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Gaetano Donizetti was born to a poor family on November 29, 1797, in Bergamo, situated in northern Italy.
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This volume brings together a collection of Donizetti's songs, some of which were published in several editions during his lifetime and in the years just following, while others have never been in print. Professor Paton has once again produced a collection that will be a valuable tool both for students of singing, and for professionals looking for fresh recital material.
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Gaetano Donizetti was born to a poor family on November 29, 1797, in Bergamo, situated in northern Italy.
Gaetano Donizetti received his first instruction in music from an uncle, but the beginning of his formation as a composer came in 1806, when he was accepted as a free student in the Lezione Caritatevoli, a school supported by the church of S. Maria Maggiore for the training of musicians and choristers for its services. The director was Simon Mayr, a German who had settled in Bergamo in 1805. Although not known today, his music was held in high esteem in his lifetime. Mayr's influence seems to have been decisive. He kept young Donizetti in the school although his voice was not of the necessary quality, even writing works for student performances in which these vocal defects could be avoided.
Following this training, Donizetti went to Bologna in 1815 to study with Padre Mattei, a student of Padre Martini and a teacher of Gioacchino Rossini. Mayr gave Donizetti financial support as well as letters of introduction. Donizetti's first publication, a set of variations on a theme by Mayr, appeared in 1815.
Gaetano Donizetti was the director was Simon Mayr, a German who had settled in Bergamo in 1805. Although not known today, his music was held in high esteem in his lifetime. Mayr's influence seems to have been decisive. Donizetti's first three operas date from 1816 and 1817 and were not performed during his lifetime. His first opera to be performed was Enrico di Borgogna, given in Venice in 1818. From this time until 1844 he produced operas of all types at a fantastic pace. In 1827 he agreed to compose 12 operas for Venice within a 3-year period. This speed in production shows in many works that perfunctorily filled the established forms of the day. His works all allow the singer ample opportunity for display with cadenzas and brilliant coloratura writing. Many of his librettos deal with violent passions that are not always turned to best dramatic effect. However, works like L'elisir d'amore (1832), Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), La Fille du régiment (1840), and Don Pasquale (1843) have gained a place in the repertory for themselves and an important historical position for their composer.
Although now known primarily for his operas, Donizetti produced a large number of compositions in other genres. In addition to 71 operas, he composed cantatas, sacred works, symphonies, string quartets and quintets, and numerous works for piano solo, voice and piano, and piano and other instruments. Donizetti's fame quickly spread throughout Italy; he went to Paris, where he wrote five operas, and to Vienna, where he became principal court conductor in 1842. His last years, 1844-1848, were spent in rather severe circumstances because of the progressive deterioration of his health, both physical and mental. Of these, the tragic Lucia is his masterpiece, while Don Pasquale and L'Elisir are his two really notable comic operas.
The story concerns Adina (soprano), a young woman of some wealth in a north Italian village, with whom Nemorino (tenor), a peasant, is in love. The spirited Adina, who reads sentimental stories such as that of Isolde and her love potion, rejoices that such devices are no longer used. Tired of Nemorino's timid wooing, she flirts with the stalwart Sergeant Belcore (baritone), an officer of the local military garrison. At this juncture arrives Dr. Dulcamara (bass), a traveling quack who specializes in magic elixirs. In a true buffo aria, he offers his wares to the villagers.
Nemorino, who is now jealous of Adina, asks in desperation if Dulcamara can supply him with a love potion.
Dulcamara sells him a bottle of cheap wine and assures him that it will take effect in twenty-four hours (when the quack will be miles away).
Nemorino drinks the whole bottle and displays an unwonted disregard for Adina.
Piqued, Adina announces her intention to marry Belcore immediately. At the beginning of Act II, the wedding festivities are in progress at Adina's home, but the bride keeps postponing the signing of the contract. Nemorino, disturbed at the apparent failure of the "elixir" to affect Adina, buys another bottle from Dr. Dulcamara. To pay for it, however, he is obliged to enlist in Belcore's company and collect the bonus paid to recruits.
Meanwhile, the girls of the village learn that Nemorino has come into a rich inheritance and they shower him with flattery.
Nemorino, drunk from the second potion, ignores them and even the attention of Adina. She, however, jealous of his sudden popularity, learns of his sacrifice and buys back his enlistment paper.
As the lovers are united, Belcore goes to seek his fortune elsewhere and the opportunistic Dr. Dulcamara cashes in on the advertisement of his wares by selling out his stock to the villagers. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera in three acts, with libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based on Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor. Lucia is Donizetti's most successful tragic opera. The action takes place in Scotland late in the seventeenth century. But Lucia is in love with Edgardo of Ravenswood (tenor), the last of a family which has had a long-standing quarrel with the Ashtons. While Edgardo is on a mission in France, Enrico intercepts his letters to Lucia and shows her a forged paper purporting to prove that Edgardo has deserted her. Persuaded of her lover's infidelity, Lucia agrees to marry Arturo. The moment the contract is signed, Edgardo returns and in the famous sextet challenges Enrico.
Raimondo (bass), the chaplain at Lammermoor, intervenes and the unhappy bride has led away. The scene ends with the pathetic "Spargi d'amaro piano" ("Shed bitter tears of sorrow"), an excellent example of Donizetti's ability to express tragic feeling within the convention of a brilliant vocal tour de force. In the last act, Edgardo hears of Lucia's death (which occurs offstage) and stabs himself. Don Pasquale, opera buffa in three acts, with a libretto by the composer assisted by Giacomo Ruffini, based on Angelo Anelli's libretto for Ser Marc' Antonio.
It was produced on Jan. 3, 1843, at the ThéâtreTheatre Italien, Paris, Don Pasquale was Donizetti's last successful opera and remains his comic masterpiece, its witty libretto mirrored in brilliant music. Pasquale is delighted and tells the good news to Ernesto, who is correspondingly downcast.
The meek, shy young bride is suddenly transformed into a termagant. She orders Pasquale about, takes complete command of his household, and proceeds to spend his money with the greatest extravagance. Finally, she boxes his ears and goes off to the theater without him, carefully dropping a note for him to find, which suggests that she has a lover.
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Quotations: My heyday is over, and another must take my place. The world wants something new. Others have ceded their places to us and we must cede ours to still others. .. I am more than happy to give mine to people of talent like Verdi.
Gaetano Donizetti was a kind hard working man who gave support and encouragement to fellow artists and composers.
Gaetano Donizetti met Virginia Vasselli in Rome in the 1820’s and they got married in 1828. Virginia gave birth to three children but sadly, none of them survived, within a year of his parents' deaths—on 30 July 1837—she also died from what is believed to be cholera or measles.