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Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante

Born: 16th September 1795, Altamura, Italy

Died: 17th December 1870, Naples, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as prolifically as any of them, and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saverio_Mercadante

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  • Carlo Rizzi on Mercadante, Leoncavallo and Donizetti

    28th Dec 2023by Katherine Cooper

    The Italian conductor looks back on his first few years as Artistic Director of Opera Rara, including recordings of Leoncavallo's Zingari and Mercadante's Il Proscritto - plus a new mission to record the complete Donizetti songs with singers including Lawrence Brownlee and William Thomas.

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