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Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto was founded in 1947 by Adriano Belli, lawyer and musicologist, with the aim of helping young singers to start a career in opera, above all students who had already completed their singing studies and were gifted with artistic qualities, but had not yet made their artistic debut. The organization's offices are located in Spoleto, Italy. Singing competition Winners of the singing competition at the "Sperimentale of Spoleto" attend a two years course where they are trained in several subjects not included in school programmes: preparation of opera, of course, but also training in stage movement under the guidance of the directors and conductors who will later put on the operas during the Debut Opera Season. There are three phases: in March the Competition for young singers of the European Community takes place, and the International Board of Examiners chooses the candidates. The winners will be the candidates that obtain an average mark of 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Belli
Adriano Belli (born August 25, 1977) is a Canadian former professional gridiron football, football player who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Belli is nicknamed "The Kissing Bandit" for his penchant for kissing people on their cheeks. He has gained a reputation for being a kind and funny man off the field and a nasty and annoying player to his opponents on the field. Early life Belli grew up in the High Park region of Toronto and attended Humberside Collegiate Institute for the first three years of high school. He then elected to transfer to Central Technical School in the Harbord Village area of Toronto and commuted by subway to take advantage of Central Tech's football program. College career Belli played college football for the Houston Cougars football, Houston Cougars. He credits his high school coach, Chuck Wakefield, for helping him get a scholarship to the University of Houston. Professional career Belli was drafted in the first round, sixth overa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Bruson
Renato Bruson (born 13 January 1936) is an Italian operatic baritone. Bruson is widely considered one of the most important Verdi baritones of the late 20th and early 21st century. Life and career Bruson was born in Granze near Padua on 13 January 1936. His passion for music matured in the parish choir when he was a child. He began his music studies at the conservatory of Padua where he was awarded a scholarship that allowed him to attend the courses in the face of economic problems. He did not receive much support from his family, who considered him a good-for-nothing. In his own words: "They thought that I only wanted to study music because I had no desire to work. At that time, the general feeling where I lived was that if someone worked, they had a future, whereas those who studied, especially if they studied music, were considered failures who would never find their path in life." However, he could continue his studies with the help of the administration of the conservatory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Frontali
Roberto is an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish variation of the male given name Robert. Notable people named Roberto include: * Roberto (footballer, born 1912) * Roberto (footballer, born 1977) * Roberto (footballer, born 1978) * Roberto (footballer, born 1979) * Roberto (footballer, born 1988) * Roberto (footballer, born January 1990) * Roberto (footballer, born December 1990) * Roberto (footballer, born 1998) * Roberto Abbondanzieri (born 1972), Argentine footballer * Roberto Acuña (born 1972), Paraguayan footballer * Roberto Alagna (born 1963), French operatic tenor * Roberto Alomar (born 1968), Puerto Rican baseball player * Roberto Alvarado (born 1998), Mexican footballer * Roberto Amadio (born 1963), Italian cyclist * Roberto d'Amico (born 1967), Belgian politician * Roberto Ayala (born 1973), Argentine footballer * Roberto Badiani (born 1949), Italian footballer * Roberto Baggio (born 1967), Italian footballer * Roberto Ballini (born 1944), Italian footballer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Bacelli
Monica may refer to: People * Monica (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Monica (actress) (born 1987), Indian film actress * Mônica (footballer, born 1978) (Mônica Angélica de Paula) * Mônica (footballer, born 1987) (Mônica Hickmann Alves) *Monica (singer) (born 1980) * Saint Monica, mother of Augustine Places * Monica, Kentucky, U.S. * 833 Monica, a minor planet Arts, entertainment and media Film * ''Monica'' (2011 film), an Indian film * ''Monica'' (2022 film), an American-Italian film Music * MONICA, a Scottish band with members of The Apples and others * "Monica" (song), by The Kinks, 1968 *"Monica", a song by Dan Bern from the 1998 album '' Fifty Eggs'' *"Monica", a 1984 song by Kōji Kikkawa **covered by Leslie Cheung, 1984 **covered by Leo Ku on the 2005 album '' Jade Solid Gold'' Other uses in arts and entertainment *Monica, a fictional country in '' Æon Flux'' *Monica, a fictional planet in David Weber's science f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Morino
Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppa or Giuseppina. People with the given name include: :''Note: Some people are listed multiple times, in different sections.'' Artists and musicians * Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707), Italian composer * Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527–1593), Italian painter * Giuseppe Belli (singer) (1732–1760), Italian castrato singer * Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian poet * Giuseppe Botero (1815–1885), Italian writer * Giuseppe Cantersani, Italian engraver * Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908), Italian painter * Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter) (1688–1766), Italian Jesuit missionary and court painter in China * Giuseppe Giordani (1751–1798), Italian composer, mainly of opera * Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957), Italian writer and last Prince of Lampedusa * Gius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (born 27 January 1959) is a Norwegian-Italian operatic soprano. Early life and education Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is the daughter of Norwegian architectural theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Italian translator and writer Anna Maria de Dominicis. She grew up in Ris, Oslo. When she was young she took lessons in voice with Anne Brown, as well as lessons in piano, ballet and theatre.Anders EggenElizabeth Norberg-SchulzStore Norske Leksikon, retrieved 24 March 2013 She started studies at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome in 1974, first piano and from 1974 in voice with Rosina Vedrani Laporta, with whom she studied for ten years. She got a diploma in piano in 1978 and in voice in 1982. She has also studied with John Shirley-Quirk, Peter Pears, and for a number of years with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Career She has performed in many of the world's leading opera houses and companies, including La Scala, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Comun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giusy Devinu
