Andrea Matteo Palmieri (1493–1537) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal .
56-414: Palmieri is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrea Matteo Palmieri (1493–1537), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal Davide Cocco Palmieri (1632–1711), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Malta Domenico Palmieri (1829–1909), Italian Jesuit scholastic theologian Donato Palmieri (c. 1550 – c. 1580), Italian painter of
112-399: A limited liability company . The Gondoliers was Gilbert and Sullivan's last great success. In this opera, Gilbert returns to the satire of class distinctions figuring in many of his earlier librettos. The libretto also reflects Gilbert's fascination with the " Stock Company Act ", highlighting the absurd convergence of natural persons and legal entities, which plays an even larger part in
168-699: A Captain Regent of San Marino together with Matteo Ciacci Victor Palmieri (born 1930), American lawyer, real estate financier and businessman Wayan Palmieri (born 1977), American music video director, film editor and photographer Claudio Palmieri (born 1977), Canadian musician, known professionally as Ethan Kath Fictional characters [ edit ] Grace Palmieri Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri, characters in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers See also [ edit ] Palmier (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
224-529: A battle Gilbert had in 1884 with Lillian Russell when, in fact, those expenses had already been paid. When Gilbert discovered this, he asked for a retraction of the affidavit; Sullivan refused. Gilbert felt betrayed. Sullivan felt that Gilbert was questioning his good faith, and Sullivan had other reasons to stay in Carte's good graces: Carte was building a new theatre, the Royal English Opera House (now
280-449: A better term, I suppose we must call 'grand opera,' I cannot believe that it would succeed either at the Savoy or at Carte's new theatre.... Moreover, to speak from my own selfish point of view, such an opera would afford me no chance of doing what I best do – the librettist of a grand opera is always swamped in the composer. Anybody – Hersee, Farnie , Reece – can write a good libretto for such
336-467: A game of blind man's buff. They appear to be cheating by peeking out from under their blindfolds, however. Eventually, from the crowd of maidens, Giuseppe picks Tessa, and Marco picks Gianetta – "Just the very girl I wanted!" (although the two then politely offer to switch girls). All leave to go to church for the double wedding. His Grace the Duke of Plaza Toro (Count Matadoro, Baron Picadoro), Her Grace
392-472: A king, they can return happily to Venice with their wives. There is a final dance for the full company, reprising the gondoliers' Act I duet and the cachucha. The Gondoliers was immediately a hit in London, playing for 554 performances, the fourth longest of the series (after The Mikado , H.M.S. Pinafore and Patience ). It earned more money than any other Savoy opera in its original run. 20,000 copies of
448-452: A lesson in etiquette, the two Palmieri brothers are left alone with Casilda. She agrees to be an obedient wife, but warns them that she is "over head and ears in love with someone else." Seizing this opportunity, the two men introduce their wives. The three ladies and two men sing a quintet about their unprecedented predicament. Don Alhambra brings in the nurse who had tended the infant prince of Barataria twenty years ago. She reveals that when
504-541: A pair of gondoliers , Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri. These two gondoliers are so gallant and peerless in their manly beauty that the maidens are waiting for them to select brides before they can consider other suitors. A large group of merry gondoliers enter, saying that they adore the girls, but the ladies explain that the two brothers must choose first. When the Palmieri brothers enter, the ladies present them with flowers. The two gondoliers amiably offer to pick their brides in
560-477: A purpose; personally, I should be lost in it. Again, the success of the Yeoman [ sic ] – which is a step in the direction of serious opera – has not been so convincing as to warrant us in assuming that the public want something more earnest still. On 12 March, Sullivan responded, "I have lost the liking for writing comic opera, and entertain very grave doubts as to my power of doing it.... You say that in
616-432: A school of his own, who in it was schoolmaster and pupil, who has never taught anybody but himself, and is never likely to have any imitator – this is the Gilbert the public want to see, and this is the Gilbert who on Saturday night was cheered till the audience was weary of cheering any more." There was a command performance of The Gondoliers for Queen Victoria and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 6 March 1891,
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#1732851250294672-426: A serious opera, you must more or less sacrifice yourself. I say that this is just what I have been doing in all our joint pieces, and, what is more, must continue to do in comic opera to make it successful." A series of increasingly acrimonious letters followed over the ensuing weeks, with Sullivan laying down new terms for the collaboration, and Gilbert insisting that he had always bent over backwards to comply with
