sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural...

around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione...

Carnival at Mantua. While Jacopo Peri's Dafne is generally recognised as the first work in the opera genre, and the earliest surviving opera is Peri's Euridice...

1586 – 22 December 1612) was duke of Mantua and Montferrat between 9 February and 22 December 1612. Born in Mantua, he was the eldest son of Duke Vincenzo...

the court of Mantua in 1607. The Mantua court of the Gonzagas, employers of Monteverdi, played a significant role in the origin of opera employing not...

his second opera in press), however, proved more inclined to women and to do charitable works, rather than to hold the duchies of Mantua and Monferrato...

The Duchy of Mantua (Italian: Ducato di Mantova; Lombard: Ducaa de Mantua) was a duchy in Lombardy, northern Italy. Its first duke was Federico II Gonzaga...

His first opera, L'Orfeo, written in 1607 for the Mantuan court, which employed him, was a major success. In the years that followed, at Mantua and in his...

Monteverdi (1567–1643) who wrote his first opera, L'Orfeo (The Fable of Orpheus), in 1607 for the court of Mantua. Monteverdi insisted on a strong relationship...

accounts, Publius Vergilius Maro was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy, added to Italy proper during his lifetime)...

to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival season in Mantua in 1607. Commissioned by the Accademia degli Invaghiti [it], it was premiered...

the affections". In Monteverdi's final five years' service in Mantua he completed the operas L'Orfeo (1607) and L'Arianna (1608), and wrote quantities of...

festivities for a royal wedding at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga in Mantua. All the music is lost apart from the extended recitative known as "Lamento...

soprano opera singer. She was born in Ethiopia and raised in Italy with Italian citizenship. She graduated at the Conservatory Lucio Campiani in Mantua and...

Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved...

George Opera. In 1971 he made his debut at the San Francisco Opera as the Duke of Mantua in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto with Robert Mosley in the title...

Eleonora Gonzaga (23 September 1598 – 27 June 1655), was born a princess of Mantua as a member of the House of Gonzaga, and by marriage to Ferdinand II, Holy...

Gonzaga (18 November 1630 – 6 December 1686), was by birth Princess of Mantua, Nevers and Rethel from the Nevers branch of the House of Gonzaga and was...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, sung by Nicolai Gedda. In the crimson heart of the wine in his glass, the (live-acted) Duke of Mantua embarks on a 2D...

Italy. The House of Gonzaga of Mantua then commissioned the famous madrigal composer Claudio Monteverdi to write an opera: La favola d'Orfeo in 1607, with...

Braun (The Prince of Mantua), Robert Murray (Marinoni), Victoria Simmonds (Flamel), Neal Davies (Spark). Mark Elder conducts the Opera Rara Chorus and the...

history of the city of Mantua in the Lombardy region of Italy. 3rd C. BCE - Romans in power. 601 CE - Forces of Lombard Agilulf take Mantua. 804 CE - Roman Catholic...

of Mantua again in Rigoletto at the Rouen Opera House in September, then, for the first time, the Faust of the La damnation de Faust at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo...

Salinguerra, led by Ezzelino da Romano. Oberto has lost and has retreated to Mantua. Meanwhile, his daughter Leonora has been seduced and abandoned by Riccardo...

engaged by the Dublin Grand Opera Society to sing The Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto in May and June, and his Royal Opera House debut, where he replaced...

of Mantua, and Giuseppe Sturani conducting. On April 26, 1910, Arthur Hammerstein, with his father's power of attorney, sold the Philadelphia Opera House...

and achieved his early fame as an opera composer in many cities in Italy, including Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Mantua, Udine, Piacenza, and Naples. During...

violinist and composer Salamone Rossi who is known to have been employed at Mantua from 1587 to 1628. She probably took her name from appearances in the mythical...

Mantova, Mantua Teatro Verdi, Padua Teatro Verdi, Pisa Latvian National Opera (LNO, Latvijas Nacionālā Opera), Riga Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet...

Les contes d'Hoffmann at Zurich Opera House, March/April 2010. 'Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2013 'Rodolfo' in La...