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Pedro António Avondano: Il Mondo Della Luna. Naxos 660487-88, 2021., Ralph P. Locke

Music & Musical Performance

The world-premiere recording of Il mondo della luna by Pedro António Avondano consists of a highly skillful and alert performance by Portuguese musicians, including singers well trained in Italian. The recitatives were rehearsed in an unusual way, with the singers first speaking the lines rather than singing them. The experiment will be judged variously by different observers. The reviewer dislikes the frequent clash in pitch between voice and instruments, especially at cadences. But others have hailed the recording unstintingly.

Jussi’S Reception In Italy: Past And Present, Tom Hines

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

For the most part, after becoming an international star, Jussi Björling fashioned his stage career around Italian opera (in addition to performances of Faust and Roméo et Juliette). Prior to the early forties, he had sung a wide variety of operatic roles, but primarily in Swedish. At only 25 years of age, Jussi undertook Aida and Pagliacci in Vienna under De Sabata, as well as an outstanding Faust (with Rethberg and Kipnis) sung in German and Swedish! Duly impressed, Victor De Sabata attempted to have Jussi perform in Rome but this couldn’t be arranged because of Björling’s prior engagements. Over …

A Mozart Duet In A Sarti Opera: ‘Là Ci Darem La Mano’ In Udine, 1793 [Post-Print], John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

Giuseppe Sarti's opera buffa Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode was one of the great operatic successes of the late eighteenth century. First performed in Milan in September 1782, the opera was quickly taken up by theatres in other cities. In 1783 it began a long run at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where it had been performed more than sixty times by 1790. The opera was produced everywhere from Barcelona to Copenhagen, from Rouen to St Petersburg, in languages including German, French and Danish. By 1800 Fra i due litiganti had been given more than eighty productions across all …

The Collection Of John Mazzarella, Francesco Izzo

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Testing Textbooks: The Case For Italian Opera, Hilary Poriss

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Verdi's First "Willow Song": New Sketches And Drafts For Otello, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

The genesis of Verdi's Otello is a familiar episode in the history of Italian opera. The semiretired composer's reluctance to reenter the operatic fray, his gradual interest in Arrigo Boito's draft libretto, and the astonishing speed with which he composed the music have been the subject of both musicological and biographical study. Letters between librettist and composer detail the textual modifications that Boito made to accommodate Verdi's needs. Up until now, however, we have had few corresponding musical documents readily available to illustrate how Verdi grappled with the challenges of Boito's libretto. Beginning with his draft text, dispatched to Verdi …

A Collection Of Italian Opera Libretti In The Syracuse University Libraries, Aubrey S. Garlington Jr.

The Courier

In this article, Aubrey S. Garlington, Jr. explains the historical tension between the composer of the opera and its librettist, arguing that although the adulation of the composer has steadily risen in modern history, there cannot be an opera without a libretto. He also notes that 18th and early 19th century libretti are becoming more important in musicology, and analyzes a collection of Italian libretti that can be found at Syracuse University's Bird Library.

Volume 64, Number 04 (April 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Finding the Right Place

Sustaining the Pupil's Interest

Paper Shortage—Our Joint Problem

Before There Was a Copyright

Little Touch of God's Finger (interview with Lauritz Melchior)

Three Contemporary English Composers (William Walton, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten)

Pietro Mascagni—A Tragic Figure?

Pink Slips, Prizes, and Perfection

Know Your Instrument! (interview with Egon Petri)

Servants of the Ideal: Ten Great Educators

Negro Spiritual: A Lively Leaven in the American Way of Life

Claude Debussy as a Music Critic

What the Audience Should Give to an Artist (interview with Mme. Mana-Zucca)

Volume 52, Number 02 (February 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Education of a Conductor (interview with Bruno Walter)

Stage Fright and How to Cure It

Berlin, The Weltstadt of Music

Music and the Adult

From Bell Stand to Throne Room: A Remarkable Autobiographical Interview with the Eminently Successful American Negro Composer (interview with R. Nathaniel Dett)

Kindergarten Highway to Tone and Rhythm

New Approach to the Thumb-Under Problem

Conquering the Jazz Craze of Young Pianists

Four Times Twenty Musical Years

Old Friends are Best

Indian Drill for the Fingers

Violin Teaching Far From Ordinary: An Unroutined Routine of Violin Instruction (interview with Louis Persinger)

Provincial Opera in Italy

Devices for …

Volume 05, Number 06 (June 1887), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Piano Composers

Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso

Classical Music from a Teacher's Standpoint

Studying Music in Italy

Is Music Aristocratic?

Carefully Selected List of American Songs Suitable for Concert and Teaching Purposes with Key, Compass, Grade and Price

Johannes Brahms and Robert Volkmann

Tact in Teaching

Excuses for Missing Lessons

Letter from Madame Wagner