Search results for "Italian opera" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • is seemingly sane or ordinary—-such as an opera or a horse race—-and turning ... Mascots. One evening, a performance at the Opera House in Nacogdoches, Texas ...
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  • Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... Operettas have had a vast impact on western culture. They have made ...
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  • Although Telemann absorbed the French and Italian styles as well as ... quickly showed talent, composing his first opera by age 12—but this talent ...
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  • Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007) was an ... Pavarotti met Adua Veroni, who also was an opera singer; the couple married ...
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  • The practice was almost exclusively an Italian one, largely influenced ... years. Because of the popularity of Italian opera throughout eighteenth ...
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  • was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well ... of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La Cambiale di Matrimonio ...
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  • Center includes three main stages, the Opera House, Concert Hall, and ... including a gift of 3,700 tons of Italian Carrara marble worth $1 ...
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  • of a New Aesthetic of Music”) by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni ... architecture and even gastronomy. The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ...
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  • Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one ... in the vernacular, or "vulgar" Italian, instead of the traditional ...
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  • conquests (amidst the backdrop of the Italian Wars), hence the natural ... a center for the arts and letters of the Italian Renaissance—was able to ...
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  • Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian ... cello. He joined the orchestra of an opera company, with which he toured ...
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  • poet and writer, Alexander Pushkin and the opera by Romantic composer Modest ... and rejecting the influence of German and Italian opera. ...
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  • (c 1525 – February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance ... was the first book of masses by a native Italian composer; most composers ...
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  • while also attached to the Vienna State Opera as a dancer and chief of ... first performance together was at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in ...
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  • The principal conductor of an orchestra or opera company is sometimes ... pieces that had a basso continuo part. In opera performances, there were ...
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  • Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer ... and building a reputation, winning the Italian Prize in 1966 for Laborintus ...
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  • Giulio Pomponio Leto, (1425 - 1498) was an Italian humanist, archaeologist ... Latin, were published in a collected form (Opera Pomponii Laeti varia, 1521 ...
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  • Dario Fo (March 24, 1926 - October 13, 2016) was an Italian satirist ... accusation is widely seen as part of the Italian Far Right's strategy ...
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  • this time that Bach was introduced to Italian opera seria, and it's ... take part in the performances at the Berlin Opera House. Bach’s duties were ...
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  • Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016) was an Italian medievalist ... father. After serving for 18 months in the Italian Army, he left RAI to become ...
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