Search results for "Italian opera" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian ... cello. He joined the orchestra of an opera company, with which he toured ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- poet and writer, Alexander Pushkin and the opera by Romantic composer Modest ... and rejecting the influence of German and Italian opera. ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- (c 1525 – February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance ... was the first book of masses by a native Italian composer; most composers ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- 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 ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- The principal conductor of an orchestra or opera company is sometimes ... pieces that had a basso continuo part. In opera performances, there were ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer ... and building a reputation, winning the Italian Prize in 1966 for Laborintus ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Giulio Pomponio Leto, (1425 - 1498) was an Italian humanist, archaeologist ... Latin, were published in a collected form (Opera Pomponii Laeti varia, 1521 ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 21:43, 25 June 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- commission of his career. Guido Guersi, an Italian preceptor, or knight, who ... art, in contrast to the cool logic of the Italian Renaissance, yet he produced ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 16:57, 7 November 2022
- Christians. The city was a center of lyric opera in the late eighteenth century ... Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance. ...27 KB (3,967 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic ... it to blossom. Incorporating aspects of Italian ballet, French ballet gained ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- skills (as most operas were written in Italian and German) and learning ... recognition and a compliment from the Italian conductor, Arturo Toscanini ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 23:31, 1 September 2023
- meaning and periodization of the term. The Italian humanist movement, uncovering ... Towards the end of the period, the early dramatic precursors of opera ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- October 19, 1909) was the founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology ... a neuro-psychiatrist. During the Austro-Italian war of 1859, also known ...15 KB (2,164 words) - 01:47, 13 January 2023
- The latter half of the fifteenth century saw the seat of the Italian ... Rome became the focus of hopes of Italian reunification when the rest ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- 1986) was a Russian Soviet film director, opera director, writer, and actor ... * Voyage in Time (1982)--a documentary made for Italian television ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
