Refimprove date December 2009 Image Orlando Furioso 6.jpg right thumb Bradamante learns of the future descendants of herself and Ruggiero, from the sorceress Melissa sorceress Melissa Gustave Dor s illustration to Orlando Furioso . Bradamante also spelled Bradamant is the sister of Renaud de Montauban Rinaldo , and one of the heroines in Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto in their handling of the Charlemagne legends, also called the Matter of France . She falls in love with the Saracen warrior Rogero Ruggiero , but refuses to marry him unless he converts from Islam . Bradamante and Ruggiero were destined to become the ancestors of the noble House of Este who were the patrons to both Boiardo and Ariosto. Bradamante rescues Ruggiero from being imprisoned by the wizard Atlantes Sorcerer Atlante , but they are separated soon afterward. The two lovers are separated many times in the story, but are finally married after Ruggiero s conversion to Christianity . In Popular Culture Bradamante is depicted as one of the greatest female knights in literature. She is an expert fighter, and wields a magical lance that unhorses anyone it touches. Bradamante is also one of the main characters in Italo Calvino s surrealistic, highly ironic novel The Nonexistent Knight Il Cavaliere inesistente . Robert Garnier , French dramatist of the 16th century, wrote the tragicomedy named Bradamante that further develops the love story between the heroine and Roger Ruggiero . Bradamante is depicted by Barbara De Rossi in the 1983 Italian film Paladini storia d armi e d amori aka Paladins the story of love and arms , aka Hearts and Armor ref http www.imdb.com title tt0086074 releaseinfo akas Alternative name at IMDB ref a film based on the legends surrounding the Paladins Peers of Charlemagne . See also portal Novels List of woman warriors in legend and mythology ... and Orlando Furioso Category Fictional Italian people Lit char stub fr Bradamante it Bradamante ru ... more details
Image Orlando Furioso 5.jpg thumb Melissa and Bradamante, in Gustave Dor s illustration to Orlando Furioso Melissa is a fictional good magician fantasy sorceress in the Matter of France . In Orlando Furioso , she is instrumental in the love affair of Ruggiero character Ruggiero and Bradamante , whom she is determined will one day marry. Whenever their relationship is threatened, she brings them back together. Melissa conjures Ruggiero and Bradamante s descendants and foretells their futures. When Ruggiero has fallen victim to the enchantments of Alcina , she comes to his rescue by restoring his memory of his love for Bradamante, and releasing him from the spell which held him captive on Alcina s Isle. Later, Ruggiero loses a combat to determine who shall win the hand of Bradamante despondent, he goes into the woods to starve himself to death. Melissa hears of his plight and reveals the truth to him that he had lost in combat not to his rival, but to Bradamante herself therefore, there is no reason why their wedding cannot proceed. References Orlando Furioso , prose translation by Guido Waldman Oxford, 1999 . ISBN 0 19 283677 3. Orlando Furioso , verse translation by Barbara Reynolds in two volumes Penguin Classics, 1975 . Part one cantos 1 23 ISBN 0 14 044311 8 part two cantos 24 46 ISBN 0 14 044310 X. Part one has since been reprinted. Orlando furioso ed. Marcello Turchi Garzanti, 1974 Orlando Furioso A Selection ed. Pamela Waley Manchester University Press, 1975 Category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso Category Matter of France ... more details
Louis de La Coste 1675 1750 was a French composer of the Baroque music Baroque era . He was a singer then chorus master and leader of the orchestra at the Acad mie Royale de Musique Paris Op ra from 1710 to 1714 . He composed several works for the stage. Operas all trag die en musique trag dies en musique Philom le 1705 Bradamante La Coste Bradamante 1707 Cr se l Ath nienne 1712 T l gone 1725 Orion La Coste Orion 1728 Byblis La Coste Byblis 1732 Sources http pagesperso orange.fr jean claude.brenac LA COSTE.htm Le magazine de l op ra baroque by Jean Claude Brenac in French Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lacoste, Louis de ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1675 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1750 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Lacoste, Louis de Category 1675 births Category 1750 deaths Category Baroque composers Category French composers Category Opera composers fr Louis de La Coste ... more details
