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n. a drinking song in which each person is toasted
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Brindisi (; in the local dialect: Brìnnisi; ) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city remains a major port for trade with Greece and the Middle East. Brindisi's most flourishing industries include agriculture, chemical works, and the generation of electricity.
A (; Italian for "toast") is a song in which a company is exhorted to drink, a drinking song.
The word is Italian, but it derives from an old German phrase, – "(I) offer it to you", which at one time was used to introduce a toast. The transformation of that phrase into the current Italian word may have been influenced by similar-sounding name of the Italian city of Brindisi, but otherwise the city and the term are etymologically unrelated.
The term is often used in opera. Typically, in an operatic , one character introduces a toast with a solo melody and the full ensemble later joins in the refrain.
Some well-known operatic numbers labeled are:
- " Libiamo ne' lieti calici", sung by Alfredo and Violetta in act 1 of Verdi's La traviata
- "Viva, il vino spumeggiante", sung by Turiddu in scene 2 of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana
- "Il segreto per esser felici", sung by Orsini in act 2 of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia
- "Inaffia l'ugola!", sung by Iago in act 1 of Verdi's Otello
- "Si colmi il calice", sung by Lady Macbeth in act 2 of Verdi's Macbeth
- "The Tea-Cup Brindisi", in the finale of act 1 of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer
- "Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse" sung by Hamlet in act 2 of Thomas's Hamlet
Brindisi is a town of Apulia, southern Italy.
The word, meaning " Toast" in Italian, may also refer to:
Usage examples of "brindisi".
He sat now wondering if either of the two at Brindisi had followed him to Alexandria.
I was on my way out to the East, and as an extra day in London was of some importance, I took the Friday evening mail train to Brindisi instead of the usual Thursday morning Marseilles express.
Father Brindisi raised a cross above his head, gibbering away in the name of God.
She lifted her head and turned toward me circle where Father Brindisi now stood in silence.
The chief importance of Brindisi is due to its position as a starting-point for the East.
The mountains of Crete and Candia, with their snowy caps, were the only signs of land to be seen until we arrived in sight of Brindisi, which we reached twelve hours later than we should have done had it not been for the rough weather that we encountered.
Spalding and Lynch, who had come on from Brindisi one train in advance of us, and here Martin Sullivan, who had playfully filched the horn of a guard while en route, was taken into custody by half a score of gendarmes.
Jack mused over memories of other days, his anxiety to know what was wrong at Brindisi grew moment by moment, and the flying express seemed to crawl, so great was his impatience to be in London, where he expected to get further news from Mr.
At last the train ran into the station of Brindisi, and Jack hung half out of the window, his eyes searching the crowd for Risley, to whom he had telegraphed his time of arrival.
Sicily and in some of the wilder parts of Calabria, but not in Brindisi, Buck, not in this big port.
The interpreter readily told them that the half-caste had offered him a liberal sum in order to learn what Jack was doing, and what route he intended to follow on leaving Brindisi, but the man declared that he had made no answer, had, indeed, been unable to reply to the questions before Jack was on the scene and making his rush.
He had gone for a walk along the shore near Brindisi, when, in a lonely spot, he had been attacked from behind and felled by a severe blow on the skull.
The ship we board in Brindisi takes us to Alexandria, and from there, we go by train down to Cairo.
Their overland journey would take them as far south as Brindisi, Italy, where they were to board a second ship, which would take them to Alexandria, where again they would pick up a train.
Via Veneto where the ladies might have time to enjoy long soaks in baths, and where they could sleep one good night before the rocking of the train and the motion of the ship on the journey to Brindisi and then to Alexandria.