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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher ...

Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera ...

Francesco Cavalli (February 14, 1602 – January 14, 1676), Italian ... was summoned to Paris in 1660 to produce an opera (Xerse). He visited Paris ...

Luigi Cherubini (September 14, 1760 – March 15, 1842) was an Italian ... Cherubini's early operas, settings of Italian libretti by Metastasio, ...

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 ...

, also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ... The Imperial opera and ballet theater in St Petersburg was established ...

Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian ... Category:Italian opera composers Category:Musicians 138946366 ...

3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical ... #039;Istria (currently Pazin, Croatia), to Italian parents. Unlike many composers ...

— 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 ...

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 ...

(December 11, 1712–3 May, 1764) was an Italian philosopher and art critic ... di scrivere nella propria lingua, 1750), opera (Saggio sopra l'opera ...

an important contributor to the French opera comique. He was taught by ... to undertake a resetting of the old comic opera, Julie (1811). Conscious ...

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 ...

techniques of opera, Puccini was, in Italian opera, the only true successor ... * Lynn, Karyl Charna. Italian Opera Houses and Festivals. Lanham, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

composer of the nineteenth century Italian opera, who focused on the dramatic aspects of the genre rather than the showcase of singers' ...

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 ...

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (November 29, 1797 – April 8, 1848) was an Italian opera composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's ...

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 ...

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 ...

of music was generally called a Serenata (Italian—since it occurred most ... who wrote one for string quartet (the Italian Serenade). Other composers ...

(baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist, and ... Having taken over opera from the Florentine "camerata" and ...

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') url= http://www.merriam ... ), by which the instrument is called in Italian url= https://web.library ...

Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian ... child of two professional musicians: his Italian–German mother was a pianist ...

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; ...

the crown. At this time, French ballet and opera were virtually inseparable ... (government regulations concerning the Opera) which legitimized the Paris ...

===Italian opera=== ====The Baroque era==== seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the ...

on modern languages, including (French, Italian and English). Nevertheless ... it became the basis for Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck (premiered 1925). ...

9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, ... in St. Petersburg during its season of Italian opera; while there he studied ...

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 ...

|Genre = Opera, Classical Music |Occupation = Opera singer; Arts administrator |Years_active ...

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 ...

Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... Operettas have had a vast impact on western culture. They have made ...

Although Telemann absorbed the French and Italian styles as well as ... quickly showed talent, composing his first opera by age 12—but this talent ...

Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007) was an ... Pavarotti met Adua Veroni, who also was an opera singer; the couple married ...

The practice was almost exclusively an Italian one, largely influenced ... years. Because of the popularity of Italian opera throughout eighteenth ...

was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well ... of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La Cambiale di Matrimonio ...

Center includes three main stages, the Opera House, Concert Hall, and ... including a gift of 3,700 tons of Italian Carrara marble worth $1 ...

of a New Aesthetic of Music”) by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni ... architecture and even gastronomy. The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ...

Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one ... in the vernacular, or "vulgar" Italian, instead of the traditional ...

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 ...

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian ... cello. He joined the orchestra of an opera company, with which he toured ...

poet and writer, Alexander Pushkin and the opera by Romantic composer Modest ... and rejecting the influence of German and Italian opera. ...

(c 1525 – February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance ... was the first book of masses by a native Italian composer; most composers ...

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 ...

The principal conductor of an orchestra or opera company is sometimes ... pieces that had a basso continuo part. In opera performances, there were ...

Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer ... and building a reputation, winning the Italian Prize in 1966 for Laborintus ...

Giulio Pomponio Leto, (1425 - 1498) was an Italian humanist, archaeologist ... Latin, were published in a collected form (Opera Pomponii Laeti varia, 1521 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christians. The city was a center of lyric opera in the late eighteenth century ... Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance. ...

a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic ... it to blossom. Incorporating aspects of Italian ballet, French ballet gained ...

skills (as most operas were written in Italian and German) and learning ... recognition and a compliment from the Italian conductor, Arturo Toscanini ...

meaning and periodization of the term. The Italian humanist movement, uncovering ... Towards the end of the period, the early dramatic precursors of opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

1986) was a Russian Soviet film director, opera director, writer, and actor ... * Voyage in Time (1982)--a documentary made for Italian television ...

