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This is a list of recordings of Rigoletto, an 1851 opera by Giuseppe Verdi with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
"Bella figlia dell'amore" ("Beautiful daughter of love") is a vocal quartet from the last act of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto.. It has been described as a "masterful quartet that is an intricate musical depiction of four personalities and their overlapping agendas", [1] and has been performed and recorded by many notable artists.
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts [a] by Giuseppe Verdi.The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
List of Roger Woodward's principal first performances, recordings, and publications; List of unpublished musical compositions; List of variations on a theme by another composer; List of variations on Pachelbel's Canon; List of works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society; List of works premiered at the Teatro Capranica
British Baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore preparing behind the scenes as the title role in Verdi's Rigoletto at Opéra de Montréal, October 2010.. Anthony Michaels-Moore (born 8 April 1957) is an English operatic baritone and the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition (Philadelphia, 1985). [1]
1851 Rigoletto (Verdi). The first – and most innovative – of three middle period Verdi operas which have become staples of the repertoire. [96] 1853 Il trovatore (Verdi). This Romantic melodrama is one of Verdi's most tuneful scores. [97] 1853 La traviata (Verdi). The role of Violetta, the "fallen woman" of the title, is one of the most ...
He is most known for his collaborations with Giuseppe Verdi, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, the best known being those for Rigoletto and La traviata. But Piave was not only a librettist: he was a journalist and translator in addition to being the resident poet and stage manager at La Fenice in Venice where he first encountered Verdi.
14 May – The tenor Enrico Caruso makes his highly successful debut at Covent Garden as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Also singing is the Australian soprano Nellie Melba as Gilda. Caruso releases his first recordings in Britain during May.