and Bradamante, he plots revenge against Alcina. The secret of Alcina s power lies in an urn ..., Bradamante disguises herself as a man. Alcina falls in love with her. Orlando, still raving mad about ... and Bradamante. Astolfo returns to arrest Alcina. Orlando regains his reason and forgives ... more details
Bradamante, Ruggiero s betrothed, disguised as her own brother, the knight Ricciardo mezzo soprano ... life, and a benevolent magician is always whisking him away from the arms of his fianc e, Bradamante . Bradamante is not the type to put up with the constant disappearance of her lover, and she spends ... and falls under her spell. Act 1 Bradamante, again searching for her lover, arrives on Alcina s island with Ruggiero s former tutor, Melisso. Dressed in armor, Bradamante looks like a young ... conveys the visitors to Alcina s court, where Bradamante is dismayed to discover that Ruggiero .... Bradamante guesses that Astolfo is now transformed into something, but she holds her peace and concerns herself with Ruggiero. Bradamante and Melisso rebuke Ruggiero for his desertion, but he ... and pretends to admire Alcina. Alcina calms Ruggiero, but Bradamante is so upset at seeing her fianc ... he at last sees Bradamante as herself, believing that she may be another of Alcina s illusions. Bradamante ... attached, and Alcina sings a desolate aria in which she longs for oblivion. Bradamante and Ruggiero ... more details
Il palazzo incantato The Enchanted Palace or Il Palagio d Atlante, o vero La guerriera amante Atlante s Palace, or The Warrior Woman in Love is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italy Italian composer Luigi Rossi . The libretto , by Giulio Rospigliosi , is based on Ariosto s Orlando furioso . It was first performed in Rome in a lavish production at the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane Palazzo Barberini on 22 February 1642. Rossi was criticised for giving too much music to his friend, the castrato Marc Antonio Pasqualini , who played Bradamante, at the expense of the other roles. Some of the highly complicated stage machinery failed to work during the performance too. Roles class wikitable Role Voice type Premiere Cast Atlantes Atlante castrato contralto Lorenzo Sances Orlando character Orlando tenor Odoardo Ceccarelli Angelica character Angelica castrato soprano Loreto Vittori Bradamante castrato soprano Marc Antonio Pasqualini Ruggiero tenor Francesco Bianchi Doralice castrato soprano Giovanni Paolo Selli Fiordiligi castrato soprano Ludovico Camelano Marfisa castrato soprano Paolo Visconti Alceste castrato contralto Mario Savioni Ferra tenor Giacomo Brilli Astolfo Iroldo tenor Francesco Stilli Huntsman False Ruggiero tenor F.Acquisti Mandricardo bass voice bass Bartolomeo Nicolini Sacripante bass Antonio Sarci Gradasso bass Geronimo Navarra colspan 3 Synopsis The magician Atlante captures Christian and pagan knights and ladies in his enchanted palace of illusions. Orlando, Ferra and Sacripante enter the palace in search of Angelica. Bradamante seeks Ruggiero and, finding him with Angelica, vows to kill him in a fit of jealous rage. But Atlante calms things by reminding Angelica of her love for Medoro. Atlante feels threatened when Astolfo arrives as the knight is immune to his magic. Atlante convinces his captives that Astolfo is the enemy. Meanwhile, Ruggiero has broken the spell. Atlante responds by disguising himself as Ruggiero but when he is faced wit ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2006 The Red Romance Book Tales of Knights, Dragons & High Adventure or The Red Book of Romance is a book of heroic tales and legends. It was edited by Andrew Lang with illustrations by Henry J. Ford , and published in London by Longmans, Green, and Co. in 1905. The tales were generally taken from sagas and chivalric romance s such as The Story of Burnt Njal , The Faerie Queene , Don Quixote and Orlando Furioso . They are about such legendary characters as Bevis of Hampton , Huon of Bordeaux , Ogier the Dane and Guy of Warwick . Some are literary fantasies, while others, such as the story of El Cid , have a basis in historical fact. Contents How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf The Disenchantment of the Werwolf The Slaying of Hallgerda s Husbands The Death of Gunnar Njal s Burning The Lady of Solace Una and the Lion How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon