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From around the world: Venice.(International ... Marino Faliero suffers from a confusing plot)(Opera Review)
Marino Faliero marked Donizetti's Paris debut, which took place in 1835, not long after the premiere of Bellini's I Puritani, with which it shared a stellar cast. Marino Faliero did not match Puritani's success, but it was appreciated by the exiled republican Giuseppe Mazzini, and one can understand why: no other Donizetti work so clearly looks forward--particularly in its cabalettas--to the rousing Risorgimento spirit of Verdi's early works, and the fact that the Doge Faliero joins the populace of Venice in rising (unsuccessfully) against a corrupt oligarchy clearly was perceived at the time as a political statement. The plot, however, is too confused to have a similar effect today, and the love story that intertwines with the affairs of state (Faliero's wife, Elena, is in love with his nephew, Fernando) is equally awkward in its pacing and motivation. And while the music is clearly crafted with the confidence of a mature composer, it never attains the consistently inspired level of Donizetti's major works--or so it seemed, as staged by La Fenice at the Teatro Malibran (seen June 29).
The production by director Daniele Abbado and designer Gianni Carluccio, set in a singularly gray Venice with costumes of varying epochs, lacked conviction throughout, and the cast, though prestigious, failed to bring the characters to ...
- Petruchio's priest-beating and Marino Faliero.(criticism of 'The Taming of the...
- Newspaper article from: Shakespeare Newsletter Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning March 22, 2002 700+ words
...encountered an anecdote concerning Marino Faliero, and incorporated it into the...Byron remarks in his Preface to Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, that according...appended to his play: When Messer Marino Faliero was Podesta and Captain of Treviso...
- Ancestral voices prophesying what? The moving text in Byron's 'Marino Faliero'...
- Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language Simpson, Michael September 22, 1996 700+ words
Of Byron's numerous plays, Marino Faliero was the only one to be staged in his...play. Since the actual production of Marino Faliero is of only tangential relevance to...still prevalent form of censorship that Marino Faliero and Sardanapalus apparently avoid by...
- Donizetti: Marino Faliero.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Parsons January 1, 2006 700+ words
DONIZETTI: Marino Faliero Cesare Siepi (Faliero), Marisa Galvany (Elena), Giulio Cianella...hard to say just what version is heard in the RAI performance. Marino Faliero has never been recorded in the studio. There is a 1999 stage...
- Giuseppe Mazzini's "geopolitics of liberty" and Italian foreign policy toward...
- Magazine article from: East European Quarterly Valota, Bianca June 22, 2003 700+ words
During the first half of the 19th century Western Europe looked with growing interest at the other half of the Continent, and especially at the emergence of a large Slav world that the rest of Europe had never appreciated before in all its breadth and complexity. Naturally there had been
- Byron's Historical Dramas.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Manning, Peter J. April 1, 1995 700+ words
...sought. The Borderers and Remorse, Marino Faliero and Sardanapalus, The Cenci and Otho...early poetry. The Venetian setting of Marino Faliero provided an unmistakable analogy between...of the past that drives the plots of Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, and The Two Foscari...
- Reverse angle. (imaginary look at opening night of Vincenzo Bellini's 'L...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Blier, Steven January 25, 1997 700+ words
...Light just as Rossini had. Donizetti's new opera is to be Marino Faliero, his forty-fifth work for the stage. He admires his...as a dangerous rival and is scathing in his criticism of Marino Faliero. The rivalry is compounded by the fact that both operas...
- Speakers call to follow Mazzini's ideals for true welfare of people.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 29, 2005 700+ words
...They were speaking at the bicentenary roundtable on Giuseppe Mazzini, a champion of Risogimento, the 19th century movement for Italian Unification. The Roundtable on Giuseppe Mazzini was jointly organized by the Italian Embassy in Dhaka...
- August online edition of Opera News.
- Magazine article from: Opera News August 1, 2002 700+ words
...Curtis, Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Academy of Vocal Arts. CONCERTS AND RECITALS: In New York, Relyea shines in OONY Marino Faliero; C. Davis leads Philharmonic in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail; Mentzer in Massenet; Blythe in recital. In Paris, Fleming...
- Der Zigeunerbaron. (For the Record).(Correction Notice)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada December 22, 2002 700+ words
...and 1977, and Dawson Creek Opera performed it in 1994. In the review of Opera Orchestra of New York's production of Marino Faliero in the Fall issue, we mistakenly referred to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. It should have been the Dallas Symphony Chorus...
- Opera Orchestra of New York. (United States: New York; Opera in Review).
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Berges, Ruth September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Opera Orchestra of New York unearthed another remarkable Donizetti score. Eve Queler assembled a distinctive cast for Marino Faliero, able to cope with its extreme vocal demands, which are probably one reason for its relative obscurity. Another may be...