Francisco de Asís Mariano del Carmen Marco Padilla y Ramos; 18 July 1843 – 21 November 1906, known as Mariano Padilla y Ramos, was a Spanish operatic baritone who excelled in the title role of Mozart'
Mariano Padilla y Ramos (photograph by Hansen, Schou & Weller)
Giacomo Meyerbeer was a German opera composer, linking Mozart and Wagner. With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera "decisive character". Meyerbeer's gr
Mariano Padilla y Ramos
…Beniel. He had five brothers. He studied under Teodulo Mabellini in Florence and appeared in many European countries, including England, where he sang in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Dinorah in 1881. He appeared at Covent Garden in 1887. He appeared in Prague that year in the centenary performance of Don Giovanni. He is perhaps…
Giacomo Meyerbeer, engraving from a photograph by Pierre Petit (1865)
The young Jacob Beer, portrait by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1803)
Amalie Beer, Meyerbeer's mother, painting by Carl Kretschmar [de], c. 1803
Gioachino Rossini in 1820