Amys and Amyle The Tale of the Cid The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights The Helmet of Mambrino How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle Don Quixote s Home coming The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies How Oberon saved Huon Havelok and Goldborough Cupid and Psyche Sir Bevis the Strong Ogier the Dane How the Ass became a Man again Guy of Warwick How Bradamante conquered the Wizard The Ring of Bradamante The Fulfilling of the Prophecy The Knight of the Sun How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father DEFAULTSORT Red Romance Book Category Mythology books Category British children s books Category Children s fiction books Child book stub ... more details
Pinabel , also known as Pinabello , is one of Charlemagne s vassals in The Song of Roland , Orlando furioso , and other works within the corpus of writings known as the Matter of France . Pinabel is the nephew and friend of the knight Ganelon . Different works give different accounts of Pinabel s eventual fate. In the Italian language Italian poem Orlando furioso , Pinabel tricks the female knight Bradamante into stepping off a cliff, but she narrowly escapes death. She later kills Pinabel for his treachery. In the Old French chanson de geste The Song of Roland , Pinabel represents his friend Ganelon, who has been charged with treason, in a trial by combat . In the course of this duel, Pinabel is killed by Thierry, another of Charlemagne s knights. References La Chanson de Roland , dition bilingue, traduction et pr sentation de G rard Moignet Bordas, 1989 ISBN 2 04 018860 6 Orlando Furioso , prose translation by Guido Waldman Oxford, 1999 . ISBN 0 19 283677 3. Orlando Furioso , verse translation by Barbara Reynolds in two volumes Penguin Classics, 1975 . Part one cantos 1 23 ISBN 0 14 044311 8 part two cantos 24 46 ISBN 0 14 044310 X poetry stub France stub Category Characters in The Song of Roland Category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso Category Fictional knights ... more details
, Ruggiero meets and falls in love with the female Christian knight Bradamante sister to Renaud de .... During the fight Bradamante and Ruggiero are separated for the first of many times. ref name Ross7 ... castle with lords and ladies to keep him company. Bradamante rescues Ruggiero, but he is soon ... Alcina on her magic island. Ruggiero forgets about his love for Bradamante and falls ... into Christianity, and marries Bradamante. Rodomonte appears at the wedding feast and accuses ... more details
s play. In 1582 and 1583 he produced his two masterpieces Bradamante and Les Juives . In Bradamante ... and romantic story becomes a real drama in Garnier s hands, though even there the lovers, Bradamante ... more details
Image Orlando Furioso 56.jpg right thumb Rodomonte defending the bridge illustration by Gustave Dore to Orlando furioso Rodomonte or Rodamonte is a major character in the Italian romantic Epic poetry epic s Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto . He is the King of Sarza and Algiers and the leader of the Saracen army which besieges Charlemagne in Paris. He is in love with Doralice , Princess of Granada , but she elopes with his rival Mandricardo. He tries to seduce Isabella but she tricks him into killing her by mistake. In remorse, Rodomonte builds a bridge in her memory and forces all who cross it to pay tribute. When the maddened Orlando character Orlando arrives at the bridge he throws Rodomonte into the river below. Finally, Rodomonte appears at the wedding of Bradamante and Ruggiero and accuses Ruggiero of treason for converting to Christianity and abandoning the Saracen cause. The two fight a duel and Rodomonte is killed. Rodomonte s prowess is matched only by his arrogance and boasting. His name is the source of the expression rodomontade , meaning boastful, bragging talk . ref Concise Oxford English Dictionary ref Rodomonte first appears in Book 2, Canto 1 of Orlando innamorato . Boiardo was said to be so pleased at the invention of his name that he had the church bells rung in celebration. ref Waley p.23 ref References references Sources Boiardo Orlando innamorato ed. Giuseppe Anceschi Garzanti,1978 Boiardo Orlando innamorato translated by Charles Stanley Ross, Parlor Press, 2004 . Ariosto Orlando Furioso , verse translation by Barbara Reynolds in two volumes Penguin Classics, 1975 . Part one cantos 1 23 ISBN 0 14 044311 8 part two cantos 24 46 ISBN 0 14 044310 X Ariosto Orlando Furioso ed. Marcello Turchi Garzanti, 1974 Ariosto Orlando Furioso A Selection ed. Pamela Waley Manchester University Press, 1975 Category Matter of France Category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso it Rodomonte ru ... more details
