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 ...
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... The Baroque musical theatre of the early 18th century, as was inherited from Händel, was a combination of genuine artistic values and obsolete elements of form. The performance would usually start with an Italian overture (Allegro – Lento – Allegro) or with a French overture (Lento – Allegro – Lento ...
... The Baroque musical theatre of the early 18th century, as was inherited from Händel, was a combination of genuine artistic values and obsolete elements of form. The performance would usually start with an Italian overture (Allegro – Lento – Allegro) or with a French overture (Lento – Allegro – Lento ...
A Musical Italy: Michael W. Balfe`s Italian Experiences
... something for his talents and personal style. While in Milan, Balfe and his patron also visited the opera: Rossini’s Semiramide, Mosè in Egitto, La Cenerentola and Tancredi were being performed at La Scala. These were operas that Balfe would become very familiar with in the future. Afterwards they d ...
... something for his talents and personal style. While in Milan, Balfe and his patron also visited the opera: Rossini’s Semiramide, Mosè in Egitto, La Cenerentola and Tancredi were being performed at La Scala. These were operas that Balfe would become very familiar with in the future. Afterwards they d ...
I Pagliacci - Michigan Opera Theatre
... Baroque period in music, Italian opera spread across Europe. In fact the Italian style of opera was so popular that even though other countries and regions often had their own traditions of musical drama, the Italian form was usually preferred. George Frederick Handel was a German-born composer who ...
... Baroque period in music, Italian opera spread across Europe. In fact the Italian style of opera was so popular that even though other countries and regions often had their own traditions of musical drama, the Italian form was usually preferred. George Frederick Handel was a German-born composer who ...
Jean-Baptiste Lully (Giovanni Battista Lulli) (1632 – 1687
... Royal Ballet. By March 16, 1653, Lully had been made the royal composer for instrumental music. In 1661 Louis XIV named Lully superintendent of the royal music and music master of the royal family. When he married the daughter of the renowned singer and composer Michel Lambert in 1662, Giovanni Batt ...
... Royal Ballet. By March 16, 1653, Lully had been made the royal composer for instrumental music. In 1661 Louis XIV named Lully superintendent of the royal music and music master of the royal family. When he married the daughter of the renowned singer and composer Michel Lambert in 1662, Giovanni Batt ...
Acting in Opera: A Stanislavsky Approach.
... 35) Although brief, this bit of information is of paramount importance, if not the most important fact to know while preparing a role. This sentence comes from the chapter on Action, and it describes almost everything one should know about movement on stage. On stage, I always try to find a purpose ...
... 35) Although brief, this bit of information is of paramount importance, if not the most important fact to know while preparing a role. This sentence comes from the chapter on Action, and it describes almost everything one should know about movement on stage. On stage, I always try to find a purpose ...
From Modal to Tonal: The Influence of Monteverdi on Musical
... any mode, revealing its strong importance within modal music. An example of this strong usage of the diapente can be found in the madrigal “Ah dolente partita” found in Monteverdi’s Book 4 of madrigals.14 Being in the aeolian mode, key notes will be the octave of a divided at e, the upper boundary ...
... any mode, revealing its strong importance within modal music. An example of this strong usage of the diapente can be found in the madrigal “Ah dolente partita” found in Monteverdi’s Book 4 of madrigals.14 Being in the aeolian mode, key notes will be the octave of a divided at e, the upper boundary ...
Antonio Salieri - Dr David Wright
... The majority of Salieri’s modest number of instrumental works also date from about this time. Salieri’s instrumental works have been judged by various critics and scholars to lack the inspiration and innovation found in his writing for the stage. These orchestral works are mainly in the galant styl ...
... The majority of Salieri’s modest number of instrumental works also date from about this time. Salieri’s instrumental works have been judged by various critics and scholars to lack the inspiration and innovation found in his writing for the stage. These orchestral works are mainly in the galant styl ...
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 ...
La Bohème - Pacific Opera Victoria
... Puccini’s Early Operas In 1883, with the encouragement of Ponchielli, who even found him a librettist, Puccini entered a competition for a one-act opera. The opera, Le Villi, was based on the legend of the Willis, the ghosts of girls who, having died of broken hearts, exact revenge on their faithles ...
... Puccini’s Early Operas In 1883, with the encouragement of Ponchielli, who even found him a librettist, Puccini entered a competition for a one-act opera. The opera, Le Villi, was based on the legend of the Willis, the ghosts of girls who, having died of broken hearts, exact revenge on their faithles ...
Recondite Harmony: the operas of Puccini Introduction
... tonal organization? These questions heighten awareness of the challenges of understanding opera ...
... tonal organization? These questions heighten awareness of the challenges of understanding opera ...
BEDŘICH SMETANA The Bartered Bride, Opera in Three Acts Cast
... become too drunk to go on. Esmeralda, having noticed Vašek’s admiring glances, seductively extols the artist’s life. She and the Ringmaster then easily persuade the boy to take on the bear’s role. After the circus troupe departs to prepare their performance, Vašek’s parents, Mícha and Háta, arrive w ...
... become too drunk to go on. Esmeralda, having noticed Vašek’s admiring glances, seductively extols the artist’s life. She and the Ringmaster then easily persuade the boy to take on the bear’s role. After the circus troupe departs to prepare their performance, Vašek’s parents, Mícha and Háta, arrive w ...
BEDŘICH SMETANA The Bartered Bride, Opera in Three Acts Cast
... become too drunk to go on. Esmeralda, having noticed Vašek’s admiring glances, seductively extols the artist’s life. She and the Ringmaster then easily persuade the boy to take on the bear’s role. After the circus troupe departs to prepare their performance, Vašek’s parents, Mícha and Háta, arrive w ...
