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The unofficial Italian National Anthem.
danmand, I understand you go to Rome in March. If you wait a little longer you can take in Nabucco at the Terme di Caracalla on July 25. It's an experience worth waiting for.
https://www.classictic.com/en/special/Festival_Baths_Caracalla/4236/?gclid=CjwKEAjw4vzKBRCt9Zmg8f2blgESJADN5fDg9-4MfpZqpbTz-pI4CeiXLIlRFfW8Zg_IkKGpb-RlfhoCp7Xw_wcB
danmand, I understand you go to Rome in March. If you wait a little longer you can take in Nabucco at the Terme di Caracalla on July 25. It's an experience worth waiting for.
https://www.classictic.com/en/special/Festival_Baths_Caracalla/4236/?gclid=CjwKEAjw4vzKBRCt9Zmg8f2blgESJADN5fDg9-4MfpZqpbTz-pI4CeiXLIlRFfW8Zg_IkKGpb-RlfhoCp7Xw_wcB
I would love to take in that one. But I will be in Rome in April, have already booked the trip.
Last year I went to an Opera performance every single night I was there, in many different venues, once in a small theater at Piazza Navona in excavated building.
I saw Don Carlos staged at La Terme in 1999, I've never forgotten it.
A young English Tenor named Peter Auty sang the title role with Jose Van Dam as Phillip II, Roberto Abbado was the conductor. I didn't know that the opera is based on a play by German poet Friedrich Schiller - that Ode to Joy dude. I'm sure young Mr. Auty must have been scared shitless about singing in front of an Italian audience, they can be ruthless. He got a standing ovation, I'm surprised he's not better known.
Can't find a clip of him as Don Carlos.
A young English Tenor named Peter Auty sang the title role with Jose Van Dam as Phillip II, Roberto Abbado was the conductor. I didn't know that the opera is based on a play by German poet Friedrich Schiller - that Ode to Joy dude. I'm sure young Mr. Auty must have been scared shitless about singing in front of an Italian audience, they can be ruthless. He got a standing ovation, I'm surprised he's not better known.
Can't find a clip of him as Don Carlos.
Roberto Abbado was also the conductor when I watched Lucia di Lammermoor at opening night at the Rome Opera. The president was in attendance and the National Anthem was performed before the Opera.
https://www.forumopera.com/lucia-di-lammermoor-rome-hommage-inacheve-a-luca-ronconi
I was at a fundraiser for a church in Italy not long ago, which played the real national anthem of Italy, which is operatic too, but we talked about this because someone thought the real national anthem was written by Verdi.
Didn't English Soccer TV play this song?
Didn't English Soccer TV play this song?
My uncle who's an aficionado and Opera Company supporter, visits Verona annually for their opera performances. Have a great trip danmando.
The words to the Italian National anthem were written by a young patriot named Goffredo Mameli. I forget who actually set them to music. The actual name of the anthem is Inno di Mameli (Mameli's Hymn). He was arrested by the Austrians for being an anarchist, imprisonment ruined his health and he died shortly after his release in 1849 - he was 21.
It was adopted as the nation's anthem after WW II.
It was adopted as the nation's anthem after WW II.
The YT page is not opening on my browser. Okay I got it after clearing my cache.
She's gorgeous. Emma Marrone.
Prior to WW II, Italy's National Anthem was the royal march to the House of Savoy. The Savoyards held a considerable fiefdom in 1831 comprising of Provence, Piedmont, Liguria and Sardinia. The Inno di Mameli was made musical while Giuseppe Garibaldi united the country. He was ultimately disillusioned as he wanted Italy to become a Republic. To add insult to injury Comte Cavour gave away Provence, and his home town of Nice, in return for French support against the Austrians. Garibaldi got some measure of revenge when his redshirts fought with the uniting Germans to defeat the French. To guarantee it's independence Italy aligned itself with the newly formed German Empire.
Not everyone supported the unification of the North Germans (the Austrians were the South Germans), Johannes Brahms left Hamburg for Vienna. He composed A German Requiem to commemorate the fallen in the Brother's War. Mingia Emma Marrone is sexy!
Not everyone supported the unification of the North Germans (the Austrians were the South Germans), Johannes Brahms left Hamburg for Vienna. He composed A German Requiem to commemorate the fallen in the Brother's War. Mingia Emma Marrone is sexy!
