I. Ancient Greeks II. Middle Ages
... First and last movements are typically in ritornello form – alternation between tutti and soloists; ritornello (refrain) is only played in full at beginning and the end of each movement d) Bach’s Brandenb ...
... First and last movements are typically in ritornello form – alternation between tutti and soloists; ritornello (refrain) is only played in full at beginning and the end of each movement d) Bach’s Brandenb ...
romantic period
... •Wagner's operas—called music dramas—are not sectional (in arias, ensembles, and the like) but are continuous; they are unifed by leitmotifs, or recurring themes, that represent a person, place, or idea. •The emotional quality of Wagner's music is heightened by his extensive use of chromatic dissona ...
... •Wagner's operas—called music dramas—are not sectional (in arias, ensembles, and the like) but are continuous; they are unifed by leitmotifs, or recurring themes, that represent a person, place, or idea. •The emotional quality of Wagner's music is heightened by his extensive use of chromatic dissona ...
Resident Conductor, San Diego Opera Principal
... NAMED DESIRE, a stunning success that led to her European debut in December 2001 conducting four performances of STREETCAR at L'Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg, France and on tour in Mulhouse La Filature. In 1999 she conducted OF MICE AND MEN in San Diego, which she also conducted earlier that ...
... NAMED DESIRE, a stunning success that led to her European debut in December 2001 conducting four performances of STREETCAR at L'Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg, France and on tour in Mulhouse La Filature. In 1999 she conducted OF MICE AND MEN in San Diego, which she also conducted earlier that ...
this information sheet.
... Librettist Don Mowatt was born in Montreal and is a graduate of both the University of Victoria and UBC. For thirty four years Don was a documentary, drama and music producer for CBC Radio, winning over fifteen international awards including two Peabody medals in New York. For nine years he was on t ...
... Librettist Don Mowatt was born in Montreal and is a graduate of both the University of Victoria and UBC. For thirty four years Don was a documentary, drama and music producer for CBC Radio, winning over fifteen international awards including two Peabody medals in New York. For nine years he was on t ...
Arion and the Dolphin
... The opera may be performed with or without an interval between the two parts PERFORMANCE MATERIALS Full Score; Vocal Score; Orchestral Parts “Musically Arion and the Dolphin is a work of great beauty. Roth has a keen ear for strange evocative sonorities and his orchestral writing reveals a master ha ...
... The opera may be performed with or without an interval between the two parts PERFORMANCE MATERIALS Full Score; Vocal Score; Orchestral Parts “Musically Arion and the Dolphin is a work of great beauty. Roth has a keen ear for strange evocative sonorities and his orchestral writing reveals a master ha ...
Baroque Music (1600 – 1750)
... - Piece that was sung - usually for chorus, vocal soloists, organ and orchestra - Resembled the opera at the time ...
... - Piece that was sung - usually for chorus, vocal soloists, organ and orchestra - Resembled the opera at the time ...
GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797 – 1848) Donizetti grew up in modest
... few afterward and it would be fascinating to hear what they sound like. Mayr was a well-known opera composer who wrote numerous works between 1794 and 1813 that were performed throughout Europe. Donizetti's early attempts at opera – the non plus ultra of ambitious Italian music resulted from Mayr tu ...
... few afterward and it would be fascinating to hear what they sound like. Mayr was a well-known opera composer who wrote numerous works between 1794 and 1813 that were performed throughout Europe. Donizetti's early attempts at opera – the non plus ultra of ambitious Italian music resulted from Mayr tu ...
rocking horse winner
... Tapestry Opera’s exciting recent momentum continues this spring with another world premiere, ROCKING HORSE WINNER, commissioned in partnership with Scottish Opera. This modern adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s masterful short story—an intimate psychological look at love, luck and greed—comes to ...
... Tapestry Opera’s exciting recent momentum continues this spring with another world premiere, ROCKING HORSE WINNER, commissioned in partnership with Scottish Opera. This modern adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s masterful short story—an intimate psychological look at love, luck and greed—comes to ...