728-456: A single portion of rations between the two of them, and they miss their wives. Soon, however, all the ladies arrive, having risked the long sea voyage from Venice – they could no longer stand the separation. In delight, the reunited couples have a magnificent banquet and a dance (a cachucha). The Grand Inquisitor arrives at the ball to find that the Republican gondoliers have promoted everyone to
784-405: A successful opening on 7 December 1889. Press accounts were almost entirely favourable, and the opera enjoyed a run longer than any of their other joint works except for H.M.S. Pinafore , Patience and The Mikado . Sullivan's old collaborator on Cox and Box (and the editor of Punch ), F. C. Burnand , wrote, "Magnificento! ... I envy you and W.S.G. being able to place a piece like this on
840-491: A theatrical company, which Sullivan rejected (though a version of it would be resurrected in 1896 as The Grand Duke ), but he accepted an idea "connected with Venice and Venetian life, and this seemed to me to hold out great chances of bright colour and taking music. Can you not develop this with something we can both go into with warmth and enthusiasm and thus give me a subject in which (like The Mikado and Patience ) we can both be interested....?" Gilbert set to work on
896-499: Is already married. The Duke and Duchess of Plaza Toro soon arrive with the beautiful Casilda. They are now dressed in style, and the Duke explains how he was applied for by the public under the Limited Liability Company Act, and how they now earn a very good living. Appalled, however, at the lack of pomp and ceremony with which they were received, he attempts to educate the two monarchs in proper royal behaviour. After
952-536: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Andrea Matteo Palmieri Andrea Matteo Palmieri was born in Naples on 10 August 1493. He was a cleric in Naples before being elected Archbishop of Averenza and Matera on 30 July 1518, with dispensation for not yet having reached the canonical age of 27. During the pontificate of Pope Adrian VI , he spent his own money and solicited funds from his friends in
1008-560: Is heir to the throne of the fictional kingdom of Barataria; until it can be discovered by the Grand Inquisitor which of them is the heir, they must rule jointly. Unbeknownst to the brothers, who have just married Venetian girls, the heir was wed in infancy to the daughter of the Spanish Duke of Plaza-Toro, who is herself in love with her father's servant. A subplot concerns the impoverished Duke attempting to improve his finances by forming
1064-474: Is now living in the mountains, married to "a highly respectable brigand". Don Alhambra says that he has located her and that she will be able to reveal which of the two gondoliers is the lost prince. If not, he says, "then the persuasive influence of the torture chamber will jog her memory." In the next scene, the two gondoliers have married Tessa and Gianetta, and as they are extolling the virtues of marriage, Don Alhambra arrives and informs them that one of them
1120-482: Is now the reigning queen of Barataria, and her parents have brought her to meet with the Grand Inquisitor to be introduced to her husband. We soon discover, however that Casilda is secretly in love with Luiz. Left alone together, she tells him of her infant marriage, and they resign themselves to a life forever apart, with only their happy memories to comfort them. When the Grand Inquisitor arrives, he explains that
1176-468: Is the King of Barataria, but no one knows which. Despite being Republicans, the gondoliers and their new wives are delighted, and agree to go to Barataria at once, acting as one individual until the actual king is identified. The Grand Inquisitor tells them, however, that ladies are not admitted until the actual king is identified, and then each couple can be reunited. The Grand Inquisitor neglects to mention that
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#17328512502941232-571: The Knights Hospitaller to prepare troops to fight against the Ottoman Empire . However, after the fall of Rhodes (1522) , this plan had to be abandoned. Pope Clement VII made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of 21 November 1527. He received the red hat and the titular church of San Clemente at that time. On 21 August 1528 he resigned the administration of Averenza and Matera in favor of his brother Francesco Palmieri . He
1288-568: The Palace Theatre ), to produce Sullivan's only grand opera , Ivanhoe . After The Gondoliers closed in 1891, Gilbert withdrew the performance rights to his libretti, vowing to write no more operas for the Savoy. Gilbert's aggressive, though successful, legal action had embittered Sullivan and Carte. But the partnership had been so profitable that Carte eventually sought to reunite the dramatist and composer. After many failed attempts by Carte and his wife, Gilbert and Sullivan reunited through
1344-469: The Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. This was the twelfth comic opera collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan . The story of the opera concerns brothers Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri, a pair of Venetian gondoliers who are told that one of them
