Search results for "Italian opera" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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) - 20:11, 26 May 2021
- 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
- of six entitled My Fatherland and the comic opera The Bartered Bride. ... in 1883, Libuše was again the opening opera. However, he did not remain ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- Darin was born to a poor, working-class Italian-American family in ... As was common with ethnic minorities at the time, he changed his Italian ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- five hundred workers, mostly young Italian and Eastern European immigrant ... memorial meeting held in the Metropolitan Opera House on April 2, 1911, to ...8 KB (1,360 words) - 05:05, 5 November 2022
- The word trombone derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) and -one ... The trombone retained its traditional associations with the opera ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 17:59, 2 May 2023
- dedicated his third symphony, the Eroica (Italian for "heroic") ... quartets and other chamber music, masses, opera, lieder, and various other ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- and of Wagner—and his discovery of Italian masterpieces were decisive ... avant Lully et Scarlatti'(A History of Opera in Europe before Lully and ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- Types of musical theater include: "comic opera" (or "light ... evolved into commedia dell'arte, an Italian tradition where raucous ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- English widow who falls in love with an Italian. It details the efforts ... can be seen collectively as Forster's Italian novels. Both include references ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Catania, Messina, Syracuse (Siracusa in Italian), Trapani, Enna, Caltanissetta ... Palermo is also a major center of Italian opera. Its Teatro Massimo is ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- for the state apartments closely followed Italian models of the day. ... The rooms were decorated by Charles LeBrun and demonstrated Italian ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- performance, and also established opera as a musical genre. Many ... mysterious, more like the stage gestures of opera, a major Baroque artform ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- Paolo Frisi (in translation from the Italian), and Justus Möser. ... aim of increasing emotional expression in opera. The obbligato recitative ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
