Search results for "Italian opera" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, ... declared by one of the most authoritative Italian critics—Edoardo Boutet—to ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- 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 ...7 KB (995 words) - 18:53, 21 May 2024
- called a clavicembalo or simply cembalo in Italian, and this last word is generally ... it lacks the action. These early Italian instruments can however ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- attempted to recreate Greek tragedy. The Italian tradition of Commedia dell ... actor, master of farce, slapstick, the Italian and Spanish theater (see ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- 1951, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky) ... original German libretto to the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte) ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- training, fusing elements of French, Italian and other methods as well ... communist rule, both the ballet company and opera company at the Mariinsky ...19 KB (2,726 words) - 15:54, 6 November 2022
- in facilitating a coalition of Greek-Italian maritime city-states, including ... Muslims, and forging alliances with other Italian city-states to join forces ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 09:41, 24 November 2022
- as well as the establishment of opera as a type of musical performance ... * dramatic musical forms like opera, drama per musica * combined instrumental ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- of work at the Venice Biennale now covers Italian and international art, architecture ... During the 1930s, the government and Italian citizens were heavily ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician ... * Opera geometrica, Florence, 1644. * Lezioni accademiche, Florence ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- at least 1587. In the mid-sixteenth century, some Italian church composers began to write polychoral works. These pieces, for two or more choirs, were ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- the book "Il Pentamerone" by the Italian fairy-tale collector Giambattista ... * Cinderella, a "pantomime opera" (1979) by Peter Maxwell Davies ...20 KB (3,064 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- city was blacked-out because of German and Italian bombing, was deemed particularly ... Whilst in exile in Italy he met Irma Capece Minutolo, an opera singer ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 00:45, 14 July 2022
- and others, such as Liszt, transcribed opera arias and songs for solo ... In opera, the forms for individual numbers that had been established ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- respects, the first modern psychologist of opera, a master of creating mood ... Wolfgang Amadeus played with the famous Italian cellist Giovanni Battista ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- quot; is somewhat problematic, as the Italian concertare can mean “to ... incorporated, showing the influence of Italian opera on purely instrumental ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian ... and continues to be—particularly to non-Italian-speaking audiences—a symbol ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso ... have been a composer himself: in 1689, an opera titled La Fedeltà sfortunata ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... The word renaissance in French, (rinascimento in Italian) literally ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
