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Act I Scene 1 Prelude Forza Ai Remi Giammai Piu Serena Townspeople Men Gualtiero by Giovanni Pacini

Artist Biography For Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini February 2 1796. – December 6 1867 Was An Italian Composer Best Known For His Operas. Pacini Was Born In Catania Sicily To The Son Of The Buffo Luigi Pacini Who Was To Appear In The Premieres Of Many Of Giovanni's Operas. The Family Was Of Tuscan Origin And Just Happened To Be In Catania When The Composer Was Born. During His Lifetime Pacini Wrote Some 74 Operas. This Is Less Than Earlier Estimates Which Ranged From 80 To 90 Since It Has Now Been Ascertained That Many Were Just Alternate Titles For Other Works. His First 25 Or So Operas Were Written When Rossini Dominated The Italian Operatic Stage. They Were Not Surprisingly In The Fashionable Rossini Style. After Rossini Moved To Paris In 1824 Pacini And His Contemporaries Meyerbeer Vaccai Carafa Coccia Bellini Donizetti The Ricci Brothers And Mercadante Collectively Began To Change The Nature Of Italian Opera And Took Bel Canto Singing In A New Direction. Orchestration Became Heavier Coloratura Was Reduced Especially For Men's Voices And More Importance Was Placed On Lyrical Pathos. While There Were Exceptions Romantic Leads Were Assigned To Tenors In Rossini's Prime They Were Frequently Sung By Women Referred To As "musicos" . Villains Became Basses Or Later Baritones While They Usually Were Tenors For Rossini . Over Time Far More Emphasis Was To Be Placed On The Drama. The Role That Pacini Played In Instituting These Changes Is Only Now Beginning To Be Recognized. There Is Little Doubt That Both Pacini And His Contemporary Nicola Vaccai Exerted A Stronger Influence On Bellini Than Has Been Credited Before. This Change In Attitude Can Be Credited To The Revival Of Two Key Works Vaccai's Giulietta E Romeo And Pacini's L'ultimo Giorno Di Pompei Both Composed In 1825 Within A Few Weeks Of Each Other. The Success Of Many Of Pacini's Lighter Operas Especially Il Barone Di Dolsheim La Sposa Fedele And La Schiava In Bagdad All Composed Between 1818 And 1820 Made Pacini One Of The Most Prominent Composers In Italy. His Position Was Greatly Enhanced By The Rapid-Fire Successes Of Alessandro Nelle Indie Naples 1824 Revised Milan 1826 Given And Recorded In London In November 2006 Amazilia Naples 1824 Revised Vienna 1827 And The Previously Mentioned L'Ultimo Giorno Di Pompei Naples 1825 . In Gli Arabi Nelle Gallie Milan 1827 The Title Role Of Alessandro Was Created By A High Baritone Andrea Nozzari But It Was Sung By The Much Lighter Giovanni David At The Milan Revival Indicating The Pacini's Desire To Go In A New Direction. This Opera Reached Many Of The World's Most Important Stages And Was The First Pacini Opera To Be Given In The United States. It Was Staged Frequently In Italy And It Was Not Until 1830 That Bellini's First Success Il Pirata Also Milan 1827 Passed Gli Arabi Nelle Gallie In Number Of Performances At The Teatro Alla Scala. While This Is Not Generally Recognized It Was Pacini Rather Than Donizetti Mercadante Or Bellini Who Gave Rossini The Stiffest Competition In Italy During The 1820s. Many Operas Followed That Are Almost Completely Forgotten. However One Of These Il Corsaro Rome 1831 Was Revived One Hundred Sevety-Three Years Later In 2004 Albeit Only With Piano Accompaniment. This Work Is Different In Many Ways From Verdi's Later Opera By The Same Name. The Title Role Corrado Is Now Sung By A Musico Armour-Bearing Contralto And Seid By A Tenor. As The Years Passed Bellini Assumed The Title Of Italy's Leading Composer. When He Died In 1835 It Was Passed To Donizetti Who Had More Than His Share Of Triumphs. Unfortunately Pacini Was Unable To Keep-Up And Many Of His Ensuing Operas Over The Next Few Years Were Failures. Still A Complete Recording Of Carlo Di Borgogna Released In Early 2002 Makes One Yearn To Hear More Pacini Operas And Makes One Wonder Why It Was Such A Disaster At Its Premiere. Pacini Himself Was The First To Recognize His Apparent Defeat And Made The Following Entry In His Memoirs "I Began To Realize That I Must Withdraw From The Field. Bellini The Divine Bellini Has Surpassed