Michael William Balffe — Wikipedia

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Michael William Balfe , born the In Dublin and died the In the Hertfordshire, is an Irish baritone and composer, especially known for his opera The Bohemian .

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Balfe was born in Dublin where his musical gifts manifested themselves from an early age. He receives the teaching of his father, dance master and violinist, as well as composer William Rooke [ first ] . His family moved to Wexford when he is a child.

Between 1814 and 1815, Balfe played the violin for his father’s dance lessons, and from the age of seven, he made up a Polacca.

In 1817, he performed in public as a violinist, and the same year, he composed a walk first called Young Fanny Then The Lovers’ Mistake . In 1823, on the death of his father, the teenager moved to London and was engaged as a violinist in the Drury Lane theater orchestra. He ends up becoming the head of this orchestra [ 2 ] . During his stay in the English capital, he studied the violin with Charles Edward Horn as well as the composition with Charles Frederick Horn, the organist of the Saint-Georges chapel in Windsor.

While continuing to play the violin, Balfe pursued a career as an opera singer. He made unsuccessful debut in Norwich in The Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. In 1825, his rich patron, Count Mazzara [ 3 ] , takes it to Rome for vocal and musical studies. He presents it in particular to Italian composer Luigi Cherubini.

In Italy, Balfe writes his first dramatic work, the ballet The but . He became a protégé of Rossini and, at the end of 1827, played the role of Figaro in The Barber of Seville at the Italian opera of Paris. While he sings at the Paris Opera, he meets Maria Malibran.

In 1829, in Bologna, Balfe composed his first cantata for the Soprano Giulia Grisi, then aged 18. She interprets it with the tenor Francesco Pedrazzi with great success. Balfe produces his first full opera, The rivals of oneself , in Palermo during the carnival season of 1829-1830.

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Around 1831, in Lugano (Switzerland), he married Lina Roser, a singer of Hungarian origin and Austrian parents whom he had met in Bergamo. The couple have two sons and two daughters: Edward, died at a young age, Michael William Jr, Louisa and Victoire.

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Balfe returned to London with his wife in May 1835. His first success took place a few months later, with the first of The Siege of Rochelle October 29, 1835 at Drury Lane. Encouraged by this success, he produced The Maid of Artois In 1836, which was followed by other operas in English.

In July 1838, Balfe composed a new opera, Falstaff , for the Italy Opera, based on Windsor’s joyful gossips Fire de S. Manfredo in Maggione. The Production has seeing songs’s’ alta )ota (s), Giovanni Patrictiono), Giovanni Battista Rubrico (Assor) and Antonio Drinks (Barryton).

In 1841, Balfe founded the National Opera to the Lyceum Theater, but the company was a failure. The same year, he created his opera, Dvertiewing . He then moved to Paris, where he presents The love well at the beginning of 1843, then his opera based on The four sons Aymon in 1844 for the opera-comic and The Etoile de Seville In 1845. Their booklets were notably written by Eugène Scribe. Meanwhile, in 1843, Balfe returned to London to produce his most successful work, The Bohemian Girl , November 27, 1843 at the Drury Lane theater. The play is played for more than 100 nights, and productions will soon be set up in New York, Dublin, Philadelphia, Vienne, Sydney, throughout Europe and elsewhere. In 1854, an Italian adaptation entitled Gypsy was mounted in Trieste with great success, and it has also been played worldwide in Italian and German. In 1862, a French version in four acts, Bohemian , was produced in France and was a new success. [ 4 ]

  • Enrico Quarto at Passo della Marna (Milan, 1833)
  • The Siege of Rochelle (London, 1835)
  • Catherine Grey (1837)
  • Falstaff (1838)
  • Dvertiewing (1840)
  • The love well (Paris, 1843)
  • The Bohemian (London, 1843)
  • The four sons Aymon (Paris, 1844)
  • The Etoile de Seville (1845)
  • The Bandman (London, 1846)
  • The Maid of Honour (1847)
  • Painter and duke (liver d’francesco maria Piaave, Trieste, 1856)
  • The Rose of Castile (London, 1857)
  • Satanella (1858)
  • Bianca (1860)
  • The Puritan’s Daughter (1861)
  • The Armourer of Nantes (1863)
  • The talisman (1874)

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