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Pergolesi

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Per·go·le·si  (prg-lz, -g-l-), Giovanni Battista 1710-1736.
Italian composer who wrote the comic opera The Maid as Mistress (1733).

Pergolesi (Italian) [pergoˈleːsi]
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(Biographies / Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736) M, Italian, MUSIC: composer) Giovanni Battista (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista). 1710-36, Italian composer: his works include the operetta La Serva padrona (1733) and the Stabat Mater (1736) for women's voices


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The Warwickshire-based choir will be singing works by Pergolesi and Albinoni in a concert called Italian Inspiration on September 27 at St Mary's Church, Warwick.
Robertson conducts the "Stabat Mater" by Giovanni Pergolesi with the Ojai Festival Orchestra, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw, and Reich's "Tehillim.
In 2006 and 2007 at the International Music Festival in Cesky Krumlov, the ensemble performed in the unique Baroque theatre at the Chateau of Cesky Krumlov for a production of the opera La serva padrona by Pergolesi and Caldara's La Contesa dei Numi.
 
 
 
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