Opera

Music by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor

Clotaldo is Rosaura's father. In some adaptations, it is portrayed that Clotaldo knows this from seeing Rosaura's sword, but keeps quiet about it until the end of the play.

I have done plenty of research on Rosaura since I got the part to play her in one of the adaptations of the play.

Jose Carerras

there is a continuous musical flow within each act.

there are no breaks where applause can interrupt.

the vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of the German text.

They are called music dramas because the story is told as much by the orchestra as by the text, through Wagner's system of leading motives and identifying themes for each character. Wagner felt that operas before him were just music set to words, and he wanted the music itself to tell the story.

opera

In almost every language it is called opera.

Many female opera singers have achieved international fame over many years of operatic history. Your question is too broad for a single answer.

most definitely yes

operas were written to move an audience and to influence them into thinking/feeling certain things

A live opera finishes when it finishes. Vagaries in performances, performers, production values, duration of intermissions and so forth may adjust the time slightly. This is a two-act opera, so would not be as long as an opera with more acts.

You can review the site below, to search out the audio recorded times of the performances to understand the 'total opera length', but be prepared if you attend a live performance, that it will be longer than the musical offerings on the CDs and DVDs.

Before Wagner wrote his first music-drama, Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman,) he had already written three operas, Die Feen (The Fairies), Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love), and the grand opera, Rienzi.

Please rephrase - the question is unclear.

'overture' or 'prelude'

Langston Hughes. The opera, Troubled Island, with words by Hughes and Verna Arvey and music by William Grant Still.

Kathleen Battle was a member of the Metropolitan Opera but got fired because she became greedy and prideful. She got upset at another singer for using her dressing room or I guess she thought it was hers. It was really a shame because she has a gorgeous floating soprano voice. She sang a lot of Gospel music too. Not sure at this time what she is doing career wise.

These orchestra members are represented by the ICSOM, the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians.

Their Web site publishes the annual salaries contracted for these musicians. See below.

The baroque era - from around 1600 to the death of Handel in 1759 - saw both the birth of opera as a musical form and its growth into perhaps the most enduring musical genre. It was an evolutionary period and operas written are referred to as baroque operas.

People who had already done in in the past or people who are just talented at it:)

look on a recording - check on itunes

This would be called an Aria. They are commonly found between Recetativo Secco and Accompagnato within operas.

An American Tenor who sings Italian opera.

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Così fan tutte - film - was created in 1992.

Normal orchestral instruments for the time / period and that would depend on which 'Samson' is meant. For example, operas written by - Graupner - 1709 Handel - 1743 Tubek - 1803 Basili - 1824 Saint-Saens - 1877 Szokolay - 1973 Examples being, numerous string and wind instruments differed greatly in 1709 to 1973. I suggest you look up the history of instruments on the web or in a musical dictionary as it would be a huge task to fully explain here.

Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Aida, Billy Budd, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Falstaff,Turandot

Marion Hood was the first person ot play Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." It was her London debut.