It is followed by another cavatina of almost equal beauty and tenderness ("Ah!
Meyerbeer specially adapted the opera for the performance, transposed the part of the page, which was written for a soprano, and expressly composed a cavatina to be sung by Mme.
The prominent numbers of the first act are the pathetic cavatinafor Ricardo, "Ah!
Here alone he adheres to the old tradition ofcavatina and cabaletta--the slow movement followed by the quick.
I asked Brignoli to play for me, and I sang the Cavatina from Linda.
A drama was to be produced in which a very difficult cavatina was introduced.
In the second part were sung also, a duett of Paccini, a Cavatina by Bonfichi, and a Rondo by Paer.
The Italian phrase is a direction that the music of a preceding cavatina might be used for a second cavatina.
Abbe Varesco has written over the cavatina for Lavina: a cui servira la musica della cavatina antecedente,--that is the cavatina of Celidora.
In Celidora's cavatina the words are comfortless and hopeless, while in Lavina's cavatina they are full of comfort and hope.
I heard the cavatina played with firmness and brilliancy by the musician who knew to a certainty that within an hour he would be a headless corpse.
I had chosen the beautiful Cavatina by Raff, and was accompanied by Mr. F.
Cavatina from "La Donna del lago" by Rossini, sung by Miss Gladkowska.
The cavatina (18) renders the sentiment of true and hopeful love simply and tenderly.
But the simpler form of the cavatinawas more usual, and received many modifications; the ballad style was also not infrequent.
A drama was to be brought out in which a certain cavatina was introduced.
Schuppanzigh's high opinion of the Cavatina was shared by many and also by Beethoven himself.
They found the concluding fugue extremely troublesome, but the Cavatina entranced them at once; Schuppanzigh entered a record against any change in it.
The cavatina and all Velluti's part were enthusiastically applauded, but Rossini could scarcely recognise what Velluti was singing; he did not know his own music.
Garcia read his cavatina as it was written, and sang it the same evening.
It is not right that Velluti should sing the cavatina of 'Aureliano' so that the author can scarcely recognise it himself.
Rossini has taken the most beautiful phrase from the duet in 'Ricciardo,' and turned it into a cavatina for your new opera.
One thought that Figaro's cavatina was "wanting in character!
Even the prima donna, who would formerly have complained at having less than three or four airs allotted to her, is now satisfied with one trifling cavatina for a whole evening.
At length Rosina reappeared, and sang the cavatina which had so long been desired; for Madame Giorgi Righetti was young, had a fresh, beautiful voice, and was a great favourite with the Roman public.
At all events, it was necessary to please her; and Rossini went away from the theatre wondering what he could improvise for her in place of the cavatina she had rejected.
Footnote 14: This scene was originally introduced by a Cavatina for Despina; after the recitative is written, Dopo la cavatina di' Despina.
Warned by Susanna herself, he has full confidence in her, and feels all his intellectual superiority to the Count; he contemplates his situation with a humour which is admirably rendered in the celebrated cavatina (Act I.
The simple instrumentation and the easy treatment of the cavatina shows at once that the priestly character is not meant to be maintained here: it is the paternal friend speaking words of comfort to the maiden who confides in him.
The words of Celidora's cavatina are hopeless and inconsolable, while those of Lavina's are full of hope and consolation.
The chord which closed hiscavatina had sealed his fame in opera; but his fame was to him as ashes in his mouth.
It was more--He roused himself abruptly to the consciousness that mechanically he had been going through the scene with Wagner, and that the moment for his cavatina had come.
He sat silent for a moment while, bending forward, he idly picked out the first few notes of the cavatina on the lowest octave of the bass.
This cavatina has been the show piece of hundreds of singers ever since it was written.
She sings a cavatina ("Und ob die Wolken sie verhülle") which proclaims her trust in Providence.
The cavatina came to an end, the last notes--those wonderful notes!
Once, as the violin wailed out a passionate, despairing, yet exquisitely sweet passage of the Raff cavatina Falconer was playing, she heard Drake sigh.
Euryanthe has an exquisite cavatina ("Chimes in the valley").
This cavatina he borrowed from an earlier opera of his own, "Aureliano in Palmira" (Aurelian in Palmyra).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cavatina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
