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Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Bellini es conocido por sus ópera románticas de hermosas melodías de largo desarrollo. Nacido en Catania (Sicilia), recibió altos reconocimientos por su obra belcantista pese a su corta vida. Títulos como La straniera (1828), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830), Norma (1831), La sonnambula (1831) y su canto del cisne I Puritani (1834) le convierten en uno de los compositores imprescindibles para el repertorio de todos los teatros de ópera occidental.

Retrato de Vincenzo Bellini

I Puritani (1835) es sin duda una de las ópera más exitosas de Bellini. Nos transporta a tiempos de la guerra civil inglesa y acerca a los corazones de dos enamorados pertenecientes a los bandos enfrentados en ella: realistas y puritanos. Arias maravillosas como A te o cara o Son vergin vezzosa o Cinta di fiori dibujan una trama dramática escrita por Carlo Pepoli y estrenada y producida en el Théâtre-Italien de París gracias a la complicidad de Gioacchino Rossini.

I Puritani se estrenó en el Théâtre la Comédie-Italienne, o Théatre-Italien (Paris XIVème).

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Gaetano Donizetti, Parisina d’Este: Per sempre, per sempre sotterra sepolto

Mariella Devia, Soprano Dano Raffanti, Tenor Giorgio Zancanaro, Baritone Dimitri Kavrakos, Bass Bruno Bartoletti, Conductor Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 1990

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April 05 in Music History

1595 Birth of composer John Wilson. 

1698 Birth of composer Georg Gottfried Wagner.

1705 Grand opening of Queens Theatre with the first Italian opera in London, Greber: Gli amori d'Ergasrto. 

1727 Birth of Italian composer Pasquale Anfossi. 

1752 Birth of French piano and harp manufacturer Sebastian Erard. 

1779 FP of Gazzaniga´s "Il disertore" Florence. 

1784 Birth of German violinist and composer Louis Spohr in Brunswick.

1798 Birth of American piano manufacturer Jonas Chickering. 

1799 Birth of composer Vincenzo Fioravanti. 

1803 FP of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Symphony No. 2 at a benefit concert in Vienna. 

1824 Death of Italian bass Francesco Benucci. 

1828 Birth of composer Pietro Platania. 

1839 Birth of composer Stanislaw Pilinski. 

1853 Birth of composer Alfonso Randano. 

1854 Birth of composer Vicente Goicoechea Errasti. 

1859 Birth of composer Wilhelm Harteveld. 

1862 Birth of composer Louis Ganne. 

1866 Death of soprano Louise-Therese Lemonnier. 

1869 Birth of French composer Albert Roussel in Tourcoing, France. 

1870 Birth of German baritone Hermann Gura in Breslau. 

 1874 FP of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss Jr. in Vienna. 

1876 Birth of Swedish composer, organist Viktor Patrik Vretblad. 

1878 Birth of composer Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg.

 1882 Birth of English tenor Joseph Hislop in Edinburgh. 

1885 Birth of composer Dimitrie Cuclin. 

1892 Birth of bass Rudolf Watzke in Niemes.

1898 Birth of soprano Edytha Fleischer in Falkenstein. 

1902 FP of Ravel's Pavanne for a Dead Princess. Ricardo Viñes, pianist, in Paris.

1903 Birth of composer Thomas Baron Pitfield. 

1905 Birth of composer Jef Maes. 

1906 Birth of Italian organist Fernando Germani. 

1908 Birth of Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg. 

1911 Birth of English-born American recording executive Goddard Lieberson.

1917 Birth of American composer Richard Yardumian in Philadelphia. 

1921 Death of Dutch composer Alfons Diepenbrock.

1922 Birth of composer Harry Freedman. 

1924 Birth of Italian soprano Onelia Fineschi in Florence. 

1925 Birth of American bass Keith Engen in Frazee, Minnesota. 

1925 Birth of composer Oldrich Flosman. 

1927 Birth of bass-baritone James Milligan in Halifax Nova Scotia. 

1928 Birth of composer David Farquhar Andress. 

1932 Birth of American soprano Mary Costa in Knoxville. 

1933 Birth of Swiss soprano Eugenia Ratti.

1936 Birth of English composer John White in Berlin. 

1946 FP of Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto. 

1948 Birth of Italian tenor Dano Raffanti. 

1949 Birth of Dutch mezzo-soprano Marion Lambrinks. 

1949 FP of Roy Harris's symphonic scherzo Kentucky Spring. 

1959 Birth of English pianist Julius Drake. 

1961 Birth of Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci in Ferrara. 

1967 Death of Russian violinist Mischa Elman. 

1969 Death of Russian soprano Andrjeva von Skilondz. 

 1974 Death of English soprano Jennifer Vyvyan.