Opera

Many will say 'not enough'! It is the rare musician who is compensated for the years of study and practice required to become an opera singer.

Your answer depends on talent, skill, luck and reputation. Longer-term, better known opera singers earn more than do newly minted voices.

There may be union scale wages for members of the opera chorus, but named singers are paid by contract amounts -- in multiple tens of thousands.

Lilia Reyes, Jovita Fuentes, Salvacion Oppus Yniguez, Sylvia La Torre, Evelyn Mandac, Fides Cuyugan, Rachelle Gerodias

The Frenchman Charles Gounod composed the music to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.

Side Note: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote the original play "Faust." Charles Gounod composed the opera.

Puccini wrote La Boheme in 1895, and it premiered the following year.

The free solo passage without orchestral accompaniment in a concerto is called a cadenza.

The Opera involved is that of Paris, France. The time frame is the late 1800s, early 1900s.

Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht, a German dramatist

Jaume ( Giacomo) Aragall is the tenor with the most beautiful lyric voice. He is considered by his peers including Pavarotti to have the greatest voice. Aragall was born in Barcelona in 1939 and was the youngest tenor to make his debut at La Scala at the age of 23, he went on to sing at all the major opera houses of the world to the greatest critical acclaim. An exceptionally reserved man, he never employed the PR system to make his name famous but once heard, his fans seek him out wherever he sings.

He has a group dedicated to him on facebook and you can join by typing Aragall Appreciation Association Group.

Grace Bumbry, Marilyn Horne, Shirley Verrett, Stephanie Blythe, Agnes Baltsa, Frederica von Stade, Cecilia Bartoli, Rita Gorr, Janet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Elina Garanca, Jennifer Larmore, and many more.

In this day and age, you can get by with just about anything, but if you don't want to embarrass your date, a sport coat should be considered minimally acceptable attire. Suits are common, and tuxs are not unusual. But, hey…if you enjoy opera and all you have is a pair of Levis…go for it!

Le nozze di Figaro, or The Marriage of Figaro, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte, and was based on the play La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais.

Basically - Don Giovanni [a rake] meets defeat in three encounters - With Donna Elvira, whom he has deserted but who still follows him. Then with Donna Anna, who must postpone her marriage to Don Ottavio after Don Giovanni tries to rape her and kills her father. Finally with Zerlina, whom he vainly tries to lure from her fiancé, the peasant Masetto. They all vow vengeance on Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello. Finally Don Giovanni is destroyed and delivered to hell by the statue of the Commendatore, who had accepted Giovanni's invitation to supper.

Floria.

Given the question would cover about 400 years, various cultures, types of opera etc it would be impossible to give a decent answer here and a suggestion is to consult a musical / operatic encyclopaedia either in the library or on line.

There seems to be no translation. The only suggestion is to find someone to translate the relevant parts of the libretto for you. You can obtain the original libretto on the web site of 'Opera Today'.

Hello, I don't know how long ago you wrote this question or whether you are still interested but I am a translator and opera singer (highly qualified in both areas) and would absolutely love to do a translation for you!

Let me know if you are interested!

Monteverdi had written nine madrigals the eight being well know and his largest

In an opera recitative is a narrative song that describes some action, thought, or emotion. The recitative follows the natural flow of the language, and is more a speaking composition than a singing composition.

One of the most popular operas is 'La boheme', by Puccini, which always plays to packed out houses, although anyone who sees the Oscars knows that popularity doesn't always mean "the best." All answers to this would be subjective, but many think the greatest of all operas is Mozart's Don Giovanni. But there are dozens of contenders. If you're looking for most popular operas, you can google some of the major opera houses and look at their history for most performances. La Boheme and Carmen would certainly be contenders for most performances.

Intermezzo

Carmen is traditionally sung in French.

There is also an English version performed by the English National Opera.

The standard textbook answer is 'Daphne' first performed in 1598 during Carnival at the home of Jacopo Corsi in Florence. The music was by Corsi and Jacopo Peri to a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini. It is recognized as such because it was the first of a series of similar pieces that established the form of early 17th century Italian opera. The score does not survive.

The lowest female voice is the Contralto; also considered the rarest in occurrance.

For his operas. The most famous are Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Bohema, Turandot.

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There are MANY songs with violins in them. Your question needs to have more details in it in order to be answerable. Maybe... The Devil Went Down To Georgia, that's a really common fiddle song.