Opera

Well, Leontyne Price and Kathleen Battle are a couple of great ones for starters. Plus Jessye Norman. The above list is just a start. Mattiwilda Dobbs was the first African-American to sing in La Scala, first coloratura at The Met....that counts for something! Marian Anderson unfortunately did not have the chance to do much opera on stage but she had one of the greatest voices of the 20th century. Following in their footsteps were Betty Allen, Reri Grist, Barbara Hendricks, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, Carmen Balthrop, Florence Quivar, Leona Mitchell, and now Denyce Graves, Anita Johnson, Harolyn Blackwell...the world is blessed by their artistry and grace. For black female singers of the 19th century (yes!) get Rosalyn Story's book And, So I Sing.

Any three...? Tamino, Papageno, and Pamina.

Cesare Sterbini.

Five of six would be Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Barritone and Bass, Soprano being the highest female voice, and alto lower. Tenor is the higher male voice, with barritone and bass being sequentially lower. These ranges actually overlap, as I as a tenor can hit many notes in the alto and soprano range, even though I am male. I can also dive into the barritone and even a little of the bass. In barbershop chorus, there are four vocal ranges. Tenor (the highest, usually sung by a young boy) Lead (the melody) Barritone (counter melody, lower) and Bass (bass)

An oratorio is just sung using solo voice or choral pieces. The opera uses solos and choral voices too, but involves stage acting as well. For example, Handel's Messiah is an Oratorio ... La Boheme is an Opera.

Mozart wrote the music and the libretto (words) was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

On soap operas, people are always making out or having sex & showing them half naked. when i was younger the most they showed was a peck of kiss. T.V. has changed a lot lately & not for the better. if my kids were still living with me i would not let them watch those shows.

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Arias are melodic, while recitative is closer to speech.

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