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Though he sang successfully in all styles of music and covered a great dramatic versatility, the parts in which he was peculiarly great were Leporello in "Don Giovanni"; the Podesta in "La Gazza Ladra"; Geronimo in "Il Matrimonio Segreto"; Caliban in Halévy's "Tempest"; Gritzonko in "L'Etoile du Nord"; Henry VIII in "Anna Bolena"; the Doge in "Marino Faliero"; Oroveso in "Norma"; and Assur in "Semiramide."
Look here eo tamen pacto that means 'by this agreement' does it not? I am not so rusty as you seem to think." "It means 'on this understanding, however. Go on. Quod si, that if praedicto Domino Leoni, to the aforesaid Don Leone ex legitimo matrimonio, from a lawful marriage heres nasceretur, an heir should be born hoc instrumentum, this deed shall be null, worthless and invalid.
No better instance, though a small one, perhaps, could be given of the tone and temper in which Rossini was likely to encounter both adverse criticism and the adulation of amateur idolatry, than his reply to the Duchess of Canizzaro, one of his most fanatical worshipers, who asked him which he considered his best comic opera; when, with a burst of joyous laughter, he named "Il Matrimonio Secreto," Cimarosa's enchanting chef-d'oeuvre, from which, doubtless, Rossini, after the fashion of great geniuses, had accepted more than one most felicitous suggestion, especially that of the admirable finale to the second act of the "Barbiere."
And this is still the case in Italy among the common folk, who will say of a man, 'Si, è ammogliato; ma il matrimonio non è stato benedetto. 'Yes, he has taken a wife, but the marriage has not yet been blessed. So the days flew by in doubt and sore distress for Elena. Then on the night before her wedding, she felt that she could bear this life no longer.
The following year Sontag also sang with Malibran in London, her greatest success being in Carolina, the principal character of Cimarosa's "Il Matrimonio Segreto." Mile. Sontag was now for the first time assailed by the voice of calumny. Her union with Count Rossi, consummated more than a year before, had been kept secret on account of the dislike of his family to the match.
Luck be with you, my dear!" "You are making game of me, papa. Well, I assure you that I would rather die in Mademoiselle de Conde's convent than not be the wife of a peer of France." She slipped out of her father's arms, and proud of being her own mistress, went off singing the air of Cara non dubitare, in the "Matrimonio Segreto."
Sanchez has written a dissertation on the penal cases incident to marriage; he has even argued on the illegitimacy and the opportuneness of each form of indulgence; he has outlined all the duties, moral, religious and corporeal, of the married couple; in short his work would form twelve volumes in octavo if the huge folio entitled De Matrimonio were thus represented.
And this is still the case in Italy among the common folk, who will say of a man, "Si, è ammogliato; ma il matrimonio non è stato benedetto." "Yes, he has taken a wife, but the marriage has not yet been blessed." So the days flew by in doubt and sore distress for Elena. Then on the night before her wedding, she felt that she could bear this life no longer.
His best characters are Taddeo in Il Re Theodora, il Governatore in La Molinara, the Father in Furberia e Puntiglio, and the Deaf Man in Il Matrimonio Secreto. It is necessary to see him in these different operas to form a just idea of the truth and humour with which he represents them.
A coffin has been discovered among the ruins of Elgin cathedral, supposed to be that of the royal victim of Macbeth. When Cimarosa's opera of Matrimonio Segreto was performed before the Emperor Joseph, he invited all the singers to a banquet, and then in a fit of enthusiasm, sent them all back to the theatre to play and sing the whole opera over again! Foreign Review.
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