in Verona , Malanotte made her professional opera debut in her native city in 1806. ref name Forbes cite web url http arts.jrank.org pages 8400 Adelaide Malanotte.html title Adelaide Malanotte author Elizabeth Forbes musicologist Elizabeth Forbes ref In 1808 she was heard at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Ariodante in Simon Mayr s Ginevra di Scozia . In 1809 she performed the role of Enrico in the world premiere of Stefano Pavesi s Elisabetta regina d Inghilterra at the Teatro Regio di Torino . She returned to that theatre the following year to perform the role of Itaferne in the premiere of Giuseppe Nicolini s Dario Istaspe . ref name Amadeus http www.amadeusonline.net almanacco.php?Start 0&Giorno &Mese &Anno &Giornata &Testo Adelaide Malanotte&Parola Stringa Adelaide Malanotte at amadeusonline.net ref She also ... more details
File Sonia Prina IMG 1129bis.jpg thumb Sonia Prina Sonia Prina is an Italian operatic contralto who has had an active career in concerts and opera s since the mid 1990s. She is particularly known for her appearances in Baroque music Baroque operas and for her performances of the Baroque concert repertoire. She has recorded works by composers George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi . Career Born in Magenta, Lombardy Magenta , Prina studied singing and the trumpet at the Music Conservatoire Giuseppe Verdi , Milan and then pursued further studies at the La Scala La Scala Academy . She began performing in operas in the mid 1990s, first in the Italian repertoire of Rossini and Donizetti . By 1997 she had established herself as an artist in the Baroque repertoire. Some of the roles she has performed are Amastre in Serse , Bradamante in Alcina , Carilda in Arianna in Creta , Cornelia in Giulio Cesare , Ottone in L Incoronazione di Poppea , Penelope in Il ritorno d Ulisse in patria , Polinesso in Ariodante , Valentiniano in Ezio Handel Ezio , and the title roles in Orlando opera Orlando , Ottone in villa , Partenope , Rinaldo opera Rinaldo , Tamerlano , and Tolomeo . In 2000 she appeared in Cremona as Smeton in Donizetti s Anna Bolena . ref cite web url http www.donizettisociety.com Newsletters articlenews82.htm title Anna Bolena riconosciuta author Alexander Weatherson year 2001 accessdate 3 September 2010 publisher donizettisociety.com ref In 2006 she performed Cornelia in the Th tre des Champs lys es in Paris with Andreas Scholl in the title role. ref cite web url http www.andreasschollsociety.org performance history.html 2006 title When did Scholl sing at...? year 2010 accessdate 3 September 2010 publisher andreasschollsociety.org ref In 2010 she appeared in the title role of Vivaldi s Orlando furioso Vivaldi Orlando furioso in the Frankfurt Opera , conducted by Andrea Marcon , the mad Roland staged as an Italo Rocker by David B sch. ref cite web url http www.oper ... more details
Axel K hler born 1960, Schwarzenberg, Saxony is a German countertenor and opera director . In 1994 he won the Handel Music Prize . Early life Axel K hler studied violin pedagogy and singing at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . In 1987 he made his singing debut as Eustazio in Peter Konwitschny s production of Rinaldo . A number of demanding countertenor roles followed, especially in Handel s operas, as K hler guested at international festivals and concerts, and in compact disc, radio and opera productions. Singing career Since 1984 K hler has belonged to the ensemble Halle an der Saale, first as a baritone and later as a countertenor . In 1995 K hler sang at the Royal Opera House in London at the premiere of Arianna by Alexander Goehr . In 1998 he took over the title role in the world premiere of Farinelli by Siegfried Matthus . In 2001 he played the devil in Detlev Granert s comic opera Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung at its premiere. He sang the role of Ajib in L Upupa by Hans Werner Henze in 2003 at the Salzburg Festival premiere. In 2006 K hler designed the title role in Cantor Die Vermessung des Unendlichen by Ingomar Gr nauer , a world premiere in which he sang as a baritone. In 2005 K hler sang at the Semper Opera in Dresden in the role of Poro in Johann Adolf Hasse s opera Cleofide . He sang with the Bavarian State Opera for Poppea and Rinaldo , the Hamburg State Opera for Poppea . He also sang in Monteverdi s L Orfeo in the part of La Speranza and the Polinesso in Handel s Ariodante . In 2011, he appeared as The Roasted Swan in Carl Orff s Carmina Burana . From 2007 to 2010, he appeared as Artemis in Hans Werner Henze s Phaedra in Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Frankfurt and London. Subsequently he played the part of Trasimede in Handel s Alceste at the Leipzig Opera. He also sang on the Dresden Theatre Barge, the Opera Hall and at the Rheingau Music Festival in the cabaret program Greife wacker nach der S nde . As a concert sing ... more details
s Ariodante The role of Ariodante was premiered by a soprano castrato and is performed today by a mezzo soprano. H ndel s Ariodante Lurcanio was originally written for contralto, but later rewritten ... more details
Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco and the title role in Handel s Ariodante at the Grand ... Annius, La clemenza di Tito Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart Ariodante, Ariodante Handel Ascanio ... Kaiserslautern , released 2005, Naxos label. Ariodante in Handel s Ariodante with conductor Alan ... more details