Promoters information pack - New Opera in Scotland Events
... history and vignettes of Glasgow life: all set to a thoughtfully unstuffy, thoroughly engaging score. It’s opera, for sure, but not as we usually know it.’ the whole project is a well-sung, well-played pleasure that puts opera “in yer face” with impressive flair and professionalism. ...
... history and vignettes of Glasgow life: all set to a thoughtfully unstuffy, thoroughly engaging score. It’s opera, for sure, but not as we usually know it.’ the whole project is a well-sung, well-played pleasure that puts opera “in yer face” with impressive flair and professionalism. ...
Artists` Info - Montreal`s Italian Week
... Christina and Johnny Capobianco are a father and daughter team who are the founders of the Grand Show Band. Johnny has been performing for close to 40 years and his daughter close to 10 years. 20 years for Stefin Noel who is also one of the bands lead singers. Concerts, fund raisers, private events ...
... Christina and Johnny Capobianco are a father and daughter team who are the founders of the Grand Show Band. Johnny has been performing for close to 40 years and his daughter close to 10 years. 20 years for Stefin Noel who is also one of the bands lead singers. Concerts, fund raisers, private events ...
Program-notes-2010 - Brown County Civic Music Association
... Following the enormous success of The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, decided to attempt another triumph. Drawn to the Don Juan legend, they used as a basis for their plan Giuseppe Bertati’s play, Don Giovanni. When the opera was premiered in Prague in 1787 (with Cas ...
... Following the enormous success of The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, decided to attempt another triumph. Drawn to the Don Juan legend, they used as a basis for their plan Giuseppe Bertati’s play, Don Giovanni. When the opera was premiered in Prague in 1787 (with Cas ...
DIANEMCNARON_SHORT_PRESS_BIO3
... art song recitalist, also produces and appears in political cabaret. She is presently recording a CD of the works of Argentine composer Valdo Sciammarella, to be released in November 2008. Singer/Director Diane McNaron has appeared in opera, recital, oratorio and cabaret throughout the US and in Ger ...
... art song recitalist, also produces and appears in political cabaret. She is presently recording a CD of the works of Argentine composer Valdo Sciammarella, to be released in November 2008. Singer/Director Diane McNaron has appeared in opera, recital, oratorio and cabaret throughout the US and in Ger ...
L UCY F ITZ G IBBON
... Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a versatile performer whose repertoire spans the early baroque to the present. Noted for her “clear voice” (Mittelbayerische Zeitung) and endearing stage presence (The New York Times), Lucy is establishing herself as a dynamic musician capable of interpreting both technic ...
... Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a versatile performer whose repertoire spans the early baroque to the present. Noted for her “clear voice” (Mittelbayerische Zeitung) and endearing stage presence (The New York Times), Lucy is establishing herself as a dynamic musician capable of interpreting both technic ...
The Nose
... It is an eight-voice canon punctuated by a bass drum, which segues into an instrumental interlude that sounds like a jumbled fugue. Still other passages avoid all tradition as known at the time of the opera’s composition and clearly point the way to the future: the striking three-minute interlude be ...
... It is an eight-voice canon punctuated by a bass drum, which segues into an instrumental interlude that sounds like a jumbled fugue. Still other passages avoid all tradition as known at the time of the opera’s composition and clearly point the way to the future: the striking three-minute interlude be ...
A Brief History of Opera By Deanna R. Hoying
... exception of one, all Verdi's operas deal with serious subject matter from Shakespeare's OTHELLO to Victor Hugo's RIGOLETTO. Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and early Verdi all composed in the BEL CANTO style which was characterized by long, fluid, melodic lines throughout the opera. This marriage betwe ...
