|
List Of Operas By Title
__NOTOC__ The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given. For a list of operas sorted by name of composer, see List of operas by composer. Alphabetical listing 0–9 * '' 1000 Airplanes on the Roof'', Philip Glass, 1988 * ''1492 epopea lirica d'America'', Antonio Braga, 1992 * ''1984'', Lorin Maazel, 2005 * '' Le 66'', Jacques Offenbach, 1856 A * '' L'abandon d'Ariane'', Darius Milhaud, 1928 * ''Abu Hassan'', Carl Maria von Weber, 1811 * '' Acante et Céphise'', Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1751 * ''Achille et Polyxène'', Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pascal Collasse, 1687 * '' Acis and Galatea'', George Frideric Handel, 1718 * ''Acis et Galatée'', Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1686 * '' Actéon'', Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 1683–1685 * ''Adelaide'', Antonio Sartorio, 1672 * ''Adelaide di Borgogna'', Gioachino Rossini, 1817 * '' Adelia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor. Although musical theatre is closely related to opera, the two are considered to be distinct from one another. Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition. Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as ''Singspiel'' and ''Opéra comique''. In traditional number opera, singers employ two styles o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1928. Specific locations * 1928 in British music *1928 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1928 in country music *1928 in jazz Events *April 27 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet ''Apollon musagète'' receives its première in Washington. *May 5 – Composers Alban Berg and George Gershwin meet for the first time, in Vienna. *August 31 – ''The Threepenny Opera'' (''Die Dreigroschenoper''), adapted by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and composer Kurt Weill (with set designer Caspar Neher) from ''The Beggar's Opera'', receives its première in Berlin at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm with Harald Paulsen and Lotte Lenya (Weill's wife) in the principal rôles. *September 11 – Leoš Janáček's String Quartet No. 2, ''Intimate Letters'', receives its première in Brno. *September 12 – Anton Webern's String Trio receives its première in Siena. *September 14 – Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto is given its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1718 In Music
The year 1718 in music involved some significant events. Events *Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy. *Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos. * Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden. *14-year-old Carlos Seixas succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral. Classical music *Attilio Ariosti – ''Recueil de pièces'' *William Babell – ''The Harpsichord Master Improved'' * Johann Sebastian Bach **'' Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen'', BWV Anh.5 **''Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn'', BWV Anh.77 **'' Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück'', BWV 66a **'' Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht'', BWV 134a **'' Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten'', BWV 202 **''Amore traditore'', BWV 203 **''Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her'', BWV 738 ** Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 **Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 **''Sinfonia in F major'', BWV 1046a **''Brandenburg Concerto No. 2'' in F major, BWV 1047 (likely compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle (Saale), Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and Handel's Naturalisation Act 1727, became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphony, polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized as one of the greatest composers of his age. Handel started three c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acis And Galatea (Handel)
''Acis and Galatea'' ( HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of Music as an oratorio. The work was originally devised as a one-act masque which premiered in 1718. Handel later adapted the piece into a three-act serenata for the Italian opera troupe in London in 1732, which incorporated a number of songs (still in Italian) from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, his 1708 setting of the same story to different music. He later adapted the original English work into a two-act work in 1739. ''Acis and Galatea'' was the pinnacle of pastoral opera in England. Indeed, several writers, such as musicologist Stanley Sadie, consider it the greatest pastoral opera ever composed. As is typical of the genre, ''Acis and Galatea'' was writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1687 In Music
{{Year nav topic5, 1687, music The year 1687 in music involved some significant events. Events *January 30 – Louis XIV's entrance into the city hall inspires André Raison to write his offertory, subtitled "Vive le Roi de Parisiens" ("Long live the King of Parisians"). *During a performance of his own ''Te Deum'', Jean-Baptiste Lully injures his foot with the point of his cane; this results in death from gangrene a few weeks later. * Jean-Nicolas Francine, Lully's son-in-law, becomes director of the Paris Opera. Publications *Angelo Berardi – ''Documenti armonici'' *Le Sieur Danoville – ''L'Art de toucher le dessus et le basse de violle'' * Jean Rosseau – ''Traité de la viole'' Classical music * John Blow – ''Ode for New Year's Day'' * Dieterich Buxtehude **''Bedenke Mensch das Ende'', BuxWV 9 **''Der Herr ist mit mir'', BuxWV 15 **''Domine salvum fac regem'', BuxWV 18 **''Eins bitte ich vom Herrn'', BuxWV 24 **''Herren vår Gud'', BuxWV 40 * Marc-Antoine Charpentie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Collasse
