Beniamino Gigli – Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) (Video)
Beniamino Gigli (Recanati, March 20, 1890 – Rome, November 30, 1957) was an Italian lyric tenor born on the same day as the Danish heroic tenor Lauritz Melchior. He is considered one of the best tenors of the first half of the 20th century, and along with Enrico Caruso and Jussi Björling was the tenor […]
Cavalleria Rusticana, the Opera that Made Pietro Mascagni
In the history of the Opera tradition, many genres developed over the centuries. The post-Romantic Verismo (Italian for realism) tradition stood apart for its naturalism and for focusing on the lives of the average contemporary people, subjects considered until then too poor and unfit to be protagonists of such pieces. In the Verismo movement, the […]