Gaetano Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti

Known for: Sound
Biography: 1797-11-29
Deathday: 1848-04-08 (50 years old)

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Biography

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed musical training. Mayr was instrumental in obtaining a place for Donizetti at the Bologna Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, which may never have been performed during his lifetime.An offer in 1822 from Domenico Barbaja, the impresario of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, which followed the composer's ninth opera, led to his move to Naples and his residency there until production of Caterina Cornaro in January 1844. In all, 51 of Donizetti's operas were presented in Naples. Before 1830, success came primarily with his comic operas, the serious ones failing to attract significant audiences. His first notable success came with an opera seria, Zoraida di Granata, which was presented in 1822 in Rome. In 1830, when Anna Bolena was first performed, Donizetti made a major impact on the Italian and international opera scene shifting the balance of success away from primarily comedic operas, although even after that date, his best-known works included comedies such as L'elisir d'amore (1832) and Don Pasquale (1843). Significant historical dramas did succeed; they included Lucia di Lammermoor (the first to have a libretto written by Salvadore Cammarano) given in Naples in 1835, and one of the most successful Neapolitan operas, Roberto Devereux in 1837. Up to that point, all of his operas had been set to Italian libretti.

Donizetti found himself increasingly chafing against the censorship limitations in Italy (and especially in Naples). From about 1836, he became interested in working in Paris, where he saw greater freedom to choose subject matter, in addition to receiving larger fees and greater prestige. From 1838, beginning with an offer from the Paris Opéra for two new works, he spent much of the following 10 years in that city, and set several operas to French texts as well as overseeing staging of his Italian works. The first opera was a French version of the then-unperformed Poliuto which, in April 1840, was revised to become Les martyrs. Two new operas were also given in Paris at that time. Throughout the 1840s Donizetti moved between Naples, Rome, Paris, and Vienna, continuing to compose and stage his own operas as well as those of other composers. From around 1843, severe illness began to limit his activities. By early 1846 he was obliged to be confined to an institution for the mentally ill and, by late 1847, friends had him moved back to Bergamo, where he died in April 1848 in a state of mental derangement due to neurosyphilis.

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Filmography

all 63

Movies 63

Writer 8

Writer
L'elixir d'amour - Donizetti - Angers Nantes opéra

L'elixir d'amour - Donizetti - Angers Nantes opéra (2023)

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Original Music Composer
"Don Pasquale" aus der Staatsoper Hamburg

"Don Pasquale" aus der Staatsoper Hamburg (2022)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Viva la Mamma!

Viva la Mamma! (2021)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Don Pasquale (Royal Opera House)

Don Pasquale (Royal Opera House) (2019)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera:  La Fille du Régiment

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment (2019)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena (2019)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore

Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore (2018)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore

Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (2018)

Movie
Original Music Composer / Writer
Donizetti: Don Pasquale

Donizetti: Don Pasquale (2018)

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Writer / Compositor
Don Pasquale - Palais Garnier

Don Pasquale - Palais Garnier (2018)

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Music
The Opera House

The Opera House (2017)

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Original Music Composer
Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux (2016)

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Compositor
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor (2016)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2016)

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Music
The ROH Live: Lucia di Lammermoor

The ROH Live: Lucia di Lammermoor (2016)

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Compositors
Donizetti: Poliuto

Donizetti: Poliuto (2015)

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Original Music Composer
Poliuto

Poliuto (2015)

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Original Music Composer / Writer
Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale (2015)

Movie
Original Music Composer / Writer
Donizetti: Don Pasquale

Donizetti: Don Pasquale (2015)

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Original Music Composer
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore

Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (2014)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda

The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda (2013)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera: L'Elisir d'Amore

The Metropolitan Opera: L'Elisir d'Amore (2012)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena

The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena (2011)

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Original Music Composer
Donizetti: Anna Bolena

Donizetti: Anna Bolena (2011)

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Music
The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (2011)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale (2010)

Movie
Original Music Composer / Writer
Il Campanello

Il Campanello (2010)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia (2009)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2009)

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Original Music Composer
L'Elisir d'Amore

L'Elisir d'Amore (2009)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment (2008)

Movie
4
Original Music Composer
L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore (2007)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment

Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment (2007)

Movie
Original Music Composer
L'Elisir d'Amore

L'Elisir d'Amore (2006)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale (2006)

Movie
Compositor
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (2005)

Movie
Musical
La fille du régiment

La fille du régiment (2005)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux (2005)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor (2003)

Movie
Original Music Composer / Writer
Lucrezia Borgia - Teatro degli Arcimboldi

Lucrezia Borgia - Teatro degli Arcimboldi (2002)

Movie
Music
Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux (1998)

Movie
Compositor
Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala

Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala (1994)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor (1992)

Movie
Original Music Composer
L'Elisir d'Amore

L'Elisir d'Amore (1991)

Movie
Compositor
An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti

An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti (1988)

Movie
Music
La Fille du Régiment

La Fille du Régiment (1986)

Movie
Music
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor (1986)

Movie
Music
The Bear

The Bear (1984)

Movie
Music
Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena (1984)

Movie
Music
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor (1983)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Nápoj lásky

Nápoj lásky (1982)

Movie
Music
Donizetti : Mary Stuart

Donizetti : Mary Stuart (1982)

Movie
Compositor
Elixir of Love

Elixir of Love (1981)

Movie
Original Music Composer
L'Elisir d'Amore

L'Elisir d'Amore (1981)

Movie
Original Music Composer / Writer
Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale (1979)

Movie
Original Music Composer / Opera
Zvonek

Zvonek (1977)

Movie
Original Music Composer
La Favorita

La Favorita (1952)

Movie
Music
Beautiful

Beautiful (1952)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Taxi di notte

Taxi di notte (1950)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Il cavaliere del sogno

Il cavaliere del sogno (1947)

Movie
Music
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor (1946)

Movie
Music
Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale (1940)

Movie
Music
La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House

La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House

Movie

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Information

Known For
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1797-11-29

Deathday
1848-04-08 (50 years old)

Birth Name
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti

Birth Place
Bergamo, Italy

Siblings
Giuseppe Donizetti

Citizenships
Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia

Awards
Knight of the Legion of Honour, Order of the Golden Spur


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