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	AZOpera Gaetano Donizetti Biography
		Gaetano Donizetti was born November 29, 1797 in Bergamo, Italy.
		Donizetti was well acquainted with the greatest singers of his day, and he created many of the roles in his operas for their specific vocal talents.
		Donizetti had met his wife Virginia Vasselli while he was in Rome in the 1820's and married her in 1828.
	www.evermore.com /azo/c_bios/donizetti.php3 (745 words)

	San Francisco Bach Choir: Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti
		Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was born in Bergamo, the fifth of six children of Andrea and Domenica (Nava) Donizetti.
		Although Gaetano’s elder brother Giuseppe was a military bandsman and eventually became chief of music for the Ottoman armies, musical achievement was neither expected nor encouraged in the Donizetti family.
		The young Donizetti had left Padre Mattei’s school in Bologna, and was studying with his great teacher Simon Mayr, a native of Bavaria who was maestro di cappella at the cathedral of S Maria Maggiore in Bergamo.
	www.sfbach.org /repertoire/donizettig.html (360 words)

	Learning Center \| NYC Opera
		Gaetano Donizetti was born in Bergamo, a small town in northern Italy, on November 29, 1797.
		Another of Donizetti's operas that is still performed today is Roberto Devereux, composed in 1837; the role of Queen Elizabeth is one of the greatest dramatic challenges for a coloratura soprano in all of opera.
		Donizetti's early operas were often written to accommodate the talents of a particular singer, with pages of purely vocalistic writing that severely hampered the drama.
	www.nycopera.com /learning/resource/biographies/donizetti_gaetano.aspx?detect=yes (713 words)

	Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Gaetano Donizetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Donizetti was born in Bergamo, Italy, and studied music there and in Bologna.
		Donizetti was known as a sincere and friendly man, supportive of fellow composers and other artists, despite a personal life marred by tragedy.
		Along with Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini ("Norma"), Donizetti was the leading advocate of the operatic style known as "bel canto", which emphasized technically brilliant singing.
	findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18839&pt=Gaetano+Donizetti (338 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Donizetti
		Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848), Italian operatic composer, one of the most important opera composers of his time.
		Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti created more than 60 operas and operettas, both serious and comic.
		Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti’s compositions include a handful of great works such as L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love, 1832).
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Donizetti.html (89 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti - Opera Italiana
		Donizetti was deeply attached to his wife, and when she died in an epidemic of cholera he was overwhelmed with sadness and increasingly marked by the vein of melancholy that was to accompany him for the rest of his years.
		Rossini sought to persuade Donizetti to accept the important position of maestro di cappella at San Petronio; Donizetti did not accept the post, however, for he was aiming for the far more prestigious, and remunerative, post of Kapellmeister at the Habsburg court.
		Many years earlier Donizetti had contract syphilis (his post-mortem confirms a degenerative cerebral-spinal affection of syphilitic origin) and at the end of 1845 he suffered a serious attack of cerebral paralysis, caused by the final stages of his illness, and the symptoms of a mental disease that had struck him on previous occasions.
	www.operaitaliana.com /opera_italiana/opere.asp-id=10&Lingua=1.htm (1802 words)

	Lucia di Lammermoor - Gaetano Donizetti
		Donizetti came into the bel canto picture late in its history and is seen as a bridge between bel canto and the heavier dramatic works of Verdi.
		In the third act Donizetti offers one of the great "mad scenes" of opera: Lucia appears before the wedding guests, knife in hand, bloodied - she has lost her mind and murdered her husband on their wedding bed.
		Her extended coloratura aria, which includes an unparalleled interplay of voice and flute, is a tour de force of singing drama.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Lucia.html (570 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Donizetti sprang from a family of artisans; his father was a weaver in his hometown of Bergamo, Italy.
		Donizetti received a solid musical education in Bergamo and in Bologna, and completed his first opera in 1818.
		The 32 operas Donizetti produced from 1818 served as an apprenticeship of sorts.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,424438,00.html (759 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Donizetti was born on Nov. 29, 1797, in Bergamo in Lombardy, Italy.
		Spanish operatic soprano, admired for her versatility and phrasing and for her performances in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, and Richard Strauss.
		In the early 1800s Italian opera was enriched by Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274038 (589 words)

