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Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Episode 5 of 5: When the Music Stopped

Gaetano Donizetti composed almost 70 operas in 19th-century Italy, the age of the impresario, the prima donna and the star tenor. Donald Macleod traces his extraordinary life.

By the 1840s Donizetti enjoyed success in Paris, and had been appointed Hofkapellmeister to the Austrian Emperor. He was the most performed opera composer in Italy, and Don Pasquale and Linda di Chamounix received ecstatic receptions. However tragegy was to strike: shortly after the premiere of his grand opera Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal, Donizetti suffered a devastating physical and mental collapse.

00:02
Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale - Act 3 sc.1; Cheti, cheti, immantinente [Pasquale, Malatesta]
Orchestra: London S O..
Narrator: Sarah Caldwell.
Choir: Ambrosian Opera Chorus.

00:08
Gaetano Donizetti
Linda di Chamounix - Act 3 extract
Singer: Cesare Valletti.
Singer: Rina Corsi.
Singer: Giuseppe Modesti.
Singer: Giuseppe Taddei.
Singer: Fedora Barbieri.
Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
Singer: Renato Capecchi.
Orchestra: San Carlo Theatre Orchestra, Naples.
Singer: Antonietta Stella.

00:21
Gaetano Donizetti
6 Arias for voice and piano (1-4)
Performer: Michael Pollock.
Singer: Nuccia Focile.

First broadcast: 19 Sep 2014 (b04h7tlx)
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