Opera

12 articles related to Opera:

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   Orchestra

   Dido's Lament: sadness and simplicity of Purcell's best-known song

   When I Am Laid In Earth or Dido's Lament is probably one of the saddest songs of the Baroque era, written by the…

   May 8, 2021

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   Orchestra

   Les Indes Galantes: Rameau's controversial opera as the essence of Rococo style

   Les Indes Galantes is Jean-Philippe Rameau's first stage work in the opéra-ballet form with a prologue and four entrées…

   January 23, 2021

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   Orchestra

   Ombra mai fu: Handel's best-known melody of failed Serse opera

   The highly acclaimed instrumental composition known as Handel's Largo comes from the opening aria of his 1738 opera…

   December 6, 2020

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   Orchestra

   Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score

   The passacaglia is a slow dance that originated in Spain at the very beginning of the Baroque era, initially performed…

   November 22, 2020

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   Nature Sounds

   8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

   Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not…

   August 23, 2020

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   Orchestra

   Nicola Porpora: operatic composer made history as a music teacher of Haydn and Farinelli

   Nicola Porpora was an Italian composer of the late Baroque period whose operas brimmed with an excellent orchestral…

   November 17, 20191 comment

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   Orchestra

   The Flower Duet of Lakmé: the love drama of an Indian girl and a British soldier made airborne

   The Flower Duet is a famous operatic duet which popularity has spread far beyond interests of classical music audience…

   September 18, 2019

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   Choir

   Gershwin's Summertime: the most recorded song draws inspiration from Ukrainian lullaby and African American spiritual

   Written by the American composer George Gershwin in 1934, Summertime aria is now the most recorded song in the history…

   July 3, 20193 comments

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   Orchestra

   Only 3 Mantras survived from Sanskrit opera Avatara by John Foulds

   One of the greatest areas of music history still remaining largely uncharted is the influence of Indian philosophy on…

   February 22, 2019

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    Songwriter

    German roots of the Moon of Alabama

    The Alabama Song first appeared in a collection of five poems published by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1927,…

    August 27, 2018

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    Flute

    Forest ranger's son fled home to reform the operatic world

    Christoph Willibald Gluck was a revolutionary who moved the courtly genre of opera to the way beyond the narrow limits…

    August 26, 2018

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    Orchestra

    Peter Grimes outdoor premiere at Benjamin Britten's home beach

    Despite reports that Benjamin Britten paced nervously at the back of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre when Peter Grimes first…

    May 19, 2018