About this title: By the mid 1830s, as he began to dominate European stages, Gaetano Donizetti was pushing the boundaries of heightened romanticism in music, seeking texts that featured increasingly melodramatic and violent emotions and the savage consequences of irrational passion. "Pia de' Tolomei" ranks among his more disquietingly intense and fast-paced works. Indeed, as one historian observed, there is ample reason to recognize "Pia" as one of the most strikingly pre-Verdian of all Donizetti's operas. Yet "Pia" was also a protean text, having no stable form, but changing in shape according to each new ...
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