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4 days ago · He and his son had grown deeply attached to each other, but Louis was a captain in the merchant navy, and was more often than not away from home. Berlioz's physical health was not good, and he was often in pain from an intestinal complaint, possibly Crohn's disease. After the death of his second wife, Berlioz had two romantic interludes.
- Julian Rushton
- 1983
Mar 8, 2024 · Charles Gounod was a French composer noted particularly for his operas, of which the most famous is Faust. Gounod’s father was a painter, and his mother was a capable pianist who gave Gounod his early training in music. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis, where he remained until 1835.
Mar 18, 2024 · Realism. Italian opera life's path went on with the “verismo” (realism), whose champions were Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945 ), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) and Francesco Cilea (1866-1950). Mascagni's masterwork, “Cavalleria rusticana”, was premiered at Teatro Costanzi in Rome in 1890.
6 days ago · Victor Louis one of the most active of late 18th-century French Neoclassical architects, especially noted for theatre construction. After at least seven unsuccessful attempts, Louis won the Prix de Rome in 1755. While in Rome (1756–59), he offended the director of the Academy there, Charles Joseph.
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5 days ago · In 1816, for the Teatro Argentina in Rome, he composed the opera that was to become his best-known: Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). There was already a popular opera of that title by Paisiello , and Rossini's version was originally given the same title as its hero, Almaviva .
Mar 12, 2024 · Ferdinand Hérold was a French composer of early romantic operas who stands midway between D.-F.-E. Auber and Jacques Offenbach in the development of the opéra comique. Hérold studied under C.-S. Catel and E.-N. Méhul and won the Prix de Rome in 1812. He was court pianist in Naples, where he
Mar 18, 2024 · Rome and the Opera are linked by a very close relationship: at the Teatro Argentina Gioacchino Rossini gave the premiere of his most famous lyric opera, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”; the no longer existing Teatro Apollo saw the birth of “Il trovatore” and of “Un ballo in maschera”, two of the most significant works of Giuseppe Verdi ...