Me." Some Years Later He Resumed Composing And After One More Setback Enjoyed His Greatest Triumph With Saffò Naples 1840 . After Saffo Pacini Entered Into Another Period Of Prominence. Donizetti Had Departed For Paris And Mercadante's Major Successes Were Behind Him Thus Verdi Offered The Only Important Competition. It Was Not Until 1844 That Verdi Eclipsed Pacini With His Unparalleled Triumph Of Ernani. Successful As Nabucco And I Lombardi Were They Were Initially Less So Than Saffo. It Was In The Decade Of The 1840s That Pacini Enjoyed His Most Glorious Years With One Hit After Another. These Works Include La Fidanzata Corsa Naples 1842 Maria Regina D'Inghilterra Palermo 1843 Medea Palermo 1843 With Several Later Revisions The Last Of Which Was In Naples In 1853 Lorenzino De' Medici Venice 1845 Bondelmonte Florence 1845 Stella Di Napoli Naples 1845 And La Regina Di Cipro Turin 1846 . Allan Cameron Venice 1848 Is Noteworthy Because It Deals With The Youth Of King Charles II Before He Was Crowned King Of England. A Particularly Exciting Aria From This Work Has Recently Been Recorded By Annick Massis And Issued By Opera Rara. This Period Of Accomplishments Was Followed By Another And Much Longer Period Of Decline Marked Only By The Moderate Successes Of La Punizione Venice 1854 Il Saltimbanco Rome 1858 And Nicolo De'Lapi Florence 1873 . Pacini Died In Pescia Tuscany In 1867. Although He Is Mostly Forgotten Today He Produced Much Music Of High Calibre And Periodic Revivals Of His Works Are Not Without Interest. His Output Of More Than 70 Stage Works Is Staggering Even Compared To Rossini 41 Operas And Handel 43 Operas And He Will Always Be Remembered With Donizetti As One Of The Most Prolific Composers In The History Of Opera. Operas And Their Premieres 1813–1819 * Don Pomponio 1813 Unfinished * Annetta E Lucindo October 17 1813 Teatro S. Radegonda Milan * La Ballerina Raggiratrice 1814 Teatro Alla Pergola Florence * L'ambizione Delusa 1814 Teatro Alla Pergola Florence * L'escavazione Del Tesoro December 18 1814 Pisa * Gli Sponsali De' Silfi 1814–15 Teatro De' Filodrammatici Milan * Bettina Vedova Il Seguito Di Ser Mercantonio 1815 Teatro San Moisè Venice * La Rosina 1815 Teatro Alla Pergola Florence * La Chiarina 1815 Teatro San Moisè Venice * L'ingenua May 4 1816 Teatro S. Benedetto Venice * Il Matrimonio Per Procura January 2 1817 Teatro Rè Milan * Dalla Beffa Il Disinganno Ossia La Poetessa 1816–17 Teatro Rè Milan Revised With New Libretto As Il Carnevale Di Milano February 23 1817 Teatro Rè Milan * Piglia Il Mondo Come Viene May 28 1817 Teatro Rè Milan * I Virtuosi Di Teatro 1817 Teatro Rè Milan * La Bottega Di Caffè 1817 Teatro Rè Milan * Adelaide E Comingio December 30 1817 Teatro Rè Milan Also Known As Isabella E Florange Il Comingio Comingio Pittore * Atala June 1818 Teatro Nuovo Padua * Gl'illinesi 1818 Unfinished * Il Barone Di Dolsheim September 23 1818 Teatro Alla Scala Milan Also Known As Federico II Re Di Prussia Il Barone Di Felcheim La Colpa Emendata Dal Valore * La Sposa Fedele January 14 1819 Teatro S. Benedetto Venice * Il Falegname Di Livonia April 12 1819 Teatro Alla Scala Milan 1820–1829 * Vallace O L'eroe Scozzese February 14 1820 Teatro Alla Scala Milan Also Known As Odoardo I Re D'Inghilterra * La Sacerdotessa D'Irminsul May 11 1820 Teatro Grande Trieste * La Schiava In Bagdad Ossia Il Papucciajo October 28 1820 Teatro Carignano Turin Created By Giuditta Pasta * La Gioventù Di Enrico V December 26 1820 Teatro Valle Rome Also Known As La Bella Tavernara Ossia Le Avventure D'una Notte * Cesare In Egitto December 26 1821 Teatro Argentina Rome Libretto By Jacopo Ferretti * La Vestale February 6 1823 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * Temistocle August 23 1823 Teatro Giglio Lucca * Isabella Ed Enrico June 12 1824 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * Alessandro Nelle Indie September 29 1824 Teatro San Carlo Naples Revised Milan Dec.26 1826 * Amazilia July 6 1825 Teatro San Carlo Naples * L'ultimo Giorno Di Pompei November 19 1825 Teatro San Carlo Naples * La Gelosia Corretta March 27 1826 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * Niobe November 19 1826 Teatro San Carlo Naples * Gli Arabi Nelle Gallie Ossia Il Trionfo