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A
new set of rooms was opened on December
17, 2011 at the Donizetti birthplace museum
in Bergamo
to provide additional facilities and exhibition
space. See here
for more photographs.
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Nick
Hawkins has kindly provided a write up for the
two new productions from the 2011 Pesaro Festival,
see here.
A radio broadcast by RTÉ from the Wexford Festival of
the November 5 performance of their recent production of Donizetti's Gianni
di Parigi can be found by clicking on Listen Back at here.
Two
books on Donizetti and his times have been published
recently:-
Donizettiana
et alia musicologica Scripta minora by
Dr. Thomas Lindner, a collection of essays on Italian
opera of the first half of the 19th century.
Giuseppe
Donizetti Pascià, a collection of essays
on Donizetti's brother Giuseppe, who was musical director
for the Turkish Sultan, edited by Federico Spinetti
and published by the Fondazione
Donizetti,
2010
http://www.operacast.com/
have details of opera broadcasts on the web.as well as information
on the
New York based Vocal Records Collecting Society. Associated with
the site is Norbeck,
Peters & Ford who
sell a wide range of historic recordings
Newsletter
114 is now available. Basil Walsh's
article from Newsletter
113 on a visit by Persiani and Rubini to Dublin
in 1838 can be found here.
The
Fondazione Donizetti site, http://www.donizetti.org/biblioteca/,
includes an extensive
bibliography of over 700 items and a list of score sources
at http://www.donizetti.org/media/1/20070725-Proprietari.pdf
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