80288 - New World Records
... up the environment of Thomson's youth. He was a precocious child, and although few in his family had artistic inclinations he was drawn to music at an early age, improvising on the piano before he was five. (“Always with the pedal down,”Thomson remembers in his autobiography, “and always loud, namin ...
... up the environment of Thomson's youth. He was a precocious child, and although few in his family had artistic inclinations he was drawn to music at an early age, improvising on the piano before he was five. (“Always with the pedal down,”Thomson remembers in his autobiography, “and always loud, namin ...
Gioachino Rossini - Classics For Kids
... Gioachino Rossini was the most popular and prolific operatic composer of his day. He was adored all over Italy and eventually across Europe as he moved to Vienna and Paris. He became such a center of the operatic world that composers like Cimarosa and Paisiello were nearly forgotten and contemporari ...
... Gioachino Rossini was the most popular and prolific operatic composer of his day. He was adored all over Italy and eventually across Europe as he moved to Vienna and Paris. He became such a center of the operatic world that composers like Cimarosa and Paisiello were nearly forgotten and contemporari ...
Ars Polemica: Monteverdi`s Orfeo as artistic creed
... The story of Orpheus is the ultimate test for any musician’s skill. By choosing to set this myth to music, composers declare themselves capable of creating music that would credibly seem to melt the hearts of beasts, humans and gods. They also reveal which style of musical writing is best suited, in ...
... The story of Orpheus is the ultimate test for any musician’s skill. By choosing to set this myth to music, composers declare themselves capable of creating music that would credibly seem to melt the hearts of beasts, humans and gods. They also reveal which style of musical writing is best suited, in ...
Turandot
... What is Turandot? Turandot is an opera that tells the story of a stubborn and cruel Chinese princess, named Turandot, who lives in the Forbidden city. ...
... What is Turandot? Turandot is an opera that tells the story of a stubborn and cruel Chinese princess, named Turandot, who lives in the Forbidden city. ...
Amir Tafreshipour-From virtuoso solo to ensemble opera, final version
... 12. Motif: The Doll behind the Curtain........………………..............………..….18 13. Motif: The Doll behind the Curtain, bar 5).................................................18 14. Motif: The Doll behind the Curtain, bar 8...................................................18 15. Motif: The Doll behind ...
... 12. Motif: The Doll behind the Curtain........………………..............………..….18 13. Motif: The Doll behind the Curtain, bar 5).................................................18 14. Motif: The Doll behind the Curtain, bar 8...................................................18 15. Motif: The Doll behind ...
Bizet - L`Arlesienne Suites
... into a three act play, for which Bizet wrote 27 incidental sections. Three years before his death and three years before Carmen his Magnum Opus -‐ the 27 sections had been adapted into four ...
... into a three act play, for which Bizet wrote 27 incidental sections. Three years before his death and three years before Carmen his Magnum Opus -‐ the 27 sections had been adapted into four ...
Vaccai text
... run at La Scala, the new impresario Crivelli gave it an usually responsible staging on 18 August 1826 and it held up well against all the odds - even though the prima donna soprano and the primo tenore contrived to be ill alternately throughout the run - it survived and was applauded night after nig ...
... run at La Scala, the new impresario Crivelli gave it an usually responsible staging on 18 August 1826 and it held up well against all the odds - even though the prima donna soprano and the primo tenore contrived to be ill alternately throughout the run - it survived and was applauded night after nig ...
Program Notes Though they both lived in Venice, the composers
... From 1754 through 1756, eight operas by Galuppi were performed in Dresden (Saxony, now part of Germany) to great acclaim. With the rising popularity of Galuppi’s music in Dresden, the Dresden Hofkapelle (the court chapel of Catholic Saxony) sent orders to the Venetian copy shop of Giuseppe Balda ...
... From 1754 through 1756, eight operas by Galuppi were performed in Dresden (Saxony, now part of Germany) to great acclaim. With the rising popularity of Galuppi’s music in Dresden, the Dresden Hofkapelle (the court chapel of Catholic Saxony) sent orders to the Venetian copy shop of Giuseppe Balda ...