On his fifteenth birthday, after the first rehearsal of his opera ... sole performance in his lifetime — of his opera Die Hochzeit des Camacho ...

Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, ... declared by one of the most authoritative Italian critics—Edoardo Boutet—to ...

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 ...

called a clavicembalo or simply cembalo in Italian, and this last word is generally ... it lacks the action. These early Italian instruments can however ...

attempted to recreate Greek tragedy. The Italian tradition of Commedia dell ... actor, master of farce, slapstick, the Italian and Spanish theater (see ...

1951, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky) ... original German libretto to the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte) ...

training, fusing elements of French, Italian and other methods as well ... communist rule, both the ballet company and opera company at the Mariinsky ...

in facilitating a coalition of Greek-Italian maritime city-states, including ... Muslims, and forging alliances with other Italian city-states to join forces ...

as well as the establishment of opera as a type of musical performance ... * dramatic musical forms like opera, drama per musica * combined instrumental ...

of work at the Venice Biennale now covers Italian and international art, architecture ... During the 1930s, the government and Italian citizens were heavily ...

15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician ... * Opera geometrica, Florence, 1644. * Lezioni accademiche, Florence ...

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 ...

the book "Il Pentamerone" by the Italian fairy-tale collector Giambattista ... * Cinderella, a "pantomime opera" (1979) by Peter Maxwell Davies ...

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 ...

and others, such as Liszt, transcribed opera arias and songs for solo ... In opera, the forms for individual numbers that had been established ...

respects, the first modern psychologist of opera, a master of creating mood ... Wolfgang Amadeus played with the famous Italian cellist Giovanni Battista ...

quot; is somewhat problematic, as the Italian concertare can mean “to ... incorporated, showing the influence of Italian opera on purely instrumental ...

Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian ... and continues to be—particularly to non-Italian-speaking audiences—a symbol ...

(March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso ... have been a composer himself: in 1689, an opera titled La Fedeltà sfortunata ...

The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... The word renaissance in French, (rinascimento in Italian) literally ...

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 ...

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 ...

five hundred workers, mostly young Italian and Eastern European immigrant ... memorial meeting held in the Metropolitan Opera House on April 2, 1911, to ...

The word trombone derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) and -one ... The trombone retained its traditional associations with the opera ...

dedicated his third symphony, the Eroica (Italian for "heroic") ... quartets and other chamber music, masses, opera, lieder, and various other ...

and of Wagner—and his discovery of Italian masterpieces were decisive ... avant Lully et Scarlatti'(A History of Opera in Europe before Lully and ...

Types of musical theater include: "comic opera" (or "light ... evolved into commedia dell'arte, an Italian tradition where raucous ...

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 ...

Catania, Messina, Syracuse (Siracusa in Italian), Trapani, Enna, Caltanissetta ... Palermo is also a major center of Italian opera. Its Teatro Massimo is ...

for the state apartments closely followed Italian models of the day. ... The rooms were decorated by Charles LeBrun and demonstrated Italian ...

performance, and also established opera as a musical genre. Many ... mysterious, more like the stage gestures of opera, a major Baroque artform ...

Paolo Frisi (in translation from the Italian), and Justus Möser. ... aim of increasing emotional expression in opera. The obbligato recitative ...

quot;), epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ... In 1833, at the age of 20, Wagner composed his first complete opera ...

Respighi was among several prominent Italian composers who denounced ... harmony. Works of this period include the opera Wozzeck (1917-1922) by Alban ...

Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) was an Italian ... Lowys Elzevir (Louis Elsevier) Leiden (in Italian, Discorsi e Dimostrazioni ...

