#Regina Mingotti

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Co-stars & Rivals:  CATERINA REGINA MINGOTTI

Born: Naples, 16 Feb 1722

Died: Neuburg an der Donau, 1 Oct 1808

Voice: soprano

Personality: Regina Mingotti was an Italo-German singer. Her early life is known almost wholly from her account to Burney in 1772, which is inaccurate in at least one important respect. According to this, she was the daughter of a German officer in the Austrian service at Naples and was educated in a convent at Grätz in Silesia. She attributed her firm intonation to the abbess, who made her practise scales without keyboard accompaniment. According to Prota-Giurleo she was the sister of the composer Michelangelo Valentini, hence presumably Italian, and may have had an early, undocumented Italian career. Her first recorded appearances were in Hamburg from 1743 to 1747, as a leading member of a notable company run by the impresario Pietro Mingotti, whom she married but soon parted from. She scored an immediate success in Dresden (1747), where she was kept on by the Saxon court and studied with Porpora. She sang in Naples, Prague, Madrid, Paris and London, where she took over the management of the Kings Theatre together with the leader of the orchestra, Felice Giardini, and incurred much obloquy. Her retirement was spent at Dresden, then Munich, and finally Neuburg, where her son Samuel von Buckingham was inspector of forests; he was apparently born (in London) of a liaison with a Piedmontese nobleman. Burney called her perfect mistress of her art, always grand in her style though lacking in grace and softness; her practical musical intelligence, he wrote, was equal to that of any composer he had known. She was admired as an actress, particularly in the breeches roles she often sang. Her portrait in crayons, by Mengs, is in the Dresden Gallery. It represents her, when young, with a piece of music in her hand; and, if faithful, it makes her more nearly beautiful than it was easy for those who knew her later in life to believe her ever to have been. 'She is painted in youth, plumpness, and with a very expressive countenance.'

One fact: In 1751 Mingotti went to Spain, where she sang with Gizziello in the operas directed by Farinelli, who was so strict a disciplinarian that he would not allow her to sing anywhere but at the Opera, nor even to practise in a room that looked on the street.

One quote: ‘She spoke three languages, German, French, and Italian, so well that it was difficult to say which of them was her own. English she likewise spoke, and Spanish, well enough to converse in them, and understood Latin; but, in the three languages first mentioned, she was truly eloquent.' Charles Burney

One hit: Ah, se provar mi vuoi (Attilio Regolo)

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accadde...oggi: nel 1722 nasce Regina Mingotti

accadde…oggi: nel 1722 nasce Regina Mingotti

Regina Mingotti nata Valentini (Napoli, 6 febbraio 1722 – Neuburg an der Donau, 1º ottobre 1808) è stata un soprano italiano.

Figlia di un diplomatico austriaco[1], crebbe in un convento di Orsoline a Graz dove venne istruita al canto dalla badessa. Nel 1747 si sposò con Pietro Mingotti, un impresario teatrale e con cui lavorò negli anni successivi e soprattutto a Dresda dove divenne rivale di F…

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February 06 in Music History

1497 Death of Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem in Tours. 

1722 Birth of soprano Regina Mingotti in Naples. 

1760 FP of Maria Antonia Walpurgis', Princess of Bavaria, 1724-1780, Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni at Nymphenburg Castle, Munich.

1801 Birth of soprano Laure Cinti-Damoreau in Paris. 

1809 Death of Italian composer Francesco Azopardi. 

1813 FP of G. Rossini's opera Tancredi at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

1817 Birth of bass-baritone August Kindermann in Potsdam. 

1834 Birth of soprano Ilma de Murska in Croatia. 

1851 FP of Schumann's Third Symphony Rhenish in Dusseldorf.

1852 Birth of Russian conductor and pianist Vassily Safonov in Caucasus.

1874 Birth of soprano Magna Lykseth-Scherfven. 

1875 Birth of tenor Walter Hyde in Birmingham. 

1882 Birth of Austrian composer Karl Weig in Vienna. 

1887 Birth of baritone Richard Bonelli in Port Byron, New York. 

1889 Birth of soprano Xenia Dershinskaya in Moscow. 

1894 Birth of French organist Andre Marschal. 

1896 Death of soprano Julie Aimee Dorus-Grass.

1896 Death of mezzo-soprano Darya Leonova. 

1898 Birth of German soprano Erna Sack in Berlin. 

1902 Birth of soprano Zdenka Zikova in Prague. 

1903 Birth of Chilean-American pianist Claudio Arrau. 

1908 FP of Stravinsky's Fireworks for marriage of Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter to Maxmillian Steinberg.

