THE POETICS OF LIBRETTI: READING THE OPERA WORKS OF
... My thanks to the staff in the Manuscript Room at the National Library of Australia and the Fryer Library, University of Queensland; Opera Australia, Sydney; Sebastian Clark, Manning Clark House, Canberra; Kath McLean; and Antony Ernst for their generous assistance. I am also grateful to Professor La ...
... My thanks to the staff in the Manuscript Room at the National Library of Australia and the Fryer Library, University of Queensland; Opera Australia, Sydney; Sebastian Clark, Manning Clark House, Canberra; Kath McLean; and Antony Ernst for their generous assistance. I am also grateful to Professor La ...
1964 speech on Schoenberg
... conservative with regard to the preservation of polyphony in principle but revolutionary with regard to its transformation in practice." This is Gould's thesis, if i read it correctly. The chaconne bass of Monteverdi, it might be argued, had a function not completely remote from the "tone ro w " of ...
... conservative with regard to the preservation of polyphony in principle but revolutionary with regard to its transformation in practice." This is Gould's thesis, if i read it correctly. The chaconne bass of Monteverdi, it might be argued, had a function not completely remote from the "tone ro w " of ...
Akhnaten by Philip Glass
... historical “portrait” operas. While the first two had originally been independent works, written without any cycle in mind, only Akhnaten was conceived from the start as part of a “trilogy,” and, as such, it is far more deliberate in drawing together motives from the previous two works to create a c ...
... historical “portrait” operas. While the first two had originally been independent works, written without any cycle in mind, only Akhnaten was conceived from the start as part of a “trilogy,” and, as such, it is far more deliberate in drawing together motives from the previous two works to create a c ...
Antonio Salieri - Dr David Wright
... the famous composer Luigi Boccherini. The modest success of this opera would launch Salieri’s 34 year operatic career as a composer of over 35 original dramas. Following the modest success of Le donne letterate, Salieri received new commissions writing two additional operas in 1770 both with libret ...
... the famous composer Luigi Boccherini. The modest success of this opera would launch Salieri’s 34 year operatic career as a composer of over 35 original dramas. Following the modest success of Le donne letterate, Salieri received new commissions writing two additional operas in 1770 both with libret ...
Zemlinsky`s The Chalk Circle: Artifice, Fairy
... more so in later years (after 1920). But it was Zemlinsky who in 1924, fifteen years after its composition, conducted the first public performance of Erwartung of 1909 a key masterpiece of Expressionist music. The companion theatre piece, the highly personal Die glii.ckliche Hand was conducted in Vi ...
... more so in later years (after 1920). But it was Zemlinsky who in 1924, fifteen years after its composition, conducted the first public performance of Erwartung of 1909 a key masterpiece of Expressionist music. The companion theatre piece, the highly personal Die glii.ckliche Hand was conducted in Vi ...
Schubert, Goethe and the Singspiel. An Elective Affinity
... Villa Bella Schubert achieves a synthesis between words and music, which is absent from his later dramatic works. In setting Claudine von Villa Bella, Schubert sought to build on what Mozart had accomplished and so his rendition directly mirrors Goethe’s aims. Like Goethe, Schubert’s interest in th ...
... Villa Bella Schubert achieves a synthesis between words and music, which is absent from his later dramatic works. In setting Claudine von Villa Bella, Schubert sought to build on what Mozart had accomplished and so his rendition directly mirrors Goethe’s aims. Like Goethe, Schubert’s interest in th ...
Notes on History and Theory of Opera (Dramatic
... the oldest full opera existing in the current world is Euridice (1600) composed by Peri with Ottavio Rinoccini's libretto. This model was refined and lifted to be considered high art with the composition of Claudio Monteverde’s “Orfeo” in 1607. Since that time, opera has developed in directions far ...
... the oldest full opera existing in the current world is Euridice (1600) composed by Peri with Ottavio Rinoccini's libretto. This model was refined and lifted to be considered high art with the composition of Claudio Monteverde’s “Orfeo” in 1607. Since that time, opera has developed in directions far ...
opera as social manifest: madlena zepter`s private opera house and
... village look at him or her differently, talk to him or her differently, and treat him or her differently. As a bearer of visible “success from abroad”, such an individual becomes too different for the native social milieu. The price of foreign success is that its public manifestation becomes vigorou ...
... village look at him or her differently, talk to him or her differently, and treat him or her differently. As a bearer of visible “success from abroad”, such an individual becomes too different for the native social milieu. The price of foreign success is that its public manifestation becomes vigorou ...
Franz von Suppé - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... intensity. It mediates as it were between Vienna, the French opéra-comique and the Italian opera buffa. The melodious charm of his overtures, their artistic instrumentation (often featuring extended solos), the rhythmic verve and their masterful vocal composition, have ensured their survival for mor ...
... intensity. It mediates as it were between Vienna, the French opéra-comique and the Italian opera buffa. The melodious charm of his overtures, their artistic instrumentation (often featuring extended solos), the rhythmic verve and their masterful vocal composition, have ensured their survival for mor ...
