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    La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder or Die seidene Leiter) is an operatic farsa comica in one act by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria...
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    piece with three more farse for the house: L'inganno felice (1812), La scala di seta (1812), and Il signor Bruschino (1813). Rossini maintained his links...
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    practice of inserting Alexander Alyabyev's "Nightingale". In a recording of a La Scala performance in 1956, Maria Callas sang a shortened version of "Contro un...
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    Il barbiere di Siviglia, Naxos, 1994 Otello, Verdi. Deutsche Grammophon, 1994 (Cassio) Goyescas, Granados. Auvidis, 1996 La Scala di Seta, Rossini. Claves...
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  • "Largo al factotum" Riccardo Stracciari, La Scala Orchestra, conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli, 1929 Problems playing this file? See media help. "Largo al...
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  • a Reims The Barber of Seville La gazza ladra L'italiana in Algeri La scala di seta William Tell Franz Schubert: Overture in Italian Style, D590 Rosamunde...
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    Desdemona (Otello, 2007), Giulia (La scala di seta, 2009), Aldamira (Sigismondo, 2010), and the title role in Matilde di Shabran (2012). In 2007, she made...
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  • barbiere di Siviglia. He has performed Rossini's comic operas La scala di seta, L'occasione fa il ladro, L'italiana in Algeri, La gazza ladra, La Cenerentola...
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    two years later in Rome. In 1969 La Scala revived it for the Rossini centennial with Beverly Sills, in her La Scala debut, as Pamira, Marilyn Horne as...
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    ladro, L'inganno felice, Maometto secondo, Mosè in Egitto, La scala di seta, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Edipo Coloneo, L’italiana in Algeri, Sigismondo...
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    conductor of the premiere performance locked him in a room at the top of La Scala the day before the premiere with orders to complete the opera's still unfinished...
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  • farse. Rossini wrote five examples: La cambiale di matrimonio (1810), L'inganno felice (1812), La scala di seta (1812), Il Signor Bruschino (1813), and...
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    La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo ("Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant") is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto...
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    dell'Accademia Santa Cecilia, orchestra and chorus Soloists: Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo EMI Classics Notes Gossett...
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    Salsi made his stage debut in 1997 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Rossini's La scala di seta, leading to further roles there. In 2000 he won a first...
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    (1812) Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare (1812) La scala di seta (1812) La pietra del paragone (1812) L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio...
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  • influence on Berlioz and a forerunner of French grand opera. 1812 La scala di seta (Gioachino Rossini). An early Rossini work, this opera is outright...
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    the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize. Rossini: La scala di seta (Fonit Cetra, 1988) Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Decca, 1989) Mozart: Così fan tutte...
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  • L'occasione fa il ladro (intermezzo; Premiered November 24) La pietra del paragone La scala di seta Franz Schubert – Der Spiegelritter (incomplete) January...
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  • potential source. also titled Matilde Shabran [initially], Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro [Naples, 1821] and Corradino [Milan, also 1821] The opera was originally...
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    there were major productions in Florence (1972), Geneva (1979, 1991), La Scala (1988), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1989), Covent Garden (1990), and then...
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  • Ondrej Lenárd. Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) – 7:29 Overture to La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) - 6:37 Overture to...
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  • also conducted Damiano Michieletto's production of Rossini's opera La scala di seta on tour at the Royal Opera House Muscat. He currently is Principal...
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    New York City Opera in April 2013. As Moise et Pharaon it was given at La Scala in 2003, and again as part of the 2009 Salzburg Festival under Muti. The...
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    performance in the Teatro Regio di Parma in January 1990. In 1992, to mark the bicentenary of Rossini's birth, La Scala mounted its first production of...
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    Silvio in Pagliacci, Silvano in Un ballo in maschera and Germano in La scala di seta. In 2016 he will return to the Metropolitan Opera singing the role...
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    three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa [ca] after William Shakespeare's play Othello, or The Moor of Venice;...
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  • Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Giulia in Rossini's La scala di seta in Liège, Violetta in La traviata at the Astana...
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    Tancredi (category Opera world premieres at La Fenice)
    Nacional de São Carlos on 18 September 1822 (as Tancredo) and was given its La Scala premiere on 8 November 1823 with Brigida Lorenzani as Tancredi. The United...
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    "24 February 1869". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian). Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Marchisio". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian)...
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