#vaccai

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

Teatro Nuovo recently released this compilation of singers performing short pedagogical arias and it is a DELIGHT (and it features a few singers you just might know!)

[lililirulin]

After my first Typhoon, the tree on my way to my first day of Uni was split in half, I had lunch with a friend, spoke Italian, bought a book and already got my first assignment - a Japanese Song by Yoshinao Nakada, a composer very dear to me, since I already sang a couple of his beautiful pieces. #studyabroad #unilife #kunitachiondai #vaccai #nakadayoshinao #soprano (hier: Kunitachi, Tokyo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2McJ5pnkCg/?igshid=ppnki6gsvu0p

[parmandil]

Voi mi chiamasti al trono from Vaccai's Zadig e Astartea, sung by Cecilia Gasdia.

[parmandil]

È questo il loco... Ah, se tu dormi from Vaccai's Giulietta e Romeo, sung by Vesselina Kasarova.

[historicalsingers]

Guerrina Fabbri sings Nicola Vaccai's Giulietta e Romeo (1903)

[musicaquaerendo]

Nicola Vaccai (15 March 1790 - 5 or 6 August 1848) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher.

Born at Tolentino, he grew up in Pesaro, and studied music there until his parents sent him to Rome to study law. Having no intention of becoming a lawyer, he took voice lessons and eventually studied counterpoint with Giuseppe Jannaconi, an important Roman composer. When Vaccai turned twenty one, he went to Naples and became a disciple of Paisiello, whose Barber of Seville was considered a comic masterpiece until Rossini's Barber swept it from the stage a few years later.

Vaccai launched his career in Venice, initially earning his living by writing ballets and teaching voice. He had his first operatic success with I solitari di Scozia in Naples in 1815. In Parma he was commissioned to write Pietro il grande, where he was also one of the soloists in the first performance. This was followed by Zadig e Astartea (Naples, 1825) and then his best known opera Giulietta e Romeo (Milan, 1825).

Vaccai's sojourn in London began with a production of his most successful opera, Romeo and Juliet, at Kings Theatre in April, 1832. His charm and continental reputation ingratiated him to society and soon he was much sought after as a teacher.

Ending his wanderings with a return to Italy, Vaccai became a director and professor of composition at the Milan Conservatory in 1838. After six years he retired on account of poor health to his boyhood home, Pesaro, where he wrote his sixteenth opera. He died there in 1848.