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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.
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What is the word to describe a singer with a bass voice in opera?
It's still just called a bass in English, though for Opera there are different types for different types of roles.
Basso Cantante - higher and more lyrical
Hoher Bass - high, dramatic; can also be a baritone
Jugendlicher Bass - wherein the role of a young man is sung by a bass of any age
Basso Buffo - blustery, comic relief bad guys, also called a spielbass
Basso Profundo (lyric or dramatic)- the deepest, lowest bass there is, lyric tends to be sweeter, dramatic is loud and powerful
What is the English translation to the recitative portion of the flower duet from the opera Lakme?
**This is a poetic translation- not a literal translation (only the recitative sections of the flower duet)
LAKME:
Look Mallika! Lianes are in bloom
Casting downward their shadows
Over the sacred stream that flows calm and somber
Awakened by the sound of the song-happy birds!
MALLIKA:
Oh dear mistress!
It's time at last I see you smiling
The time has come and I am reading
What was closed up in the heart of Lakme!
Dome pais... etc....
LAKME:
I, don't know what overcame me
To fill my heart full of fear
When my father goes down alone to the doomed city
I tremble, I tremble, my dear
MALLIKA:
Ganesha will watch over his protege
Up til the pond where the merry do play
With wings of snow swans are swimming
Come let us pick the lotus blue
LAKME:
Oh yes, let's go where white swans are swimming
And let us pick the lotus blue
Dome pais..... etc.
What opera is in the Bertolli commercial?
Carmen is the name of the opera and Habanera is the song
http://www.splendad.com/ads/show/2698-Bertolli-Opera
What is the name of the main character in the three penny opera?
Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) The protagonist is 'Macheath' (Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife)
What happened to the fourth and fifth children of Mozart's?
Of Mozart's six children, only two survived infancy...Karl Thomas Mozart and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. I'm not sure of the order in which they were born.
How did opera buffa and opera seria compare and contrast?
opera buffa was funny but rude
opera seria was serious but nice
and i hate my life
because i need to write an essay on tihs
It"s an Anglo-Australian slang word meaning roughly- The Big cheese, or the Big Idea, in either a person or a thing, mildly derisisive, It might be derived from some operatic usage.Tra la lee tra la la cockiolorum! or something like that.
