February 11

1840 - Premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in the two-act opera La Fille du Regiment by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), on a libretto by Jules H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean Bayard FA.
Cast: MJ Boulanger, Henry Blanchard, Marie, Bourgeois, Riquier, Leon, Palianti. Address: Gaetano Donizetti.

Source:
Bertel, Antonio [et alt.] - Encyclopedia of lyric art

French-Spanish bilingual booklet:
Website Kareol - http://www.geocities.com/ubeda2009/fille/fille.htm

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1843 - Premiere at the Teatro alla Scala opera in four acts I LOMBARDI ALLA PRIMA Crociata by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), on a libretto by Solera Temistocle (1815-1878), based on the eponymous poem by Tommaso Grossi ( 1790-1853).
Cast: E. Frazzolini, C. Guasco, P. Dérivis, G. Severi, T. Ruggeri. Address: G. Panizza.

Source:
Bertel, Antonio [et alt.] - Encyclopedia of lyric art

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1894 - Death in Madrid (Spain) PASCUAL composer Emilio Arrieta. He was born in Puente de la Reina (Navarra, Spain) on 21 October 1823. He was orphaned as a child and was educated in Madrid with her sister Antonia, where he began his music studies at the Conservatory of Madrid. In 1839 his sister took him to Italy where he studied piano with the teacher and harmony with Mandancini Perelli, privately. In 1841 he entered the Conservatory of Milan, thanks to the generosity of Count Litta, studying piano and harmony with Maestro Nicola Vaccai (between 1838 and 1846), graduating with honors.
In Italy, in collaboration with librettist Solera Temistocle, he composed his first opera: Ildegonda, released in 1846 which obtained great success and won the prize in composition at the Scala in Milan. Back in Madrid, in 1846 became known as a conductor at the Teatro del Circo, which also debuts in the same year a symphony. Elizabeth II met at a party palace. The queen took it as a singing teacher, composer of the court appointing him three years later, and ordered to build a theater at the Royal Palace where the opera premiered Arrieta Conquest of Granada and Pergolesi.
Although he enjoyed the support of the queen, after the overthrow of that published the hymn below the Bourbons.
He was appointed professor of composition at the Escuela Nacional de Música in Madrid in 1857 and took over as director in 1868, he held until his death in 1894. At this time he composed many works for concerts, competitions and academic events. Among his most outstanding students were found and Ruperto Chapi Tomas Breton.
By reviving the zarzuela with the successes of Barbieri, Gaztambide and others, along with the closure of the Royal Palace Theater, Arrieta made to feel seduced by the zarzuela, leaving the opera, they can produce more than fifty zarzuelas.
In 1853 he premiered his first zarzuela, and the blue domino, thirty years after the last, San Francisco de Sena. Altogether the author of fifty titles, the most famous of which, the only remaining in the regular repertoire today is Marina, with a libretto by Francisco Camprodón. Born as zarzuela became in 1855 the opera which premiered at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 1871.
In 1871 he received the Great Cross of Isabel the Catholic, and in 1873 he was appointed professor at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in the newly created music section.
Fernando Perez Ollo, music critic, writes Arrieta: "His fame rests on his theatrical production and more specifically the key role it played in building the operetta as a genre. This dominance of the teacher Navarre was made possible by his sense of melody in the traditional line of Bellini, rather than renovating and Verdi's dramatic, and technical resources-harmonic and instrumental-that gave him his Italian training. In this latter respect, Arrieta was superior to his fellow Spaniards. "

Source:
Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

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1938 - Birth in Lucerne (Switzerland) in the soprano Edith Mathis. He studied at Lucerne and debuted there in 1956 with The Magic Flute. Because of his physical and his voice pleasant sparkling, Edith Mathis soon became a sought-soprano.
Mozart would be one of their specialties, including between their interpretations of the character Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina in Così fan tutte and Pamina in The Magic Flute. Other roles include singing and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Marshal and Aennchen Agathe in Der Freischütz, and Marzelline in Fidelio. He sang in the premieres of the operas Der Zerissene (von Einem), Der Junge Lord (Henze) and Le Roi Berenger (Heinrich Sutermeister).
It has also been an excellent interpreter of oratorios, cantatas composed in particular by Johann Sebastian Bach and lieder.
Since 1991, Edith Mathis is Professor of interpretation of lieder and oratorio at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (University for music and performing arts) in Vienna. Occasionally, he teaches courses in other parts of the world.

Source:
Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

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1949 - Death in New York (United States) to read Giovanni Zenatello. He was born in Verona (Italy) on 22 February 1876. Zannoni and studied singing with Moretti, debuted as a baritone at the Teatro Sociale of Bassano to the roles of Silvio in Pagliacci and Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana, in April 1898.
In March the following year and have been paid for the same opera, was to replace the tenor who played the part of Canio. The success of this experience led him to continue singing in that string, and then until 1900 he had acted as second-class theaters in southern Italy and Malta, caught the attention of businessmen singing Carmen and Andrea Chenier in Politeama Rossetti of Trieste in 1901. He spoke at times of San Carlos in Lisbon (1902), the Massimo in Palermo, in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. In December of that year in Alla Scala debut with La Damnation de Faust, which was followed in the same season Un ballo in maschera.
Faust would play until 1907, Germania, Rigoletto, and the world premieres of Siberia and Madama Butterfly. The latter opera was a failure at its premiere, but Zenatello also had the opportunity to participate in the final and successful second version of it-at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, in May 1904, starring this time with the Krushenisky.
Meanwhile it became known in Buenos Aires with Aida, the Opera, in 1903, returned almost annually to the city until 1910.
Hired by the Covent Garden and in 1905 and sang there until 1909. In 1907-08 had made his debut with La Gioconda at the Manhattan Opera in New York, directed artistically by O. Hammerstein (father) who hired him until 1910.
Zenatello never sang at the Metropolitan Opera House, but momentarily joined the company in the spring of 1909, replacing Caruso who had traveled in Europe, ill. They played some roles in Aida, Madama Butterfly, Faust and Pagliacci, all of which were fulfilled during the tours.
In this period of splendor remember his superb interpretations of Lucia di Lammemoor, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, in addition to the assiduous frequentation of Un ballo in maschera, Aida, Carmen and Pagliacci. During this very active year 1909 to incarnate first Otello, a role he would sing more than three hundred times in public.
His career in the United States continued in Boston, Philadelphia, and especially in Chicago, where he served until 1916, shining in roles such as Otello, Samson and Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West.
His performance in Europe during those years was sporadic. However, his idea for the opera festival at the Arena di Verona was born in August 1913 with performances of Aida. Since then, would alternate the roles of singer and businessman, guided the seasons of the Arena for many years.
She continued to sing, especially Carmen, Aida, Otello and Pagliacci-until 1930. In 1923 he presented in Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Venice. In Moscow in 1925 at Covent Garden and at the Costanzi in Rome in 1926 and in Philadelphia in 1928.
In 1913 he married the mezzo Mary Gay, who was standing support for him, either in the field of education as in business.
As a performer was deep and outgoing, as in many cases electrified the audience with a simple sentence. It began as a poor actor, but over the years succeeded compositions scenes of great force, which allowed him to be one of the most celebrated interpreters of Otello known.