Opera

Maria Callas singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" from the opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini.

"Wie Nahte Mir Der Schlummer" (Aria from the Opera "Der Freischutz")

Performed by The Munchner Rundfunkorchester

Conducted by Karl Eichhorn

Soprano by Lucia Popp

Written by Carl Maria von Weber

The evolution of the opera house covers a few hundred years so I would suggest referring to a good history of opera that contains illustrations etc of the various houses over this period. However the one major part of this evolution is probably the acoustic enhancement of the opera house by wiring for sound with loudspeakers. This could mean larger houses and using singers with less vocal projection and carrying power - that could be looked upon as good or bad.

Louis XIV founded the Paris Opera in 1669. Jean-Baptiste Lully was declared the leader of the Opera shortly after it was founded. After Jean Baptiste was named the leader, the Opera's name was officially changed to Academie Royale de Musique(The Academy of Royal Music).

Indeed he did and two good examples are Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro - see the links below regarding these two operas.

It is not made clear who his mother is.

It was about a ship named "HMS Pinafore" in the navy.

The opera seen in the film was a section of Mozart's "Don Giovanni."

There are thousands of operas on hundreds of topics: this is like asking "what is a movie about." Popular themes are love, death, betrayal, war, and magic.

The composer of "la Donna e Mobile"( "the woman is fickle" ) is Guiseppe Verdi

It's from the opera Rigoletto, composed in 1851

"Libretto" is the technical term for the text and lyrics.

Music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600. While defining the actual dates of the era is difficult, opera did not actually exist then. Towards the end of the era, the early dramatic ancestors of opera existed - for example, the madrigal comedy and the Intermedio. Madrigal comedy is a term for a kind of entertainment in which groups of related madrigals were sung consecutively. These generally told a story, sometimes with a loose dramatic plot. It is an important element in the origins of opera. [A madrigal is a type of secular vocal music composition] The Intermedio, or intermezzo, was a theatrical spectacle with music, often with dance which was performed between the acts of a play. Both of these were important predecessors to opera showing element of / in the origins of opera.

Extremely difficult to answer as the 'highlight' would be very subjective. However one could say that the main arias or such like or the appearance / entrance / performance of a particular star would be the highlight.

The deepest or lowest voice in the opera is the Bass (pronounced like "base"). If you want to show off, you could answer, "Basso Profundo." That guy specializes in the lowest music in the bass category (Fach).

Easily, the longest opera would be Wagner's The Ring Cycle which was written in four parts: Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Götterdamerung. It lasts around 18 hours (with intermissions) and is normally performed in four shorter performances. By contrast, the longest single performance would be Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg which is around five and a half hours long. But then..."long" is a relative term and much depends on whether or not you're enjoying the experience. If I'm not mistaken, The Ring technically is considered to be a tetraolog(or triology, with prologue): a grouping of 4 different operas, not a single opera: it therefore would not qualify as a correct response. Also, an uncut version, usually last 15-16 hours, depending on the conductor(s) tempi: but not 18. Loge!

To answer this question in the present form would mean listing thousands of singers. The question would need to be more specific.

I believe when i watch the opera it was black and white. that makes them look more confiscated

On the whole, most opera`s have a tragic ending, but operettas seem to have a happy ending. The tragis ending in the operas` seem to get the audience to become so involved that as the curtian closes for the final, they start to get a standing ovation.

"Mezzo" is Italian for "middle", so a mezzo soprano is a middle-pitched woman's voice. The higher voice is soprano, of which there are different categories, (lyric, dramatic, coloratura, etc.), depending on the strength of voice required and the duration of the part. The lowest female voice is contralto or alto.

ie: Wrote an opera with Leonard Bernstein.

Penzance is located in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Cornwall is a peninsula stretching to the west from the southern part of the island of Britain, south of Wales

L'Orfeo (1607).

Caruso Sailed with $200,000, of which $50,000 Was Derived from Phonograph Records.

Mimi introduces herself to Rodolfo and the audience in this aria in act 1.

Aria or Recitative

The latter is generally without rhythm