Pascal Collasse (or Colasse) (22 January 1649 ( baptised) – 17 July 1709) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Rheims, Collasse became a disciple of Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ... during the latter's domination of the French operatic stage. When Lully died in 1687 leaving his tragédie en musique '' Achille et Polyxène'' unfinished, Collasse completed the last four acts of the score. He went on to produce around a dozen operas and ballets, as well as sacred music, including settings of the ''Cantiques spirituels'' of Jean Racine. His plan to establish his own opera house in Lille ended in failure when the theatre burnt down. He dabbled in alchemy with even less success. His musical style is close to that of Lully. Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous '' comédie-ballets'', including ''L'Amour médecin'', ''George Dandin ou le Mari confondu'', '' Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'', '' Psyché'' and his best known work, '' Le Bourgeois gentilhomme''. Biography Lully was born on November 28, 1632, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to Lorenzo Lulli and Caterina Del Sera, a Tuscan family of millers. His general education and his musical training during his youth in Florence remain uncertain, but his adult handwriting suggests that he manipulated a quill pen with ease. He used to say that a Francisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Et Polyxène
''Achille et Polyxène'' (''Achilles and Polyxena'') is a tragédie lyrique containing a prologue and five acts based on Virgil's ''Aeneid'' with a French libretto by Jean Galbert de Campistron. The opera's overture and first act were composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who died from a conducting injury before he could complete the score. The prologue and the remaining acts are the work of his pupil Pascal Collasse who finished the work, eight months after Lully's death on 22 March 1687. Acts 1 and 4 of the ballet was created by Louis Lestang, and the ballet to the prologue and acts 2 and 3 were by Louis-Guillaume Pécour. The opera was first performed on 7 November 1687, by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. Analysis of the libretto and music The libretto for this opera differs from those of Lully's earlier works with Philippe Quinault. Typically, Lully would begin his operas with a lively prologue, but this work has a somber prologue in which the Muses lament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1751 In Music
Events *1751 is the year commonly given as the beginning of the classical era *The "War of the Buffoons" (La Querelle des Bouffons), concerning the relative merits of French and Italian opera, divides Paris. *Francesco Geminiani publishes "The Art of Playing on the Violin" in London. Classical music * Charles Avison – 6 Concertos in 7 Parts, Op. 3 * Johann Sebastian Bach – ''Kunst der Fuge'' with appendix of Chorale prelude BWV 668a (posthumously) *Charles Burney – 6 Cornet Pieces for Organ * Armand-Louis Couperin – ''{{Proper name, Les cacqueteuses'', in his ''Pieces de Clavesin'' * Antoine Dauvergne – ''Concerts de Simphonies'' * Pierre-Claude Foucquet – ''Second Livre de Pièces de Clavecin'' * Johann Adolphe Hasse **Mass in D minor **''Oh Dio partir conviene'' *Wilhelm Gommaar Kennis – 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 *Niccolò Pasquali – ''Raccolta di overture, e symphonie...'' (London) *Peter Pasqualino – 6 Cello Duets, Op. 2 (London: John Johnson) *John Francis Wad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (; – ) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin. Little is known about Rameau's early years. It was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his '' Treatise on Harmony'' (1722) and also in the following years as a composer of masterpieces for the harpsichord, which circulated throughout Europe. He was almost 50 before he embarked on the operatic career on which his reputation chiefly rests today. His debut, '' Hippolyte et Aricie'' (1733), caused a great stir and was fiercely attacked by the supporters of Lully's style of music for its revolutionary use of harmony. Nevertheless, Rameau's pre-eminence in the field of French opera was soon acknow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acante Et Céphise
''Acante et Céphise, ou La sympathie'' is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 19 November 1751 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a ''pastorale héroïque'' in three acts. The librettist was Jean-François Marmontel. The opera was written to celebrate the birth of the Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the elder brother of the future King Louis XVI. Although the plot has been described as "puerile....the plot evokes from Rameau a score of remarkable imagination"; it is richly scored and contains the first surviving use of clarinets in a French opera. They appear in the overture, which contains a section imitating the firework display celebrating the birth of the duke. Performance history While the first presentation of the opera in the UK took place on BBC radio on 21 November 1983,Holden, p. 729 University College Opera (London) gave the opera's UK staged premiere in March 2012 in the Bloomsbury Theatre and one of the first performances in the world since the 18t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
_-_001.jpg "Click for more on -> Jean-Philippe Rameau")