... become too drunk to go on. Esmeralda, having noticed Vašek’s admiring glances, seductively extols the artist’s life. She and the Ringmaster then easily persuade the boy to take on the bear’s role. After the circus troupe departs to prepare their performance, Vašek’s parents, Mícha and Háta, arrive w ...
fairytales for narrator and music
... The fairytale of the Little Mermaid is one of the best known works of Hans Christian Andersen. It is about the unhappy love of the mermaid Arielle for Prince William, whom she saves from drowning and in whom she then falls hopelessly in love. This love goes so far that she ultimately sacrifices her ...
... The fairytale of the Little Mermaid is one of the best known works of Hans Christian Andersen. It is about the unhappy love of the mermaid Arielle for Prince William, whom she saves from drowning and in whom she then falls hopelessly in love. This love goes so far that she ultimately sacrifices her ...
opera as social manifest: madlena zepter`s private opera house and
... 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 vigorously debated and negotiated if not sapped and doubted. I have already stated that the c ...
... 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 vigorously debated and negotiated if not sapped and doubted. I have already stated that the c ...
Notes on History and Theory of Opera (Dramatic
... Opera is drama that combines soliloquy, dialogue, scenery, action and continuous music; the whole greater than the sum of the artistic parts. Opera started in Italy which continued to dominate its development for its 400+ year history. Italian style opera became popular throughout Europe. Only aft ...
... Opera is drama that combines soliloquy, dialogue, scenery, action and continuous music; the whole greater than the sum of the artistic parts. Opera started in Italy which continued to dominate its development for its 400+ year history. Italian style opera became popular throughout Europe. Only aft ...
"Pelléas" and Power
... jection of or receptivity to Pellkas aligns directly with their politics. Monarchist papers-Le Gaulois and the Gazette de Franceattacked the opera viciously, while republican ones-Le Petit Parisien, Le Temps, the Journal des Debats, La Republique, La Petite Republique, and the Revue de Paris-support ...
... jection of or receptivity to Pellkas aligns directly with their politics. Monarchist papers-Le Gaulois and the Gazette de Franceattacked the opera viciously, while republican ones-Le Petit Parisien, Le Temps, the Journal des Debats, La Republique, La Petite Republique, and the Revue de Paris-support ...
Giacomo Puccini - San Francisco Opera
... The subject of Puccini's style is one that has been long avoided by musicologists. This avoidance can perhaps be attributed to the perception that his work, with its emphasis on melody and evident popular appeal, lacked "seriousness.” A similar prejudice beset Rachmaninoff (composer representative o ...
... The subject of Puccini's style is one that has been long avoided by musicologists. This avoidance can perhaps be attributed to the perception that his work, with its emphasis on melody and evident popular appeal, lacked "seriousness.” A similar prejudice beset Rachmaninoff (composer representative o ...
Program Note
... 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 for the nation… I am viewed as a composer of symphonies and yet I proved long years ago that my main bias is towards dramatic creation.” He w ...
... 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 for the nation… I am viewed as a composer of symphonies and yet I proved long years ago that my main bias is towards dramatic creation.” He w ...
La Boheme Bio - San Francisco Opera
... The subject of Puccini's style is one that has been long avoided by musicologists. This avoidance can perhaps be attributed to the perception that his work, with its emphasis on melody and evident popular appeal, lacked "seriousness.” A similar prejudice beset Rachmaninoff (composer representative o ...
... The subject of Puccini's style is one that has been long avoided by musicologists. This avoidance can perhaps be attributed to the perception that his work, with its emphasis on melody and evident popular appeal, lacked "seriousness.” A similar prejudice beset Rachmaninoff (composer representative o ...
Table of Contents
... opera) is a special use of music. It is music that is meant to be sung, of course, but it has characteristics that many songs do not. Operatic music is dramatic music, written for the theater. For this reason, it must also be capable of describing strong feelings that invite the audience’s involveme ...
... opera) is a special use of music. It is music that is meant to be sung, of course, but it has characteristics that many songs do not. Operatic music is dramatic music, written for the theater. For this reason, it must also be capable of describing strong feelings that invite the audience’s involveme ...
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 ...
a c b d e
... From origins as an unnamed Biblical figure to incarnations as an iconic seductress, the character of Salomé has captivated artists, playwrights, and poets for more than two millennia. A multidisciplinary project this fall brought together scholars and performers from a wide range of disciplines to e ...
... From origins as an unnamed Biblical figure to incarnations as an iconic seductress, the character of Salomé has captivated artists, playwrights, and poets for more than two millennia. A multidisciplinary project this fall brought together scholars and performers from a wide range of disciplines to e ...
“Literaturoper”: a term StiLL in Search of a Definition
... Gounod’s preface in fact offers an almost exact contemporary parallel to Musorgsky’s use of a dramatic prose text by Nikolai Gogol in his Zhenit’ba (“The Marriage”, 1868), and there can hardly have been any contact between the two composers; we can believe Janáček, too, when he claims to have used p ...
... Gounod’s preface in fact offers an almost exact contemporary parallel to Musorgsky’s use of a dramatic prose text by Nikolai Gogol in his Zhenit’ba (“The Marriage”, 1868), and there can hardly have been any contact between the two composers; we can believe Janáček, too, when he claims to have used p ...
Madama Butterfly
... known as “La giovane scuola” (The Young School) in the 1890s, a time when Italy was looking for the operatic heir to Giuseppe Verdi. The other members of this group include composers who--although they wrote a number of operas--are principally known for having had only one overwhelming operatic succ ...
... known as “La giovane scuola” (The Young School) in the 1890s, a time when Italy was looking for the operatic heir to Giuseppe Verdi. The other members of this group include composers who--although they wrote a number of operas--are principally known for having had only one overwhelming operatic succ ...
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.