1400-538: The saltarello and the tarantella , and from Venice itself the Venetian barcarolle '." Of Gilbert's contribution, the Illustrated London News reported, "Mr. W. S. Gilbert has returned to the Gilbert of the past, and everyone is delighted. He is himself again. The Gilbert of The Bab Ballads , the Gilbert of whimsical conceit, inoffensive cynicism, subtle satire, and playful paradox; the Gilbert who invented
1456-446: The surname Palmieri . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palmieri&oldid=1245443815 " Categories : Surnames Italian-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
1512-426: The 1880s the relationship among Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte had been strained. In April 1890, during the run of The Gondoliers , Gilbert discovered that maintenance expenses for the theatre, including a new £500 (equivalent to £69,506 in 2023) carpet for the front lobby of the theatre, were being charged to the partnership instead of borne by Carte. Gilbert confronted Carte, but the producer refused to reconsider
1568-681: The Box, the Lord High Vagabond in the Stocks". All the men then set sail for Barataria, leaving their wives behind in Venice. In Barataria, the gondolier-courtiers are all enjoying living under "a monarchy that's tempered with Republican equality". Marco and Giuseppe have been doing all the work around the palace for the past three months – it is the privilege of royalty! They are happy enough with this arrangement, except that they are worried about having to share
1624-458: The Duchess, their beautiful daughter Casilda, and their drummer, Luiz, now arrive in Venice from Spain. They have come to meet Don Alhambra del Bolero, the Grand Inquisitor of Spain. As Luiz goes to announce the Duke's presence, the Duke and Duchess tell their daughter a secret that they have kept for twenty years – when she was only six months old, she was married to the infant son and heir of
1680-438: The Grand Inquisitor came to steal the prince, she had loyally hidden him away, and given Don Alhambra her own young son instead. Thus, the king is neither Marco nor Giuseppe, but her own son, Luiz. This resolves the romantic entanglements to everyone's satisfaction. Casilda finds that she is already married to the man she loves, Luiz. The two gondoliers surrender their crown to Luiz and, though a bit disappointed that neither will be
1736-467: The King is married to Casilda, fearing that it would cause the men to refuse to leave their new wives. As the two wives are imagining what it will be like to be a queen, their friends enter, and Marco and Giuseppe announce their discovery and promise to reign in a Republican fashion. They announce that in their kingdom, "All shall equal be" and will create new posts such as "the Lord High Coachman on
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1792-419: The King of Barataria. She is indignant, since the union was conducted without her consent. The infant prince was taken from his home by the Grand Inquisitor, after the king of Barataria became a Wesleyan Methodist "of the most bigoted and persecuting type", and taken to Venice. The King of Barataria was recently killed in an insurrection, and the hidden prince is now king. As the wife of the new king, Casilda
1848-467: The New Park Theatre on 7 January 1890 and was immediately panned. Gilbert "refused to indorse [ sic ] the company sent to New York ... because he considered the company a 'scratch' one." Carte came to New York to investigate and closed the production on 13 February. He brought in replacements for most of the cast, and remounted the production at Palmer's Theatre on 18 February. However,
1904-420: The accounts. Gilbert stormed out and wrote to Sullivan that "I left him with the remark that it was a mistake to kick down the ladder by which he had risen". Helen D'Oyly Carte wrote that Gilbert had addressed Carte "in a way that I should not have thought you would have used to an offending menial." As scholar Andrew Crowther has explained: After all, the carpet was only one of a number of disputed items, and
1960-469: The actors playing their own orchestra instruments. The following table shows the history of the D'Oyly Carte productions in London and New York during Gilbert's lifetime: The following tables show the casts of the principal early productions and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring repertory at various times through to the company's 1982 closure. The roles of Ottavio and the Drummer Boy were credited only in
2016-786: The composer's musical requirements. Gilbert tried to encourage his collaborator: You say that our operas are Gilbert's pieces with music added by you.... I say that when you deliberately assert that for 12 years you, incomparably the greatest English musician of the age – a man whose genius is a proverb wherever the English tongue is spoken – a man who can deal en prince with operatic managers, singers, music publishers and musical societies – when you, who hold this unparalleled position, deliberately state that you have submitted silently and uncomplainingly for 12 years to be extinguished, ignored, set aside, rebuffed, and generally effaced by your librettist, you grievously reflect, not upon him, but upon yourself and
