Composer
Gaetano Donizetti
Italian opera composer (1797–1848)
1797–1848
382 works in the index
- Era
- Romantic
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
- Born in
- Bergamo
As a very young child of a poor family, Dominico Gaetano Maria Donizetti lived in a windowless cellar. But as a grown man, he dominated the Italian opera scene in the period between Bellini’s death (1835) and Verdi’s rise to fame after the success of Nabucco (1842). Donizetti succeeded with operas of a wide range of genres. His comedies for example included L’ajo nell'umbarazzo, [The Embarrassed Tutor] (1824), Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali [Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage] (an initial version was produced in 1827, a much expanded final version in 1831), and Il giovedi grasso [Maundy Thursday]. He also composed the heroic neoclassical drama L’esule di Roma [The Exile from Rome] (1828) and the romantic melodrama Il paria [The outcast] (1829). During the period of his dominance of the operatic stage his works include: Maria Stuarda [Mary Stuart] (1835); Lucia di Lammermoor (1835); and La fille du regiment [The Daughter of the Regiment] (1840). His final work, integrating ballet, was the comic opera Don Pasquale (1843), first produced at the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour, in Paris.
Catalogue
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L'elisir d'amore: Atto II "Una furtiva lagrima" (Nemorino)
Lucia di Lammermoor: Atto I, Scena II. "Regnava nel silenzio" (Lucia)
Nella pace del mesto riposo from Maria Stuarda
Il dolce suono
Della crudele Isotta (Donizetti-Elixir of Love)
Quel Guardo Il Cavaliere
Piangete voi? from Anna Bolena
Ardon Gl'incensi (Mad Scene)
Al dolce guidami castel natio from ANNA BOLENA
Oh nube! che lieve from Maria Stuarda
Andante Sostenuto
Sextette - Lucia Di Lammermoor'
Come Paride vezzoso porse il pomo
---: "Spargi d'amaro pianto"
Eterno Amore E Fe
Me voglio fa 'na casa
Vivi, ingrato, a lei d'accanto from Roberto Devereux
Deh! Non voler costringere
Anna Bolena
La Fille du Régiment
Voglio dire (Donizetti-Elixir of Love)
In guerra ed in amore (Donizetti-Elixir of Love)
Di quai soavi lagrime from Poliuto
Quai voci! from Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth
Mascalzoni! Sfaccendati! from Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali
Aria
Ah,Un Foco Insolito
Don Pasquale: Cavatina, "Quel guardo, il cavaliere"
Linda du Chamounix: Air, "O luce di quest'anima"
Ammore!
Oh, vieni al mare!
Dalle stanze ove Lucia from LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Il fuso
Sonata In F
Adina, credemi
Pour me rapprocher de Marie
Cruda, funesta smania
La Fille du Regiment: "Chacun le sait" ("Ciascun lo dice")
COME PARIDE VEZZOSO (Donizetti-Elixir of Love)
Quando Rapito In Estasi
Tu che voli, gia spirto beato from Fausta
Sogno talor di correre from Parisina
Vieni o tu, che ognor io chiamo from Caterina Cornaro
Il mio destin dipende from Gianni di Parigi
Pour mon ame/Qual destino! from La fille du regiment/La figlia del reggimento
"Cerchero lontana terra" from Don Pasquale
"Convien partir" from La figlia del reggimento
Tranquillo ei posa
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