The world's largest orchestra gathered in BC Place Stadium., in Vancouver, Canada. It was comprised of the entire Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, plus about 6400 band students, who came from about 160 across the province. They played an arrangement from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, for 9 minutes 44 seconds. The old record was set in Birmingham, England when 3500 musicians got together to play for secen minutes and 42 seconds. Ben B. Source: my sister was in the orchestra.

The cast of The Pirates of Penzance - 2006 includes: Sarah Blood as Daughter Andrew Brunsdon as Samuel Simon Butteriss as Major-General Stanley Meshell Dillon as Daughter Taryn Fiebig as Mabel Stanley Lucy Fussell as Daughter Lucy Garrioch as Daughter Rebecca Gresson as Daughter Bridget Hardy as Isabel Helen Haviland as Daughter David Hobson as Frederic Suzanne Johnston as Ruth Catrine Kirkman as Daughter Martin Lamb as Samuel John Lofthouse as The Pirate King Carla Maney as Daughter Kara McLean as Daughter Charlotte Page as Mabel Stanley Jill Pert as Ruth Rebecca Von Lipinski as Mabel Stanley Anthony Warlow as Pirate King Annalise Whittlesea as Edith

The story is about a Gypsy girl and a jealous lover that kills her after finding out about her betrayal.

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The Firebird was written by Igor Stravinsky

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Italy was greatly affected by the Renaissance, and they were probably the ones who had a great interest in operas in the first place.

Italian is also a classic language for artistic performances, as many people in opera have to learn Italian and German because many of them were written in more classic languages than English.

Also, Italians like pasta and lots of it, and you need to exercise your diaphragm to belt out many of those poweful notes in Italian arias.

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Luciano Pavarotti

Nicolai Ghiaurov

Ruggero Raimondi

Bryn Terfel

Roberto Alagna

Ingvar Wixell

Dan Iordachescu

Nicolae Herlea

Dmitri Hsvorovstosky

Thomas Allen

Samuel Ramey

Simon Keenlyside

Enzio Pinza

19th century

Nessum Dorma from Turandot

Celeste Aida from Aida

Che gelida manina from La boheme

Di quella pira from il Travatore

Recondita amore from Tosca

e lucevan le Stella from Tosca

Vissi d'arte from Tosca

To name but a few

Well there are many themes. Some simple ones are mystery, death and love. But there are also others such as jealousy, hate, fear and pity. There are many different themes, it all depends on how you look at it. ;)

Rico blanco (but can sing tenor range), Rafael Toledo (speaks), glenn jacinto(teeth)., Karl Roy, Yael Yuzon( spongecola), Lui Pio ng Hale (but can sing tenor range),Vic Sotto and Joey De leon Nag fa- falssetto lang pero baritone talaga,, Richard Poon. Etc..

It is classical and it is music that tells a story through the actors singing instead of dialog.

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Your question could be best answered by pages of songs, but I'm assuming that you are not an experienced listener of opera, so here are a few that have a great deal of appeal: "Mio Babbino Caro" by Puccini-"Sempre Liber" by Verdi- "Voi Che Sapata" by Mozart and "Habanera" by Bizet.
As for choral, I'm assuming that you are referring to songs sung by a chorus. Again, there are so many varieties of songs and choral groups; I think that the name of the group is more helpful in this case than a particular song arrangement. If you like groups that sing a great variety of quality music, you might check on Amazon the following groups: Chanticleer-King's Singers-Tallis Scholars-Monteverdi Singers. The songs of the discs are usually listed and you can also hear them.
Happy listening!!!!

Beethoven.

Operas can be written in any language, but most great western operas are in Italian, German, or French, though there are some great English and Russian works. Those five languages should cover the most common opera repertoire, but lots of contemporary operas are being written in less common languages, even Klingon and Esperanto, or even a mix of languages.

It depends on his vocal range. He could be called a Tenor, a Countertenor, a Baritone or a Bass.

Within some, there are sub-categories. For example a Heldentenor is primarily hired with the house produces most Wagner operas.

1 : the actual pages and the text of a work (as an opera) for the musical theater2 : the book containing a libretto Origin of LIBRETTO Italian, diminutive of libro book, from Latin libr-, liberFirst Known Use: is mean, "work"

The duration of Adventures of the Barber of Seville is 1.53 hours.

Basically as any composer would, however in the case of this opera the way his writing complements and supports each other is exceptionally well done and if you were to take particular note the music always 'sets the scene' without being overly intrusive. I think that possibly one of the best examples is in act 1 from 'Your tiny hand is frozen' to the very end of the act.

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