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 ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- 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 ...2 KB (357 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- Francesco Cavalli (February 14, 1602 – January 14, 1676), Italian ... was summoned to Paris in 1660 to produce an opera (Xerse). He visited Paris ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- Luigi Cherubini (September 14, 1760 – March 15, 1842) was an Italian ... Cherubini's early operas, settings of Italian libretti by Metastasio, ...6 KB (953 words) - 02:42, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- , also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ... The Imperial opera and ballet theater in St Petersburg was established ...11 KB (1,538 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2022
- Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian ... Category:Italian opera composers Category:Musicians 138946366 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical ... #039;Istria (currently Pazin, Croatia), to Italian parents. Unlike many composers ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- — 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 ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- (December 11, 1712–3 May, 1764) was an Italian philosopher and art critic ... di scrivere nella propria lingua, 1750), opera (Saggio sopra l'opera ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- an important contributor to the French opera comique. He was taught by ... to undertake a resetting of the old comic opera, Julie (1811). Conscious ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- techniques of opera, Puccini was, in Italian opera, the only true successor ... * Lynn, Karyl Charna. Italian Opera Houses and Festivals. Lanham, ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 22:49, 28 August 2021
- 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 ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires to a Catalan father and an Italian ... and Eugene Ormandy conducting, and his opera, Don Rodrigo at the New York ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- Marie Taglioni (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884) was a famous Italian ... 1827, she made her Paris debut at the Paris Opera Ballet, in the Ballet de ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins ... Transalpina in 1588, a collection of Italian madrigals with translated ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- composer of the nineteenth century Italian opera, who focused on the dramatic aspects of the genre rather than the showcase of singers' ...22 KB (3,400 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- The Royal Opera House, the United Kingdom's most important performing ... and the theater reopened as the Royal Italian Opera on April 6, 1847, with ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (November 29, 1797 – April 8, 1848) was an Italian opera composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 03:45, 18 April 2024
- 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his ... #039;s lyrics would set the standard for opera seria—the serious, often ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- 13, 1466) was a famous early Renaissance Italian sculptor and artist from ... was decisive for the entire development of Italian art in the fifteenth century ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- of music was generally called a Serenata (Italian—since it occurred most ... who wrote one for string quartet (the Italian Serenade). Other composers ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist, and ... Having taken over opera from the Florentine "camerata" and ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- The piccolo (Italian for 'small') url= http://www.merriam ... ), by which the instrument is called in Italian url= https://web.library ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 20:24, 26 December 2023
- Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian ... child of two professional musicians: his Italian–German mother was a pianist ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Shostakovich, but after the visit of the Italian composer Luigi Nono to the ... (1983), which he later incorporated in his opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten; ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- the crown. At this time, French ballet and opera were virtually inseparable ... (government regulations concerning the Opera) which legitimized the Paris ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- ===Italian opera=== ====The Baroque era==== seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- on modern languages, including (French, Italian and English). Nevertheless ... it became the basis for Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck (premiered 1925). ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- 9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, ... in St. Petersburg during its season of Italian opera; while there he studied ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- what Donizetti and Bellini had done for Italian music. His return route ... have inspired the trio in the first act of opera A Life for the Tsar (Жизнь ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- |Genre = Opera, Classical Music |Occupation = Opera singer; Arts administrator |Years_active ...18 KB (2,846 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... Operettas have had a vast impact on western culture. They have made ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- Although Telemann absorbed the French and Italian styles as well as ... quickly showed talent, composing his first opera by age 12—but this talent ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007) was an ... Pavarotti met Adua Veroni, who also was an opera singer; the couple married ...22 KB (3,379 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- The practice was almost exclusively an Italian one, largely influenced ... years. Because of the popularity of Italian opera throughout eighteenth ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well ... of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La Cambiale di Matrimonio ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- Center includes three main stages, the Opera House, Concert Hall, and ... including a gift of 3,700 tons of Italian Carrara marble worth $1 ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 23:38, 5 July 2023
- of a New Aesthetic of Music”) by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni ... architecture and even gastronomy. The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- 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
