Gianni di Parigi, the Glossary
Gianni di Parigi is an 1839 melodramma comico (opera buffa) in two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, which had previously been set by Francesco Morlacchi in 1818 and by Giovanni Antonio Speranza in 1836.[1]
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52 relations: Agostino Rovere, Amanda Holden (writer), Anna Bolena, Antonietta Marini-Rainieri, Bartolomeo Merelli, Bass (voice type), Bergamo, Casa Ricordi, Charles Osborne (music writer), Claude Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just, Contralto, Dauphin of France, Felice Romani, Festival della Valle d'Itria, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Francesco Morlacchi, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Sagripanti, Gianni di Calais, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Giovanni Ricordi, Herbert Weinstock, Ignazio Marini, Il viaggio a Reims, Jean de Paris (Boieldieu), Jeremy Commons, John Tyrrell (musicologist), L'elisir d'amore, La Scala, Libretto, Lorenzo Salvi, Luciana Serra, Marietta Sacchi, Martina Franca, Melodramma, Mezzo-soprano, Music conservatories of Naples, Navarre, New York City, Opera buffa, Seneschal, Soprano, Stanley Sadie, Teatro di San Carlo, Teatro Regio (Turin), Tenor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Voice type, ... Expand index (2 more) »
- 1839 operas
- Libretti by Felice Romani
Agostino Rovere
Agostino Rovere (1804, Monza – 1865, New York City) was an Italian operatic bass.
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Amanda Holden (writer)
Amanda Juliet Holden (19 January 1948 – 7 September 2021) was a British pianist, librettist, translator, editor and academic teacher.
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Anna Bolena
Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Gianni di Parigi and Anna Bolena are Italian-language operas, libretti by Felice Romani and operas by Gaetano Donizetti.
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Antonietta Marini-Rainieri
Antonietta Marini-Rainieri was an Italian operatic soprano active during the first half of the 19th century.
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Bartolomeo Merelli
Bartolomeo Merelli (19 May 1794 – 10 April 1879Warrack & West 1997, p. 463.) was an Italian impresario and librettist, best known as the manager of the La Scala Milan opera house between 1829 and 1850, and for his support for the young Giuseppe Verdi.
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Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.
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Bergamo
Bergamo (Bèrghem) is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of Northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Garda and Maggiore.
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Casa Ricordi
Casa Ricordi is a publisher of primarily classical music and opera.
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Charles Osborne (music writer)
Charles Thomas Osborne (24 November 1927 – 23 September 2017) was an Australian journalist, theatre and opera critic, poet and novelist.
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Claude Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just
Claude Godard d'Aucourt called de Saint-Just (14 July 1768 – 17 March 1826) was a French librettist.
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Contralto
A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.
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Dauphin of France
Dauphin of France (also; Dauphin de France), originally Dauphin of Viennois (Dauphin de Viennois), was the title given to the heir apparent to the throne of France from 1350 to 1791, and from 1824 to 1830.
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Felice Romani
Giuseppe Felice Romani (31 January 178828 January 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini.
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Festival della Valle d'Itria
The Festival della Valle d'Itria is a summer opera festival held in the south eastern Italian town of Martina Franca in the Apulia region.
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François-Adrien Boieldieu
François-Adrien Boieldieu (also) (16 December 1775 – 8 October 1834) was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".
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Francesco Morlacchi
Francesco Giuseppe Baldassare Morlacchi (14 June 1784 – 28 October 1841) was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas.
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Giacomo Sagripanti
Giacomo Sagripanti is an Italian conductor, born January 28, 1982, in Giulianova, Abruzzo.
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Gianni di Calais
Gianni di Calais is a melodramma semiserio, a "semi-serious" opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1828), from a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, based on Jean de Paris by Louis-Charles Caigniez. Gianni di Parigi and Gianni di Calais are Italian-language operas and operas by Gaetano Donizetti.
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.
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Giovanni Battista Rubini
Giovanni Battista Rubini (7 April 1794 – 3 March 1854) was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day.
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Giovanni Ricordi
Giovanni Ricordi (3 March 1785 – 15 March 1853) was an Italian violinist and the founder of the classical music publishing company Casa Ricordi.
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Herbert Weinstock
Herbert Weinstock (16 November 1905 – 21 October 1971) was an American writer, music historian, editor and translator.
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Ignazio Marini
Ignazio Marini (28 November 1811 – 29 April 1873) was a celebrated Italian operatic bass.
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Il viaggio a Reims
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, originally performed in three acts,Janet Johnson: A Lost Masterpiece Recovered, pp. Gianni di Parigi and il viaggio a Reims are Italian-language operas and operas set in France.
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Jean de Paris (Boieldieu)
Jean de Paris is an opéra comique in two acts by French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu and librettist Claude Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just. Gianni di Parigi and Jean de Paris (Boieldieu) are operas set in France.
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Jeremy Commons
Jeremy Paul Axford Commons (born 17 December 1933) is a New Zealand opera historian, scholar, impresario and librettist.
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John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.
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L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a melodramma giocoso (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Gianni di Parigi and L'elisir d'amore are Italian-language operas, libretti by Felice Romani and operas by Gaetano Donizetti.
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La Scala
La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.
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Libretto
A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.
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Lorenzo Salvi
Lorenzo Salvi (4 May 1810 – 16 January 1879) was an Italian operatic tenor who had a major international opera career during the nineteenth century.
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Luciana Serra
Luciana Serra (born 4 November 1946, in Genoa) is an Italian coloratura soprano.
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Marietta Sacchi
Marietta Sacchi was an Italian operatic soprano who had an active career during the 1820s and 1830s.
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Martina Franca
Martina Franca, or just Martina (Martinese: Marténe), is a town and municipality in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy.
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Melodramma
Melodramma (plural: melodrammi) is a 17th-century Italian term for a text to be set as an opera, or the opera itself.
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Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.
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Music conservatories of Naples
This is a list of music conservatories in Naples, Italy.
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Navarre
Navarre, officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Opera buffa
Opera buffa ("comic opera";: opere buffe) is a genre of opera.
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Seneschal
The word seneschal can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context.
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Soprano
A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.
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Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
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Teatro di San Carlo
The Real Teatro di San Carlo ("Royal Theatre of Saint Charles"), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro (di) San Carlo, is a historic opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito.
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Teatro Regio (Turin)
The Teatro Regio (Royal Theatre) is a prominent opera house and opera company in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera.
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Voice type
A voice type is a group of voices with similar vocal ranges, capable of singing in a similar tessitura, and with similar vocal transition points (passaggi).
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Wexford Festival Opera
Wexford Festival Opera is an opera festival that takes place in the town of Wexford in south-eastern Ireland during the months of October and November.
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WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative.
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See also
1839 operas
- Elena da Feltre
- Farinelli (opera)
- Gianni di Parigi
- Il bravo
- L'Ange de Nisida
- Le lac des fées
- Le shérif
- Oberto (opera)
Libretti by Felice Romani
- Adelia (opera)
- Alina, regina di Golconda
- Anna Bolena
- Atalia (Mayr)
- Aureliano in Palmira
- Beatrice di Tenda
- Bianca e Falliero
- Bianca e Fernando
- Caterina di Guisa
- Chiara e Serafina
- Gianni di Parigi
- Giulietta e Romeo (Vaccai)
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi
- I due Figaro (Carafa)
- I due Figaro (Mercadante)
- Il pirata
- Il turco in Italia
- L'elisir d'amore
- L'esule di Granata
- La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa
- La sonnambula
- La straniera
- Lucrezia Borgia (opera)
- Maometto (Winter)
- Margherita d'Anjou
- Medea in Corinto
- Norma (opera)
- Parisina (Donizetti)
- Rosmonda d'Inghilterra
- Ugo, conte di Parigi
- Zaira (opera)