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    Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao (A One-Day Reign, or The Pretend Stanislaus, but often translated into English as King for a Day) is an operatic...
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    contract for three more works. After the failure of his second opera Un giorno di regno (completed in 1840 towards the end of a brutal two-year period during...
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    Un giorno di regno, Margherita died of encephalitis at the age of 26. Verdi adored his wife and children and was devastated by their early deaths. Un...
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    the latter in the autumn after the failure of Verdi's second opera, Un giorno di regno; again, it was seen in Naples and Genoa (both in 1841), and in Barcelona...
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    His retaking of the Polish throne in 1733 formed the backdrop for Un giorno di regno, an opera by composer Giuseppe Verdi and librettist Felice Romani...
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  • lines.   La donna è mobile Qual piuma al vento, muta d'accento e di pensiero. Sempre un amabile, leggiadro viso, in pianto o in riso, è menzognero. Refrain...
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    roles, as in her Marchesa di Poggio (Glimmerglass Festival's 2013 adaptation of Verdi's King for a Day /Un giorno di regno), and also her 2009 Celia in...
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    poeta (Tommaso Bianchi) In solitaria stanza (Jacopo Vittorelli) Nell'orror di notte oscura (Carlo Angiolini) Perduta ho la pace (trans. by Luigi Balestra...
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    third as proposed by Venice (Verdi recalled what had happened to Un giorno di regno with its one and only performance). Amongst other stipulations, he...
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    ci favella del tempo che fu! O simile di Sòlima ai fati traggi un suono di crudo lamento, o t'ispiri il Signore un concento che ne infonda al patire virtù...
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  • "Un , felice, eterea" ("One day, happy, ethereal") is a duet from the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata. It is sung by the male and...
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    Verdi operas, notably Il Corsaro, I due Foscari, La battaglia di Legnano, Un giorno di regno and Stiffelio. Carreras's leading ladies during the 1970s and...
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    her fragile health, later declaring his love for her (Alfredo, Violetta: Un , felice, eterea – "One day, happy and ethereal"). At first, she rejects...
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    Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti 1839: Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio by Giuseppe Verdi 1840: Un giorno di regno by Giuseppe Verdi 1842: Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi...
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    background. There, he and Donna Leonora, the daughter of the haughty Marchese di Calatrava, have fallen in love. But her father the Marchese violently opposes...
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    le donne prendessero parte all'esecuzione di questa musica, ma non essendolo, converrá trovar persona piu di me idonea ad ottenere l'intento {{cite news}}:...
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    written 27 operas, of which only one was a comedy, his second work, Un giorno di regno, staged unsuccessfully in 1840. His fellow composer Rossini commented...
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    including the Teatro Regio di Parma (20 April 1872), the Teatro di San Carlo (30 March 1873), La Fenice (11 June 1873), the Teatro Regio di Torino (26 December...
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  • Foscari (Verdi) Luisa Miller, Luisa Miller (Verdi) Marchesa del Poggio, Un giorno di regno (Verdi) Marguérite, Faust (Gounod) Marguérite de Valois, Les Huguenots...
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  • Puccini, 1918 Gilgamesh, Brucci, 1986 La Gioconda, Ponchielli, 1876 Un giorno di regno, Verdi, 1840 Giovanna d'Arco, Verdi, 1845 Giulio Cesare, Handel, 1724...
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  • Giuseppe Verdi List of compositions Operas Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio (1839) Un giorno di regno (1840) Nabucco (1842) I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843)...
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    Rothier (1914), from act 1, scene 2 Problems playing this file? See media help. Un ballo in maschera ('A Masked Ball') is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe...
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    men to keep watch while Count di Luna wanders restlessly beneath the windows of Leonora, lady-in-waiting to the Princess. Di Luna loves Leonora and is jealous...
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  • Anvil Chorus (redirect from Coro di zingari)
    Coro di Zingari Problems playing this file? See media help. The "Anvil Chorus" is the English name for the Coro di Zingari (Italian for "Gypsy chorus")...
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    revising the libretto, eventually pulling from it another opera, Il Duca di Vendome, in which the sovereign was a duke and both the hunchback and the...
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    she reciprocates (Duet: "De quels transports poignants et doux" / "Di quale amor, di quanto ardor"). A cannon-shot signifies that peace has been declared...
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    Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio (1839) he had a resounding success at La Scala in Milan. On the other hand, his next work, Un giorno di regno (1840), failed...
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  • Castro in Camões' Os Lusiadas, the Portuguese national epic. 1840 Un giorno di regno (Verdi). Verdi's only comedy apart from his last opera, Falstaff....
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    drags himself next to his wife and kisses her (Otello: Un bacio...un bacio ancora...ah!...un altro bacio... / A kiss.. another kiss...ah...and yet another...
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  • Lortzing – Hans Sachs Temistocle Solera – Ildegonda Giuseppe Verdi – Un giorno di regno January 18 – Ernst Rudorff, composer and music teacher (d. 1918) February...
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