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Vittorio Gui, the Glossary

Vittorio Gui (14 September 188516 October 1975) was an Italian conductor, composer, musicologist and critic.^[1]

61 relations: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Agnes von Hohenstaufen, Amilcare Ponchielli, Armide (Gluck), Arrigo Boito, Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Carl Ebert, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claude Debussy, Composer, Conducting, Così fan tutte, Covent Garden, Ebe Stignani, Florence, Franco Corelli, Fritz Busch, Gaspare Spontini, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Gina Cigna, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Johannes Brahms, John Pritchard (conductor), La Gioconda (opera), La Scala, La vestale (Spontini), List of Edinburgh festivals, Lucilla Udovich, Luigi Cherubini, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luisa Miller, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Maria Callas, Médée (Cherubini), Milan, Musicology, Nerone (Boito), Norma (opera), Parsifal, Partita (Dallapiccola), Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Rome, Royal Opera House, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Salome (opera), ... Expand index (11 more) »
20th-century Italian musicologists
Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music.

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Agnes von Hohenstaufen

Agnes von Hohenstaufen is a German-language opera in three acts by the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini.

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Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli (31 August 1834 – 16 January 1886) was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera ''La Gioconda''.

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Armide (Gluck)

Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, set to a libretto by Philippe Quinault.

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Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito (born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. Vittorio Gui and Arrigo Boito are 20th-century Italian male musicians.

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Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. Vittorio Gui and Arturo Toscanini are 20th-century Italian conductors (music), 20th-century Italian male musicians, Italian male conductors (music) and music directors (opera).

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Bruno Walter

Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer. Vittorio Gui and Bruno Walter are music directors (opera).

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Carl Ebert

Carl Anton Charles Ebert (20 February 1887 – 14 May 1980), was a German actor, stage director and arts administrator.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Claude Debussy

(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Così fan tutte

(Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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Ebe Stignani

Ebe Stignani (10 July 1903 – 5 October 1974) was an Italian opera singer, who was pre-eminent in the dramatic mezzo-soprano roles of the Italian repertoire during a stage career of more than thirty years.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Franco Corelli

Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976.

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Fritz Busch

Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 – 14 September 1951) was a German conductor. Vittorio Gui and Fritz Busch are Glyndebourne Festival Opera and music directors (opera).

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Gaspare Spontini

Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 177424 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. Vittorio Gui and Gaspare Spontini are Italian male conductors (music).

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Giangiacomo Guelfi

Giangiacomo Guelfi (21 December 1924 – 8 February 2012) was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini.

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Gina Cigna

Gina Cigna (6 March 1900 – 26 June 2001) was a French-Italian dramatic soprano.

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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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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Vittorio Gui and Glyndebourne are Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.

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John Pritchard (conductor)

Sir John Michael Pritchard, (born Stanley Frederick Pritchard, 5 February 1921 – 5 December 1989) was an English conductor. Vittorio Gui and John Pritchard (conductor) are Glyndebourne Festival Opera and music directors (opera).

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La Gioconda (opera)

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio), based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a 1835 play in prose by Victor Hugo (the same source Gaetano Rossi had used for his libretto for Mercadante's Il giuramento in 1837).

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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La vestale (Spontini)

La vestale (The Vestal Virgin) is an opera composed by Gaspare Spontini to a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Lucilla Udovich

Lucilla Udovich (September 7, 1930 – September 23, 1999) was an American soprano of Croatian ancestry.

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Luigi Cherubini

Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer.

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Luigi Dallapiccola

Luigi Dallapiccola (3 February 1904 – 19 February 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. Vittorio Gui and Luigi Dallapiccola are 20th-century Italian male musicians.

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Luisa Miller

Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) by the German dramatist Friedrich von Schiller.

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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (English: Florence Musical May) is an annual Italian arts festival in Florence, including a notable opera festival, under the auspices of the Opera di Firenze.

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Maria Callas

Maria Callas (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

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Médée (Cherubini)

Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Musicology

Musicology (from Greek μουσική 'music' and -λογια, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music.

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Nerone (Boito)

Nerone (Nero) is an opera in four acts composed by Arrigo Boito, to a libretto in Italian written by the composer.

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Norma (opera)

Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after the play Norma, ou L'infanticide (Norma, or The Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet.

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Parsifal

Parsifal (WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition.

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Partita (Dallapiccola)

The Partita for orchestra with a solo soprano (Alla memoria di Ernesto Consolo) by the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola was composed between 1930 and 1932.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.

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Salome (opera)

Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss.

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Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920.

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Sapienza University of Rome

The Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza – Università di Roma), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ("wisdom"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy.

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Sena Jurinac

Srebrenka "Sena" Jurinac (24 October 1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Bosnian-born Austrian operatic soprano.

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Teatro Adriano

The Teatro Adriano (i.e. "Adriano Theater"), also known as Politeama Adriano and Cinema Adriano, is a cinema and former theatre located in Piazza Cavour, Rome, Italy.

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The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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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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Thomas Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras.

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Un ballo in maschera

Un ballo in maschera ('A Masked Ball') is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Gui

, Salzburg Festival, Sapienza University of Rome, Sena Jurinac, Teatro Adriano, The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Thomas Beecham, Un ballo in maschera, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Vittorio Gui, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century Italian musicologists

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

References