Opera

'Verismo'

According to a reliable source she fell to her death out an open apartment window. I do not know if this was accident or suicide, these are both possibilities. she was 44 at the time. the accident occured in London in l97l. ==More info== From an online biography: "She (Collier) made no secret of her loneliness and was once reported as saying: 'When rehearsals are over and you leave the theatre, there's nothing'. It was this public statement that led to rumours of suicide when her sudden death was announced on 8 December 1971. She had died of intercranial haemorrhage and a fractured skull in Charing Cross Hospital, London, after falling from a window of her London flat. Her blood-alcohol level was .28. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death."

Giuseppe Verdi.

well in victorian times some singers were;

james bear

carol claire

hilary rachel

cecilia benifit

keirstin armstrong

Libretto This is great info for tests They got every thing!

If you're referring to the alto range, then the really high male opera singers are called counter tenors. They are pretty rare voice types and there are not many operas with counter tenor roles. There are a few in baroque operas and then in some 20th century works of Benjamin Britten.

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Well, you could be referring to either Alma Gluck (nee Reba Feinsohn), a soprano in the early 1900's, or you could be referring to Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer of Orfeo ed Euridice, among other operas. She sang at the Met and his operas have been performed at the Met.

Ballad opera

The lyrics of an opera are called the "libretto."

The heroine of Wagner's opera is Elsa von Brabant.

It's still just called a bass in English, though for Opera there are different types for different types of roles.

Basso Cantante - higher and more lyrical

Hoher Bass - high, dramatic; can also be a baritone

Jugendlicher Bass - wherein the role of a young man is sung by a bass of any age

Basso Buffo - blustery, comic relief bad guys, also called a spielbass

Basso Profundo (lyric or dramatic)- the deepest, lowest bass there is, lyric tends to be sweeter, dramatic is loud and powerful

Gilbert never wrote music.

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The so-called "Triumphal March": "Gloria all'Egitto."

A base is the lowest of the vocal ranges.

Boris Godunov.

W. A. Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

**This is a poetic translation- not a literal translation (only the recitative sections of the flower duet)

LAKME:

Look Mallika! Lianes are in bloom

Casting downward their shadows

Over the sacred stream that flows calm and somber

Awakened by the sound of the song-happy birds!

MALLIKA:

Oh dear mistress!

It's time at last I see you smiling

The time has come and I am reading

What was closed up in the heart of Lakme!

Dome pais... etc....

LAKME:

I, don't know what overcame me

To fill my heart full of fear

When my father goes down alone to the doomed city

I tremble, I tremble, my dear

MALLIKA:

Ganesha will watch over his protege

Up til the pond where the merry do play

With wings of snow swans are swimming

Come let us pick the lotus blue

LAKME:

Oh yes, let's go where white swans are swimming

And let us pick the lotus blue

Dome pais..... etc.

Carmen is the name of the opera and Habanera is the song

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Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) The protagonist is 'Macheath' (Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife)