La Vestale (401 bytes)
1: '''''La Vestale''''' is an [[opera]] by [[Gaspare Spontini]]. It ...
3: ...wo of its arias, "Tu che invoco" and "O Nume tutela", are better known than the work as a whole.
7: [[Category:Operas|Vestale, La]]
8: [[fr:La Vestale]]

Gaspare Spontini (3996 bytes)
1: ...His single great masterpiece and success was ''La Vestale.''
3: ...a youth, Spontini studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini in Naples. In 1803, he went to...
5: ... [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]] admired it. Spontini's later, likewise highly regarded ''Olimpie'' (1819, r...
7: ...ias "Tu che invoco" and "O Nume tutela" from ''La Vestale'' in 1955 (as did [[Rosa Ponselle]] in 1926).
8: ...enato Bruson. (An unofficial recording is in circulation.) In 1995, conductor [[Riccardo Muti]] record...

1807 in music (813 bytes)
10: == Published popular music ==
14: *''Joseph'' - [[Etienne-Nicolas Méhul]]
15: * ''[[La Vestale]]'' (''[[The Vestal Virgin]]'') first performed i...

Riccardo Muti (2023 bytes)
1: ...ing the [[music director]] of [[Milan]]'s [[La Scala]] [[opera house]], a position he has held since 1...
5: Since 1972, Muti has regularly conducted the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] in Lo...
7: ...ted its Principal Director, and in 1982 conductor laureate.
9: ... Muti was appointed principal conductor of the Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, with which in 1988 he rec...
11: He is a regular guest of the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] and the [[V...

Ezio Pinza (2108 bytes)
8: ...[1926]] in [[Gaspare Spontini|Spontini's]] ''[[La Vestale]]'', with famed American soprano [[Rosa Ponselle]...

Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy (3130 bytes)
3: ...his studies, and re-entered the service two years later. He was sent to India, where he met with many ...
7: ... life, collected under the title of ''L'Ermite de la Chaussee d'Antin, ou observations sur les moeurs ...
9: ... apart for his use in the palace of St Germain-en-Laye on the 4th of September 1846.
11: ... the long list of his operas, tragedies and miscellaneous writings may be mentioned:
12: *''Fernand Cortez'' (1809), opera, in collaboration with [[Joseph-Alphonse Esménard|JA Esména...

Vestal Virgin (3624 bytes)
6: ...h all the restrictions placed on women by [[Roman law]].
8: ...[[lictor]]; at public games they had a reserved place of honor; unlike most Roman women, they were fr...
12: ... emperors. The complex lay at the foot of the [[Palatine Hill]], where a [[sacred grove]] that was slo...
14: *Harry Thurston Peck, ''Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities'' (1898)
15: *Samuel Ball Platner and Thomas Ashby, ''A Topographical Dictionar...

Saverio Mercadante (4293 bytes)
1: ...870]]), was an [[Italy|Italian]] composer, particularly of [[opera]]s.
13: ...to dall'amicizia (30.10.1821 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
14: *Andronico ( 26.12.1821 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
15: ... Adele ed Emerico (21.9.1822 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
16: *Amleto (26.12.1822 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)

Maria Callas (4523 bytes)
1: The [[Greece|Greek]] [[soprano]] '''Maria Callas''' ([[December 2]], [[1923]] – [[September...
3: [[Image:MariaCallas.jpg|right|]]
4: ...spare Spontini|Spontini]]'s ''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Pucci...
6: ... of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many bel can...
8: ...ly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.

Giovanni Pacini (7607 bytes)
6: ...do'' ([[October 17]], 1813 Teatro S. Radegonda, Milan)
7: ...llerina raggiratrice'' ([[1814]] Teatro alla Pergola, Florence)
8: * ''L'ambizione delusa'' (1814 Teatro alla Pergola, Florence)
10: ...lfi'' (1814–15 Teatro de' Filodrammatici, Milan)
12: * ''La Rosina'' (1815 Teatro alla Pergola, Florence)

Gong (10185 bytes)
4: ...f metal [[percussion]] instruments. The term is malayu-javanese in origin but widespread throughout As...
6: ...'''Suspended gongs''' are more or less flat, circular disks of metal suspended vertically by means of ...
10: ... deal of skill. The smallest suspended gongs are played with bamboo sticks, or even western-style drum...
12: '''Bowl gongs''' may be played in many different ways, not all of them strict...
19: ...erners is the ''chau gong'' or ''bullseye gong''. Large chau gongs, called ''tam-tams'' (not to be con...

List of famous operas (9290 bytes)
7: ... list would not omit [[Léo Delibes|Delibes]]' ''[[Lakmé]]''. [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]'s ''[[Rienzi]]'...
15: **''[[La Sonnambula]]'' (Milan 1831)
17: **''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'' (Milan 1831)
31: **''[[Mefistofele]]'' (Milan 1868)
46: **''[[Adriana Lecouvreur]]'' (Milan 1902)

List of musical events (23166 bytes)
15: ... '''[[2001 in music (UK)]]''' - [[Napster]]'s popularity peaks
23: * '''[[1995 in music]]''' - [[Alanis Morissette]] releases ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]...
28: ... - [[Public Enemy]] releases ''[[Fear Of A Black Planet]]''
43: * '''[[1979 in music]]''' - [[The Clash]] releases ''[[London Calling]]''
48: ...4 in music]]''' - [[Jackson Browne]] releases ''[[Late for the Sky]]''

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