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Gaspare Spontini
Born: 14th November 1774, Maiolati Spontini, Italy
Died: 24th January 1851, Maiolati Spontini, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and composed over twenty works.
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In The Shadows with Michael Spyres
1st Mar 2024
The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.
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Christophe Rousset conducts Spontini's La vestale
19th May 2023
The first-ever period-instrument recording of Spontini's 1807 opera emphasises the score's debt to the French declamatory tradition, with Marina Rebeka on ravishing form in the title-role and Stanislas de Barbeyrac showing his true heroic colours as the Roman soldier Licinius.
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Popular Works: Spontini
- Agnese di Hohenstaufen (2)
- Borussia (2)
- Divertimento pour Cor et Harpe (1)
- Due bell'alme innamorate (1)
- Être aimé (1)
- Fernando Cortez (La conquète du Mexique) (4)
- Il faut mourir (2)
- Il reviendra (2)
- L'heureux Gondolier (1)
- L'Inconstance (2)
- L’adieu (3)
- L’inconstance (1)
- La petite sorcière (2)
- La Vestale (6)
- La vestale: Schwort mir rache und verderben (1)
- Le chant de Mignon (2)
- Le chant du Troubadour (1)
- Le dèpart (2)
- Le regard (1)
- Le riens d’amour (1)
- Les adieux d'une mère à sa fille (1)
- Les regrets (1)
- Li Puntigli Delle Donne (1)
- Ma philosophie (1)
- Notturno Concertato (2)
- O des infortunes (from La Vestale) (2)
- O nume tutelar (from La Vestale) (4)
- O Re dei Cieli (from Agnese di Hohenstaufen) (1)
- Ohime! Che veggo io mai?...Ah! No, s'io vivo ancora (from La Vestale) (1)
- Olympie (2)
- Plaintes sur la tombe I (Jours fortunés) (1)
- Plaintes sur la tombe II (Depuis l'instant affreux) (1)
- Regrets d'absence I (Vous n'êtes rien sans mon amie) (1)
- Regrets d'absence II (Viens o divine mélodie) (1)
- Salut, vertes campagnes (1)
- Sentiments d’amour No. 1 (2)
- Sentiments d’amour No. 2 (2)
- Tre aimè (1)
- Tu che invoco (from La vestale) (7)
- Ultimi versi di Adolfo Nourrit (2)
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Special offer. Bellini: La Sonnambula2 CDs: $21.50Download from Original price ($25.75) Reduced price $13.00