Norbert Schultze
... Albers in the leading role. Starting life in Hamburg, it was performed in many theatres. The popular music numbers from this musical took on independent lives of their own and became successful titles: "Kleine weiße Möwe" (Little White Seagull), "In meinem Schaukelstuhl" (In My Rocking Chair), "Groß ...
... Albers in the leading role. Starting life in Hamburg, it was performed in many theatres. The popular music numbers from this musical took on independent lives of their own and became successful titles: "Kleine weiße Möwe" (Little White Seagull), "In meinem Schaukelstuhl" (In My Rocking Chair), "Groß ...
Schreker and the End of Opera-formatted
... and others of the same ilk, to the limbo of Fascinating Operas of the Past (FOPS), operas that are occasionally revived but stubbornly grounded on the remoter borders of the repertoire 6. ...
... and others of the same ilk, to the limbo of Fascinating Operas of the Past (FOPS), operas that are occasionally revived but stubbornly grounded on the remoter borders of the repertoire 6. ...
More about František Škroup
... Czech dramatist and writer of that period. The music to this performance composed by František Škroup became so popular that the song ´Where is my home´ was later chosen as the Czechoslovak national anthem. The song was the first part of the Czechoslovak national anthem to the split in 1992, after w ...
... Czech dramatist and writer of that period. The music to this performance composed by František Škroup became so popular that the song ´Where is my home´ was later chosen as the Czechoslovak national anthem. The song was the first part of the Czechoslovak national anthem to the split in 1992, after w ...
Eugene Onegin
... St. Petersburg to establish a resident opera company. Araja spent about twenty-five years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Imperial Russian Court. In 1755 Araja wrote the first opera written with a Russian text. Three years later, the second opera written with a Russian libretto was co ...
... St. Petersburg to establish a resident opera company. Araja spent about twenty-five years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Imperial Russian Court. In 1755 Araja wrote the first opera written with a Russian text. Three years later, the second opera written with a Russian libretto was co ...
janáček`s ‛slovenian` pupil emerik beran and his forgotten opera
... František Neumann, who was quite reserved as regards its staging in Brno theatre.21 Beran’s great desire to stage his only opera is also evident in the fact that despite countless refusals, he prepared the complete materials for the possible staging of Melusina. Though precise reasons for its nonsta ...
... František Neumann, who was quite reserved as regards its staging in Brno theatre.21 Beran’s great desire to stage his only opera is also evident in the fact that despite countless refusals, he prepared the complete materials for the possible staging of Melusina. Though precise reasons for its nonsta ...
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) Prima la musica, Poi le
... composer (bass). Casti drew on the well-known rivalry between himself and another leading librettist of the day, Lorenzo da Ponte, as well as the notorious scandal in which the 15-year-old singer, Nancy Storace, had cruelly mimicked the celebrated castrato Luigi Marchesi. The opera opens as composer ...
... composer (bass). Casti drew on the well-known rivalry between himself and another leading librettist of the day, Lorenzo da Ponte, as well as the notorious scandal in which the 15-year-old singer, Nancy Storace, had cruelly mimicked the celebrated castrato Luigi Marchesi. The opera opens as composer ...
Giacomo Puccini, I Crisantemi
... until 1921 when pollution produced by peat works on the lake forced him to move to Viareggio, a few kilometers north. After his death, a mausoleum was created in the Villa Puccini and the composer is buried there in the chapel, along with his wife and son who died later. Puccini's style is a subject ...
... until 1921 when pollution produced by peat works on the lake forced him to move to Viareggio, a few kilometers north. After his death, a mausoleum was created in the Villa Puccini and the composer is buried there in the chapel, along with his wife and son who died later. Puccini's style is a subject ...
Wagner on Music of the Future
... Now I do not really wish to say anything depreciatory about this earliest rudiment of melodic form. I believe I have already proved that it is the basis of the finished art form of the Beethovenian symphony, and upon that assumption we have to thank it for something quite astounding. But one thing h ...
