1825 in Music - 1825 Operas, Il Viaggio a Reims, La Dame Blanche, Marino Faliero, Adelson E Salvini, Giulietta E Romeo, La Belle Au Bo (Paperback)

Chapters: 1825 Operas, Il Viaggio a Reims, La Dame Blanche, Marino Faliero, Adelson E Salvini, Giulietta E Romeo, La Belle Au Bois Dormant. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro (The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Fleur-de-lis) is an operatic dramma giocoso in one act by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne, ou L'Italie by Mme de Stael. Rossini's last opera in the Italian language (all of his later works were in French) premiered under the title Le voyage a Reims, ou l'Hotel du Lys-d'Or. It was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in Rheims in 1825 and has been acclaimed as one of Rossini's finest compositions. A demanding work, it requires 14 soloists (three sopranos, one contralto, two tenors, four baritones, and four basses). At its premiere, it was sung by the greatest voices of the day. Since the opera was written for a specific occasion, with a plot about European aristocrats, officers - and one poetess - en route to join in the French coronation festivities that the opera itself was composed for, Rossini never intended it to have a life beyond a few performances in Paris. He later re-used about half of the music in Le comte Ory. The overture is typical of Rossini's grander music, crafted for a heavy but precise, high spirited performance. It appears later as ballet in Le siege de Corinthe (1826), and though it was not played at the 1825 premiere of Il viaggio, has since never faded from the concert stage. It is frequently recorded and heard often today, though it is sometimes omitted from newer recordings of the opera. Il viaggio a Reims was first performed at the Theatre Italien, Paris, on June 19, 1...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5557229