Giuseppina is an Italian feminine given name. It is the Italian version of the English name Josephine. It has the alternative form Giuseppa and a number of hypocorisms. People Giuseppina *Giuseppina Aliverti (1894–1982), Italian geophysicist * Giuseppina Bersani (1949–2023), Italian fencer * Giuseppina Gabriela Bonino (1843–1906), Italian nun * Giuseppina Bozzacchi (1853–1870), Italian ballerina * Giuseppina Brambilla (1819–1903), Italian contralto * Giuseppina Catanea (1894–1948), Italian nun * Giuseppina Cirulli (born 1959), Italian hurdler * Giuseppina Cobelli (1898–1948), Italian soprano * Giuseppina d'Agostino, Canadian lawyer * Giuseppina Di Blasi (born 1979), Italian archer * Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini (1878–1944), Italian soprano * Giuseppina Gargano (1853–1939), Italian soprano * Giuseppina Grassi (born 1976), Mexican cyclist * Giuseppina Grassi (athlete) (born 1957), Sammarinese athlete * Giuseppina Grassini (1773–1850), Italian contralto * Giuseppina H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natale De Carolis
Natale de Carolis (born 25 July 1957 in Anagni) is an Italian operatic baritone, who has had an active career in major opera houses internationally since the early 1980s. He is particularly associated with the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gioachino Rossini. Born in Anagni, Carolis studied singing with Renato Guelfi and Maria Vittoria. After winning the Toti dal Monte Singing Competition in Treviso, he made his professional opera debut in 1983 as Don Basilio in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville'' at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto for the Festival dei Due Mondi. In 1987 he made his debut at La Scala as Masetto in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' under conductor Riccardo Muti. Natale made his United States debut in 1988 as Figaro in ''The Marriage of Figaro'' at the Metropolitan Opera. He has since performed leading roles at the Berlin State Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Israeli Opera, La Fenice, the New National T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcello Giordani
Marcello Giordani (born Marcello Guagliardo; 25 January 1963 – 5 October 2019) was an Italian operatic tenor who sang leading roles of the Italian and French repertoire in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States. He had a distinguished association with the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he sang in over 240 performances from the time of his debut there in 1993. He founded the Marcello Giordani Foundation to help young opera singers. Biography Giordani was born on 25 January 1963 in the small town of Augusta, Sicily. His father, a former prison guard, was the owner of a major gasoline station in the town, and his mother was a housewife. He showed a talent for singing at an early age and took private lessons in Augusta as well as singing in a church choir. When he was nineteen, he quit his job at a bank. He studied voice first in Catania and from 1983 in Milan with Nino Carta. Giordani made his professional operatic debut in 1986 as the Duke in ''Rigoletto'' at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucia Aliberti
Lucia Aliberti (born 12 June 1957) is an Italian operatic soprano singer. She performed the bel canto roles of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Vivaldi, Mercadante and so on. Life and career Aliberti was born in Messina (Sicily). She studied piano, composition, conducting, and singing at the Conservatory, where she graduated with a diploma with full marks very young. She then completed her studies in Rome with Maestro Luigi Ricci and continued the study with Alfredo Kraus. Musician and composer, while studying singing, she was also studying the piano and other musical instruments (guitar, accordion, violin, mandolin). She has composed many pieces for piano, clarinet, flute and singing. She began her artistic career in Spoleto at the Festival dei Due Mondi, under the direction of Gian Carlo Menotti. A lyric-dramatic soprano with agility, Aliberti graduated very young at the conservatory with honors. She studied with Luigi Ricci in Rome, Alfredo Kraus and Herbert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariella Devia
Mariella Devia (born 12 April 1948) is an Italian operatic soprano. After beginning her career as a lyric coloratura soprano, in the finale part of it she also enjoyed considerable success with some of the most dramatic roles in the bel canto repertoire. Biography Born in Chiusavecchia, Devia began her studies at the Milan Conservatory with Iolanda Magnoni, but she later followed her teacher to the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome where she graduated. She made her stage debut at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso in the title role of '' Lucia di Lammermoor'' in 1973''Biography''. and quickly sang throughout Italy, making her debut at La Scala in Milan in 1987, as Giulietta in ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi''. On the international scene, she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera from 1979 to 1994 as Lucia, Gilda, Nannetta, Despina and Konstanze, and at Carnegie Hall as Lakmé, in 1979, and later as Teresa in ''Benvenuto Cellini'', Giulietta, Elvira in '' I puritani'' and ''Adelia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciana D'Intino
Luciana may refer to: * Luciana (given name), a Latin feminine given name * Luciana (singer), British pop singer * Luciana, Ciudad Real, a small village and municipality in Spain * ''Luciana'' (album), by Juno Reactor {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
