Didone (opera)

Didone is an opera by Francesco Cavalli, set to a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello (later librettist for Claudio Monteverdi). The opera was first performed at Venice's Teatro San Cassiano during 1641.

The plot is based on Virgil's Aeneid (Book 4 in particular), though Busenello, in his second libretto for Cavalli, replaces Dido's tragic suicide of Virgil with a happy ending in which Dido marries Iarbas, King of the Getuli, who saves Dido from herself after Aeneas abandons her. The action is divided into a prologue and 3 acts.

Roles

Recordings

  • Live Video recording on DVD - 2006 - Teatro Malibran, Venice - Fabio Biondi, conductor - Orchestra Europa Galante
    Cast: Claron McFadden, Magnus Staveland, Jordi Domènech, Manuela Custer, Marina De Liso, Donatella Lombardi - Dynamic cat. 33537
  • See also

  • Dido and Aeneas
  • References

  • Rosand, Ellen. "Didone". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press.  (subscription required)
  • External links

  • Free score of La Didone in the International Music Score Library Project
  • Didone (typography)

    Didone is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and is particularly popular in Europe. It is characterized by:

  • Narrow and unbracketed (hairline) serifs. (The serifs have a constant width along their length.)
  • Vertical orientation of weight axes. (The vertical strokes of letters are thick.)
  • Strong contrast between thick and thin lines. (Horizontal parts of letters are thin in comparison to the vertical parts.)
  • Some stroke endings show ball terminals. (Many lines end in a teardrop or circle shape, rather than a plain wedge-shaped serif.)
  • An unornamented, "modern" appearance.
  • The category is also known as modern or modern face serif fonts, in contrast to old style serif designs, which date to the Renaissance period.

    History

    Didone types were developed by printers including Firmin Didot, Giambattista Bodoni and Justus Erich Walbaum, whose eponymous typefaces, Bodoni, Didot, and Walbaum, remain in use today. Their goals were to create more elegant, classical designs of printed text, developing the work of John Baskerville in Birmingham and Fournier in France towards a more extreme, precise design with intense precision and contrast, showing off the increasingly refined printing and paper-making technologies of the period. These trends were also accompanied by changes to page layout conventions and the abolition of the long s.

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    Hook:
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    Super stupid swag
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    All of them aint ballin but they lookin they try too
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    Bet u i'll be nice before we leavin here around 2
    I got my hater blockers on they all around too
    I hope nobody here step out of line guz imma pound you
    Show how I get down dude
    Leave u on the ground too
    Or drag yo ass right out of the club just for round 2
    We shut the building every time we go up in it
    10 to 20 deep or more every time we go up in it
    Came here for show so u know I’m bout to handle business
    They way I does it they be hoping that I never finish
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