Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed for a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." His other operas were less successful, partly hampered by inferior libretti.

Catalani was born in Lucca and trained at the Conservatory of Milan under Antonio Bazzini.

Despite the growing influence of the verismo style of opera during the 1880s Catalani chose to compose in a more traditional manner. As a result his operas have largely lost their place in the modern repertoire, even compared to those of Massenet and Puccini, whose style his works most closely resemble.

The influence of Amilcare Ponchielli can also be recognized in Catalani's work. Like Ponchielli, Catalani's reputation now rests almost entirely on one work. La Wally continues to enjoy occasional revivals in much the same way as Ponchielli's La Gioconda.

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Bard SummerScape 2016 Presents Rare Staging of Mascagni’s Iris by Fast-Rising Director James Darrah (July 22–31) Plus Short Operas and Excerpts by Puccini, Puccini/Berio, Boito, Busoni, Catalani, and Massenet in Bard Music Festival (21c Media Group Inc)

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the end of Act I from Nerone (1877-1918), an incomplete and rarely staged depiction by Arrigo Boito of the plight of the Christians under Nero's rule; the end of Act III from Loreley (1890), an Italian treatment of the German Lorelei legend by Puccini's rival Alfredo Catalani; and the Intermezzo and Act IV from the Tuscan master's own belovedManon Lescaut (1893) ... Alfredo Catalani (1854-93)....

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Modernity, Jean-Michel Rabat� tells us, may be nothing but its own ghost ... Rios' spatial-political videos bridge the gap between post-modernity's formative context and codified social practices by introducing a kind of "spectral modernity" ... "Lixiviados" ... The tops move to Maria Callas' version of the famous aria from the 1892 opera La Wally by Alfredo Catalani in which Callas plays Wally, the character who sings about a suffering heart ... ....

The featured composer at Bard SummerScape 2016 will be Giacomo Puccini

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Excerpts from operas and other works by Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870), Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–86), Arrigo Boito (1842–1918), Alfredo Catalani (1854–93), and Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945) ... Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973), and Alfredo Casella (1883–1947)....

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Starting Friday, the Dallas Opera will offer not one but two mountaintop experiences. It’s a double-bill of operas set in mountains, complete with deaths by blizzard and avalanche. Everest, commissioned by the Dallas Opera, is a world premiere ... The new opera will be prefaced by the final act of Alfredo Catalani’s 1892 La Wally. Largely forgotten except for the dreamy aria “Ebben? ... There have been several late cast changes for La Wally....

Grand Operatic Concert 2014 by the Classique Foundation

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The evening's programme was a varied and very interesting one, featuring works by Giuseppe Verdi (the Overture from La forza del destino and the aria for tenor from Luisa Miller), Gaetano Donizetti (tenor's aria from Lucia di Lammermoor), Alfredo Catalani (La Wally, aria for soprano), Georges Bizet (the Entr'acte in Carmen), Giacomo Puccini ......

Dallas Opera ends second season in the black

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... of Joby Talbot’s and Gene Sheer’s Everest, to be presented in a double-bill with the final act of Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally....

Montreal Chamber Orchestra's Domtar Discovery Series: Fifth and last concert of the 2013-2014 season featuring ...

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MONTREAL, June 2, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Domtar is proud to once again be the Montreal Chamber Orchestra's Season Partner for the 2013-2014 Discovery Concert Series. We invite classical music lovers of all ages to join us. Date. Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 8 p.m. Venue. Bourgie Concert Hall. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. 1339 Sherbrooke Street West. Montreal, QC Featured ... Soloist ... Ebben ? Ne andrò lontana (La Wally) - Alfredo Catalani ... Soloist ... ....

Montreal Chamber Orchestra's Domtar Discovery Series: Fifth and last concert of the 2013-2014 season featuring four soloists to celebrate 40 years of Discovery, being held on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 (Domtar Corporation)

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(Source ... We invite classical music lovers of all ages to join us. Date ... Venue ... Gianna Corbisiero L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen) - Georges Bizet Ebben ? Ne andrà² lontana (La Wally) - Alfredo Catalani O moi babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi) - Giacomo Puccini Meine Lippen si Kà¼ssen so heiss (Giuditta) - Franz Lehà¡r Una voce pocco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia) - Gioachino Rossini Non ti scordar di me - Ernesto de Curtis Soloist....

Catalani: Ero e Leandro; Contemplazione; Il Mattino; Scherzo review – Thrillingly intense

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Rome Symphony/Francesco La Vecchia. (NAXOS). 4 ... Outside his native Italy, Alfredo Catalani (1854-93) is known solely for his 1892 opera La Wally ... There are some fashionable Wagnerisms, although the French-sounding orchestral translucence reminds us that Catalani trained in Paris ... ....

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After two reduced seasons, the Dallas Opera will return to five productions, including a double-bill of two one-act operas, for 2014-15. The lineup, announced Tuesday at AT&T Stadium, will include a world premiere and a rare production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta ... The 7.30 p.m. April 11 presentation will be preceded at 7 p.m ... It will be paired with the final act of Alfredo Catalani’s 1892 La Wally ... Here’s the schedule. ... 24-Nov. 9. Salome ... 7....