1885–1969, Italian Born in a small Italian village, Martinelli scaled the heights of operatic fame, becoming Caruso’s successor in verismo repertoire at the Met. After making his operatic debut in the title role of Verdi’s Ernani, he achieved his breakthrough when engaged by Puccini to sing Dick Johnson in the 1911 European premiere of La fanciulla del ...
his personal life. In 1607, the year of Orfeo, Monteverdi’s wife, Claudia de Cattaneis, died and left him with three young children. In 1608, Caterina Martinelli, a young singer who lived with Monteverdi and who was due to take the title role in Arianna, died of smallpox. A replacement took over, and the ...
these latter works were linked with personal tragedy: the deaths of his wife, the singer Claudia de Catteneis, in September 1607 and a few months later of Caterina Martinelli, a young singer to whom both the composer and his wife had been greatly attached. The Move to Venice In 1612, in spite of having brought acclaim to ...
excellent Michele in Il tabarro and a superb Gianni Schicchi. The English soprano Dame Eva Turner (1892–1990), magnificent in the title role of Turandot, and the Italian tenor Giovanni Martinelli, a very fine Calaf, sang these roles at Covent Garden in the Coronation Season of 1937. Liù, the slave girl, was sung by Licia Albanese, who ...
13. The story was a means for the author to explore his own intuition about subjective beauty and his ‘celibate’ homoeroticism. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Giovanni Martinelli | Modern Era | Opera ...
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