1909 Birth of composer Israel Citkowitz.

1914 Birth of soprano Lina Aimaro in Turin.

1926 Birth of Italian soprano Floriana Cavalli.

1926 Birth of tenor Vladimir Petrov in Moscow. 

1929 Death of soprano Minnie Hauk. 

1929 Death of German composer and choral conductor Siegfried Ochs in Berlin.

1930 FP of Albert Roussel's Petite Suite for Orchestra in Paris.

1933 FP of Henry Brant's Angels and Devils for flute ensemble, in NYC.

1937 Birth of tenor Wieslaw Ochman in Warsaw. 

1938 Birth of American composer Ellsworth Milburn in Greenburg, PA.

1941 Birth of American composer Stephen Albert in NYC. 

1942 Birth of Chilean composer Gabriel Brncic.

1944 FP of Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. NBC Symphony conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Eduard Steuermann was the soloist.

1948 Birth of composer Bruce J. Taub.

1952 Birth of Param VIR in Delhi, India.

1954 Death of tenor and coach Paul Althouse. 

1955 Birth of American composer Jerome KITZKE.

1957 Birth of English conductor Matthew BEST.

1959 Birth of mezzo-soprano Konkordia Antarova. 

1959 FP of Francis Poulenc's opera La voix humaine 'The Human Voice' at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

1962 Death of soprano Vera Curtis. 

1966 Death of Swedish composer Algot Haquinius in Stockholm. 

1969 Birth of composer Nathaniel Tull Phillips.

1969 Death of baritone Ferdinando Li Donni. 

1970 Birth of composer Sean Hickey.

1976 Death of tenor Luigi Fort. 

1976 FP of John La Montaine's opera Be Glad, Then, America at University Park, PA.

2004 FP of Julia Wolfe´s My Beautiful Scream. Kronos Quartet, French National Orchestra, Darlington, conducting, in Paris.

2005 Death of German-American musicologist, pianist and broadcaster Karl Haas in Royal Oak, MI. 

2005 Death of Russian pianist Lazar Berman in Florence, IT.

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RECANATI – “Grazie Musicultura grazie  Recanati!  Voglio tanto bene a questo posto,  ho un sacco di ricordi fantastici..  viva  Recanati viva voi e  viva la musica!!!” Così Loredana Bertè ha salutato i migliaia di presenti a Lunaria, la rassegna di Musicultura nel suo quarto e attesissimo appuntamento con la Signora del Rock italiano.

Grintosa, carismatica e Regina del palco, Loredana Bertè a Recanati, ha stregato l’ “Infinito”  pubblico di Piazza Giacomo Leopardi, di  Corso Persiani e di Via Cavour  che ha seguito il concerto nei vie laterali grazie ai maxischermi, regalando generosamente una scaletta da urlo, tenendo fede e superando tutte le aspettative  della promessa da lei stessa fatta in un intervista prima del concerto.

Accompagnata dalla inconfondibile voce della storica vocalist, Aida Cooper e dalla sua fantastica Bandabertè composta da Ivano Zanotti alla batteria, Alberto Linari alle tastiere, Pierluigi Mingotti al basso, Andrea Morelli Alessandro De Crescenzo alle chitarre, la Bertè ha offerto i suoi successi di ieri e di oggi, corredati dai  bellissimi filmati delle sue esibizioni televisive e  dei suoi video, proiettati sul palco alle sue spalle; immagini che hanno raccontato la vita altalenante, scandita dal rock, della Loredana degli eccessi.

