years of composing. Glass began as an experimental composer of music‚ until he penned his first opera in 1975‚ Einstein on the Beach‚ which became widely acclaimed. It was after this opera when Glass became extremely prolific in the opera and theatre community. In 1980 he composed Satyagraha‚ which was based on the life of Gandhi and his experiences in South Africa. This opera proved
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Jean Baptiste Lully was a prolific composer who is best known for establishing French Opera. (Boynick) Born in Florence on the 28th of November 1632‚ (Boynick) Giovanni Battista Lulli was a miller ’s son. (Sadie 2000 pg 166) Lully first arrived in France in March of 1646 (Jean Baptiste Lully) to work as an attendant for a female courtier. (Sadie 2000 pg. 166) "During his six years in her household‚ Lully‚ already an expert at the guitar and violin‚ polished his skills as a performer and composer
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ornamentations in music (e.g. trills‚ acciaccaturas‚ glissando). It changed the way we wrote music and new styles of techniques were invented. Baroque music expanded the size‚ range‚ and complexity of instrumental performance‚ and also established opera as a musical genre. An important technique used in baroque music was the use of ground bass‚ a repeated bass line. Modes (Modes - Any of the eight scales of the medieval music‚ each distinguished by its ending note‚ its arrangement of pitches in intervals
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classic. This was shown in when Mozart was attempting to convince the royal court with his opera that was to take place in a harem in Turkey. Mozart exclaims‚ “ I am fed to the teeth with elevated themes! Old dead legends! Why must we go on forever writing about gods and legends?” To which Baron Van Swieten responds‚ “Because they do. They go on forever. Or at least what they represent. The eternal in us. Opera is here to enoble us. You and me‚ just the same as His Majesty.” The common people on the
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be one of the few successful plays that would be turned into an opera. Verdi wrote the opera with librettists Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei. The opera was written around 1846 and premiered on March 14‚ 1847 at the Teatro dell Pergola in Florence‚ Italy. A few years later the Verdi revised the opera adding a ballet into it and taking out some things and was performed at the Teatre Lyrique in Paris on April 21‚ 1865. This opera in comparison to the play begins with the third scene of the play
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THEATER FROM RESTORATION THROUGH ROMANTICISM The drama of the English Restoration combined aspects of English and continental Renaissance theater‚ both in playwriting and in theater architecture. French influence was also felt with the introduction of neoclassical ideals into serious English drama. By the eighteenth century‚ there was an attempt to break away from the Italianate traditions. Theater shapes changed‚ and playwrights abandoned the neoclassical ideals in favor of romanticism. As the
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ad- dress is the kind of voice necessary. It must be a large voice. A castrato cannot be replaced with a small-voiced soprano or mezzo-soprano. Here‚ given the central role of Handel in this article‚ and the central role of Senesino in Handel’s operas‚ we face an irony. It appears to be easier to find large-voiced sopranos who sing fioritura adequately than mezzo- sopranos. Onstage are women whose voices are not large even by mezzo- soprano standards. Unfortunately‚ Marilyn Hore’s career is
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she was done talking. I couldn’t follow the translation because it sounded like Latin or French. I kept listening to it over and over but I couldn’t understand what the words meant. She does have the most beautiful voice though. She sounds like an opera singer. I noticed when she hit high notes she sounded off key. It was way too high pitch and much louder‚ and stronger vocal. At the point when she went back to normal pitch‚ it sounds so much better and was a little quiet. The background sounds
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Richard Wagner was a classical artist in Germany during the Romantic period. Although Wagner faced many conflicts in his lifetime‚ he managed to compose operas that still have a standing influence to this day. Wagner’s works are emotional and strike deep into the hearts of the listeners‚ including Adolf Hitler who was a fan of Wagner. The life of Richard Wagner is complex and interesting‚ but you can’t become a famous composer if you have a dull life. Wagners life begins on May 22nd‚ 1813 in Leipzig
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Puccini’s La Bohème: An Analysis Giacomo Puccini has written a number of operas‚ including Turandot‚ Gianni Schicchi‚ and Madama Butterfly. La Bohème is said to be “one of the most successful and enchanting operas ever written.” Written in the romantic period‚ the text and score interrelations play an important role in an overall aesthetically and historically pleasing opera. In a story of love found and love lost‚ Puccini uses text and score to create empathy for the characters of La Boheme
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