janáček`s ‛slovenian` pupil emerik beran and his forgotten opera
... The libretto of Melusina is naturally not the only opera libretto with a fairytale-pastoral theme about a love affair with a nymph. It reveals a close affinity with a number of other opera librettos, among which the most resounding at the beginning of the 20th century was undoubtedly Kvapil’s remak ...
... The libretto of Melusina is naturally not the only opera libretto with a fairytale-pastoral theme about a love affair with a nymph. It reveals a close affinity with a number of other opera librettos, among which the most resounding at the beginning of the 20th century was undoubtedly Kvapil’s remak ...
Turandot
... any potential husband must answer three riddles correctly or die. 2 Giacomo Puccini wrote the opera. The final scene was completed by Franco Alfano, one of his students, based on Puccini’s notes after he died. 3 It was performed outdoors. ...
... any potential husband must answer three riddles correctly or die. 2 Giacomo Puccini wrote the opera. The final scene was completed by Franco Alfano, one of his students, based on Puccini’s notes after he died. 3 It was performed outdoors. ...
Alimelek - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... The subject-matter of Meyerbeer’s second opera Wirt und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst (later called Alimelek, oder Wirth und Gast, and also known as Die beiden Kaliphen), written in Munich in 1812, was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man who would be sovereign, if only for on ...
... The subject-matter of Meyerbeer’s second opera Wirt und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst (later called Alimelek, oder Wirth und Gast, and also known as Die beiden Kaliphen), written in Munich in 1812, was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man who would be sovereign, if only for on ...
Bel Canto: The Old Italian Vocal Technique and Its
... The first most basic, and perhaps the most important principle in bel canto singing, is proper breathing, which is probably the first thing every bel canto teacher would teach a student. At this point, it may seem as if that bel canto singers would employ such a complicated otherworldly form of bre ...
... The first most basic, and perhaps the most important principle in bel canto singing, is proper breathing, which is probably the first thing every bel canto teacher would teach a student. At this point, it may seem as if that bel canto singers would employ such a complicated otherworldly form of bre ...
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 ...
analysis of the opera
... the tonic, giving the sense of final realization of the moment to which the aria has been building up. • The vocal line never cadences with the ground bass until the end of Dido’s vocal line, when she dies. It is simple, magic musical writing. ...
... the tonic, giving the sense of final realization of the moment to which the aria has been building up. • The vocal line never cadences with the ground bass until the end of Dido’s vocal line, when she dies. It is simple, magic musical writing. ...
1 1. Alessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer who
... 1. Alessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer who lived from 1600-1725. Father to Domenico and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Alessandro is also father to the development of an opera style bridging the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as an innovative composer of chamber cantatas. Scarlat ...
... 1. Alessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer who lived from 1600-1725. Father to Domenico and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Alessandro is also father to the development of an opera style bridging the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as an innovative composer of chamber cantatas. Scarlat ...
tional Tradition
... religious experiences than the Catholic Church, exhibits greater distance towards secular activities, while the latter is more concerned with actions aiming at the transformation of the world. The historic events which took place in the 1980s, such as the election of the Polish Pope, the establishin ...
... religious experiences than the Catholic Church, exhibits greater distance towards secular activities, while the latter is more concerned with actions aiming at the transformation of the world. The historic events which took place in the 1980s, such as the election of the Polish Pope, the establishin ...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
... Fantastic Mr. Fox is a tuneful, singable opera. The music is sometimes funny. Sometimes sad. Some-‐ times scary. The orchestra and the singers tell a story that has more than one meaning at any gi ...
... Fantastic Mr. Fox is a tuneful, singable opera. The music is sometimes funny. Sometimes sad. Some-‐ times scary. The orchestra and the singers tell a story that has more than one meaning at any gi ...
Opera A to Z
... Thomas, Ambroise: (1811-96); French opera composer; known primarily for Mignon (1866). Tosca: opera in three acts by Puccini; first performed in 1900; set in Rome during the Napoleonic Wars; one of the most famous of verismo operas. traviata, La : opera in three acts by Verdi; libretto is by Piave a ...
