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Cimarosa

American  
[chee-muh-roh-zuh, chee-mah-raw-sah] / ˌtʃi məˈroʊ zə, ˌtʃi mɑˈrɔ sɑ /

noun

  1. Domenico 1749–1801, Italian conductor and composer.


Cimarosa British  
/ ˌtʃiːməˈrəʊzə /

noun

  1. Domenico. 1749–1801, Italian composer, chiefly remembered for his opera buffa The Secret Marriage (1792)

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Bach, Domenico Cimarosa and Baldassare Galuppi — and to elevate him back to the heavens, bathing the audience in just shy of 90 minutes of aching beauty.

From New York Times Feb. 23, 2022

Then, an Italian Opera company restages Da Ponte’s “Oratorio,” with conductor Donato Renzetti and featuring the music of Cimarosa and Zingarelli, Haydn, Handel and Arne.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2021

The program features excerpts from Handel’s “Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno” and Vivaldi’s “Orlando Furioso,” as well as selections by Haydn, Mozart, Stradella, Cimarosa and Porpora.

From New York Times Apr. 16, 2015

Now he is doing the same thing for the chamber operas of such composers as Paisiello, Cimarosa and Rossini.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cimarosa attached himself warmly to the French cause in Italy, and when the Bourbons finally triumphed the musician suffered their bitterest resentment.

From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

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