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The Donizetti Society has been established for 30 years and has published almost 100 Newsletters in that time. The following is the list of Newsletter content prior to 1980. At that time, Newsletters had less material, were less well produced using a stencil and duplicator and more informal with fewer substantial articles. Much of the information in them has been absorbed into or overtaken by later scholarship and the contents are included here mainly for the record. Individual articles and back numbers of Newsletters are available. You can use the "Find" facility, part of "Edit" on your browser, to search for keywords within each of those pages as well as using the Search facility on the Home page.
Newsletters for 1973 (1-3)Newsletters for 1974 (4-6)Newsletters for 1975 (7-9)Newsletters for 1976 (10-12)Newsletters for 1977 (13-15)Newsletters for 1978 (16-18)Newsletters for 1979 (19-21)1973Newsletter 1, May 1973- Article of introduction to the Society
Newsletter 2, July 1973- Mostly devoted to Donizetti's Il borgomastro di Saardam
Newsletter 3, October 1973- Roundup of news on Donizetti and Mayr - Donizetti and the Music Hall, Birkenhead by Brian Thornton. Short article on performances of Donizetti at the Music Hall, Birkenhead. 1974
Newsletter 4, March 1974- Mayr's setting of the Passion by John S. Allitt - News roundup
Newsletter 5, ? 1974- Report of the first Society AGM - News roundup - Donizetti in Dublin 1830-1860 by Robert Potterton Details of performances of Donizetti's operas in Dublin - Letter from Count Giacomo Antonini
Newsletter 6, ? 1974- News roundup - Part of a scathing 1913 review by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor with Graziella Pareto - Reproduction of an article on Donizetti's death from The Illustrated London News
1975
Newsletter 7, April 1975- News roundup - Items for sale - The letters of Adolphe Nourrit on Donizetti by Robert Potterton Short extracts from various letters dated between December 28, 1837 to July 26, 1838
Newsletter 8, July 1975- News roundup
Newsletter 9, November 1975- News roundup
1976
Newsletter 10, February 1976- News roundup including short sections on Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at Covent Garden, a visit to Naples including Donizetti's Gemma di Vergy at the San Carlo, Donizetti and Siegfried Wagner and the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo.
Newsletter 11, May 1976- News roundup - Alboni and the operas of Donizetti by Robert Potterton
Newsletter 12, October 1976- News roundup
1977
Newsletter 13, March 1977- Brief report on Mercadante's operas including Il bravo from Rome Opera, January 2, 1977 - Review from the Times, April 6, 1838 of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Reviews of Pro Opera's production of Donizetti's Maria di Rohan at the Queen Elizabeth's Hall, London, Decmber 5, 1976.
Newsletter 14, June 1977- Reprint of a review from The Times, July 9, 1831 of Donizetti's Anna Bolena
Newsletter 15, 1977- Reprint of a Felix Aprahamian review of the 1957 La Scala production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena - An obituary of Adolfo Camozzo, Aristic Director of the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo.
1978
Newsletter 16, January(?) 1978
Newsletter 17, May (?) 1978- Rare Donizetti by Alexander Weatherson An overview of various bel canto performances taking place in Europe, including two canatatas by Donizetti. - Buxton and bel canto by Alexander Weatherson Some comments on Buxton's plan to perform Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Italian Opera at the Court Opera 1842-50 of Copenhagen by Borre Qvamme Lists of operas and comments on them from the various seasons - Article on early Opera Rara recordings - Donizetti's La Favorita at the Met by Don Gulliver and John Standen Review of performances March 20 & 23, 1978 - Various reviews of Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei by Pro Opera The performance part sponsored by the Donizetti Society, February 26, 1978
Newsletter 18, September 1978
- Pro Opera and Adelaide di Borgogna by Alexander Weatherson Background and overview of Rossini's opera - Rossini and Donizetti A rather fanciful description of Donizetti's education taken from Sutherland Edwards' 1862 History of the Opera. - List of performances in Great Britain between 1950 and 1978.
1979
Newsletter 19, January 1979- Gabriella di Vergy by Marigold Mann Review of Donizetti's opera performed in Belfast, November 9, 1978 - The Walter Scott Operas by Jerome Mitchell Book review by Alexander Weatherson - Some recent recordings by Giacomo Antonini Reviews of Donizetti's Ugo, Conte di Parigi, Gemma di Vergy, Lucia di Lammermoor and La Favorita - Book review by Alexander Weatherson Annals of Opera 1597-1940 by Alfred Loewenberg - Some comments on a concert Donizetti da Camera by Gordon Bellingham Concert if non operatic pieces by Donizetti played by Redbridge Young Musicians
Newsletter 20, May 1979- Review of René Swennen's novel Dom Sébastien by Alexander Weatherson Based on the events surrounding Donizetti's composition of the opera. - List of World Premiers at the Théâtre-Italiens 1794-1837 and at the Salle Ventadour 1837-1856. - Anna Bolena by Fulvio Lo Presti Review of a performance of Donizetti's opera at the Théâtre des Arts, Rouen
Newsletter 21, September 1979- Donizetti's Island by Alexander Weatherson Background to Donizetti's opera Il Furioso all'isola di San Domingo - Review of Donizetti's Lucia given at the Buxton Festival - Matteo Salvi's masterpiece by Alexander Weatherson Background on Donizetti's Il Duca d'Alba completed by a one time pupil Matteo Salvi
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