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The Donizetti Society has been established for 30 years and has published something approaching 100 Newsletters in that time. The following is the list of Newsletter content between 1980 and 1984. At that time, Newsletters were smaller, less well produced and more informal with fewer substantial articles. It should also be noted that some of the topics have been overtaken by later scholarship. 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.
1980
Newsletter 22, February 1980
- Short reviews of Donizetti's Il Duca d'Alba and La Favorite in Brussels
- La Fortuna di Donizetti in Olanda by Alexander Weatherson An overview of past and planned Donizetti activities in Holland
- Tietjens' last night and death A reprint from Herman Klein's The Golden Age of Opera
- Reviews of new recordings by Derek Turner Including Donizetti's Missa da Requiem and his complete music for piano - four hands
- "On the original instruments" by Alexander Weatherson Some comments on the original tessitura of various operas
- Various reviews of Donizetti's opera Il Furioso all'isola di San Domingo given by Pro Opera
Newsletter 23, April 1980- The Barga Festival 1980 by Alexander Weatherson Background to Donizetti's Olivo and Pasquale to be performed at the Festival
- Notable Donizetti Interpreters by David J. Samuels The Contribution of Beverly Sills to the bel canto revival.
- Obituary of Giovanna Sinah Kessler and a reprint (in German) of an article she wrote on Donizetti's Belisario
- Review of Donizetti's Requiem per Bellini by Derek Turner
- Review of Donizetti's Belisario performed by the Rotterdamse Opera, Rotterdam, May 9 &10, 1980 by Alexander Weatherson
- List of performances of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia 1946-1979
Newsletter 24, September 1980- Opera Rara - The first ten years - Interview with Patric Schmid
- Review of Donizetti's Olivo e Pasquale by Serge Lacabanne The performance from the 1980 Barga Festival.
- List of Mercadante's operas
1981
Newsletter 25, January 1981
- Bellini and Bianca e Gernando/Fernando by Alexander Weatherson Background on Bellini's opera
- Review of Maria de' Rudenz by Sidney Miller Donizetti's opera performed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, January 4 & 7, 1981
- Short piece on the Teatro della Societa, Bergamo by Brian Thornton
Newsletter 26, May 1981
- Donizetti's outstanding operas by Alexander Weatherson An overview of Donizetti operas unperformed in the modern era at that date.
- Short review of Donizetti's Belisario, performed at the Royal Academy of Music
- Donizetti inediti per pianoforte by Pietro Spada An introduction to an RCA recording of them
- Review by John Hughes of Luciano Pavarotti - my own story
- Short obituary of Liudmila Rossi
Newsletter 27, September 1981
- Article on Balfe and list of his operas
- Review of Bellini's Bianco e Fernando by Jacques Gheusi Pro Opera's production at the Queen Elizabeth's Hall, March 15, 1981.
- Review by Alexander Weatherson of Bellini by Pierre Brunel.
- An introduction to Donizetti's Fausta
- Ad libitum in bel canto opera by Brian L. Good Consideration of different versions for different voices of particular operas
- Article on the restoration of the Donizetti family tomb in Naples
1982
Newsletter 28, January 1982
- La romanziera e luomo nero and its origins by Alexander Weatherson Background on Donizetti's opera
- Short article on William Wallace and list of his operas Book review by Alexander Weatherson
- Review by Ivor Guest of Second Empire Opera by T.J.Walsh
Newsletter 29, May 1982
- L'Esule di Roma by Alexander Weatherson Background on Donizetti's opera
- Il Duca d'Alba by Fulvio Lo Presti (in Italian). Background on Donizetti's opera and its revival
- Short article on Sir Julius Benedict and list of his operas
- Review by Juan Gherzi of Donizetti's Belisario performed at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, May 1981
Newsletter 30, October 1982
- Barbara and Carlotta Marchisio by Carlo V. Marchisio Article on the two 19th century sisters and singers plus list of operas by Antonio Marchisio
- Various reviews of Donizetti's L'Esule di Roma performed by Pro Opera, July 18, 1982 at the Queeen Elizabeth's Hall, London.
1983
Newsletter 31, January 1983
- A Pacinian Spring by Alexander Weatherson Background on Pacini's Maria regina d'Inghilterra
Newsletter 32, May 1983
- Review of Pacini's Mary Tudor presented at the Camden Festival, March 25, 1983 by Opera Rara
- Articles on the 10th anniversary of the Society
- 'Il mio destino e questo...' by Alexander Weatherson Reviews and comments upon Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Lucia di Lammermoor and Ponchielli's La gioconda at Covent Garden
- Obituary of Sidney Miller
- Reviews of recordings including Bottesini's Messa di Requiem, Donizetti's Anna Bolena, French opéra-comique recital and a set of songs by various composers
- Reviews of books including Gaetano Donizetti by Robert Steiner-Isenman, Il teatro Petruzzelli di Bari by Alfredo Giovane and Le carte dell' impresario by Marcello de Angelis
Newsletter 33, August 1983
- How often did they sing by John Black Article on the frequency that singers of Donizetti's time sang.
- A review by Derek Turner of A Book of the Zarzuela by Roger Alier and others
Newsletter 34, December 1983
- Donizetti at home by Alexander Weatherson Article on Bergamo and a Donizetti convention held there in September 1983
- Wexford 1983 by James Allason Short review of Wolf-Ferrari's La vedova scaltra, Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix and Marschner's Hans Heiling
- Review of a recording of Donizetti-Mayr Musiche sacre e da camera
- Review of Gaetano Donizetti by Gugliemo Barblan and Bruno Zanolini
- List of operas given at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona by Roger Alier
1984
Newsletter 35, April 1984
- Donizetti's pianos by Ian Caddy Article on pianos of Donizetti's time (an example of one of Donizetti's pianos can be seen here)
- Review by Stephen Hastings of Storia del bel canto by Rodolfo Celleti
Newsletter 36, July 1984
- News from Japan by Prof. Nubo Fukuhara
- Maria de' Rudenz and Lucrezia Borgia by Fulvio Lo Presti Reviews of two Donizetti's operas, the former in Rotterdam, March 23, 24 &25 1984 and Bologna, April 19 1984. - Unknown opera by Donizetti found in a London basement by Will Crutchfield Reprints of two articles on the discovery of Donizetti's Elizabeth. Cruthfield wrote a later article giving much more detail as part of preparing the opera for a performance at the Caramoor Festival.
Newsletter 37, December 1984
- The Pro Opera - Donizetti Society collaboration Short article on and list of past joint productions.
- The finding of two Donizettian Rifacimenti, Elisabeth and Elisabetta by Alexander Weatherson Article relating the newly discovered Elisabeth to earlier operas by Donizetti
- Sancia di Castiglia by Stephen Hastings Review of performances at the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo on October 2 & 4, 1984
- Lists of operas at the Camden Festival, 1954-1984 and the Wexford Festival, 1951-1984
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