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5 days ago · The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee, Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici, during the first half of the 15th century.
- By Medico, Castellan of Potrone, considered the first ancestor of the house
- 1230; 793 years ago
Apr 15, 2024 · Leo X (born December 11, 1475, Florence [Italy]—died December 1, 1521, Rome) was one of the leading Renaissance popes (reigned 1513–21). He made Rome a cultural center and a political power, but he depleted the papal treasury, and, by failing to take the developing Protestant Reformation seriously, he contributed to the dissolution of the Western church.
- John G. Gallaher
Apr 15, 2024 · Vivaldi’s major compositions in Mantua were operas, though he also composed cantatas and instrumental works. caricature of Antonio Vivaldi. Caricature of Antonio Vivaldi, pen and ink on paper by Pier Leone Ghezzi, 1723; in the Codex Ottoboni, Vatican Library, Rome.
May 1, 2024 · La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
5 days ago · Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar (Achille) Claude Debussy [n 1] was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at ...
3 days ago · Over forty operas have been based on his works, in addition to three operas about Byron himself (including Virgil Thomson's Lord Byron). His poetry was set to music by many Romantic composers, including Beethoven , Schubert , Rossini , Mendelssohn , Schumann and Carl Loewe .
Apr 14, 2024 · Saturday, April 13th, 2024. As one will well know, Rome, Italy is a city of monuments and history, one of the cradles of western civilization, with the peninsula as a whole deeply entwined with opera as the birthplace of the art form. For its new production of La sonnambula, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, has confided the staging to the ...