... Thomas, Ambroise: (1811-96); French opera composer; known primarily for Mignon (1866). Tosca: opera in three acts by Puccini; first performed in 1900; set in Rome during the Napoleonic Wars; one of the most famous of verismo operas. traviata, La : opera in three acts by Verdi; libretto is by Piave a ...
Houston Grand Opera to Present Second Mariachi Opera Featuring
... HGO’s presentation of El Pasado Nunca Se Termina/The Past Is Never Finished is made possible through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Petrello, Mr. and Mrs. Harlan C. Stai, Bank of America, The Humphreys Foundation, Beirne, Maynard and Parsons LLP, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith Ray. Based i ...
... HGO’s presentation of El Pasado Nunca Se Termina/The Past Is Never Finished is made possible through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Petrello, Mr. and Mrs. Harlan C. Stai, Bank of America, The Humphreys Foundation, Beirne, Maynard and Parsons LLP, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith Ray. Based i ...
Inquisitive visionary composes a full-length opera
... thorough and fully digested training in composition is audible in the music of Puumala. “In my day, at the Sibelius Academy, the composition students went to every single course there was on new music. We might even take the course several times; we had such a thirst for knowledge.” Puumala has hims ...
... thorough and fully digested training in composition is audible in the music of Puumala. “In my day, at the Sibelius Academy, the composition students went to every single course there was on new music. We might even take the course several times; we had such a thirst for knowledge.” Puumala has hims ...
Program note
... mitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich was 22 years old when he wrote The Nose—his first opera—in 1928. Not even Mozart or Rossini had created operas of such interest by this age. With The Nose, Shostakovich produced a score that was a striking composition in its novelty and creative richness, as well as a ...
... mitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich was 22 years old when he wrote The Nose—his first opera—in 1928. Not even Mozart or Rossini had created operas of such interest by this age. With The Nose, Shostakovich produced a score that was a striking composition in its novelty and creative richness, as well as a ...
Opera San José Presents Hansel and Gretel
... Alone in the house, Rosina muses on Almaviva’s voice, which has touched her heart (Una voce poco fa, "A voice just now"). She resolves to oppose Bartolo by a thousand tricks so as to have her way. Figaro joins her briefly, but they scurry away on hearing footsteps. Bartolo enters, soon joined by the ...
... Alone in the house, Rosina muses on Almaviva’s voice, which has touched her heart (Una voce poco fa, "A voice just now"). She resolves to oppose Bartolo by a thousand tricks so as to have her way. Figaro joins her briefly, but they scurry away on hearing footsteps. Bartolo enters, soon joined by the ...
Broadway Musical Comic Opera And Operetta Week 3
... • The popular French comic opera known as the opera bouffe. • Gave the comic operas a twenty-year success the English comic opera. ...
... • The popular French comic opera known as the opera bouffe. • Gave the comic operas a twenty-year success the English comic opera. ...
Polish Theatre Ireland Teatr Polski Irlandia
... cooperation between playwright, actors and director. The author, Patrycja Babicka, has written her play after she had seen actor’s pictures. The aim of the project is to tell a story of four house mates living in the same flat together and spending most of their spare time in a living room. Sofa, ex ...
... cooperation between playwright, actors and director. The author, Patrycja Babicka, has written her play after she had seen actor’s pictures. The aim of the project is to tell a story of four house mates living in the same flat together and spending most of their spare time in a living room. Sofa, ex ...
MEANINGS OF VOCAL EXPRESSIVITY IN MUSICAL DRAMA
... sound became, in opera music, “the main nucleus of the dramatic and musical analysis in the context of knowing the ages, styles and schools that have created them”3. In the development of the lyric genre, the musical logic has followed the sense of the word, that has gained a greater or lesser impor ...
... sound became, in opera music, “the main nucleus of the dramatic and musical analysis in the context of knowing the ages, styles and schools that have created them”3. In the development of the lyric genre, the musical logic has followed the sense of the word, that has gained a greater or lesser impor ...
`Treemonisha` As It Was Intended To Be
... longstanding notion that "Treemonisha" was never performed complete in Joplin's lifetime. "Joplin did in fact succeed in performing 'Treemonisha' for paying audiences in Bayonne, N.J., in 1913." And he had himself orchestrated it. Mr. Benjamin's essay includes his account of his 1989 meeting with th ...