... exception of one, all Verdi's operas deal with serious subject matter from Shakespeare's OTHELLO to Victor Hugo's RIGOLETTO. Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and early Verdi all composed in the BEL CANTO style which was characterized by long, fluid, melodic lines throughout the opera. This marriage betwe ...
Document
... Digli ch’io son fedele (Tell him that I am faithful; NAWM 108) from Cleofide (1731) ...
... Digli ch’io son fedele (Tell him that I am faithful; NAWM 108) from Cleofide (1731) ...
Premiere "Il Vologeso"
... Stuttgart, in the then-largest opera house in Europe with a capacity of 3000 seats. At that time Niccolò Jommelli, world-famous composer of operas and liturgical music, had already been Court Music Conductor at the court of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg for 13 years. Through his work, Stuttgart had ...
... Stuttgart, in the then-largest opera house in Europe with a capacity of 3000 seats. At that time Niccolò Jommelli, world-famous composer of operas and liturgical music, had already been Court Music Conductor at the court of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg for 13 years. Through his work, Stuttgart had ...
Chapter 21
... time, at least on maps. His identity was thus tied to being an oppressed outsider. Schumann was not considered a nationalist because his origins and compositional style (German) were seen as universal and “unmarked.” Because of its dominance, German music was seen as simply “music,” while that of ma ...
... time, at least on maps. His identity was thus tied to being an oppressed outsider. Schumann was not considered a nationalist because his origins and compositional style (German) were seen as universal and “unmarked.” Because of its dominance, German music was seen as simply “music,” while that of ma ...
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Danse Bacchanale
... Work composed: 1867–74 World premiere: December 2, 1877, in Weimar, Eduard Lassen conducting Long-lived Saint-Saëns survived an early reputation as a musical revolutionary to become an arch-reactionary, which says perhaps less about him than about the tumultuous changes in culture during his long, p ...
... Work composed: 1867–74 World premiere: December 2, 1877, in Weimar, Eduard Lassen conducting Long-lived Saint-Saëns survived an early reputation as a musical revolutionary to become an arch-reactionary, which says perhaps less about him than about the tumultuous changes in culture during his long, p ...
A A capela - A cappella Choral music for voices alone, without
... Homofonija - Homophony A musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest, combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds. Himna - Hymn A simple religious song in several stanzas, for congregational singing in church. I Impresionizam - Impressionism A French artistic movement of the l ...
... Homofonija - Homophony A musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest, combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds. Himna - Hymn A simple religious song in several stanzas, for congregational singing in church. I Impresionizam - Impressionism A French artistic movement of the l ...
Mr - Christopher Burchett
... Bach Festival where he sang Bach’s B Minor Mass and was part of an Emmy winning national PBS broadcast entitled “Make a Joyful Noise”. Other concert highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New Hampshire Music Festival, Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the New York Ch ...
... Bach Festival where he sang Bach’s B Minor Mass and was part of an Emmy winning national PBS broadcast entitled “Make a Joyful Noise”. Other concert highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New Hampshire Music Festival, Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the New York Ch ...
Rusalka
... the glittering court of the prince. The vocal writing is built around emotional outbursts riding waves of orchestral sound, notably in the final confrontation between the hero and heroine: rather than a standard duet with both characters singing at once, each of them sings straightforward phrases th ...
... the glittering court of the prince. The vocal writing is built around emotional outbursts riding waves of orchestral sound, notably in the final confrontation between the hero and heroine: rather than a standard duet with both characters singing at once, each of them sings straightforward phrases th ...
Music in the Classical Period
... Released by the Archbishop for disorderly conduct and began freelance composing. Considered too young and overqualified for most jobs. Moved to Vienna 1782 – First major opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio Wrote string quartets to emulate Haydn. Made a living by performing his piano concertos. ...
... Released by the Archbishop for disorderly conduct and began freelance composing. Considered too young and overqualified for most jobs. Moved to Vienna 1782 – First major opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio Wrote string quartets to emulate Haydn. Made a living by performing his piano concertos. ...
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.