Table of Contents
... opera composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s adult life was filled with frustration and poverty. Although he created some of the most glorious music known to man, he died poor and unrecognized by his peers, laid to rest in an unmarked pauper’s grave. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, ...
... opera composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s adult life was filled with frustration and poverty. Although he created some of the most glorious music known to man, he died poor and unrecognized by his peers, laid to rest in an unmarked pauper’s grave. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, ...
Arnold Schoenberg
... One of Schoenberg’s busiest years musically. Composes many song pieces. “das Wappenschild” and “Natur”: Ochesterlieder. Arranges “Barber of Seville” and “Rosamunde” for two and four hand piano performance. Schoenberg also transcribes several of Wagner’s tone poems and Mahler’s symphonies. ...
... One of Schoenberg’s busiest years musically. Composes many song pieces. “das Wappenschild” and “Natur”: Ochesterlieder. Arranges “Barber of Seville” and “Rosamunde” for two and four hand piano performance. Schoenberg also transcribes several of Wagner’s tone poems and Mahler’s symphonies. ...
"Pelléas" and Power
... more money than such established repertoire items as Carmen and Manon and for most of its performances, significantly more than the monthly averageof all operas (see table 1). The reasons Pellias triggeredsuch a response have not been examined. Many of those who subsequently wrote about the first pe ...
... more money than such established repertoire items as Carmen and Manon and for most of its performances, significantly more than the monthly averageof all operas (see table 1). The reasons Pellias triggeredsuch a response have not been examined. Many of those who subsequently wrote about the first pe ...
Raumwirkung: the case of Wozzeck
... Keith Warner is drawn to the exploitation of the main character’s body and mind, dissecting the human tragedy of the soldier’s increasingly deranged imagination and highlighting the sense of Wir arme Leut, ‘wretched folks like us’, as Wozzeck defines himself and his class in the opening scene, in psy ...
... Keith Warner is drawn to the exploitation of the main character’s body and mind, dissecting the human tragedy of the soldier’s increasingly deranged imagination and highlighting the sense of Wir arme Leut, ‘wretched folks like us’, as Wozzeck defines himself and his class in the opening scene, in psy ...
Program Note
... n the whole Dvořák had excellent relations with his critics and audience, but he was somewhat irked to find that he had been typecast as an instrumental composer, as this outburst from 1904 reveals: “In the last five years I have written nothing but operas...I consider opera the most suitable form ...
... n the whole Dvořák had excellent relations with his critics and audience, but he was somewhat irked to find that he had been typecast as an instrumental composer, as this outburst from 1904 reveals: “In the last five years I have written nothing but operas...I consider opera the most suitable form ...
Printable Bio
... Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, and The Kosovo Relief Fund, to name a few. McFaul spent two years in the BMI Workshop writing songs for musical theater. In 2001, McFaul completed his setting of the Latin Mass for five soloists, chorus, and orchestra. The Mass in C minor is a project of large sco ...
... Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, and The Kosovo Relief Fund, to name a few. McFaul spent two years in the BMI Workshop writing songs for musical theater. In 2001, McFaul completed his setting of the Latin Mass for five soloists, chorus, and orchestra. The Mass in C minor is a project of large sco ...
Amir Tafreshipour-From virtuoso solo to ensemble opera, final version
... Mikrokosmos progressive piano collection in order to create an index of subjects for my solo writing. In turn these studies generated many more questions for me as a composer: Is it important to write a full-scale work? Is it not enough just to write for solo instruments and small ensembles? Later I ...
... Mikrokosmos progressive piano collection in order to create an index of subjects for my solo writing. In turn these studies generated many more questions for me as a composer: Is it important to write a full-scale work? Is it not enough just to write for solo instruments and small ensembles? Later I ...
Program Notes Though they both lived in Venice, the composers
... Galuppi was a harpsichordist at the Teatro Sant’Angelo, an opera house where Vivaldi reigned as the principal composer and impresario. With the exception of Vivaldi, audiences in Venice generally preferred operas by Neapolitan composers, so for the next fifteen years, Galuppi’s career as an opera ...
... Galuppi was a harpsichordist at the Teatro Sant’Angelo, an opera house where Vivaldi reigned as the principal composer and impresario. With the exception of Vivaldi, audiences in Venice generally preferred operas by Neapolitan composers, so for the next fifteen years, Galuppi’s career as an opera ...
Composer Profiles - Andrew Lesser Music
... has become one of the twentieth-century’s central texts on musical composition. During World War I, Schoenberg wrote little, believing his previous work had not achieved the grand design that he felt he was meant to create. The resulting twelve-tone method that he pioneered divided composers into th ...
... has become one of the twentieth-century’s central texts on musical composition. During World War I, Schoenberg wrote little, believing his previous work had not achieved the grand design that he felt he was meant to create. The resulting twelve-tone method that he pioneered divided composers into th ...