	Alibris: Gaetano Donizetti
		Donizetti, already one of the world's most beloved opera composers, has sparked a renaissance of remarkable vitality in recent years--even his lesser known works or those in alternate versions have witnessed a steady growth of interest, and his most celebrated operas enjoy special attention from both scholars and performers.
		Donizetti's most popular opera, considered by many to be the paradigm of Italian Romantic opera.
		by Gaetano Donizetti, Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz, Eugène Scribe
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Donizetti,Gaetano (505 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti
		It was not until after the work had made the round of the theatres of Germany and Italy that the Parisians reconsidered their unfavorable verdict.
		A paralytic stroke in 1844 deprived Donizetti of his reason; for four years he lingered on in a state of mental and physical prostration.
		All three settled in France, and all three were anxious to adapt the style of their music to the taste and artistic traditions of their adopted country.
	www.nndb.com /people/586/000093307 (906 words)

	Anecdote - Gaetano Donizetti - Donizetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Gaetano Donizetti, the composer of more than seventy operas, was famously prolific.
		[Donizetti was once approached by a desperate Milanese theater manager who needed a new opera in two weeks.
		Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848) Italian composer [noted for his many operas, including Lucia di Lammermoor]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=10796 (229 words)

	Donizetti Society Home Page
		The Donizetti Society aims to promote interest, understanding and learning in the works of Gaetano Donizetti and of his teacher, Giovanni Simone Mayr and in the operatic life of their times.
		To celebrate the life of the much loved Italian soprano Graziella Sciutti on the fifth anniversary of her death, friends and former students from around the world have come together to perform a musical tribute at the Wigmore Hall on Friday, April 7.
		The Donizetti Society has received an additional batch of CDs of Donizetti's Songs written in the bass clef sung by Ian Caddy with Melvyn Tan at the fortepiano (Meridien CDE 84143).
	www.donizettisociety.com (380 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Gaetano Donizetti \| PBS
		Donizetti's reputation rests on his operas: in comedy his position has never been challenged but in the tragic genre, though his work sums up a whole epoch, no single opera can be considered an unqualified masterpiece.
		Having imitated Rossini's formal, florid style for ten years (1818-28) he gradually shed heavily embellished male-voice parts, conceiving melodies lyrically and allowing the drama to determine ensemble structures.
		Although his practical facility and readiness to adapt scores themselves constructed of 'spare-part' set forms once brought criticism, since 1950 revivals and reassessment as well as a fuller understanding of the theatrical practices of his day have restored Donizetti to critical and popular favour.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/donizetti.html (398 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A native of Bergamo, Donizetti was, for nearly a decade after the early death of Bellini in 1835, the leading composer of Italian opera.
		Donizetti was not exclusively a composer of opera, but wrote music of all kinds, songs, chamber music, piano music and a quantity of music for the church.
		DONIZETTI: Double Concerto / Flute Concertino / Clarinet Concertino
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Donizetti,+Gaetano (322 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Comic Relief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In spite of all that attention, Donizetti never lost the modesty that always defined him, and he remained as easy and unaffected in the light of fame as he had been in obscurity.
		According to William Ashbrook's magisterial Donizetti (1965), the definitive biography of this composer, the boy that school teachers once described as "diligent, quiet, and attentive," with "agreeable manners and a ready humor" had grown to be an affectionate and generous colleague, ready to help other composers, Verdi foremost among them.
		As for the music, Donizetti said it cost him "more than ten days of labor," and by mid-November he was ready to put the comedy onstage.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/145.html (1286 words)

	Donizetti, Gaetano on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Don Pasquale.(notas sobre Ã³pera del compositor Gaetano Donizetti)(ArtÃculo breve)
		Donizetti: 1797-1997 I. (Gaetano Donizetti, compositor de Ã³pera)(TA: Gaetano Donizetti, opera composer)
		Second time for unsung hero; Christopher Morley raises a glass to the memory of Gaetano Donizetti, a composer whose star is once more in the ascendant.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Donizett.asp (489 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Gaetano Donizetti
		Donizetti, Gaetano (b Bergamo, 1797; d Bergamo, 1848).
		Donizetti's ability to write at great speed has prejudiced attitudes to the quality of his work.
		Recently several of Donizetti's lesser-known operas have been revived and found to have unsuspected merit.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/donizetti.html (233 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti biography - 8notes.com
		Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Bergamo Italy, 29 November 1797 –; 8 April 1848).
		Donizetti is known principally as an Italian opera composer.
		However he composed music in a number of other forms, including some church music, a number of string quartets, and some orchestral works.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/donizetti.asp (557 words)

	Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lucia di Lammermoor, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848).
		To Italian audiences of the 1800's, the lonely cliffs and ancient feuds of the Scottish highlands seemed a remote and exotic setting - and thus the perfect backdrop for an opera of tempestuous love and family honor.
		From Sir Walter Scott's classic novel The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti fashioned one of his most passionate operas and mesmerizing heroines: Lucy (Lucia) Ashton, whose love for her family's sworn enemy drives her to madness.
	www.lammermoor.com /lucia (283 words)

	La Favorite - Gaetano Donizetti
		Unknown to him, the object of his desire is none other than the mistress of the king, whose adulterous relationship with the king has aroused the wrath of the church.
		So La Favorite, the original French version of Donizetti's 1840 opera, has four leading roles: Fernand, Léonor, mistress to King Alphonse, the King himself - and the church.
		They work out their unhappy destinies in a collection of bel canto arias, duets, and ensemble pieces as glorious as any Donizetti wrote.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Favorite.html (623 words)

	Wexford Festival Opera 2005 : Maria di Rohan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Melodramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano after Lockroy and Badon’s play Un duel sous le Cardinal de Richelieu.
		Some of Donizetti’s best music drives Maria di Rohan, the penultimate and most tautly constructed of his tragic works.
		Soon after the premiere in Vienna Donizetti revised the opera for its Paris debut.
	www.wexfordopera.com /2005/opera.php?O=1&P=1 (255 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		Joan Sutherland first broke through to international success with her role in Lucia Di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti's operatic interpretation of Sir Walter Scott's story of love, treachery and murder.
		In 1986, in the autumn of her career, the great Sutherland returned to the work which made her name in this Opera Australia production, directed by John Copley, and featuring Richard Bonynge at the orchestra.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/18/4118/features.php (197 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti: Linda Di Chamounix
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Gaetano Donizetti: Linda Di Chamounix to receive a rating.
		Donizetti's moving operatic melodrama, which balances aspects of comedy and tragedy, stars the great soprano Edita Gruberova.
		The "semi seria" work concerns Linda, a beautiful peasant woman, and her love for Carl, a Count who dresses down as an impoverished artist.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/gaetano_donizetti_linda_di_chamounix?rtp=1 (354 words)

	Amazon.ca: Donizetti, Gaetano: L Elisir D Amore: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Buy Donizetti, Gaetano: L Elisir D Amore with Puccini - La Boheme / Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Sc...
		It would be hard to imagine a better performance of Donizetti's comic masterpiece.
		If there was one role that ideally suited Luciano Pavarotti's voice and stage personality, it was Nemorino, the impoverished and not-very-bright peasant who worships the village's prettiest and richest young woman from a distance, is swindled by a traveling vendor of "miracle" medicines, but wins her hand by dumb luck.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000787WZQ (463 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti - Maria Stuarda Movie: Gaetano Donizetti - Maria Stuarda DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Gaetano Donizetti - Maria Stuarda Movie: Gaetano Donizetti - Maria Stuarda DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		This very high quality production by Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo features Carmela Remigio (Maria Stuarda) and Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta)in the roles of the two queens, making a fine display of their excellent vocal and acting skills.
		Francesco Esposito’s direction and costumes, and Italo Grassi’s sets are very effective and superbly highlighted by the filming.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/675754576325BT (105 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robert Merrill, Adrian Denss, Gaetano Donizetti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini
		Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich von Flotow, Umberto Giordano, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner
		Fryderyk Chopin, Gaetano Donizetti, Mikhail Glinka, Franz Liszt, Elias Parish Alvars, Wilhelm Posse, Hugo Reinhold, Antonio Rosler Rossetti Rosety Rosetti, Louis Spohr
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=donizett (528 words)

	Gaetano Donizetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) ("The Mad Scene" from "Lucia di Lammermoor") (song title uncredited) (as G. Donizetti)
		Hitting a New High (1937) ("Mad Scene" from the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor") (as G. Donizetti)
		Find where Gaetano Donizetti is credited alongside another name
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