Search results for "Italian opera" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Jacopo Peri (August 20, 1561 – August 12, 1633) was an Italian composer ... is seen as the first work in a new form, opera. Rinuccini and Peri ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • , 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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  • 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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  • — 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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  • 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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  • an important contributor to the French opera comique. He was taught by ... to undertake a resetting of the old comic opera, Julie (1811). Conscious ...
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  • German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical ... Gluck turned his back on Italian opera seria and began to write opéra ...
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  • techniques of opera, Puccini was, in Italian opera, the only true successor ... * Lynn, Karyl Charna. Italian Opera Houses and Festivals. Lanham, ...
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  • March 10, 1749 – August 17, 1838) was an Italian librettist and poet born ... 039;s Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in ...
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  • influenced the development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced ... a German Opera, in reaction to the Italian Opera which had dominated the ...
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  • as a violinist in the orchestra of the opera-house at Hamburg. Here his ... Handel traveled and studied in Italy. When opera was banned by local authorities ...
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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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