s sister, Bradamante, fall in love. The poem stops there abruptly, with Boiardo s narrator explaining ... Ruggiero Rodomonte Sacripante Brunello character Brunello Marfisa 1490s in poetry Bradamante Rinaldo ... more details
Infobox superhero Wikipedia WikiProject Comics character name Valda image Image Valdadcu0.jpg 200px caption Cover of Arak, Son of Thunder 37 br Art by Ernie Col n publisher DC Comics debut Arak comics Arak, Son of Thunder 3 br August 1981 creators Roy Thomas writer br Ernie Col n artist full name species optional homeworld optional alliances Twelve Peers of Charlemagne Carolus Magnus court br Shadowpact partners optional supports optional aliases The Iron Maiden powers Brilliant swordsmanship , superb hand to hand combat , excellent equestrianism horseriding Valda the Iron Maiden is a fictional character created by Roy Thomas and Ernie Col n for DC Comics . She debuted in Arak comics Arak, Son of Thunder 3 August 1981 . Unlike other sword and sorcery sword and sorcery heroine s such as Red Sonja , Valda is practically dressed in a full mail armour mail shirt, flat heeled boots and often leather trousers. Fictional character biography Valda the Iron Maiden was a female knight and one of the Twelve Peers of Charlemagne Carolus Magnus court. She was born in Aachen Aix la Chapelle , Francia Frankland in the 8th century A.D., the daughter of Bradamante and reputedly Carolus Magnus. After her mother s death in the ambush at Roncesvalles , Valda was brought up by Carolus Magnus, his court magician fantasy sorcerer Maugris Malagigi and Bishop Turpin archbishop Turpin . She was tutored as a swordswoman by the ghost of Amadis de Gaula Amadis of Gaul , who she had summoned with a spell that she had overheard Malagigi using. Initially refused knighthood by the king, she posed as the Knight All in Scarlet and defeated her uncle, the great knight Renaud de Montauban Rinaldo , in a joust to earn the honour. She was 5 6 tall, weighed 113 lbs, and had blue eyes and dark brown hair. She first met Arak, Son of Thunder while she was under the spell of the sorcerer Baledor and later joined him in searching for Malagigi who had been captured by the sorceress Angelica. Valda and Arak adve ... more details
Mimi Lerner May 20, 1945 March 29, 2007 was a Polish American mezzo soprano and later head of the voice department at Carnegie Mellon University . Lerner was born Emilia Lipczer in Sambor, Poland in 1945 to Jewish parents who hid in the woods to avoid Nazi s until she was one. They then moved to Paris and later to the Bronx . Lerner graduated from Queens College with a bachelor s degree in music education . She was teaching in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while earning a master s degree at Carnegie Mellon. What started as a singing hobby led to her debut at the New York City Opera in 1979, singing Sextus in La clemenza di Tito . Later NYCO assignments included Adalgisa in Norma opera Norma , Bradamante in Alcina , Smeton in Anna Bolena , and leading roles in the Central Park trilogy which consists of Deborah Drattell and Wendy Wasserstein s The Festival of Regrets , Michael Torke and A.R. Gurney s Strawberry Fields , and Robert Beaser and Terrence McNally s The Food of Love . Since the early 1980s she was a regular guest artist with opera companies throughout the United States, including the Dallas Opera , Glimmerglass Opera , the Houston Grand Opera , the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , the Metropolitan Opera , the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh Opera , the Santa Fe Opera , Seattle Opera , and the Washington National Opera . She appeared on the international stage at La Scala , the Th tre du Ch telet , and the Glyndebourne Festival . Death She died in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Oakland Pittsburgh Oakland from complications of a heart tumor , which had been diagnosed a dozen years earlier. She was 61 years old. ref name nytobit Heydarpour, Roja April 14, 2007 . Mimi Lerner, 61, Opera Singer With an Unconventional Career, Dies. New York Times ref References reflist External links http www.post gazette.com pg 07089 773797 122.stm Pittsburgh Post Gazette obituary imdb name 0503632 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lerner, M ... more details
