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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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  • 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 ...
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  • Christians. The city was a center of lyric opera in the late eighteenth century ... Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance. ...
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  • a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic ... it to blossom. Incorporating aspects of Italian ballet, French ballet gained ...
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  • skills (as most operas were written in Italian and German) and learning ... recognition and a compliment from the Italian conductor, Arturo Toscanini ...
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  • meaning and periodization of the term. The Italian humanist movement, uncovering ... Towards the end of the period, the early dramatic precursors of opera ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 1986) was a Russian Soviet film director, opera director, writer, and actor ... * Voyage in Time (1982)--a documentary made for Italian television ...
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  • On his fifteenth birthday, after the first rehearsal of his opera ... sole performance in his lifetime — of his opera Die Hochzeit des Camacho ...
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  • Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, ... declared by one of the most authoritative Italian critics—Edoardo Boutet—to ...
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  • 18, 1605 – January 12, 1674) was an Italian composer and one of the ... to that of Cavalli in the history of opera. While Luigi Rossi was his ...
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  • called a clavicembalo or simply cembalo in Italian, and this last word is generally ... it lacks the action. These early Italian instruments can however ...
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  • attempted to recreate Greek tragedy. The Italian tradition of Commedia dell ... actor, master of farce, slapstick, the Italian and Spanish theater (see ...
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  • 1951, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky) ... original German libretto to the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte) ...
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  • training, fusing elements of French, Italian and other methods as well ... communist rule, both the ballet company and opera company at the Mariinsky ...
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  • in facilitating a coalition of Greek-Italian maritime city-states, including ... Muslims, and forging alliances with other Italian city-states to join forces ...
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  • as well as the establishment of opera as a type of musical performance ... * dramatic musical forms like opera, drama per musica * combined instrumental ...
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  • of work at the Venice Biennale now covers Italian and international art, architecture ... During the 1930s, the government and Italian citizens were heavily ...
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