#opera

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in 1904. Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered
at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera. This was due in part to a late completion by Puccini, which gave inadequate time for rehearsals. He revised the opera, splitting the 2nd act in two, with the Humming Chorus as a bridge to what became Act III, & making other changes. Success ensued, starting with the 1st performance on 28 May 1904 in Brescia.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=puccini&submit_search=Go%21

Poster for Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. Printed by 1914 per NCAG

Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy in 1843.

I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade) is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very much a child of its age; a grand historical novel with a patriotic slant".

Title page of an 1843 libretto of Giuseppe Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata. Very early edition, possibly first edition, dating to the time of the opera's première.

in 1913. Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.

It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice during the 1643 carnival season. via @wikipedia

More information about L'incoronazione di Poppea can be found here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62987

Title page of the 1656 libretto of L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Francesco Busenello. The large "1642" is the year the opera premièred, not the year of publication of the libretto. Published by Andrea Guiliani - Biblioteca Musica

A lovely article - sadly behind a paywall - about the late Irish soprano Cara O'Sullivan who died a few years ago at the young age of 58, stolen by early onset dementia.

Here she is in rehearsal with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra singing Danny Boy: http://tinyurl.com/tskufu38
A marmite song I know, but the way her voice effortlessly rises above the full force of the orchestra is astounding, & her facial expressions are so beautiful.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/2023/12/12/cara-osullivans-irish-opera-legacy-an-almost-mythical-figure-tall-imperious-and-hilarious/

Do something for the and install an right now!

Ads can see you too and they collect a lot of data of you, which will be processed, sold, processed again and sometimes an is involved to process it even more and create connections with other data.

The CO2 output of all this processes is really high. You can end it by installing an add-on called for your browser:

It is available for...

: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

And it already blocks a lot of stuff after installing. But I would recommend to go to the settings and activate some more filters, like the annoyance or social media filter.

btw. you will love the element zapper. It allows you to select an item on a website and just hide it! …

Dear and browser people, how do you feel about getting classical music posts in your feed? Or do you use but not follow the hashtags? Would you consider using a different one like ?

I'd love a way to filter out the Opera browser posts but haven't been able to find a useful filter which isn't unhelpfully broad (like the word browser; sometimes info comes through which is useful like Firefox's cookie jar thing).