Article: Maria di Rohan

Article: Donizetti, Gaetano
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      700+ words ......Ronconi the writing for baritone in Maria di Rohan (1843) and Maria Padilla (1841). By the...later stricter and more compact Maria di Rohan varying formal aria and recitative in...wholly conceals his failing health. Maria di Rohan proved on its Vienna production in 1844...

Article: Tadolini, Eugenia
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      124 words ......1851. Roles included Donna Anna, Rosina, Amina, Norma, Lucia, Anna Bolena, Norina, Odabella; created Linda di Chamounix, Maria di Rohan, Verdi's Alzira. Donizetti thought highly of her (‘She is a singer, she is an actress, she is everything’) as...

Article: In review: Venice
Opera News;  June 1, 1999 ;     392 words ......houses the opera company until the Teatro La Fenice is rebuilt - opened on January 30 with Donizetti's late, neglected Maria di Rohan, a work remarkable for its concentrated focus on a triangle not unlike the one in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, and for the...

Article: Pryanishnikov, Ippolit
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      106 words ......1921). Russian baritone and producer. Studied St Petersburg with Corsi, Milan with Ronconi. Début Milan 1876 ( Maria di Rohan ). St Petersburg, M, 1878–86. Singer, prod., and manager, Tiflis O, 1886–9; Kiev 1889–92; Moscow 1892...

Article: Foreign exchange
The Spectator;  October 30, 2004 ;     700+ words ......who conducted at the festival. The 2005 programme, his first, will mark a return to less rarefied realms - Donizetti's Maria di Rohan, Faur's Pnlope, and the rural-Yankee biblical Susannah, by fellow American and friend Carlisle Floyd. Yet it is unlikely that...

Article: Sound Bites
Opera News;  October 1, 2006 ;     391 words ......the next few years." In October 2005, Gutierrez made her European debut in the title role of Wexford Festival Opera's Maria di Rohan, where, dressed in an iridescent red-to-black gown, with her long black hair flowing onto her shoulders, she was every inch...

Article: Camerata's Donizetti of Distinction
The Washington Post;  March 27, 1998 ;     287 words ......April 5 in St. Matthew's Cathedral; a bass recital by Eugene Galvin on April 21 at Catholic University; and the opera "Maria di Rohan" on April 29 and May 2 at St. Patrick's. Mad scenes were a Donizetti specialty, apparently based on a (not implausible) theory...

Article: Ronconi, Giorgio
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      180 words ......Domingo ), title-role of Torquato Tasso , Enrico ( Il campanello ), Nello ( Pia de' Tolomei ), and a famous Chevreuse ( Maria di Rohan ). One of the earliest Verdi baritones; created Nabucco, and sang the Doge ( I due Foscari ), Don Carlo ( Ernani ), and Rigoletto...

Article: DONIZETTI, GAETANO (1797-1848). LE PIÙ BELLE ARIE PER SOPRANO (Favorite Soprano Arias)
Journal of Singing;  November 1, 2008 ;     394 words ......Lammermoar: Act I-Cavatina and Cabaletta, and Act III-Scene, Aria, and Cabaletta; Lucrezia Borgia: Prologue (Romanza); Maria di Rohan: Act III-Preghiera; Maria Stuarda: Act I-Recitative, Cavatina, and Cabaletta, and Act II-Cavatina and Cabaletta; Parisina...

Article: Obituary: Pier Luigi Samaritani
The Independent - London;  February 22, 1994 ;     439 words ......During the 1970s Samaritani also designed Carmen and uisa Miller for La Scala; Giovanna d'Arco, Lucia di Lammermoor and Maria di Rohan for La Fenice, Venice; and productions in Rome and Naples. In Florence, where Samaritani had achieved his first success, his...

Article: David Agler.(ONSTAGE)
Opera Canada;  June 22, 2005 ;     290 words ......his first season in Wexford, he is maintaining the festival policy of staging only rarely seen works, with Donizetti's Maria di Rohan, Faure's Penelope and Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, a work almost unknown in Europe. The festival will also include a plethora...

Article: Remembering Donizetti
Opera News;  November 1, 1997 ;     378 words ......opera La Favorita (it hasn't been seen since), and we need a reasoned view of that work, as well as of Caterina Cornaro, Maria di Rohan and, centrally, the flawed but monumental Dom Sebastien. Where are the champions of these works, and so many more in the Donizetti...

Article: If a soprano can't open a wallet, maybe a tax break can
The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......improved backstage facilities for the likes of Ms Gutierrez. No one who savoured her stunning performance in Donizetti's Maria di Rohan last year would begrudge her that. But while the government is meeting the bulk of the building costs, there remains a gap...

Article: Ireland's three lovely ladies
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ......been well worth performing, unlike those by Zandonai, Pacini and Mercadante of not so blessed recent memory. Donizetti's Maria di Rohan is one of his late works (1843), with a libretto by Cammarano. Set in the reign of Louis XIII when Cardinal Richelieu ruled...