... longstanding notion that "Treemonisha" was never performed complete in Joplin's lifetime. "Joplin did in fact succeed in performing 'Treemonisha' for paying audiences in Bayonne, N.J., in 1913." And he had himself orchestrated it. Mr. Benjamin's essay includes his account of his 1989 meeting with th ...
Panel abstract
... opera came to inform these Danish performances. At the same time it will be concerned with the local practices, and audience reactions that Siboni encountered in Copenhagen. Migration and Misunderstanding: Italian Opera in 18th-Century Copenhagen Christine Jeanneret, University of Copenhagen Italian ...
... opera came to inform these Danish performances. At the same time it will be concerned with the local practices, and audience reactions that Siboni encountered in Copenhagen. Migration and Misunderstanding: Italian Opera in 18th-Century Copenhagen Christine Jeanneret, University of Copenhagen Italian ...
Biographies of speakers
... awarded with the Verdi D'Oro price for his performances of the Venetian Moor, as Otello. He debuted at London’s “Covent Garden” in 1996, where he sang the part of “Calaf” in Puccini’s “Turandot”. Starting 1990, after the Romanian Revolution, Corneliu Murgu came back to his native places and song on ...
... awarded with the Verdi D'Oro price for his performances of the Venetian Moor, as Otello. He debuted at London’s “Covent Garden” in 1996, where he sang the part of “Calaf” in Puccini’s “Turandot”. Starting 1990, after the Romanian Revolution, Corneliu Murgu came back to his native places and song on ...
The Composer - Opera On The James
... study counterpoint (the use of multiple melodies). Three years later, when Donizetti returned to Bergamo having decided he would be a composer of opera, Mayr secured a contract for him with a company in Venice for which Donizetti wrote four operas. ...
... study counterpoint (the use of multiple melodies). Three years later, when Donizetti returned to Bergamo having decided he would be a composer of opera, Mayr secured a contract for him with a company in Venice for which Donizetti wrote four operas. ...
Vol 3 - Whitwell - Essays on the Origins of Western Music
... And this is exactly what they did in the first operas. They have left a kind of rhythmic-melodic sketch in notation, leaving to the singers the duty of adding the emotions through their style of singing and especially through improvisation, a subject to which one of the founders of opera, Caccini, ...
... And this is exactly what they did in the first operas. They have left a kind of rhythmic-melodic sketch in notation, leaving to the singers the duty of adding the emotions through their style of singing and especially through improvisation, a subject to which one of the founders of opera, Caccini, ...
Annex 1 - National Arts Council
... pursuit of arts development. It discards outdated repertoires and performing techniques, while retaining the traditions of Cantonese opera. By injecting modernity, Cantonese opera classics are adapted to keep up with the times so as to appeal to contemporary audiences. The troupe spares no efforts t ...
... pursuit of arts development. It discards outdated repertoires and performing techniques, while retaining the traditions of Cantonese opera. By injecting modernity, Cantonese opera classics are adapted to keep up with the times so as to appeal to contemporary audiences. The troupe spares no efforts t ...
The Voice of Experience on THE LAST TEMPTATIONS
... days that it would run to so many performances. The musicians have enjoyed doing it. One member of the orchestra once told Kokkonen he always changed his days off so he could play in The Last Temptations. The themes of The Last Temptations operate at universal level. The opera is about the inner rel ...
... days that it would run to so many performances. The musicians have enjoyed doing it. One member of the orchestra once told Kokkonen he always changed his days off so he could play in The Last Temptations. The themes of The Last Temptations operate at universal level. The opera is about the inner rel ...
Polish opera
Polish opera may be broadly understood to include operas staged in Poland and works written for foreign stages by Polish composers, as well as opera in the Polish language.The tradition reaches back to Italian language entertainments of the baroque. Romantic opera in Polish flourished alongside nationalism after the partition and is exemplified by the work of Stanisław Moniuszko. In the 20th century Polish opera was exported and composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki wrote operas in other languages (Ubu Rex, Die Teufel von Loudun) that were translated into Polish later.