authority is upheld. Rinaldo in Orlando Furioso In Orlando Furioso , Rinaldo is the brother of Bradamante ... from another magic fountain Orlando Furioso XLII 63 . He promises his sister, Bradamante to the African ... of the original paladin s sister Bradamante. The second Rinaldo is the son of Bertoldo and Sophia ... more details
Brunello is a character in the Italian romantic Epic poetry epic s Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto . Brunello is a dwarf and a cunning thief who works for the Saracen army of King Agramante. He first appears in the second book of Orlando innamorato where Agramante intends to invade Europe and defeat the Emperor Charlemagne . He has been told he has no chance of success unless he has the young warrior Ruggiero character Ruggiero on his side, but Ruggiero has been hidden in a secret garden by the wizard Atlantes Sorcerer Atlante and the only way to reach him is by using the magic ring belonging to Princess Angelica character Angelica . Brunello undertakes to steal it and sets off for the fortress of Albracca where not only does he manage to snatch the ring but also robs King Sacripante of his horse from right underneath him and the female warrior Marfisa of her sword. Marfisa sets off in pursuit but Brunello evades her and gives the ring to Agramante, who rewards him with a kingdom. The Saracens find Ruggiero at Mount Carena where they see him behind a wall of glass. However, the wall is too steep and slippy to climb, so Brunello suggests they trick Ruggiero out. He gets them to play war games in the plain beneath the mountain. Ruggiero, with his inherent love of combat, cannot resist and in spite of Atlante s pleas he leaves the garden and begs Brunello for his horse and armour. Brunello only agrees if he will join their expedition against France, to which Ruggiero happily consents. In Orlando furioso Brunello is entrusted with the ring by Agramante. The female warrior Bradamante is in love with Ruggiero character Ruggiero who has been taken captive. She consults Merlin who tells her she must kill Brunello and take the ring if she wants to free her beloved. She seizes the ring from Brunello but does not kill him and leaves him tied to a fir tree. Brunello is freed only to be caught by Marfisa, who wants her sword bac ... more details
File Joseph Schuster composer .jpg thumb Joseph Schuster Joseph Schuster 11 August 1748 ndash 24 July 1812 was a Germany German composer . Life and career Schuster was born at Dresden , where he received his first musical training from his father, a court musician, and from Johann Georg Sch rer . Thanks to a scholarship from the Saxon Prince elector s, he was able to study with Giovanni Battista Martini and counterpoint in Venice with G. Pera from 1765 to 1768. In 1776 he completed his first opera seria Didone abbandonata, after a libretto by Metastasio . It was given at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and by all accounts a great success. In the same year, the opera seria Demofoonte premiered in Forl . In the following years, Schuster s position was solidified with operatic successes in Naples and Venice. He was also recognized in Germany as an accomplished composer and his singspiel , Der Alchymist, oder Der Liebesteufel is considered one of the finest examples of the art form. Most of his works are assigned to the opera buffa , but he also composed religious works, chamber music and orchestral music. Schuster s work is also found in the string quartet s appendix of the K chel catalogue No. 210 et seq, , and for a long time the Milan Quartets 1772 73 were viewed as Mozart works. Schuster composed these works around 1780, which were long considered to be copies of Mozart originals. The musicologist Ludwig Finscher was able to uncover the true origin in The Music Research, 1966 . He died at Dresden. Selected works Oratorio La passione di Ges Cristo 1778, Dresden. La fedelt in amore, Opera buffa, Dresda 1773 L idolo cinese, Opera buffa, Dresda 1776 La Didone abbandonata, Opera seria, Napoli 1776 Demofoonte, Opera seria, Forl 1776 L amore artigiano, Opera buffa, Venezia 1776 La schiava liberata, Opera seria comica, Dresda 1777 Der Alchymist oder Der Liebesteufel, Singspiel, Dresda 1778 Bradamante, Dramma per musica, Padova 1779 Creso in Media, Opea seria, Napoli 177 ... more details
