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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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About 2 hours. You can get a Tosca DVD, running time 120 minutes. A performance at a theater will take a little longer, allowing for scene changes etc.
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The pirates of is a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera?
The pirates of Penzance. Very ribald and funny opera. Made fun of the British way of conducting the navy.
What musical was based on Puccini's La Boheme?
Rent, with the setting being changed from 1840s Paris to 1990s Manhattan.
What is singspiel closest in format to a music drama an intermedi a grand opera or a ballad opera?
A singspiel is basically a stage play with songs and sometimes dances added. A ballad opera is the same, with popular songs and ballads added. Intermedi were spectacles of music and sometimes dance presented between the acts of plays. In grand opera and music drama the dialogue is sung. So the answer is that a singspiel is closest to a ballad opera.
Which Opera has the Aria O del mio amato ben by Stefano Donaudy?
This aria is not from an opera. Donaudy included it in his collection of books 36 Arie di Stile Antico. It appears in the second book. Even though it is an aria, it doesn't appear in an opera. Donaudy gives all sorts of names to his book of 36 arie. Aria is just one of them.
Was George Bizet of Jewish Origin?
No he was not. Georges Bizet was not Jewish, his father-in-law was. Bizet married the daughter of his composition professor, Jacques Halevy
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Every possible emotion and, even though the opera might be based on fact there is usually 'artistic licence'.
What is the difference between operas and musical?
Please rephrase - the question is unclear.
Music is a part of opera. Opera is a stage play in which all the dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment. The difference is that opera needs music but music doesn't need opera.
How does rock opera compare to opera?
An example of a rock opera would be Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The instruments and style of the music is rock, but the music is exaggerated the same way that opera is. The term can be used loosely to describe over exaggerated rock music.
Georges Bizet was not Jewish. His father-in-law was Jacques Fromental Halévy (1799 -- 1862), born in Paris to a distinguished Jewish family. Halévy was the composer of La Juive (the Jewess) which was produced at the Paris Opéra; he was not a librettist.
Who holds the record for the shortest opera overture and which opera was it from?
In the world of music where everything can be exceptionally subjective - even the meanings of 'titles' - music / operas can be written not for the usually reasons. A composer can compose purely to be the 'longest' or 'shortest' or most silent [yes a piece of music was written without any sounds!] So this answer is given thus - Peter Reynolds's 'Sands of Time' is only 3 minutes and 34 seconds long - its 'overture' is when it starts with the sand-timer being turned, and ends with the egg coming out of the saucepan.
Is the Stravinsky opera Mavra available anywhere on DVD?
It is not available. The only Stravinsky operas available on DVD are: Oedipus Rex 1992 with Jessye Norman and Bryn Terfel Rake's Progress 1995 with Barbara Hendricks and Greg Fedderly Rake's Progress 1996 with Dawn Upshaw and Jerry Hadley Le Rossignol 2004 with Natalie Dessay and Violeta Urmana Nothing else in the Opera DVD Catalogue Alan Hauppauge NY April 2008
What is Don Giovanni K. 527 Monophonic Polyphonic or Homophonic?
Yes. You're not asking about a single song, but rather an ENTIRE OPERA.
What vocal range do I fit under if I can reach E2 to C4 with a falsetto going up to F5?
It looks as if you'd be classed as a bass, perhaps with a shortened top. The average bass voice extends from E2 to E4. Exercise and training can probably extend your top somewhat.
Who wrote the first opera and What was the title of the first opera?
By general consent, the first opera was Daphne or Dafne, first performed in 1598, music by Jacopo Corsi (-1604) and Jacopo Peri (1561-1633), libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621). If there were any earlier we have no record, and none of the score for Daphne remains.
Why do singers in opera often sing so loud?
The reason that opera singers sing so loud, are because they have to have a full sound and originally when opera's were the main forum of entertainment, they did not have any microphones and they would be singing to a normal modern day opera crowd size
Who invented reggae opera and what is it?
Reggae opera was coined and invented by Ras cardo from trench town Jamaica. He is the same inventor and creator for many things in Reggae and of reggae music. He also coined the word Reggae in 1962. Reggae opera was coined by him in 1964 and was taken to his high school where he introduced it to his classmates, most notably Geoffrey Chung.
Reggae opera is reggae music sung with an operatic style and classical rhythm just like the known classics of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and others. It was a trench town creation in the tenement room where Ras Cardo grew up. To date only one known reggae opera DIVA exists who also hails from Kingston, Jamaica. Trench town however is the first for many things musical and Ras cardo has chosen to keep a lot of its creations and talents from exploitations.
Ras Cardo has the archives to which many aspire to obtain the facts on the who's and why's of trench town musical historicity. Today- Janet Scott is the worlds first and only living reggae opera diva from Jamaica.
It originated because it was someone's birthday. Someone of a high level. Around a hundered years later, it was made out for the public. Now we watch it today :)
What is the difference between Classical Opera and Opera of Verdi?
Within this context -- any Verdi opera would be considered a classical opera.