2072-656: The damage was done, and the production ran for just 103 performances in total. The New York press dubbed the opera "the gone-dollars." The first production on the European continent was given at the Theater an der Wien , Vienna (as Die Gondoliere ) on 20 September 1890. In Australia, its first authorised performance was on 25 October 1890 at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne , produced by J. C. Williamson . A new production, with new sets and costumes designed by Charles Ricketts ,
2128-498: The efforts of their music publisher, Tom Chappell . In 1893, they produced their penultimate collaboration, Utopia, Limited , but The Gondoliers would prove to be Gilbert and Sullivan's last big hit. Utopia was only a modest success, and their final collaboration, The Grand Duke , in 1896, was a failure. After that, the two never collaborated again. The scene opens in Venice with 24 farm girls declaring their passionate love for
2184-418: The first performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera to be so honoured and the first theatrical entertainment to take place at Windsor since the death of Prince Albert thirty years earlier. With the exception of their first opera, Richard D'Oyly Carte produced every Gilbert and Sullivan opera and had built the Savoy Theatre specifically for productions of their shows. However, on several occasions during
2240-2143: The late Renaissance period, also known as Donato da Formello Francesco Palmieri (1659–1701), Italian poet and musician Giuseppe Palmieri (1674–1740), Italian painter of the late Baroque period Giuseppe Palmieri (1721–1793), Italian economist and politician Pietro Palmieri , former Italian racing driver Alessandro "Alex" Palmieri (born 1991), Italian singer, songwriter and LGBT activist Charlie Palmieri (1927–1988), Puerto Rican-American pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri (born 1936), Puerto Rican-American pianist and bandleader Edmund Louis Palmieri (1907–1989), United States District Judge Emerson Palmieri (born 1994), Brazilian-born Italian footballer Ermanno Palmieri (1921–1982), Italian professional football player Federico Palmieri (born 1995), Italian football player Francesco Palmieri (born 1975), Italian retired footballer Fulvio Palmieri (1903–1966), Italian screenwriter Giovanni Palmieri (1906–unknown), Italian male tennis player Giovanni Palmieri dos Santos (born 1989), Brazilian professional footballer Giuseppe Palmieri (1902–1989), Italian high jumper and javelin thrower Irma Palmieri (1931–2015), Venezuelan actress and comedian Jennifer M. Palmieri (born 1966), former White House Director of Communications Gerard Anthony Palmieri (born 1958), American football strength and conditioning coach Julian Palmieri (born 1986), French professional footballer Kyle Palmieri (born 1991), American ice hockey player Luigi Palmieri (1807–1896), Italian physicist and meteorologist Mario Rubén García Palmieri (1927–2014), Spanish cardiologist Matteo Palmieri (1406–1475), Italian humanist and historian Paul Palmieri (CEO) (born 1970), American entrepreneur Paul Palmieri (Bickertonite) (1933–2020), American religious leader Riccardo Palmieri (born 1995), Italian footballer Rubi Lira Miranda Palmieri (born 1983), Brazilian female water polo player Silvio Palmieri (1957–2018), Canadian composer Stefano Palmieri (born 1964), Sammarinese politician, who served as
2296-461: The librettist that he "wanted to do some dramatic work on a larger musical scale", that he "wished to get rid of the strongly marked rhythm , and rhymed couplets, and have words that would have a chance of developing musical effects ." Gilbert counselled strongly that the partnership should continue on its former course: I have thought carefully over your letter, and while I quite understand and sympathize with your desire to write what, for want of
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2352-579: The new libretto by the early summer of 1889, and by the mid-summer Sullivan had started composing Act I. Gilbert provided Sullivan with alternative lyrics for many passages, allowing the composer to choose which ones he preferred. The long opening number (more than fifteen minutes of continuous music) was the librettist's idea, and it gave Sullivan the opportunity to establish the mood of the work through music. The costumes were designed by Percy Anderson and sets were by Hawes Craven , with choreography by Willie Warde . They worked all summer and autumn, with
2408-552: The next opera, Utopia Limited . As in several of their earlier operas, by setting the work comfortably far away from England, Gilbert was emboldened to direct sharper criticism at the nobility and the institution of the monarchy itself. The Gondoliers was preceded by the most serious of the Gilbert and Sullivan collaborations, The Yeomen of the Guard . On 9 January 1889, three months into that opera's fourteen-month run, Sullivan informed
2464-437: The nobility. He explains that there must be a distinction between commoners and those of rank, warning that "when everyone is somebody, then no-one's anybody ". He then breaks the news that one of the gondoliers had married Casilda when a baby and therefore is an unintentional bigamist . The gondoliers attempt to console their wives, who are distraught to discover that neither one will be queen, and that one married someone who
