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# **Pauline Viardot — A Life in 20 Chapters** **The Voice of Europe, The Muse of Composers, and One of the Most Influential Artists of the 19th Century** ## **Chapter 1 — A Childhood…

# **Maria Callas – A Life in 20 Chapters** ## **Chapter 1 – Origins in a Divided Family (1923–1937)** Maria Kalogeropoulos was born in New York on December 2, 1923, into a Greek immigrant…

# **Handel - Amadigi di Gaula - Opera - 1715 - Christian Curnyn ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-amadigi-144841248?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-amadigi-144841248?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Birth of *****Amadigi*****: Handel in His London Prime (1713–1715)** When Handel composed *Amadigi di Gaula* in…

# MODEST MUSSORGSKY & VARVARA MIRONOVA A TRAGIC LOVE OF CLASS, FRAGILITY, AND FATE ## **I. A Soul Searching for Warmth** Modest Mussorgsky was a man of extraordinary sensitivity, a composer whose inner world…

# **Meyerbeer - Robert le Diable - Opera - 1831 - Marc Minkowski - ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/meyerbeer-robert-144754985?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/meyerbeer-robert-144754985?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/meyerbeer-robert-144754985?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. Birth of a New Operatic World** When **Giacomo Meyerbeer** premiered *Robert le Diable* on **21 November…

# **Haydn - String Quartets Op.1 - Leipziger Streichquartet ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731620?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731620?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Birth of a New Genre (c. 1757–1760)** The works later gathered under **Op. 1** belong to one of the most…

# **BENIAMINO GIGLI — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A full, expansive biography* ## **Chapter I — Recanati: The Birth of a Voice (1890–1900)** Beniamino Gigli was born on **March 20, 1890**, in the…

# **THE CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE OF RIMSKY-KORSAKOV** ## **Chapter I — Tikhvin: Birth in a Provincial, Noble, and Musically-Sleeping World** Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was born on **18 March 1844** in the quiet provincial town…

# **GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI – A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** ## **Chapter I — Birth in Jesi (1710)** Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born in the small town of Jesi, near Ancona, in 1710, into…

# **Celebration of the birth of the “ballet de cour”** The engraving corresponds to the year **1582**, since it is a **later re-engraving** based on the original copper plate included in *Ballet comique de…

# **Lully - Ballet Royal de la Naissance de Vénus - Christophe Rousset ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/lully-ballet-de-144111335?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/lully-ballet-de-144111335?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Lully – *****Ballet Royal de la Naissance de Vénus*** When **Jean-Baptiste Lully** composed the *Ballet Royal de la Naissance…