Handel operas Orlando HWV 31 is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written in for the second Royal Academy of Music . The Italian language Italian language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece s L Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto s Orlando Furioso , which was also the source of Handel s operas Alcina and Ariodante . Performance history The opera was first given at the Her Majesty s Theatre King s Theatre in London on 27 January 1733. There were 10 performances and it was not revived. The first modern production was at the Unicorn Theatre opera Unicorn Theatre , Abingdon, Oxfordshire Abingdon , on 6 May 1959. The United States premiere of the opera was presented by the Handel Society of New York HSNY in a concert version on 18 January 1971 at Carnegie Hall . Stephen Simon conducted the performance with Rosalind Elias in the title role, Camilla Williams as Angelica, Betty Allen as Medoro, Carole Bogard as Dorinda, and Justino D az as Zoroastro. ref cite web url http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res FB0617FE3D5F107B93C2AB178AD85F458785F9&scp 8&sq 22Handel Society of New York 22&st p title Handel Opera of 1733 is Heard in Local Premiere author Harold C. Schonberg date January 20, 1971 work The New York Times ref The HSNY had made the first recording of the opera in 1970 in Vienna with a mostly different cast for RCA Red Seal Records . Peter Sellars directed the first staged production of the work in the United States at the American Repertory Theater on 19 December 1981. Countertenor Jeffrey Gall sand the title role and Craig Smith conductor Craig Smith conducted. ref cite web url http www.nytimes.com 1981 12 20 arts opera handel s orlando at american repertory.html title Opera Handel s Orlando At American Repertory date December 20, 1981 work The New York Times author John Rockwell ref London s Royal Opera, London Royal Opera House revived their 2003 production of the opera in February and March 2007 with Bejun Mehta again in the ... more details
Marc Minkowski born 4 October 1962 ref http www.mdlg.net en marc minkowski Les Musiciens du Louvre Official Website ref ref http www.deutschegrammophon.com artist one.htms?ART ID MINMA Minkowski Biography at DG ref is a France French Conducting conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque music Baroque works. His mother, Mary Anne Wade , is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski , a Polish French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology . ref http books.google.ca books?id SC4aAAAAYAAJ&q anne wade Alexandre Minkowski&dq anne wade Alexandre Minkowski&hl en ref Marc Minkowski is a Ordre National du M rite Chevalier du M rite . Life and career Marc Minkowski was born in Paris . His maternal grandmother, Edith Wade, was a violinist. ref http goliath.ecnext.com coms2 gi 0199 535437 Beyond Barogue Marc Minkowski the.html ref He began his musical career as a bassoonist for Ren Clemencic s Clemencic Consort and Philippe Pierlot s Ricercar Consort . ref http www.deutschegrammophon.com artist one.htms?ART ID MINMA Minkowski Biography at DG ref In 1982 Minkowski formed Les Musiciens du Louvre , an orchestra dedicated to showcasing Music history of France Baroque era French Baroque music ref http www.mdlg.net en presentation Les Musiciens du Louvre Official Website ref ref http www.deutschegrammophon.com artist one.htms?ART ID MINMA Minkowski Biography at DG ref which has championed works by Marin Marais opera Alcione opera Alcione , Jean Joseph Mouret opera Les amours de Ragonde , Marc Antoine Charpentier , Jean Baptiste Lully opera Pha ton at Op ra National de Lyon and Jean Philippe Rameau opera Hippolyte et Aricie . The ensemble has also revived lesser known Handel operas, such as Teseo , Amadigi , Riccardo Primo and Ariodante , as well as several operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck including Armide Gluck Armide at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles , Alceste Gluck Alceste and Iphig nie en T ... more details
Sarah Crane born 9 September 1972 in Brisbane is an Australia n opera tic soprano . Education After attending All Hallows School in Brisbane , Sarah Crane graduated in 1997 from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Queensland Conservatorioum of Music and received the City of Brisbane Brisbane Lord Mayor s Performing Arts Scholarship Fellowship . That year, Crane sang in the Australian premiere of Elliot Goldenthal s Fire Water Paper A Vietnam Oratorio . In 1997, Crane won Opera Foundation Australia s 1997 Persia Galleghan Lady Galleghan Memorial Encouragement Award, the German Opera Award and the Australian regional final of the Metropolitan Opera Award which enabled her to be a finalist in the 1998 Metropolitan Opera Auditions in New York. In 1998 she received the American Institute of Musical Studies Award from Opera Foundation Australia which gave her the opportunity to study in Graz , Austria. ref http www.operafoundationaust.org.au Page.aspx?category 1&element 34 Award & Scholarship Winners at Opera Foundation Australia ref Career During the 1998 99 and 1999 2000 seasons, Crane was engaged as a member of the Opera Studio at the Cologne Opera. In September 2000, Crane started a one year contract as a Young Artist with the Op ra national du Rhin in Strasbourg , where she performed the roles of Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck Humperdinck s H nsel und Gretel opera H nsel und Gretel and of The Female Chorus in Benjamin Britten Britten s The Rape of Lucretia . In September 2001, Crane worked as a full time soloist with the Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg Opera in Germany. There she sang Pamina in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart s The Magic Flute Die Zauberfl te , Ginevra in George Frideric Handel Handel s Ariodante , Janthe in Heinrich Marschner s Der Vampyr , and the soprano solo in Bruno Maderna s Hyperion . During the season, she also made guest appearances in the role of Pamina for the Theater Basel Basel Opera . She continued her engagements in Freibur ... more details
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