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Opera
‘Opera’ is the Italian word for ‘work’ and an abbreviation of ‘Opera in musica’. An opera is a drama to be sung with instrumental accompaniment by one or more singers usually in costume and with scenery. As well as singing, this may include recitative or spoken dialogue. Questions should relate directly to the subject of opera.
1,955 Questions
What is the principle singer in an opera called?
Main role, main character.
The leading lady can be referred to as the prima donna.
What is special about the technology in the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet?
Carmen is a normal [but great] opera calling for no special technology.
Mozart operas are written in the composer's native German as well as in?
Mozart composed operas in German and Italian. Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, and Così fan tutteare three of his most popular Italian operas.
What is Nessun Dorma most well known for achieving?
Nessun Dorma is most well know for achieving the status of being the most well known tenor arias in opera. This was achieved after it was sung in the well know opera Turandot.
== == What happened when you typed Janacek into the Wikipedia search thingy? It should have said Czech Composer famous for composing some startlingly good opera! If that's who you meant otherwise I am stumped who else he or she might be other someone also with that name!
answer 2 Born 3rd July 1854 died 12th August 1928 he was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. The operas he wrote:- Šárka - 1887 The Beginning of a Romance - 1894 Her Stepdaughter [Jenůfa] - 1904 Fate - 1904 The Excursions of Mr. Broucek - 1920 Káťa Kabanová - 1921 The Cunning Little Vixen - 1924 The Makropoulos Affair - 1926 From the House of the Dead - 1930
Where can you buy the vocal score of the original St Petersburg version of La Forza del Destino...?
Send me e-mail address to mazinraf@paho.org and I will send you a pdf copy of it for free
Greetings,
rafael
