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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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Luciano Pavarotti was born on the outskirts of Modena in northern Italy on 12th October 1935.
Which was not an element of an operetta?
Operettas actually used songs instead of spoken dialogue. CHiNO =]
Where can you buy a DVD of the new york city opera's production of A Little Night Music?
As far as I can tell by extensive web search, a DVD of this pproduction was never released, badly as I wanted one myself. I did, however, record the performance onto a VHS which I then transferred to DVD, cutting out a lot of the extraneous material while I was at it. Came out pretty good too! There is a DVD out of a production that was based on the NYC Opera's production but with different people in the cast which is readily available. It was a red cover and just says "Bernstein: Candide". You might want to check on www.ioffer.com which is populated by people who have done similar recordings and are willing to sell a copy. There's actually quite a lot of interesting material available on that site, notably a lot of films that either never came out on DVD or did come out but have since gone out of print. It's how I got a copy, however terrible the quality, of the 1951 film version of Frank Loesser's "Where's Charley?" which was never even released here as a theatrical film, much less as a DVD...something to do with Loesser's widow Jo Sullivan not liking the way the film turned out and therefore preventing the estate from releasing it.
Who is Austin Prod from 1961 a sculptor?
Austin Products Inc is a company that has produced sculptures since 1952. Austin Productions has succeeded in creating the most extensive collection of sculpture reproductions in the world.
Why is the opera house in Paris important?
The Paris Opera House's name Garnier created by Charles Garnier was the inspiration for Gaston Leroux to write The Phantom of the Opera. During construction, they ran into a subterranean waterway and had to build the Opera House over it. Certain times of the year, you can go and visit this level.
Paris Opera House Garnier is important to people of Paris, it represent beauty and still standing all these years through Napoleon Wars, World War 1, World War 2. It is breathing taking on the outside and the interior is something to be awe of its splendor. It is used to this day for Ballet.
Paris Opera House Bastille is used for Opera. It built in 1968 as a memorial to storming of the Bastille.
Awful incidents took place at the Opéra Garnier, like the fall of the big lustre Chandelier on May 20th 1896, which killed a woman during the performance of the Faust of Goethe. Some people say that she occupied the number 13 seat... A pupil of the Opéra Garnier ballet class fell on the thirteenth step of the great staircase. Furthermore, the Opera House's underground was the scene of the most dreadful crimes during the Commune and people still think it is haunted because a skeleton was discovered there.
Paris Commune were similar to extreme left, almost communistic ideas, they were trying to over throw Paris, some were prisoners of Opera House Garnier's basement.
Gaston Leroux was a reporter and theatre critic for L'Echo de Paris and international reporter and correspondent for Le Matin Newspaper, he was involved in the investigation in depth coverage of the former Paris Opera House which was for Ballet Company, upon discovery, in the basement held prisoners of the Paris Commune. In 1907 he leaves the newspaper, started writing mystery novels to turn into films he and Arthur Bernede started together the Society des Cineromans.
A libretto is the text a composer sets to music. It contains all the dialogue and stage directions of the play, and can be dramatic or comedic. Libretti (Italian plural for Libretto) without the music would simply be scripts.
Yes - he was baptized in the Church of SS Paolino e Donato.
What instruments did giacomo puccini play?
Giocomo Puccini studied and played the piano. He also played the organ and was a piano teacher. Puccini was an Italian opera composer whose operas include 'La Boheme' and 'Madame Butterfly'. He was born in 1858 and died in 1924.
Caro mio ben is a love song. this would be a young man telling the woman of his dreams that he is head over heels for her. that his heart languishs for her and only her. HE telling her over and over again that he loves her and that the cruelity toward him needs to stop.
To give you a simplier meaning i have broken the words down.
Caro Mio Ben, Credimi Almen,
Hello my love, listen to what i am saying
Senza di te, lanquisce il cor.
I long for you
Il tuo fedel, Sospira Ongor;
I am yours and you are my Life
Cessa crudel, tanto rigor.
stop the Cruelity and love me.
this truly is a beautiful song.
What are three differences between phantom of the opera and the nutcracker?
Phantom is a musical; the Nutcracker is a ballet.
Phantom has a phantom; the Nutcracker has dancing mice.
Phantom has a falling chandelier; the Nutcracker has a Sugarplum Fairy.
There seems to be no records to support this to be an actual execution.
A very brief answer to a very complex question - There is 'western' opera and there is 'Eastern' [Chinese] opera. The differences between East and West opera? Chinese opera is uniquely different from Western opera because there are so many details such as origins, storylines, costumes, facial painting, stage rituals, customs, character types etc. And the 'music', well you must listen because it is impossible to describe except to say it is totally unlike 'Western' opera music and the singing is just as different - factually it is an acquired taste. 'Western' opera is such as Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, Verdi etc.
1. Libretto - text of opera
2. Overture - instrumental composition which serves as introduction
3. recitative - song dialogue
4. aria - reflects dramatic feelings
5. duo, trio and other small ensemble
6. orchestra
7. chorus
8. acts and scenes
9. ballet
What is a 17th-century solo vocal piece of music called?
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It could be an aria, a cantata, a song.
Searching on the word suite doesn't bring up anything vocal. In the 17th century a suite was a set of interrelated pieces for a solo instrument or an orchestra. Bach wrote suites for cello, for violin, for keyboard and for orchestra. A suite could also be a selection of pieces from a larger work, like Handel's Water Music Suite, made of pieces from a large set he wrote to be played as his King's barge floated down the Thames, or his Suite from the Music For The Royal Fireworks.
A full musical score is a written form of the different instruments appears on separate staves on large pages. The opera score used by the conductor would also show the vocal scoring. There are many types of 'scores' and the link below will provide further information.