*Vitale, Serena. Pushkin's Button. Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. ISBN 0-374-23995-5 ...

| language = Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish ... a large quantity of information, e.g. roles in an opera. ...

not Indo-European, is not connected to the Italian dialect spoken by the modern ... the majority of the population was of Italian descent; many of them supported ...

20, 1469 - August 9, 1534), was an Italian cardinal and theologian ... intellect. In contrast to the majority of Italian cardinals of his day, Cajetan ...

The Sonata (from Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), ... sonata and persists as a tradition of Italian violin music, even into ...

artists who adopted the principles of the Italian futurism, especially Filippo ... Like their Italian counterparts, the Russian Futurists were fascinated ...

between a Pashtun Afghani father and an Italian mother. His parents owned ... resident choreographer for the New York City Opera. His first major ...

John James Heidegger, the popular Italian opera singers, John Rich's ... John Gay's popular The Beggar's Opera. One of his masterpieces ...

Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni ... html Pope Paul VI's Multilingual Opera Omnia] www.documentacatholicaomnia ...

. Later in the century, the field of Italian opera was dominated by Giuseppe ... many of the greatest composers, such as Italian opera maestro, Giacomo Puccini ...

article by Giovanni Battista de Rossi (an Italian archaeologist, famous outside ... 1451), and its first developments were all Italian. These early Renaissance ...

(1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947). Surrealism became ... Francesco Flugi d'Aspermont, a Swiss Italian aristocrat who disappeared ...

11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian-born American laborers and ... of improper conduct, and of allowing anti-Italian, anti-immigrant, and anti ...

came mostly from his encounter of Italian master actor Tommaso Salvini ... and producing melodrama, vaudeville, opera, etc. In order to create ...

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... The Italian Republic shares its northern alpine boundary with France ...

the finale of his Symphony No. 41 and his opera Die Zauberflöte. The parts ... act. The finale of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff ...

library. He made an acquaintance of the Italian master Luigi Piccioli, who ... the poem rather than theatrical effects an opera lends itself to. Tchaikovsky’s ...

valet – and an accompanist for the Italian composer Nicolò Porpora ... The only misstep in the venture was an opera, L'anima del filosofo ...

Radcliffe in her last and finest novel The Italian (1797). One of Radcliffe ... * The Italian (1797) by Ann Radcliffe * Clermont (1798) by Regina Maria ...

panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is ... painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 (during the Italian Renaissance) and, according ...

Istanbul. Abdülhamid II was also interested in opera and personally wrote the first-ever Turkish translations of many opera classics. He also composed ...

In different forms, as drama, opera, poetry, and prose, the tale has ... In the nineteenth century, Richard Wagner composed the opera Tristan ...

as the Ancient Greeks, it is based on an Italian tale, the earliest known ... Painter, published in a compilation of Italian tales entitled Palace of ...

Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia, Latin: Venetia) is ... Unlike the other major Italian cities, Venice came into being after ...

7, 1917 – December 25, 1995), was an Italian American singer, film actor ... from Abruzzi, Italy, and Angela Barra, an Italian American from Fernwood, ...

The presentation of the plays probably resembled modern opera more ... appeared later (first in 1570 in an Italian version), but his ideas ...

Italian painters who took up Judith's theme include Michelangelo ... (French, born in 1952) composed Judith, an opera with one act, based on a ...

On April 6, 1941, German, Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian forces ... personality, opted for the more mature opera singer Zinka Kunc instead ...

used in very cheap models and in "opera glasses," or theater glasses. ... Named after Italian optician Ignazio Porro, who patented this image ...

botany for generations. Out of his Italian journey Goethe produced ... “From my Life: Poetry and Truth”), his Italian Journey, much scientific ...

emerged as one of the world's top opera venues. The city's main ... Most porteños have European origins, with Spanish and Italian descent ...

