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Gaetano Donizetti

Also known as Donizetti, Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti

Italian opera composer (1797–1848)

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Gaetano Donizetti was an Italian composer who lived in the early 19th century and is best known for his operas. His works remain important in the history of opera and continue to be performed today.

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Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

Known for

The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor — Composer2022
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore — Self - Composer2014
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment — Self - Composer2007
Don Pasquale — Self - Composer2007

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Maria
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Place of birth: Bergamo
Place of death: Bergamo
Sibling: Giuseppe Donizetti
Occupation: composer
Position held: chapelmaster
Educated at: Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini
Languages spoken: Italian
Award: Order of the Golden Spur
Notable work: Maria Stuarda
Student of: Stanislao Mattei
Genre: opera
Image: Fotoreproductie van Gaetano Donizetti.png
Work location: Vienna

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Commons gallery: Gaetano Donizetti
Commons category: Gaetano Donizetti
date of birth: 1797-11-29
date of death: 1848-04-08
topic's main category: Category:Gaetano Donizetti
birth name: Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti
Commons Creator page: Gaetano Donizetti
name in native language: Gaetano Donizetti
medical condition: bipolar disorder
place of burial: Santa Maria Maggiore
cause of death: meningitis
student: Michele Puccini
manner of death: natural causes
P8168: Bédoin
P12674: Freguesia de Várzea de Trevões
P12749: Timo Boll

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Gaetano Donizetti, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Lucia [Música notada]

Elisir d'amore [Música notada]

Lucrecia Borgia [Música notada]

Linda di Chamounix [Música notada] :]opéra italien

L'elisire d'amore [Música notada] :]opéra buffa

Poliuto [Música notada] :]tragedia lirica in 3 atti di Salvatore Cammarano

Il furioso all 'isola Sant Domingo [Music noticed]

L'esule di Roma [Música notada]:melodramma eroico di Domenico Gilardoni

Lucia di Lamermoor [sic] [Música notada] :]opera seria del maestro Donizetti

Il furioso [Música notada] :]opera in due atti

La hija del regimiento.. N. 11,, Coro militar, Rataplán [Música notada] :]zarzuela en tres actos

Ambo morrete o perfidi, Scena e terceto [Música notada] :]cantado dalla signora Pasta, Rubini e Lablache nell'opéra Anna Bolena

Fama si l'avrete, Scena e duetto [Música notada] :]cantado dalla signora Fadolini e Lablache nell'opera Anna Bolena

Belisario: lyrical tragedy in three acts, each one has its particular title

Ocarina [Música notada] :]colección de piezas escogidas

Poliuto. Andante and cavaleta [Music Noted]: opera by Donizetti

Cavatina, Io l'uida ne suoi bei carmi, de la ópera Torcuato Tasso [Música notada]

Sinfonía en la ópera Ugo, Conde de París [Música notada]

Elisire d'amore [Música notada]: opéra

Cavatina, Cupa e fatal mestizia, de la ópera Maria di Rohan [Música notada]

Dúo de soprano y barítono en el tercer acto de Maria de Rohan [Música notada]

Terceto final de la ópera Maria de Rohan [Música notada]

Great scene of delirium at the end of the second act of the opera Linda de Chamouni [Music Noted]

Duetto de tiple y tenor de la ópera Lucrezia Borgia [Música notada]

Scena e cavatina con pertecchino nell'opera Il belisario [Música notada]

Marino Faliero,. Duetto, Se per giungi a trucidarlo [Música notada]

Maffio Orsini signora son io [Música notada] :]stretta del Prologo nell'opera Lucrezia Borgia

Sinfonia dell'opera Fausta [Música notada]

Sinfonía de la ópera Adelia [Música notada]

Linda di Chamounix [Música notada] : ópera en tres actos del maestro G. Donizetti

Raccolta di canzonette e duettini italiani, napolitani e francesi con accompº di piano-forte [Música notada]

Ah! non aveva più lagrime [Música notada] :]romanza para voz de barítono cantada por Ronconi con acompañamiento de piano

Don Pasquale.. Serenata [Música notada]

Elisire d'amore. Rondo brillant [Música notada]

Lucrecia Borja [Música notada] :]ópera de Cayetano Donizetti

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Encyclopedic overview

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer of the early Romantic era, best known for his over 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed musical training. Mayr was instrumental in obtaining a place for Donizetti at the Bologna Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, which may never have been performed during his lifetime.

An offer in 1822 from Domenico Barbaja, the impresario of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, which followed the composer's ninth opera, led to his move to Naples and his residency there until production of Caterina Cornaro in January 1844. In all, 51 of Donizetti's operas were presented in Naples. Before 1830, success came primarily with his comic operas, the serious ones failing to attract significant audiences. His first notable success came with an opera seria, Zoraida di Granata, which was presented in 1822 in Rome. In 1830, when Anna Bolena was first performed, Donizetti made a major impact on the Italian and international opera scene shifting the balance of success away from primarily comedic operas, although even after that date, his best-known works included comedies such as L'elisir d'amore (1832) and Don Pasquale (1843). Significant historical dramas did succeed; they included Lucia di Lammermoor (the first to have a libretto written by Salvadore Cammarano) given in Naples in 1835, and one of the most successful Neapolitan operas, Roberto Devereux in 1837. Up to that point, all of his operas had been set to Italian libretti.

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