The San Carlo Theatre is an opera house in Naples, Italy. The theatre was opened on 25 December 1737 by Charles VII of Naples and is now the oldest functioning opera house in the world. The building was designed by Nicola Antonio Lazzarini, who also designed many other theatres around Italy at the same time. This style has been then called Italian theatre layout and … Continue reading Teatro San Carlo, Naples 🎶🎹🏛
Compositor de algunas de las óperas más famosas puestas en escena en todo el mundo: Tosca, Madame Buttefly, Boheme, Turandot, Manon Lescaut – Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) también tuvo fama mundial durante su vida. Para cuando Puccini murió en 1924, había ganado 4 millones de dólares de sus óperas. Incluso hoy en día, tres de sus composiciones (La bohème, Tosca y Madame Butterfly) se encuentran entre … Continue reading Giacomo Puccini 🎼🎹🇪🇸
Tosca est l’un des opéras les plus populaires, avec des centaines de spectacles chaque année dans tous les theatres d’opéras du monde entier. Une musique passionnée et une intrigue dramatique font de cet opéra un favori du public depuis sa première à Rome en février 1900. Tosca fut composé par Giacomo Puccini sur une période de quatre ans, comme un flux continu de musique avec … Continue reading Tosca, de Puccini 🎼🎭🇫🇷
Inaugurated in 1904 to be the biggest and most luxurious theatre in London, the London Coliseum has survived for more than a century through many ups and downs maintaining a high profile for popular entertainment in the city with the highest concentration of theatres in the world. The Coliseum is now home to the English National Opera and the English National Ballet which take up … Continue reading London Coliseum 🎶🎹🏛
Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas ever written, with hundreds of performances every year in all opera houses around the globe. Passionate music and a dramatic plot make of this opera an all time favourite with the public since its premiere in Milan in February 1904. Composed by Giacomo Puccini over a period of three years from 1901, it was not an … Continue reading Madama Butterfly, by Puccini 🎼🎶🎭
Con motivo del 208º aniversario del nacimiento de Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi nació el 9 de octubre de 1813 en Parma, en Italia del Norte, que en ese momento formaba parte del Primer Imperio Francés. Compositor de algunas de las óperas más populares puestas en escena en todo el mundo – Rigoletto, Aida, Falstaff, Il trovatore, La traviata – Giuseppe Verdi también estuvo vinculado al … Continue reading Giuseppe Verdi 🎼🎹🇪🇸
“Il trovatore” is a favoured albeit difficult opera to perform and part of the “popular trilogy” by Giuseppe Verdi, along with Traviata and Rigoletto. The plot is based on a play by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez which was quite known at the time. The original story was quite complex and filled with bizarre incidents that made it almost unlikely but Verdi seemed to favour these aspects … Continue reading Il trovatore, by Verdi 🎼🎶🎭
Tosca is one of the most popular operas with hundreds of performances every year in all opera houses around the globe. Passionate music and a dramatic plot make of this opera an all time favourite with the public since its premiere in Rome in February 1900. Composed by Giacomo Puccini over a period of four years as a continuous flow of music with leitmotifs identifying … Continue reading Tosca, by Puccini 🎼🎶🎭
One of the most modern opera houses in the world, the Dutch National Opera & Ballet is also one of the most prestigious music institutions in the world renowned for the quality and innovative aspects of its productions. It’s rots go back to the opera house based in the the Stadsschouwburg, the municipal theatre in Amsterdam, where a national opera company was operating since the … Continue reading Nationale Opera & Ballet 🇳🇱🎼🏛
En 1884 un joven Claude Debussy ganó el prestigioso premio de composición Prix de Rome, que supuso un programa de residencia en Villa Medici en Roma, donde este retrato fue pintado y se exhibe actualmente. El ambiente sofocante en la Academia Francesa de Roma fortalecía su resolución de seguir sus propios caminos para la expresión artística: “Estoy seguro de que el Instituto no lo aprobaría, … Continue reading Mis compositores favoritos 🎹🏛🎶
