Gaetano Donizetti Italy

Biography

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was a famous Italian opera composer. His most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioacchino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera. Donizetti composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, 193 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and other chamber pieces. He was born in Bergamo into a very poor family with no tradition of music

Popular Songs

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  Lucia di Lammermoor: Atto I. "Cruda, funesta smania" - "La pietade in suo favore"

  Lucia di Lammermoor (Rumanian Opera Bucharest,feat. conductor: Constantin Petrovici, singers: Voinea, Herlea, Georgescu, Nastase)

  69 BPM
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  La lontananza

  Un Italien à Paris - duos & mélodies (Les Demoiselles de...)

  125 BPM
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  Nuits à Pausilippe: L'alito di Bice

  Un Italien à Paris - duos & mélodies (Les Demoiselles de...)

  66 BPM
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  Nuits à Pausilippe: Un guardo ed una voce

  Un Italien à Paris - duos & mélodies (Les Demoiselles de...)

  79 BPM
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  Bella Venezia

  Lucrezia Borgia

  123 BPM

Discography

Le Duc d'Albe

2016

Lucia di Lammermoor

2014

Un Italien à Paris - duos & mélodies (Les Demoiselles de...)

2005

Don Pasquale

2004

Lucia di Lammermoor (Maria Callas, Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin)

2004

Double Concerto / Flute Concertino / Clarinet Concertino

2004

Maria Stuarda (Fondazione Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo feat. conductor: Fabrizio Maria Carminati)

2003

Lucia of Lammermoor (Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra feat. conductor: David Parry)

2002

Lucie de Lammermoor

2002

Anna Bolena

2001

Caterina Cornaro

2001

La Favorite

2000

L'elisir d'amore

1999

La Favorita

1999

Parisina

1999

Don Pasquale

1999

Lucia di Lammermoor

1999

Lucia di Lammermoor (Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Torina della Rai, feat. conductor: Francesco Molinari Pradelli, singers: Cappuccilli, Scotto, Pavarotti)

1997

Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

1997

Poliuto (Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, feat. conductor: Antonino Votto, singers: Callas, Corelli, Bastianini, Zaccaria)

1997

Lucia di Lammermoor (Orchestra e Coro di Roma della Rai, feat. conductor: Tullio Serafin, singers: Callas, Panerai, Fernandi)

1997

Anna Bolena

1997

Lucia di Lammermoor (Rumanian Opera Bucharest,feat. conductor: Constantin Petrovici, singers: Voinea, Herlea, Georgescu, Nastase)

1996

L'Elisir d'Amore

1995

Il Duca d'Alba

1994

Lucia di Lammermoor

1994

Anna Bolena (L'Orchestra et Coro del Teatro alla Scala feat. conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni)

1993

Linda di Chamounix (Mikaeli Chamber Choir & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Friedrich Haider)

1993

Don Pasquale

1992

Maria di Rohan

1991

Lucrezia Borgia

1989

Lucia di Lammermoor (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, feat. conductor: Tullio Serafin, singers: Callas, Di Stefano, Gobbi)

1989

Lucrezia Borgia

1989

Anna Bolena (Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera feat. conductor: Richard Bonynge)

1988

La fille du régiment (Orchestra and Chorus of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden feat. conductor: Richard Bonynge)

1986

La Fille Du Régiment

1986

L'Elisir d'Amore (Ambrosian Opera Chorus & English Chamber Orchestra feat. conductor: Richard Bonynge)

1985

Lucia di Lammermoor (Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra feat. conductor: Jesús López-Cobos)

1977

L'Elisir d'Amore

1970