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  • Enrico Caruso (February 25 1873 – August 2 1921) was an Italian opera singer of the verissmo style, and one of the most famous tenors in history ...
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  • Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires to a Catalan father and an Italian ... and Eugene Ormandy conducting, and his opera, Don Rodrigo at the New York ...
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  • Marie Taglioni (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884) was a famous Italian ... 1827, she made her Paris debut at the Paris Opera Ballet, in the Ballet de ...
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  • or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins ... Transalpina in 1588, a collection of Italian madrigals with translated ...
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  • composer of the nineteenth century Italian opera, who focused on the dramatic aspects of the genre rather than the showcase of singers' ...
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  • The Royal Opera House, the United Kingdom's most important performing ... and the theater reopened as the Royal Italian Opera on April 6, 1847, with ...
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  • Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (November 29, 1797 – April 8, 1848) was an Italian opera composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's ...
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  • 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his ... #039;s lyrics would set the standard for opera seria—the serious, often ...
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  • 13, 1466) was a famous early Renaissance Italian sculptor and artist from ... was decisive for the entire development of Italian art in the fifteenth century ...
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  • of music was generally called a Serenata (Italian—since it occurred most ... who wrote one for string quartet (the Italian Serenade). Other composers ...
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  • (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist, and ... Having taken over opera from the Florentine "camerata" and ...
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  • The piccolo (Italian for 'small') url= http://www.merriam ... ), by which the instrument is called in Italian url= https://web.library ...
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  • Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian ... child of two professional musicians: his Italian–German mother was a pianist ...
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  • Shostakovich, but after the visit of the Italian composer Luigi Nono to the ... (1983), which he later incorporated in his opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten; ...
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  • the crown. At this time, French ballet and opera were virtually inseparable ... (government regulations concerning the Opera) which legitimized the Paris ...
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  • ===Italian opera=== ====The Baroque era==== seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the ...
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  • on modern languages, including (French, Italian and English). Nevertheless ... it became the basis for Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck (premiered 1925). ...
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  • 9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, ... in St. Petersburg during its season of Italian opera; while there he studied ...
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  • what Donizetti and Bellini had done for Italian music. His return route ... have inspired the trio in the first act of opera A Life for the Tsar (Жизнь ...
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  • |Genre = Opera, Classical Music |Occupation = Opera singer; Arts administrator |Years_active ...
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