Opera
... opera was the most popular form of bourgeois entertainment . The sumptuous and conspicuously situated opera houses of nineteenth- century Paris or Vienna " celebrated both the imperial power ... and the participation of the urban middle ...
On Opera
... following year produced as an opera , has subsequently moved in and out of the theatre . In this particular case , the ambiguity marked by this history is central to the work , The Nature of Opera: Entry for The New Grove Dictionary of ...
Opera on Stage
... opera , directing did not evolve from the pragmatic trade of the stage manager , whose job it began to supplant around 1950 , when opera staging began a new phase . From this point , opera staging was characterized by the interaction of ...
The Victrola Book of the Opera
... Opera House , Vienna , Feb- ruary 16 , 1892 , with Van Dyck and Renard . Paris , Opéra Comique , Janu- ary 16 , 1893 , with Mme . Delna . Milan , December , 1894. New Orleans Opera , November 3 , 1894. First American production , the ...
Singers of Italian Opera
... opera split into two branches , serious and comic : serious opera with its heroes drawn from ancient history or myth was recognized as the medium for the best castrato voices to work their astonishing powers . Castrati appeared now ...
Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera
Stephen Hinton. ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM 5 ' The Threepenny Opera ' BERTOLT BRECHT ( 1928 ) Translated by Stephen Hinton The Threepenny Opera , which has been performed in theatres throughout England under the title The Beggar's Opera for ...
The Victrola Book of the Opera
... opera . Hill planned Rinaldo , Rossi wrote the Italian libretto , and Handel hur- riedly dashed off the music . HANDEL The opera ran for fifteen consecutive nights an unprecedented feat for that age - and was mounted with a splendor ...
Opera from the Greek
... opera based on a libretto adapted from a Greek tragedy . Furthermore , Gluck inaugurated the reforms in an opera based on Greek myth ( Orfeo ed Euridice ) ; and he pursued the process further , with increasingly greater effectiveness ...
Der Freischütz. (The Freeshooter.) Romantic Opera in Three Acts ... Edited ... by N. Macfarren. [Vocal Score.]
... Opera was already composed ( at the suggestion of the lady who was afterwards Madame Weber ) as an ineffective opening to the Opera : it was the scene between the heroine and the Hermit , to which several allusions are made in the ...
The Lady of the Opera House
... Opera House ! GLADYS . ( Equally startled , turns quickly . ) What ! The Opera House ! Why - I- DICKSIE . Oh , of course you wouldn't know - he saw you - one night - then started to paint this . GLADYS . ( Recovering herself . ) Oh ...
Impressions of Caruso and His Art as Portrayed at the Metropolitan Opera House
... opera and that it was Sembrich and Scotti who attracted the public . Perhaps so in 1903 , but to - day while both Gilda and the Jester must be good singers and good actors , they are no longer the chief attraction , for the general ...
A Critical History of Opera
... opera on a level with symphony and sonata in true musical worth . In many of the different schools of music , the evolution has been gradual . So , too , in ... opera , " The Fairies , " written 208 A Critical History of Opera .
Opera Synopses
... Opera Company , in 1911 , for the best opera written by an American composer . This was " Mona . " Three years later he was again successful in competition , winning a prize for a like sum from the National Federation of Women's Clubs ...
Additional Music to the Beggar's Opera as it is Performed at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
... Opera . Applications for the right of performing the above Opera must be made to Mr Nigel Playfair , Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith , London , W. Price 2 / - Note . N preparing the first Hammersmith edition of " Additional Music ...
The Opera Goers' Complete Guide
Comprising Two Hundred and Nine Opera Plots with Musical Numbers and Casts Leo Melitz. GUSTAV , OR THE MASKED BALL Opera in five acts by Auber . Text by Scribe . CAST : Gustav III , King of Sweden - Tenor . Ankar- ström , his confidant ...
Opera
... Opera 80 Harold Rosenthal New Orleans Opera Association Plans New York : Metropolitan Opera 526 279-80 , 777-8 260 20 , 127 , 276-8 ( p ) , 355-9 , 455-6 ( p ) , Plans In Malvern 248-50 , 535 58 , 162 , 265 , 1098 , 1104 311-12 ' Opera ...
Pierre Key's International Music Year Book
... Opera . Address : Chicago Civic Opera Co. , Chicago . DIDUR , Adamo - Born in Poland . Opera . Mgt : Hurok Attractions , Inc. , New York . FONSS , Johannes - Born in Denmark . Opera , Concert , Oratorio . Mgt : Wolf- sohn Mus . Bur ...
The Commonwealth
... opera house is one on which we can learn much by a study of Europe . Opera , like drama , is not a new art . Opera has been given for three hundred years . We have the experience of many countries , many ages , in deciding what the ...
The Crime of the Opera House
... opera house , where I am now taking you , we shall learn more about it . Do you still regret , now , having dined with those two scoundrels ? " Darcy did not reply to the question addressed to him by Nointel . He had no absolute ...