Un concerto strepitoso, costellato da canzoni senza tempo, cantate e vissute profondamente nel corpo e nell’anima, con la  sua potente e graffiante voce che ha espresso vera vita in ogni nota. Brividi ed emozioni  tangibili hanno colpito dritte al cuore del grande fiume di persone che si sono accalcate nella celebre piazza fin dall’assolato pomeriggio. Sulle note di Jazz seguite da Amici non ne ho, Loredana Bertè ha aperto il suo strepitoso concerto con i grandi successi del passato, da Il mare d’inverno a Luna, Padre Davvero in cui ha ricordato con rabbia  la figura paterna,  fino ai suoi medley in un emozionante  viaggio  nel passato. “Dedicato con tutto l’amore che posso” ha detto la Bertè sulle note di Dedicato e poi avanti con  I ragazzi di qui, la canzone che Ivano Fossati scrisse per lei quando a New York sbaglio indirizzò e si trovò ad Harlem.

L’amata artista ha omaggiato Luigi Tenco con una versione di Ragazzo Mio e ha portato il pubblico letteralmente in visibilio, che ha cantato adorante, tutte le sue canzoni per oltre due ore, con  Non sono una signora e Sei Bellissima. Acclamata a gran voce dai fans accalcati sotto le transenne, Loredana Bertè ha offerto nei bis il suo ultimo singolo “Non ti dico no” realizzato con il gruppo salentino dei  Boomdabash, che ha già conquistato il disco d’oro e ha raggiunto i vertici delle classifiche radiofoniche e digital. L’artista più pura del panorama musicale italiano ha chiuso la sua indimenticabile esibizione live che entrerà nella  storia della Rassegna, tra il delirio del pubblico con  La luna bussò e In alto mare.

Un ringraziamento particolare agli addetti alla sicurezza e ai volontari che in  un una squadra  di  cinquanta persone hanno gestito egregiamente la serata. Ultimo imperdibile appuntamento con Lunaria,  lunedì prossimo 23 luglio con la verve e l’ irriverenza contagiosa de Lo Stato Sociale in Piazza Giacomo Leopardi  ad ingresso libero fino ai limiti  previsti dai protocolli di sicurezza.

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February 16

1715 - Tigrane, ovvero L'egual impegno d'amore e di fede, one of the most successful drammi per musica by Alessandro Scarlatti, with a libretto by Domenico Lalli about a completely imaginary story involving Thomyris, Queen of Massagetae (whom Herodotus fans shall recall as the one who defeated Cyrus the Great and took her revenge by chopping his head off and soaking it in blood), was premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. You know, dramma per musica really is just another form of fan fiction, albeit the best one.

1722 - The Italo-German(?) soprano Regina Mingotti, a student of Porpora who enjoyed a stellar career in Dresden, Naples, Spain, Paris, and London, was born in Naples. According to the Italian musicologist Ulisse Prota-Giurleo, she was the sister of the composer Michelangelo Valentini.

1737 - Handel's dramma per musica, Giustino, with a libretto anonymously adapted from Pietro Pariati's 1711 revision of Nicolò Beregan's original text (set to music by Legrenzi) for Vivaldi, about the rise of the peasant Justin to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire, received its premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, in the last season in which Handel had to compete with the rival company Opera of the Nobility. The alto-castrato Domenico Annibali sang the title role, the soprano-castrato Gioacchino Conti "Gizziello" was the emperor Anastasius, and Anna Maria Strada del Pò created the role of the empress Ariadne. (I feel this libretto can be made into either a Hollywood blockbuster or a video game. Just look at it - defeating a bear, shipwreck, saving the empress from a sea-monster, crushing down a rebellion, a mountain suddenly split open and your dad's voice coming out there telling you the one you're gonna kill is actually your brother, and Boom! a new emperor.)

1786 - The German composer Johann Georg Schürer, who had spent virtually his entire career serving at the Saxon court, died in Dresden.