File Sonia Prina IMG 1129bis.jpg thumb Sonia Prina Sonia Prina is an Italian operatic contralto who has had an active career in concerts and opera s since the mid 1990s. She is particularly known for her appearances in Baroque music Baroque operas and for her performances of the Baroque concert repertoire. She has recorded works by composers George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi . Career Born in Magenta, Lombardy Magenta , Prina studied singing and the trumpet at the Music Conservatoire Giuseppe Verdi , Milan and then pursued further studies at the La Scala La Scala Academy . She began performing in operas in the mid 1990s, first in the Italian repertoire of Rossini and Donizetti . By 1997 she had established herself as an artist in the Baroque repertoire. Some of the roles she has performed are Amastre in Serse , Bradamante in Alcina , Carilda in Arianna in Creta , Cornelia in Giulio Cesare , Ottone in L Incoronazione di Poppea , Penelope in Il ritorno d Ulisse in patria , Polinesso in Ariodante , Valentiniano in Ezio Handel Ezio , and the title roles in Orlando opera Orlando , Ottone in villa , Partenope , Rinaldo opera Rinaldo , Tamerlano , and Tolomeo . In 2000 she appeared in Cremona as Smeton in Donizetti s Anna Bolena . ref cite web url http www.donizettisociety.com Newsletters articlenews82.htm title Anna Bolena riconosciuta author Alexander Weatherson year 2001 accessdate 3 September 2010 publisher donizettisociety.com ref In 2006 she performed Cornelia in the Th tre des Champs lys es in Paris with Andreas Scholl in the title role. ref cite web url http www.andreasschollsociety.org performance history.html 2006 title When did Scholl sing at...? year 2010 accessdate 3 September 2010 publisher andreasschollsociety.org ref In 2010 she appeared in the title role of Vivaldi s Orlando furioso Vivaldi Orlando furioso in the Frankfurt Opera , conducted by Andrea Marcon , the mad Roland staged as an Italo Rocker by David B sch. ref cite web url http www.oper ... more details
, 1624 Another important plotline involves the love between the female Christian warrior Bradamante ..., Ruggiero converts to Christianity and marries Bradamante. Rodomonte appears at the wedding ... Rodomonte in single combat . Ruggiero and Bradamante are the ancestors of the House of Este , Ariosto ... Bradamante Brunello character Brunello Charlemagne Ferra Marfisa Roland Orlando also known as Roland ... more details
File LUCIA.jpg thumb 250 px center Lucia Valentini Terrani center Lucia Valentini Terrani August 29, 1946, Padua June 11, 1998, Seattle was an Italian coloratura mezzo soprano , particularly associated with Rossini roles. Life and career Born Lucia Valentini, she studied first at the Padua Music Conservatory, and later at the Accademia Benedetto Marcello in Venice. She made her stage debut in Brescia, as Angelina in La cenerentola , a role with which she would remain closely associated throughout her career. She made her debut at La Scala in 1973, again as Angelina, and quickly established herself in the Rossini repertoire, singing in L italiana in Algeri , Il barbiere di Siviglia , Il viaggio a Reims . She also sang the many Breeches role trouser roles such as Tancredi , Malcolm in La donna del lago , Pippo in La gazza ladra , Calbo in Maometto secondo , Arsace in Semiramide , Isolier in Le comte Ory , etc. She also sang a few roles of the baroque repertory, notably Alcina in Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi s Orlando furioso Vivaldi Orlando furioso , and Bradamante in Handel s Alcina . However, she did not restrict herself to the belcanto and expanded her repertoire to include roles such as Cosi fan tutte Dorabella , Don Carlo Eboli , Falstaff opera Quickly , Mignon , Carmen , Werther Charlotte , Don Quichotte Dulcin e , Oedipus rex opera Jocasta . She enjoyed a very successful international career, appearing in Paris, London, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, etc. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1974, as Isabella L italiana in Algeri . Valentini married Italian actor Alberto Terrani, pseudonym of Alfredo Bolognesi, in 1973, and added his stage surname to hers. She was diagnosed with leukemia in 1996, and went to the famous Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for treatment, where her colleague and friend Jos Carreras was treated for the same affliction. Sadly she was not as lucky as Carreras, and died of complications following ... more details
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