Donizetti, lionized
Just when you thought it was safe to return to Rossini and Verdi—blam!
5 pieces since 2012 — in 5 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Amore Opera.
3 pieces as Amore Opera — stats above show all coverage for Duncan Hartman.
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An impresario with a hit on his hands—Emanuel Schikaneder, for instance, after the initial run of Die Zauberflöte—will crave nothing so much as an opportunity to hit the same bell.
At the age of thirty, Donizetti was already the experienced composer of about eighteen operas, both serious and farcical, but as Olivo e Pasquale (currently undergoing its American premiere run at Amore Opera) makes clear, the comic works were no slight matter.
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