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
... Moscow in 1731 to take part in the coronation festivities for the Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna. They had been sent from the court of August II the Strong in Dresden to entertain the new empress and her court. The success of this first opera troupe paved the way for more. In 1735, composer Francesco ...
... Moscow in 1731 to take part in the coronation festivities for the Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna. They had been sent from the court of August II the Strong in Dresden to entertain the new empress and her court. The success of this first opera troupe paved the way for more. In 1735, composer Francesco ...
The Barber of Seville
... the age of twenty-one, with these early successes, Rossini had already become established as the idol of the Italian opera public. In 1815, he was engaged to write new works as well as direct two opera companies in Naples. His first opera under that arrangement was Elisabetta, written expressly for ...
... the age of twenty-one, with these early successes, Rossini had already become established as the idol of the Italian opera public. In 1815, he was engaged to write new works as well as direct two opera companies in Naples. His first opera under that arrangement was Elisabetta, written expressly for ...
SESSION 1: OPERA NARRATIVES AND ORIGINS THE
... from both the exclusive circle of royalty based in Lisbon and the cultural life of other European capitals was the cause of a considerable delay in the introduction of major works from the Romantic period. Opera dominated 19th century musical life in Porto, involving the importation not only of the ...
... from both the exclusive circle of royalty based in Lisbon and the cultural life of other European capitals was the cause of a considerable delay in the introduction of major works from the Romantic period. Opera dominated 19th century musical life in Porto, involving the importation not only of the ...
Operetta Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of
... His third operetta, Die Fledermaus (1874), became the most performed operetta in the world, and remains his most popular stage work. Its libretto was based on a comedy written by Offenbach's librettists. In all, Strauss wrote 16 operettas and one opera, most with great success when first premiered. ...
... His third operetta, Die Fledermaus (1874), became the most performed operetta in the world, and remains his most popular stage work. Its libretto was based on a comedy written by Offenbach's librettists. In all, Strauss wrote 16 operettas and one opera, most with great success when first premiered. ...
“Literaturoper”: a term StiLL in Search of a Definition
... Compared with the definitions of Istel or Dahlhaus, this has a crucial addition in its final phrase. If the model for a Literaturoper necessarily remains present as a structural element within the resulting opera, a Literaturoper is essentially, by definition, intertextual. It follows that the succe ...
... Compared with the definitions of Istel or Dahlhaus, this has a crucial addition in its final phrase. If the model for a Literaturoper necessarily remains present as a structural element within the resulting opera, a Literaturoper is essentially, by definition, intertextual. It follows that the succe ...
Opera and Music Drama in the 19th Century
... Became wealthy and world famous due to the popularity of his music Opera La Bohème first major success ...
... Became wealthy and world famous due to the popularity of his music Opera La Bohème first major success ...
Opera in German
Opera in German is the opera of the German-speaking countries. These include Germany, Austria, and the German states that preceded those countries.German-language opera appeared remarkably quickly after the birth of opera itself in Italy. The first Italian opera was Jacopo Peri's Dafne of 1598. In 1627, Heinrich Schütz provided the music for a German translation of the same libretto. Yet during much of the 17th and 18th centuries German-language opera would struggle to emerge from the shadow of its Italian-language rival, with leading German-born composers such as Handel and Gluck opting to work in foreign traditions such as opera seria.Some Baroque composers, such as Reinhard Keiser, did try to challenge Italian dominance, and the theatre principal Abel Seyler became an eager promoter of German opera in the 1770s, but it was only with the appearance of Mozart that a lasting tradition of serious German-language opera was established. Mozart took the simple, popular genre of Singspiel and turned it into something far more sophisticated. Beethoven followed his example with the idealistic Fidelio; and with Der Freischütz of 1821, Weber established a uniquely German form of opera under the influence of Romanticism. Weber's innovations were eclipsed by those of Richard Wagner, one of the most revolutionary and controversial figures in musical history. Wagner strove to achieve his ideal of opera as ""music drama"", eliminating all distinction between aria and recitative, employing a complex web of leitmotifs and vastly increasing the power and richness of the orchestra. Wagner also drew on Germanic mythology in his huge operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.After Wagner, opera could never be the same again, so great was his influence. The most successful of his followers was Richard Strauss. Opera flourished in German-speaking lands in the early 20th century in the hands of figures such as Hindemith, Busoni and Kurt Weill until Adolf Hitler's seizure of power forced many composers into silence or exile. After World War II young opera writers were inspired by the example of Schoenberg and Berg who had pioneered modernist techniques such as atonality and serialism in the earlier decades of the century. Composers at work in the field of opera today include Hans Werner Henze.As the names of Mozart, Weber, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Berg indicate, Germany and Austria have one of the strongest operatic traditions in European culture. This is also evidenced by the large number of opera houses, particularly in Germany where almost every major city has its own theatre for staging such works, as well as internationally renowned operatic events such as the Salzburg Music Festival.