Donizetti

[ don-i-zet-ee; Italian daw-nee-dzet-tee ]

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noun

Donizetti

/ donidˈdzetti; ˌdɒnɪˈzɛtɪ /

DonizettiGaetano17971848MItalianMUSIC: composer Gaetano (ɡaeˈtaːno). 1797–1848, Italian operatic composer: his works include Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), La Fille du régiment (1840), and Don Pasquale (1843)

The operatic repertoire at that date consisted mostly of works by Bellini, Donizetti, and Mercadante.

Donizetti composed his first opera, "Enrico di Borgogna," in 1819, while serving as a soldier in Venice.

Paganini's monocorde was nothing to it, for they 'll go through a whole scena of Donizetti with only one note in their voice.

"Old Rossini and Donizetti and those fellows are good enough for me," declared Carter.

Beginning, then, with the Italian school, we note that Donizetti has been particularly favoured by the parodists.

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