Della Fede March 8 1827 Teatro Alla Scala Milan Revised With Additions. L'ultimo Dei Clodovei 1855 Théâtre Italien Paris * Margherita Regina D'Inghilterra November 19 1827 Teatro San Carlo Naples Also Known As Margherita D'Anjou * I Cavalieri Di Valenza June 11 1828 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * I Crociati A Tolemaide Ossia Malek-Adel November 13 1828 Teatro Grande Trieste Also Known As La Morte Di Malek-Adel * Il Talismano Ovvero La Terza Crociata In Palestina June 10 1829 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * I Fidanzati Ossia Il Contestabile Di Chester November 19 1829 Teatro San Carlo Naples 1830–1839 * Giovanna D'Arco March 14 1830 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * Il Corsaro January 15 1831 Teatro Apollo Rome Rev 1832 La Scala Milan * Il Rinnegato Portoghese 1831 Teatro La Fenice Venice Unperformed * Ivanhoe March 19 1832 Teatro La Fenice Venice * Don Giovanni Tenorio O Il Convitato Di Pietra 1832 Casa Belluomini Viareggio * Gli Elvezi Ovvero Corrado Di Tochemburgo January 12 1833 Teatro San Carlo Naples * Fernando Duca Di Valenza May 30 1833 Teatro San Carlo Naples * Irene O L'assedio Di Messina November 30 1833 Teatro San Carlo Naples * Carlo Di Borgogna February 21 1835 Teatro La Fenice Venice * Bellezza E Cuor Di Ferro 1835 Casa Belluomini Viareggio Complete Revision Of Matilda Di Shabran By Rossini With 3 New Numbers By Pacini * La Foresta D'Hermanstadt 1839 Private Performances Viareggio * Furio Camillo December 26 1839 Teatro Apollo Rome 1840–1849 * Saffò November 29 1840 Teatro San Carlo Naples * L'uomo Del Mistero November 9 1841 Teatro Nuovo Naples * Il Duca D'Alba February 26 1842 Teatro La Fenice Venice Also Known As Adolfo Di Warbel * La Fidanzata Corsa December 10 1842 Teatro San Carlo Naples * Maria Regina D'Inghilterra February 11 1843 Teatro Carolino Palermo * Medea November 28 1843 Teatro Carolino Palermo Rev 1845 Vicenza * Luisetta Ossia La Cantatrice Del Molo Di Napoli December 13 1843 Teatro Nuovo Naples * L'ebrea February 27 1844 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * Lorenzino De' Medici March 4 1845 Teatro La Fenice Venice Revised As Rolandino Di Torresmondo 1858 Teatro San Carlo Naples Frequently Given As Elisa Velasco * Bondelmonte June 18 1845 Teatro Alla Pergola Florence Later Known As Buondelmonte * Stella Di Napoli December 11 1845 Teatro San Carlo Naples * La Regina Di Cipro February 7 1846 Teatro Regio Turin * Merope November 25 1847 Teatro San Carlo Naples * Ester D'Engaddi February 1 1848 Teatro Regio Turin * Allan Cameron March 18 1848 Teatro La Fenice Venice This Opera Was Revised Several Times. * L'orfana Svizzera 1848 Teatro Fondo Naples * Alfrida Ossia Bertolozzi 1849 Unperformed Existance Uncertain 1850–1859 * Zaffira O La Riconciliazione November 15 1851 Teatro Nuovo Naples * Malvina Di Scozia December 27 1851 Teatro San Carlo Naples * L'assedio Di Leida Elnava 1852 Unfinished * Rodrigo Di Valenza 1852 Not Performed This Is Very Probably An Earlier Version Of Il Cid. * Il Cid March 12 1853 Teatro Alla Scala Milan * Romilda Di Provenza December 8 1853 Teatro San Carlo Naples * La Donna Delle Isole 1854 Not Performed * La Punizione March 8 1854 Teatro La Fenice Venice Originally Composed As Lidia Di Brabante For Teatro Carolino Palermo In 1853 Revised As Lidia Di Bruxelles And Niccolò De' Lapi . * Margherita Pusterla February 25 1856 Teatro San Carlo Naples * I Portoghesi Nel Brasile 1856 Teatro Italiano Rio De Janeiro Brazil * Il Saltimbanco May 24 1858 Teatro Argentina Rome * Lidia Di Bruxelles October 21 1858 Teatro Comunale Bologna Same Work As Niccolò De' Lapi Prepared In 1857 For Rio De Janeiro But Not Performed Posthumous Premiere October 29 1873 With Original Title Lidia Di Bruxelles Simply Crossed Out On Score At Teatro Pagliano Florence 1860–1867 * Gianni Di Nisida October 29 1860 Teatro Argentina Rome * Il Mulattiere Di Toledo May 25 1861 Teatro Apollo Rome * Belfagor December 1 1861 Teatro Alla Pergola Florence Probably Composed 1851 * Carmelita 1863 Not Performed * Don Diego Di Mendoza January 12 1867 Teatro La Fenice Venice * Berta Di Varnol April 6 1867 Teatro San Carlo Naples Partly Composed 1859

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