Melayu, the Symphony (No. 3) in C, and the opera Blooms of Dublin. ... Liliana Macellari ("Liana"), an Italian translator. They had begun ...

to large French, French Canadian, German, Italian, and Russian communities ... at 0.41 percent, German at 0.18 percent, Italian at 0.16 percent, Arabic ...

of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer and lutist of the ... of their own. Alfred Schnittke wrote an opera in 1995 based on his life ...

was called 'Flauto' (flute) in Italian, the language used in writing ... Today, the recorder is known as 'flauto dolce' in Italian ...

combined with his occasional visits to the opera, greatly expanded his musical ... His first completed opera—Des Teufels Lustschloss (D.84)—and his ...

French, American, Austro-Hungarian, and Italian). Tianjin was governed by ... Tianjin is also a respected home base of Beijing opera, one of the ...

of Pope Boniface VIII at The Museum of the Opera del Duomo in Florence.]] ... that this loyalty to family was typically Italian. Lacking noble blood, an ...

Becken, Schellbecken, Teller, or Tschinellen; Italian piatti or cinelli; and Spanish platillos.James Blades, James Holland and Alan R. Thrasher, [https://www ...

of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the second ... His earlier films followed in the genre of Italian Neo-Realism, and his later ...

Other languages include Chinese, Italian, and Greek. Many immigrants ... of the arts in Australia—films, opera, music, painting, theater ...

Philadelphia has the second largest Irish, Italian, and Jamaican populations ... Vietnamese have forged bazaars next to the Italian Market in South Philadelphia ...

Timpani is an Italian plural, the singular of which is timpano. However ... he included in the orchestra for his 1675 opera Thésée. Other seventeenth ...

of his time except for the genre of opera, and expanded musical composition ... He probably learned French and Italian, and received a thorough ...

sparkling wine became French champagne or Italian Spumante, and unbranded ... Unauthorized recordings can be traced back to the early days of opera ...

the country; Bensonhurst is historically Italian. Dyker Heights is an affluent ... French, Yiddish, Hindi, Bengali, Polish, Italian, and Arabic. The Central ...

to play at Bollhuset, such as an Italian Opera troupe in 1652 and a ... #039;s Venus Anadyomene. She wrote an opera libretto herself. “ ...

Smetana incorporated the polka in his opera The Bartered Bride ( ... ) particularly in Act 1. Another polka in the mainstream opera literature ...

are of Greek, Armenian, Lipovan and Italian descent. A native or resident ... Bucharest is home to the Romanian National Opera, the I.L. Caragiale National ...

than 50 ballet and dance companies, six opera companies, and two symphony ... of local speakers, including French, Italian, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese ...

Battista Vico (1668 – 1744) was an Italian philosopher, historian, ... *Nicolini, Fausto, ed. Opera di G.B. Vico. Bari: Laterza, 1911-41. ...

Aquino; c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest in ... career path for a younger son of southern Italian nobility. ...

failed to satisfy him as only a few of the Italian city-states which he had ... gains. Thus, inadequately supported by his Italian allies, abandoned by his ...

as the artistic director of the Rome Opera Ballet in 1984–5, then ... into fourteen languages, including German, Italian, Serbian, Japanese, and ...

Triglav and reaches the Gulf of Venice on Italian territory, where it is known ... After the Italian attack on Austro-Hungary during World War I, a south ...

RKO film, I Dream Too Much, with the famous opera star Lily Pons. ... three years later. In 1957, Fonda married Italian Countess Afdera Franchetti ...

involvement in the Burgundian war and the Italian campaign of 1512-1515. ... English, 30 percent French and 13 percent Italian. The city is home to a considerable ...

and Irish, Chinese, African American, Italian, and Filipino. The Chicago ... population. There is also a substantial Italian American population. Chicago ...

the late Roman Republic. Hailing from an Italian provincial background, after ... , was an extremely wealthy man from the Italian region of Picenum, but his ...

in the Educational series is Grand Slam Opera, featuring Buster in his ... James Mason and Cary Grant. The "Italian Villa," as Keaton called ...

Franconetti, a non-Gypsy rob seaman of Italian descent. He is reported ... period) or Ópera flamenca (Flamenco Opera) period. The name Ópera ...

