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Gaetano Donizetti

Opera Preview: Donizetti’s “The Pariah” — One of the Most Significant Opera Releases of the Past Few Years

The long-forgotten Il paria (1829), a work that Donizetti himself prized more highly than many of his other works, has now been reconstructed by a scholarly team and given a splendid recording.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: " Opera Rara, Albina Shagimuratova, Donizetti, Gaetano Donizetti, Il paria, Sir Mark Elder

Opera CD Review: A Tenor as a Villain? Donizetti’s Unusual Two-Tenor Opera Gets a First — and Fine — Recording

An 1829 opera about Elizabeth I and her supposed lover — enlivened by underhanded threats, virtuous resistance, remorse, and an attempted poisoning — proves well worth reviving.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Dynamic, Gaetano Donizetti, lisabetta al Castello di Kenilworth, Ralph Locke

Opera Review: A Major Opera by Donizetti — Heard for the First Time!

One of Donizetti’s strongest and most original works, has finally been reconstructed and recorded by superb forces under the remarkable Mark Elder.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, Gaetano Donizetti, Joyce El-Khoury, L’ange de Nisida<, Mark Elder

Opera Review: The Sparkling Human Comedy of “Don Pasquale”

Under the baton of its Artistic Director, Susan Davenny Wyner, Boston Midsummer Opera has become an annual highlight of Boston’s classical music line-up during the summer.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston Midsummer Opera, David Kravitz, Don Pasquale, Gaetano Donizetti, Susan Davenny Wyner

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