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Mar 26, 2020 · This aria is the heart and soul of the movie not only because it reappears throughout its running time, but how its text and deeper meaning comment on the film. Let’s start there. “La Wally’s” most iconic piece of music is about leaving a home once beloved. Leaving behind those that one loves.
Aug 20, 2020 · Catalani’s operas are thoughtful, entirely his own style, and always exciting. La Wally is the finest of them – and it is one of the few operas which involve an avalanche, which is one reason for keeping it in the popular repertoire. The other reason is its wonderful music.
Transported inexplicably from the 19th century to the late 1940s, La Wally tells the story of a mountain girl so agile and brave that she alone dared to take a baby vulture from its...
Jan 20, 2018 · First premiering on January 20 1892, “La Wally” is based on a story by Wilhelmine von Hillern titled “Die Geier-Wally: Eine Geschichte aus den Tyroler Alpen.” While possessing a bold heroine and a striking plot, the opera is seldom staged due to the difficulties of recreating the avalanche in Act IV.
La Wally is an opera in four acts by composer Alfredo Catalani, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 20 January 1892. It was Catalani's last opera.
La Wally is the fifth and final opera by Alfredo Catalani, who died prematurely the year it premiered. A native of Lucca like the younger Puccini, whom he hated obsessively, the prickly Catalani was associated with musical milieus that explored new, post-Verdian approaches.
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Aug 6, 2011 · Alfredo Catalani's La Wally is the last of three rarely performed Italian operas from the late 19th century verismo period to feature in Opera Holland Park's 2011 season.
