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Burletta
In theater and music history, a burletta (Italian, meaning "little joke", sometimes burla or burlettina) is a brief comic opera. In eighteenth-century Italy, a burletta was the comic intermezzo between the acts of an ''opera seria''. The extended work Pergolesi's was also designated a "burletta" at its London premiere in 1758. In England, the term began to be used, in contrast to burlesque, for works that satirized opera but did not employ musical parody. Burlettas in English began to appear in the 1760s, the earliest identified as such being ''Midas'' by Kane O'Hara, first performed privately in 1760 near Belfast, and produced at Covent Garden in 1764. The form became debased when the term ''burletta'' began to be used for English comic or ballad operas, as a way of evading the monopoly on "legitimate drama" in London belonging to Covent Garden and Drury Lane. After the passage of the Theatres Act 1843, which repealed crucial regulations of the Licensing Act 1737, use of the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Hippolyte Barthélémon
François Hippolyte Barthélemon (27 July 1741 – 20 July 1808) was a French violinist, pedagogue, and composer active in England. Biography François Barthélemon was born in Bordeaux (Gironde), France. He received his education in Paris, where he studied musical composition and violin, and performed in the orchestra of the Comédie-Italienne. In 1764, he traveled to England to lead a band at the King's Theatre and at Marylebone Gardens where he was received with enthusiasm. This led to a commission for his first dramatic stage work, ''Pelopida'', an opera in three acts in the Italian style that was performed at the King's Theatre in 1766. David Garrick of the Drury Lane Theatre engaged him to compose music to Garrick's two-act farcical burletta based on the Orpheus myth, which premiered in 1768. In the same year, Barthélemon also premiered ''Oithona'', a three-act dramatic operatic poem; ''La fleuve Scamandre'' ("The Scamander River"), a French-style comic opera based on a Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kane O'Hara
Kane O'Hara (1711 or 1712 – 17 June 1782) was an Irish composer and playwright. Biography O'Hara was born at Templehouse, Connaught, Ireland, the second son of Kean O'Hara, high-sheriff of County Sligo. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1735. In 1757 he was a co-founder member, with the Earl of Mornington, of the Musical Academy in Dublin. His first publicly performed piece was the burletta ''Midas'', stylistically a bridge between ballad opera and comic opera. The work mixes Irish, English, French and Italian popular airs in O'Hara's arrangements with spoken recitatives. "O'Hara's verse rarely rises above clever doggerel."O'Connell (2013), p. 765. In 1774, Kane established a theatre in Dublin called ''Mr. Punch's Patagonian Theatre'', which in 1776 transferred to London, producing puppet show versions of operas and burlettas. He went blind in 1781 but continued his interest in theatre until his death in Dublin the following year. A number of his papers and manuscri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Recruiting Serjeant
''The Recruiting Serjeant'' is a burletta by composer Charles Dibdin and playwright Isaac Bickerstaff. It premièred on 20 July 1770 at Ranelagh Gardens, London. Roles Synopsis A recruiting sergeant comes to a village seeking out new recruits. A countryman, Joe, living with his wife and mother, hears his stirring cry, and decides to enlist. The two women in his life seek to dissuade him, and follow him in when he meets with the sergeant. The sergeant is pleased to find a recruit, but Joe's mother begins cursing the sergeant out for trying to take her son away.''The Recruiting Serjeant'', pp. 333–342 This too fails to dissuade either of them. The mother fetches his children from the house, and appeals to Joe not to leave them, and thus risk all of them ending up in the workhouse. The sergeant starts to sign the man on, but Joe hesitates, asking for information about army life. They talk about women's love of the uniform, and when he asks about battles, sergeant explains " w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'infedeltà Delusa
''L'infedeltà delusa'' (''Deceit Outwitted''), Hoboken catalogue, Hob. 28/5, is an operatic ''burletta per musica'' in two acts by Joseph Haydn. The Italian libretto was by Marco Coltellini. Performance history The earliest recorded performance, which may have been the premiere, was at Eszterháza (in modern Hungary) on 26 July 1773. This was the name day of the Dowager Princess Estaházy and this date is given in the printed libretto. It was revived for the visit of Empress Maria Theresa on 1 September 1773, and again on 1 July 1774. University of Kent in collaboration with Kent Opera staged the opera in English at the Gulbenkian Theatre in 1978, conducted by Harry Newstone and directed by Christopher Webber. The work was performed as part of the 2008 Aix-en-Provence Festival, conducted by Jérémie Rhorer. In 2014, it was performed by New Chamber Opera at New College, Oxford. Sarasota Opera gave the work in March 2024. Roles Synopsis The opera is set in the Tuscan countrys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dibdin
