Zaira di vincenzo bellinis biography
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Norma Online Course by Dr. Paul DorganPart 1: Vincenzo Bellini Biography
15 Apr
by Dr. Paul Dorgan
VINCENZO BELLINI
( – )
Parents often burden their children’s names with a lot of “extras” which only they and their birth certificates know. Within the family, some children were never called by their official first name, and I am my own prime example! My Irish-Catholic baptism occurred around the day when Saints Peter and Paul were celebrated, so my baptism certificate officially records me as named after the two of them, in the correct Catholic order: Peter Paul. That second name, however, often appeared in my mother’s family tree, so I grew up as a “Paul,” and, as this essay notes, am still known by that name. However, when I enrolled as a Master’s student at Ohio State University, that got a bit confusing: the first time I went to the Student Health Center there the nurse called out “Pete?” No reaction from me until she added my last name! Even today, in “officia
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Vincenzo Bellini
Italian opera composer (–)
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (; Italian:[vinˈtʃɛntsosalvaˈtoːrekarˈmɛːlofranˈtʃeskobelˈliːni]ⓘ; 3 November – 23 September ) was an Italian opera composer[1][2] famed for his long, graceful melodies[3] and evocative musical settings. A central figure of the bel canto era, he was admired not only by the public, but also by many composers who were influenced by his work. His songs balanced florid embellishment with a deceptively simple approach to lyric setting.
Born to a musical family in Sicily, he distinguished himself early and earned a scholarship to study under several noted musicians at Naples' Real Collegio di Musica. There he absorbed elements of the Neapolitan School's style and was inspired by performances of Donizetti's and Rossini's operas, among others, in more modern idioms. He wrote his first opera, Adelson e Salvini (), for the conservatory, and his next,
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Biography
The blond-haired Sicilian Vincenzo Bellini took Italian opera forward into the Romantic period. In his short life, he produced some of the greatest masterpieces of his age. New works were received with an enthusiastic curiosity that could vary from rapturous acclaim to noisily expressed disapproval. Bellini was born into a musical family in the city of Catania where, as in all of Italy’s major centres, opera thrived. He made swift progress in his studies. At 18, he enrolled at the Real Collegio di Musica in Naples, one of the leading education institutions in Italy, where he remained for six years. In Naples he would have heard the latest works of Rossini, a composer nine years his senior, who was setting Italian opera on a new path of ornate vocal writing and orchestral richness. At the time, star singers dominated the musikdrama world. Worshipped as frakt of the theatre, they were the main attraktion of any performance. Bellini would go on to work with the finest artists of h