Under Giuseppe Pepito Abatino, a "self-invented Italian aristocrat ... a revival of Jacques Offenbach's 1875 opera La Créole at the Théâtre ...

their origins in the Neapolitan variety of the Italian presepio or nativity crèche; they are featured in Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night ...

switching from the flooded and diseased Italian coast lands to an alpine ... to composing his greatest work, a massive opera entitled The Damnation of Faust. ...

at the New York Herald Tribune. His light opera The Wind Remains, based on ... Bowles died of heart failure at the Italian Hospital in Tangier on ...

Father Eusebio Kino, an Italian Jesuit in the service of the Spanish ... performances from groups such as Arizona Opera and Ballet Arizona often ...

in text with music that hinted at Irish or Italian ancestry. Soon he dropped dialect altogether from his texts and eventually referred to his ...

Senate, becoming the Court's first Italian-American justice. ... His father, Salvatore Eugene Scalia (1903–1986), an Italian immigrant ...

* The Italian composer, Luigi Nono, also wrote an opera "Al gran ... * The discovery of a body from the Paris Commune buried in the Opera ...

called das Fagott in German, il fagotto in Italian, and le basson in French ... Cesti included a bassoon in his 1668 opera Pomo d'oro. However ...

Alessio Bombaci. (Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Dairies) Bulletin ... music merges with folk music. The first opera in the Islamic world, Leyli ...

the other two, where Baltimore's Italian-American community was based ... is regionally well respected. The Baltimore Opera is an important regional ...

up to 17,000 citizens were killed. German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian ... and Atelier 212. Belgrade's two opera houses are: National Theatre ...

He was baptized Emilio Stanley by Italian missionaries in his youth ... olitics/2004/01/30/new-kenyan-soap-opera-the-presidents-two-wives/8c280529 ...

plucked in various contexts, as defined by the Italian term pizzacato. A prime example of this is in the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Fourth ...

160,000 by 1860. Later in the century, Italian immigrants began to arrive. ... The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is an annual summer festival of opera ...

French literature, poetry, philosophy, and Italian music. This roused the suspicions ... still exist today, such as the Berlin State Opera, the Royal Library (today ...

by the conflict associated with the Italian unification. As a result ... December 1962, Translated from the Italian by Muriel Grindrod. London: ...

the richness of their rhyming structures; Italian, for example, has a rich ... with rich rhyming schemes (such as Italian, with its many common word ...

About this time, she met and left with Italian opera singer Agardi Metrovich. Some sources say that she had several extramarital affairs, became ...

the classics of English, American, French, Italian, German, and (in translation ... famous books of travel writing include Italian Hours (an example of the ...

by speakers of Russian (18 percent), Italian (6.1 percent), and Spanish ... Berlin is home to more than 50 theaters, has three opera houses, and ...

the Royal Theatre with its restored 1850 Opera House; the Buen Retiro Park ... not only Austrian influences but also Italian and Dutch (as well as Spanish ...

Dutch painters strongly influenced by the Italian artist Caravaggio. ... * Dutch composer Louis Andriessen based his opera, Writing to Vermeer ...

to take part in the defense against the Italian invasion. During the first ... modern trends; and classical Western music, opera, and ballet, as well as the ...

linguistic one, it is just as vague; the Italian scholar Gherardo Gnoli ... appears as “Sarastro” in Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte, which has ...

Irish and Italian immigrants brought with them Roman Catholicism. ... the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston Opera House, Citi Performing Arts ...

by Giovanni Maria Farina (1685-1766), an Italian perfumer, has continued ... importance. Some buildings, for example the opera house by Wilhelm Riphahn ...

title character of his Tamerlano (HWV 18), an Italian language opera composed in 1724, based on the 1675 play Tamerlan ou la mort de Bajazet by Jacques ...

a rural eastern district of the southern Italian city of Reggio Calabria: ... performing as a singing waiter in several Italian restaurants around his native ...

