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Tancredi and Prince
In the sixth part of The Leopard, a novel by the Italian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the Prince of Salina watches a Greuze painting, La Mort du Juste, and he starts thinking about death when his nephew Tancredi comes and asks " Are you courting death?
Contrary to popular opinion, Rossini's opera " Tancredi " is not about Tancred Prince of Galilee ; the opera story takes place in 1005 whereas Tancred was born in 1072.

Tancredi and father
He had recurring roles on CSI: Miami ( as Kenwall Duquesne, father of Calleigh Duquesne ) and Prison Break ( as Frank Tancredi, Governor of Illinois and father of Sara Tancredi ).

Tancredi and her
Clorinda, a warrior-maiden, joins the Muslims, but the Christian knight Tancredi ( in English: Tancred ) falls in love with her.
Another maiden of the region, the Princess Erminia ( or " Hermine ") of Antioch, also falls in love with Tancredi and betrays her people to help him, but she grows jealous when she learns that Tancredi loves Clorinda.
Horne's triumphant performance of Tancredi in Houston soon led to invitations from other opera houses to sing the role, and it is largely through her efforts that the opera enjoyed a surge of revivals during the latter half of the 20th century.

Tancredi and which
Parton is featured on " The Right Time ," which she co-wrote with Cyrus and Morris Joseph Tancredi.
Moreover, four of his best known overtures ( La cambiale di matrimonio, Tancredi, La Cenerentola and The Barber of Seville ) share operas apart from those with which they are most famously associated.
Monteverdi composed Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda which can be considered as the first secular oratorio.
See also the Gesta Tancredi by Ralph of Caen, which is a panegyric of Bohemond's second-in-command Tancred.
Rossini's final Italian opera, " Semiramide could well be dubbed Tancredi Revisited ", since it was again written by Rossi from yet another Voltaire tragedy, it took the form of a return to vocal traditions of his youth, and was a melodrama in which he " recreated the baroque tradition of decorative singing with unparalleled skill ".
See for example, the title role of Rossini's 1813 Tancredi which was specifically written for a female singer.
Pier Luigi Pizzi staged a production of Tancredi at the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro in 1999, a production which was later transported to the Rossini Opera Festival in 2004.

Tancredi and she
Her international career took flight in Salzburg in 1992 when at short notice, she stood in for Marilyn Horne as Tancredi in two concert performances of the Rossini opera.
One night she steals Clorinda's armor and leaves the city, in an attempt to find Tancredi.
When Tancredi is dangerously wounded in combat, she heals him.
Her recent performances include roles of La Cieca in La Gioconda, Bertarido in Handel's Rodelinda, the title role in Rossini's Tancredi, the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare, Isabella in Rossini's L ' italiana in Algeri, Erda in Wagner's Ring Cycle ( at the Seattle Opera ), Klytämnestra in Richard Strauss's Elektra ( with the Canadian Opera Company ), Madame de la Haltière in Massenet's Cendrillon ( at London's Royal Opera House ), and the title role in Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia ( in the work's US premiere at the Caramoor International Music Festival in July 2012 and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, in August 2012, where she scored a triumph ).

Tancredi and .
In 1813, Tancredi and L ' italiana in Algeri were even bigger successes, and catapulted the 20-year-old composer to international fame.
The libretto for Tancredi was an arrangement by Gaetano Rossi of Voltaire's tragedy Tancrède.
He continued to write operas for Venice and Milan during the next few years, but their reception was tame and in some cases unsatisfactory after the success of Tancredi.
* Yamashina, Miyuki and Christopher Tancredi.
Tancredi Clorinda 17th century Italian. jpg | Tancred and Clorinda
The workshop is empty but he runs into Captain Tancredi, whose appearance is the same as Count Scarlioni.
Tancredi reveals he is Scaroth, the last of the Jagaroth race, stranded on Earth and fragmented through time due to an explosion of their spacecraft on Earth 400 million years ago.
Tancredi, in this era, has convinced Leonardo to paint 6 copies of the Mona Lisa such that when Scarlioni steals the real piece, he can then sell it seven times over, substantially funding the completion of Dr. Kerensky's work.
The Doctor escapes from Tancredi, returning to Leonardo's workshop.
* Ralph of Caen, Gesta Tancredi, ed.
Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach, The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First Crusade.
Another theory is that he later returned to Sicily under the alias Tancredi Palamara.
Henry's son, Emperor Frederick II ( who was also king of Sicily ) discovered Tancredi Palamara in Messina and had him executed in 1232.
Again, many of the greatest singers in the world appeared at the Met under Gatti-Casazza's leadership, including Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Maria Jeritza, Frances Alda, Frida Leider, Amelita Galli-Curci, Lily Pons, Jacques Urlus, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Lauritz Melchior, Titta Ruffo, Giuseppe De Luca, Pasquale Amato, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Feodor Chaliapin, Jose Mardones, Tancredi Pasero and Ezio Pinza — among many others.
Perhaps the most memorable line in the book is spoken by Don Fabrizio's nephew, Tancredi, urging unsuccessfully that Don Fabrizio abandon his allegiance to the disintegrating Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and to ally himself with Giuseppe Garibaldi and the House of Savoy: " Unless we ourselves take a hand now, they'll foist a republic on us.
* Romannucci-Ross L, Moerman DE, Tancredi LR.
Monteverdi's Book Eight, of the same year, contains some of the most famous madrigals of the entire epoch, including the enormous Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a dramatic composition much like a secular oratorio.

Prince and Salerno
His brother Giordano became Prince of Salerno and Duke of Venosa, while his sister Paola was Lady of Piombino between 1441 and 1445.
* June 11 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
One notable casualty of the conflict was the condottiero Roberto Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno.
However, he was able to make a marital alliance with the Hungarians: his son Charles, Prince of Salerno married Maria, daughter of crown prince Stephen, while Charles ' daughter Elizabeth married Stephen's son Ladislas.
* June 3 – Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno ( assassinated )
In 1038, Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno requested his adjudication in a dispute over Capua with its Prince Pandulf, whom Conrad had released from imprisonment in 1024, immediately after his coronation.
Charles was born in Naples, southern Italy, the only son of Charles Martel, Prince of Salerno and his wife Clementia, a daughter of King Rudolph I of Germany.
Guiscard soon joined Prince Pandulf IV of Capua in his ceaseless wars with Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno ( 1048 ).
Coat of arms of Charles II of Naples. Charles II, known as " the Lame " ( French le Boiteux, Italian lo Zoppo ) ( 1254 – 5 May 1309 ) was King of Naples, King of Albania, Prince of Salerno, Prince of Achaea and Count of Anjou.
** Tancred, Prince of Galilee regent ( with Richard of Salerno as governor, 1104 – 1108 )
In 1122, after Beatrice had died, Joscelin married Maria of Salerno, sister of Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch.
In 1038, Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno took it from him and, in 1041, established the Norman counts of Aversa, who were afterwards princes of Capua, as puppet dukes.
* Leopold, Prince of Salerno ( 2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851 )
Sikelgaita ( also Sichelgaita or Sigelgaita ) ( 1040 – 16 April 1090 ) was a Lombard princess, the daughter of Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno, and second wife of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia.
On November 25, 1844, he married Princess Maria Carolina Augusta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, daughter of the Leopold, Prince of Salerno and his wife Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, in Naples.
The allegiance of the Principality of Salerno was bought in 887 by investing Prince Guaimar I, and again in 955 from Gisulf I.
* Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Bisceglie and Prince of Salerno ( born 1481, in Naples )
Philip, the Doge of Venice Giovanni Dandolo, and Charles himself or Charles ' son, Charles, Prince of Salerno, were to personally accompany the expedition.
On the far left, facing Des Thermes, were 300 Florentine light cavalry under Rodolfo Baglioni ; flanking them to the right were 6, 000 Italian infantry under Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno.
He and the other leaders, chief among them Drogo and Peter, petitioned Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno, for recognition of their conquests.

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