Charles Dibdin (before 4 March 1745 – 25 July 1814) was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of "Tom Bowling", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas ''The Waterman'' (1774) and ''The Quaker'' (1775), and several novels, memoirs and histories. His works were admired by Haydn and Beethoven. Life and career Early life and early successes The son of a silversmith, Dibdin was privately baptised on 4 March 1745 in Southampton and is often described as the youngest child of eighteen born to a 50-year-old mother. His parents, intending him for the clergy, sent Dibdin to Winchester College, but his love of music soon diverted his though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ivimey
John William Ivimey (12 September 1868 – 16 April 1961) was an English organist and composer who specialized in comic operas. He also worked as director of music in schools and churches. Ivimey was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music by the University of Oxford in 1916. Early life Born at Stratford, Essex, Ivimey was one of the nine children of Joseph Ivimey and Emma Stevens. He was educated at Herne Bay College and the Guildhall School of Music.Ivimey, John William (1868-1961) at musicweb-international.com, accessed 27 April 2019 His grandfather, another John Ivimey (1790–1874), was a younger brother of (1773–1834) a |
Midas (burletta)
''Midas'' is a burletta, or 'mock opera', by Kane O'Hara. Originally performed privately in 1760 near Lurgan, Ireland, it was revised and expanded with the encouragement of Lord Mornington, and was presented in its new form in Dublin in 1762 and at Covent Garden Theatre, London on 26 February 1764 (where it was performed over 200 times in the next 35 years), with an overture by John Collett.Jürgen Schaarwächter.Two Centuries of British Symphonism', p. 43 It was staged at the Theatres Royal around 1784. '' Le jugement de Midas'' is an opera by André Grétry André Ernest Modeste Grétry (; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous ... based on O'Hara's work. Bibliography *Rachel Talbot: "The Influence of the Paris Stage on Kane O'Hara's ''Midas''", in''Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (, , or , ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. It evolved from the colloquial Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent language from Latin, together with Sardinian language, Sardinian. It is spoken by about 68 million people, including 64 million native speakers as of 2024. Italian is an official language in Languages of Italy, Italy, Languages of San Marino, San Marino, Languages of Switzerland, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), and Languages of Vatican City, Vatican City; it has official Minority language, minority status in Minority languages of Croatia, Croatia, Slovene Istria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the municipalities of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Santa Tereza, Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, Encantado, and Venda Nova do Imigrante in Languages of Brazil#Language co-officialization, Brazil. Italian is also spoken by large Italian diaspora, immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Reger
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Leipzig Conservatory, Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly ''Lieder'', chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular ''Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart'' (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as ''Gesang der Verklärten'' (1903), ' (1909), ''Der Einsiedler'' and the ''Requiem (Reger), Hebbel Requiem'' (both 1915). Biography Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger was the first child of Josef Reger, a school teacher and amateur musician, and his wife Katharina Philomena. The devout Catholic family moved to Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Weid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scherzo
A scherzo (, , ; plural scherzos or scherzi), in western classical music, is a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata. The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or string quartet. The term can also refer to a fast-moving humorous composition that may or may not be part of a larger work. Origins The Italian word ''scherzo'' means " joke" or "jest." More rarely, the similar-meaning word ''badinerie'' (also spelled ''battinerie''; from French, "jesting") has been used. Sometimes the word ''scherzando'' ("joking") is used in musical notation to indicate that a passage should be executed in a playful manner. An early use of the word ''scherzo'' in music is in light-hearted madrigals of the early baroque period, which were often called ''scherzi musicali'', for example: * Claud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Moncrieff
William Thomas Moncrieff (24 August 1794 – 3 December 1857), commonly referred as W. T. Moncrieff, was an English dramatist and author. Biography William Thomas Thomas, born in London to a Strand tradesman named Thomas, assumed the name Moncrieff for theatrical purposes. His first success was at Astley's with ''The Dandy Family'' (1818), an equestrian drama. His 1819 play, ''Wanted a Wife; or, a Checque on My Banker'', was a comedy that gently ridiculed "lonely heart" ads. The following year, his play ''The Lear of Private Life'', starring Junius Brutus Booth as the lead, enjoyed a long run. Moncrieff's most popular production was '' Tom and Jerry, or Life in London'' (1821), a dramatisation of '' Life in London'' by Pierce Egan. ''Tom and Jerry'' was an outstanding success, becoming the first play to achieve a run of 100 performances. He also wrote the romantic melodrama ''The Cataract of the Ganges; or, The Rajah’s Daughter'' (1823) for Drury Lane, which featured real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