*D.B. Monro and T.W. Allen 1917-1920, Homeri Opera (5 volumes: Iliad ... (3 volumes; orig. publ. 1981-1987 in Italian). Oxford, 1990-1993. ISBN ...

Chicago with him, where they attended the opera, theater, and concerts. Beatrice ... Blitzstein's pro-union 'labor opera' The Cradle Will Rock ...

entrusted power to her chief minister, the Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin, who ... occupied the scene. Lully introduced opera to France and founded French ...

the Bronx-born nightclub singer of Irish and Italian ancestry was known professionally as Dolores Reade. Hope came to "The Vogue," a Manhattan ...

only when the manager of the Chicago Grand Opera House, Fred R. Hamlin, committed ... sparked the rafters", causing the Baum opera house to be consumed by flames ...

late 1924. Under him, Albania joined the Italian coalition of Italy, Hungary ... fought a partisan war against the Italian and German invasions in ...

her native English, as well as French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and Latin ... Though Philip II aided her in ending the Italian Wars with the Peace of Cateau ...

Quito', which is a fusion of Spanish, Italian, Moorish, Flemish and indigenous ... Ecuador that performs at the Sucre Theater. Opera, ballet and concerts are ...

Lucio Russo. The Forgotten Revolution. Springer, 2004; Italian edition ... *Plato, J. Burnet (Editor). Opera: Volume II: Parmenides, Philebus ...

colorful types of entertainment such as opera, juggling, pantomime (introduced ... by soaring arches give the impression of an opera stage-set — doubtless the ...

Nalbandian's poem "Song of the Italian Girl" may have been ... at the beautifully refurbished Yerevan Opera House, where one can attend ...

was occupied between 1941 and 1944 by Italian-ruled Albania, which annexed ... Eastern influences and to a lesser extent Italian, Mediterranean and Hungarian ...

he wrote mainly comedies influenced by Roman and Italian models and history plays in the popular chronicle tradition. A second period began from about ...

outbid by a man named Reginald the Italian, but his bid was refused ... of André Ernest Modeste Grétry's opera Richard Coeur-de-Lion (1784 ...

The variants of the name of the Rhine (including French Rhin, Italian ... drains the Valle di Lei on politically Italian territory. After three main ...

There are various translations in French and German. An Italian translation ... Tajik composer Sharif Bobokalonov wrote the opera Kova the Blacksmith (Кузнец ...

who was engaged in disputes with Italian trade unions. ===Relationship with Parliament=== Blair changed Parliamentary procedures significantly ...

as Austrofascism bore more resemblance to Italian Fascism than German National ... PR machinery works better. Austria has the opera ball, the imperial castle ...

obviously religious theme. The model, an Italian peasant who presented himself ... poets. Rodin enjoyed music, especially the opera composer Gluck, and wrote ...

July 14 patriotic spectacle at the Paris Opera, which was attended by the ... controversial play La Ville Morte by the Italian poet and playwright Gabriele ...

with whom she had fallen in love. Russian opera singer Yevgeniya Mravina ... She even speculated she might be arrested. Italian writer and former communist ...

to Albania and was then occupied by Italian troops. Slovenia was divided ... in 1861. The company started performing opera from the end of the nineteenth ...

of France, allowing short films of theater, opera, and ballet excerpts to be ... performances. President Calvin Coolidge, opera singer Abbie Mitchell, and ...

Son, and Holy Spirit, are indivisible (opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa ... Omnia] – Augustine’s works in Latin, Italian, English. ...

Auber's sentimental and patriotic opera La Muette de Portici, a tale ... The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (183,021), French (114 ...

the monarchy. France engaged in the long Italian Wars (1494-1559), which ... Empire, as are languages such as Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Romanian, and ...

At age twenty, he wrote his first drama-opera—Valmiki Pratibha (“The ... relations with and ambivalent opinion of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ...

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at Lordsburg also held captured German and Italian soldiers. Another camp at ... an International Folk Art Market and an Opera House that make it a cultural ...

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