Désirée Artôt
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Désirée Artôt was a Belgian soprano, who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany. In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who may have coded her name in
Désirée Artôt
Don Giovanni
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Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine, Don Juan, as tol
Désirée Artôt
…battles with Minnie Hauk in Moscow in the 1870s are well documented. Artôt retired in 1884, but on 22 March 1887 she and Padilla appeared in a scene from Don Giovanni in a celebration of the Emperor's birthday at the Imperial Palace in Berlin; it was also the centenary year of Don Giovanni. She became a singing teacher…
Portrait of Francisco D'Andrade in the title role by Max Slevogt, 1912
The Estates Theatre in Prague, venue of the world premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787. The theatre had opened four years earlier as the Comital Nostitz National Theatre (Gräflich Nostitzsches Nationaltheater).
Playbill for the 1788 Vienna premiere of Don Giovanni
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo as Don Giovanni, Salzburg Festival 2014