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One of Rossini's operas is the Barber of Seville.
One can find information regarding operas in Australia at the official Sydney Opera House website. One would find all the information they require about operas.
Operas are divided into acts, further divided into scenes. Some are considered one-act operas, but may be divided into scenes within the act.
CarmenThere are ballet sequences in many operas. One of the most famous is the Dance of The Hours from Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
His most famous work was Pagliacci, but he composed around a dozen operas, one being La Boheme, which premired after Puccini's Boheme.
He wrote more than one, but the most famous is probably the "Marriage of Fiagaro"
Also known as - the Ring of the Nibelung. Made up of the operas - Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) Siegfried Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)
The bird you're thinking of is the "turkey." In the popular Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," one of the gifts mentioned is "a partridge in a pear tree," but turkeys are often associated with the holiday season, especially in the context of Thanksgiving. While turkeys aren't directly mentioned in Christmas carols, they are commonly referenced in festive celebrations.
This is one of three Mozart operas.
The second one. Traditionally, operas have little or no spoken dialogue at all - as opposed to musicals, which have songs to illustrate major sequences and dialogue in between. (Thus Lloyd Webber's "Phantom", insofar as the film, is NOT actually a traditional opera, nor is the stage show; it is technically a musical.)
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Popular operas written in England were often referred to as "English operas" or "ballad operas." One of the most notable examples is John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera," which premiered in 1728 and combined spoken dialogue with songs. These works typically incorporated English themes and folk music elements, distinguishing them from the more formal Italian operas of the time. The genre gained popularity in the 18th century, leading to the development of a unique operatic tradition in England.