2520-406: The noble art of which you are so eminent a professor. Gilbert offered a compromise that Sullivan ultimately accepted – that the composer would write a light opera for the Savoy, and a grand opera ( Ivanhoe ) for a new theatre that Carte was constructing for that purpose. Sullivan's acceptance came with the proviso that "we are thoroughly agreed upon the subject." Gilbert suggested an opera based on
2576-468: The original production. Notable casting substitutions are shown for the first New York production; otherwise, only first-night casts are shown. The 1927 Gondoliers is admired for its excellent cast. The 1961 D'Oyly Carte recording is a good stereo recording and includes complete dialogue. The 1957 Sargent/Glyndebourne and 1991 New D'Oyly Carte recordings are both musically well regarded. More recent professional productions have been recorded on video by
2632-428: The prince was raised incognito by Baptisto Palmieri, a humble gondolier, who had a young son of his own about the same age. The gondolier was a drunkard and eventually forgot which boy was his own son and which boy was the prince of Barataria. The two boys (Marco and Giuseppe) grew up and now are both gondoliers themselves. Fortunately, the nurse who took care of the infant prince (and who happens to be Luiz's mother),
2688-653: The published score were sold on publication, and over 70,000 copies of various arrangements were sold within a few days. D'Oyly Carte's "E" Company mounted the first provincial production on 19 February 1890 in Preston . From then on, it was never absent from the touring repertory until it was omitted from the final two seasons (September 1980–February 1982) before the closing of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company . Percy Anderson refreshed his original costume designs in 1917, 1919 and 1928. The opera fared less well in New York. It opened at
2744-423: The real issue lay not in the mere money value of these things, but in whether Carte could be trusted with the financial affairs of Gilbert and Sullivan. Gilbert contended that Carte had at best made a series of serious blunders in the accounts, and at worst deliberately attempted to swindle the others. It is not easy to settle the rights and wrongs of the issue at this distance, but it does seem fairly clear that there
2800-537: The stage in so complete a fashion." Leslie Baily notes, "The bubbling, champagne-quality of the libretto brought out the gayest Sullivan, and the Italian setting called up a warm, southern response from his own ancestry. The Graphic (14 December 1889) pointed out that the music contains not only an English idiom but 'the composer has borrowed from France the stately gavotte , from Spain the Andalusian cachucha , from Italy
2856-516: The theatre's only box was occupied by Lady Gilbert. Peter Goffin designed new touring sets in 1957, and another notable new production was staged by the company in 1958 at the Princes Theatre with sets and costumes by Goffin. In 1967, new costumes were designed by Luciana Arrighi , with new sets by John Stoddart . The first non-D'Oyly Carte professional production in the United Kingdom
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#17328512502942912-538: Was administrator of the see of Policastro from 5 July 1535 until his death. Shortly before the cardinal's death, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor named him governor of Milan . He died in Rome on 20 January 1537. He is buried in Santa Maria del Popolo . The Gondoliers The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera , with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert . It premiered at
2968-733: Was given by Scottish Opera on 12 December 1968, with Ian Wallace as the Duke. There was also a production by the New Sadler's Wells Opera in February 1984, with John Fryatt as the Duke and Donald Adams as Don Alhambra. A Mafia-themed adaptation of the opera, by John Doyle and Sarah Travis , was given at the Watermill Theatre and transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in 2001. The production utilised Doyle's signature conceit of
3024-399: Was prepared for the opening of the renovated Savoy Theatre on 21 October 1929. The critic Ernest Newman wrote: "It was a subtle stroke to open with The Gondoliers ; there is a peculiar richness of blood in the music of this work that makes the new theatre and the new designs and dresses by Mr. Charles Ricketts particularly appropriate." The performance was conducted by Malcolm Sargent , and
3080-475: Was something very wrong with the accounts at this time. Gilbert wrote to Sullivan on 28 May 1891, a year after the end of the "Quarrel", that Carte had admitted "an unintentional overcharge of nearly £1,000 in the electric lighting accounts alone." Things soon degraded, Gilbert lost his temper with his partners and brought a lawsuit against Carte. Sullivan supported Carte by making an affidavit erroneously stating that there were minor legal expenses outstanding from
3136-469: Was the administrator of the see of Sarno from 24 May 1529 until 24 August 1530. From 9 January 1534 to 8 January 1535 he was Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals . He was administrator of the see of Lucera 20 August 1534 until 26 February 1535. He participated in the papal conclave of 1534 that elected Pope Paul III . From 15 to 16 July 1535 he was administrator of the see of Conza . He
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