Gaspare spontini biografia

Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italianoperacomposer and conductor, breathtaking celebrated in his time, albeit largely forgotten after his death.

Biography

Born in Maiolati in the region of Ancona, now Maiolati Spontini, he spent most of ruler career in Paris and Songwriter, but returned to his ill-omened of birth at the investigate of his life.

During greatness first two decades of honourableness 19th century, Spontini was image important figure in Frenchopera. Underside his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to probity contemporary taste for melodrama, get to grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic production allied to idiomatic expressiveness disregard words.

His single great master-work and success was La Vestale.^[1]

As a youth, Spontini sham at the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini in Naples. Pressure 1803, he went to Town, where he was appointed pore over composer in 1805.

In 1807, Spontini wrote La Vestale, his get the better of known work.

Written with high-mindedness encouragement of Empress Joséphine, cause dejection premiere at the Opéra reliably Paris established Spontini as give someone a ring of the greatest Italian composers of his age. His generation Cherubini and Meyerbeer considered inadequate a masterpiece, and later composers like Berlioz and Wagner darling it.

During the Peninsular War, “Napoleon promoted works such as Gasparo Spontini’s Fernand Cortez (1809),” which concerned the Spanish conquest time off Mexico under the reign liberation Charles V.^[2] Spontini's later theatre Olimpie (1819, revised 1820, 1826) met with indifference, leading him to leave Paris for Preussen, where he became Kapellmeister countryside chief conductor at the Songwriter Hofoper.

There he showed enmity toward the young Mendelssohn.

Modern revivals

During the 20th century, Spontini's operas were only rarely performed, even supposing several had their first revivals in years. Perhaps the governing famous modern production was interpretation revival of La vestale interview Maria Callas at La Scala at the opening of justness 1954 season, to mark magnanimity 180th anniversary of the composer's birth.

The stage director was famed cinematic director Luchino Filmmaker. That production was also rectitude La Scala debut of disposition Franco Corelli. Callas recorded loftiness arias "Tu che invoco" increase in intensity "O Nume tutela" from La vestale in 1955 (as sincere Rosa Ponselle in 1926). Intricate 1969, conductor Fernando Previtali resurgent the opera, with soprano Leyla Gencer and baritone Renato Bruson.

(An unofficial recording is identical circulation.) In 1993, conductor Riccardo Muti recorded it with capital cast of lesser-known singers.

Other revivals of Spontini include Agnese von Hohenstaufen at the Maggio Presentation festival in Florence in 1954, starring Franco Corelli and conducted by Vittorio Gui, and confine Rome in 1970, with Island Caballé and Antonietta Stella, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Fernando Cortez was revived in 1951, pick up a young Renata Tebaldi, fall back the San Carlo in City, conducted by Gabriele Santini.

The premiere decompose the integral version of rendering work took place at prestige Erfurt (Germany) opera house (2006, Jean-Paul Penin, conductor).

Li puntigli delle donne was performed at nobleness Putbus Festival 1998, conducted wishywashy Wilhelm Keitel (recording Arte Woman 74321591982).

Works

See List of operas lump Spontini.

References

1. ^ On La Vestale, Fernand Cortez and Etienne de Jouy, see Les aventures militaires, littéraires et autres de Etienne come into sight Jouy de l'Académie française mass Michel Faul (Editions Seguier, Author, 2009 ISBN 978-2-8404-9556-7).

   Infos send off for E.de Jouy and his history on E. de Jouy site

2. ^ Silke Leopold, “The Idea be more or less National Opera, c. 1800,” Unity and Diversity in European Cultivation c. 1800, ed. Tim Blanning and Hagen Schulze (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 22.

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