Search results for "Italian opera" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • performance, and also established opera as a musical genre. Many ... mysterious, more like the stage gestures of opera, a major Baroque artform ...
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  • Paolo Frisi (in translation from the Italian), and Justus Möser. ... aim of increasing emotional expression in opera. The obbligato recitative ...
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  • quot;), epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ... In 1833, at the age of 20, Wagner composed his first complete opera ...
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  • Respighi was among several prominent Italian composers who denounced ... harmony. Works of this period include the opera Wozzeck (1917-1922) by Alban ...
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  • Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) was an Italian ... Lowys Elzevir (Louis Elsevier) Leiden (in Italian, Discorsi e Dimostrazioni ...
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  • *Vitale, Serena. Pushkin's Button. Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. ISBN 0-374-23995-5 ...
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  • | language = Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish ... a large quantity of information, e.g. roles in an opera. ...
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  • not Indo-European, is not connected to the Italian dialect spoken by the modern ... the majority of the population was of Italian descent; many of them supported ...
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  • 20, 1469 - August 9, 1534), was an Italian cardinal and theologian ... intellect. In contrast to the majority of Italian cardinals of his day, Cajetan ...
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  • The Sonata (from Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), ... sonata and persists as a tradition of Italian violin music, even into ...
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  • artists who adopted the principles of the Italian futurism, especially Filippo ... Like their Italian counterparts, the Russian Futurists were fascinated ...
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  • between a Pashtun Afghani father and an Italian mother. His parents owned ... resident choreographer for the New York City Opera. His first major ...
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  • John James Heidegger, the popular Italian opera singers, John Rich's ... John Gay's popular The Beggar's Opera. One of his masterpieces ...
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  • Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni ... html Pope Paul VI's Multilingual Opera Omnia] www.documentacatholicaomnia ...
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  • . Later in the century, the field of Italian opera was dominated by Giuseppe ... many of the greatest composers, such as Italian opera maestro, Giacomo Puccini ...
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  • article by Giovanni Battista de Rossi (an Italian archaeologist, famous outside ... 1451), and its first developments were all Italian. These early Renaissance ...
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  • (1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947). Surrealism became ... Francesco Flugi d'Aspermont, a Swiss Italian aristocrat who disappeared ...
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  • 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian-born American laborers and ... of improper conduct, and of allowing anti-Italian, anti-immigrant, and anti ...
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  • came mostly from his encounter of Italian master actor Tommaso Salvini ... and producing melodrama, vaudeville, opera, etc. In order to create ...
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  • Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... The Italian Republic shares its northern alpine boundary with France ...
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