... Now I do not really wish to say anything depreciatory about this earliest rudiment of melodic form. I believe I have already proved that it is the basis of the finished art form of the Beethovenian symphony, and upon that assumption we have to thank it for something quite astounding. But one thing h ...
Alimelek - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... to correct the defects which had crept, during his absence, into the conduct of the opera, and to resume his position in a manner worthy of himself and the public. He resolved to give a work, good in itself, and requiring care and delicacy of treatment. But in this resolve he was considerably guided ...
... to correct the defects which had crept, during his absence, into the conduct of the opera, and to resume his position in a manner worthy of himself and the public. He resolved to give a work, good in itself, and requiring care and delicacy of treatment. But in this resolve he was considerably guided ...
Rusalka - Dallas ISD
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an educational outreach of bob jones
... His name constitutes opera’s most famous phrase. But the Spanish barber Figaro was the creation of French theater before he became the property of opera. French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) created the character Figaro in response to the demands of middle-class playgo ...
... His name constitutes opera’s most famous phrase. But the Spanish barber Figaro was the creation of French theater before he became the property of opera. French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) created the character Figaro in response to the demands of middle-class playgo ...
HWM II - Composition at Bilkent
... also called canzonetta , Italian canzonetta , Italian plural canzonette form of 16thcentury (c. 1565 and later) Italian vocal music. It was the most popular of the lighter secular forms of the period in Italy and England and perhaps in Germany as well. The canzonet follows the canzonetta poetic form ...
... also called canzonetta , Italian canzonetta , Italian plural canzonette form of 16thcentury (c. 1565 and later) Italian vocal music. It was the most popular of the lighter secular forms of the period in Italy and England and perhaps in Germany as well. The canzonet follows the canzonetta poetic form ...
JANÁČEK AND THE THIRD REICH
... Needless to say, after such a threat had been issued, the proposed Dresden performance never took place. In view of the strained political relationship between Germany and Czechoslovakia, neither was any other opera house prepared to risk mounting the opera over the next two seasons. In the interim ...
... Needless to say, after such a threat had been issued, the proposed Dresden performance never took place. In view of the strained political relationship between Germany and Czechoslovakia, neither was any other opera house prepared to risk mounting the opera over the next two seasons. In the interim ...
The Barber of Seville
... opera composers, living or dead, and in the eyes of the opera world, he was idolized and adored, towering significantly over the shoulders of Mozart, Gluck, or even Beethoven. Though Rossini is best known for his opera buffas, his comic and satiric operas, he also composed opera serias, operas with ...
... opera composers, living or dead, and in the eyes of the opera world, he was idolized and adored, towering significantly over the shoulders of Mozart, Gluck, or even Beethoven. Though Rossini is best known for his opera buffas, his comic and satiric operas, he also composed opera serias, operas with ...
Nina: Synopsis
... mirrored what society of the time regarded as 'good' music. It was progressive, yet not overexacting or difficult on the ear. This explains, on the one hand, why the number of performances of his operas surpassed that of virtually any other composer, and, on the other, why he was the favourite compo ...
... mirrored what society of the time regarded as 'good' music. It was progressive, yet not overexacting or difficult on the ear. This explains, on the one hand, why the number of performances of his operas surpassed that of virtually any other composer, and, on the other, why he was the favourite compo ...
Venice Baroque Orchestra and Philippe Jaroussky
... the Viennese Imperial Court of Leopold II until 1794. Cimarosa composed primarily opere buffa, several of which were among the most popular in Europe. The Librettists Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) was trained as a notary in his native Rome. He traveled to Naples in 1719 and began writing poetry fo ...
... the Viennese Imperial Court of Leopold II until 1794. Cimarosa composed primarily opere buffa, several of which were among the most popular in Europe. The Librettists Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) was trained as a notary in his native Rome. He traveled to Naples in 1719 and began writing poetry fo ...
Italian opera
Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was loved in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has loved to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous operas in Italian were loved by foreign composers, including Handel, Gluck and Mozart. Works by native Italian composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, are amongst the most famous operas ever written and today are loved in opera houses across the world.