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  • 5, 1679 - February 22, 1750) was an Italian composer, organist, and ... His operas were so influential to many Italian operatic composers that ...
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  • his prominent reddish-blonde hair, was an Italian composer and singer of the ... Peri's development of the opera and the dramatic vocal stylism ...
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  • be the most important German composer of Italian operas of his time and earned ... He sang in the chorus of the Dresden opera before moving to Braunschweig ...
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  • of the French opera comique and the Italian opera seria to create a more ... Naples, and scored a first success with his opera Il Farnace, in Naples, in ...
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  • Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher ...
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  • The Hungarian State Opera House, also known as the Budapest State ... the original opening. The Hungarian State Opera House continues to be on ...
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  • Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera ...
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  • (July 18, 1672 – July 9, 1750) was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist ... oratorios, and operas. His triumph was the opera, "Il trionfo di Camilla ...
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  • Francesco Cavalli (February 14, 1602 – January 14, 1676), Italian ... was summoned to Paris in 1660 to produce an opera (Xerse). He visited Paris ...
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  • Alessandro Stradella (April 3, 1639 – February 25, 1682) was an ... were viewed as creating a good story for an opera of its own. Three separate ...
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  • Luigi Cherubini (September 14, 1760 – March 15, 1842) was an Italian ... Cherubini's early operas, settings of Italian libretti by Metastasio, ...
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  • March 22, 1687), was a French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of ... possible that he was employed to teach her Italian. With the help of this lady ...
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  • Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an ... by the singers, as was the norm in Italian opera at that time. He wrote ...
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  • a German Classical singer and composer of Italian operas who was predominant ... he made his debut as a composer with the opera Antigonus. The success of ...
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  • , also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ... The Imperial opera and ballet theater in St Petersburg was established ...
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  • Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian ... Category:Italian opera composers Category:Musicians 138946366 ...
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  • — May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great ... however, that a full understanding of Italian opera was essential for his ...
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  • 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical ... #039;Istria (currently Pazin, Croatia), to Italian parents. Unlike many composers ...
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  • 1801 – September 23, 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer. Known for his flowing ... work, the result was Bellini's first opera Adelson e Salvini an opera ...
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  • the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Operas were a way of putting ... and Legrenzi. The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell’amore ...
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