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The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers Growth and Grandeur, 1815-1914

Book by Spire Pitou; Greenwood Press, 1990

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Opaera De Paris, Opera--France--Paris--Encyclopedias

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however, and his next two operas, Riccardo III and Egmont...initially on 6 December 1886 at the Opera-Comique. The composers luck did not change for the...Dame de Monsoreau * at the Opera on 30 January 1858. It had...had its world premiere at the Opera-Comique on 10 March 1909...
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The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers, Growth and Grandeur, 1815-1914 - Vol. 1

Book by Spire Pitou; Greenwood Press, 1990

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Opaera De Paris, Opera--France--Paris--Encyclopedias

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...from La Source 30 June 1925 Opera Fluorescences Pas des fleurs 9 February 1938 Opera Lakme was the work that crowned...of a place among the great composers of his age. It enjoyed nearly 1300 performances at the Opera- Comique by 1950. BIBLIOGRAPHY...
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The Paris Opaera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers - Vol. 1

Book by Spire Pitou; Greenwood Press, 1983

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Opera--France--Paris--Encyclopedias

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...century volume for Le Peletier opera house . Yet it did enjoy revivals...1868 , Renaissance 1899 , and Opera- Comique 1900 before it was...last of its 407 billings at the Opera on 27 June 1931. The composers music has also been revived in...
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Makers of Opera

Book by Kathleen O'Donnell Hoover; H. Bittner, 1948

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Composers, Opera

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...to neglect the dramatic aspect of opera. The criticism levelled against...began anew with the basic elements of opera, aware that though music and pantomime...He was the most truly classical of opera composers, and his noble tragedies en musique...
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Domenico Cimarosa: His Life and His Operas

Book by Nick Rossi, Talmage Fauntleroy; Greenwood Press, 1999

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Cimarosa, Domenico--1749-1801, Cimarosa, Domenico--1749-1801--Operas, Composers--Italy--Biography, Opera--18th Century

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...intermezzo from the 27-year-old composer for the Carnival season of 1778-79...all successful eighteenth-century opera composers, Cimarosa paid utmost attention to...addition to such physical features, the composer had also to be aware of the temperament...

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Journal Articles on: opera composers

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Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution

Journal article by Matthew Head; Women & Music, 2002

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Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Book)

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...and often linked in opera buffa to humorous...are, at once, the operas and the concepts of...discuss how women composers employed conventionally...onstage conceits. The composer Julie Candeille...fathers popular 1769 opera of the same name...the authoress from opera itself is another...authorship in womens operas, and the quasi...the works of women composers, not those of Haydn...narrative into the composer himself. Lucile Gretrys...
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Fantasy, Geography, Wagner, and Opera

Journal article by Rolf Sternberg; The Geographical Review, Vol. 88, 1998

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Composers--Works, Epic literature--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Operas--Production and direction, Wagner, Richard--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...how to present his operas. The prose and cant...to plan and build an opera house, an idea that...note of music by any composer other than Wagner has...But the interests of composers, conductors, courtiers...and 1892. Of 2,690 opera performances there...The next most popular composer was Mozart, with but...9 percent, of the opera performances. Among the Wagnerian operas performed during those...
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An Operatic Skeleton on the Western Frontier: Zitkala-Sa, William F. Hanson, and the Sun Dance Opera

Journal article by Catherine Parsons Smith; Women & Music, 2001

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Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hanson, William F.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Musicals--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Native Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Operas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spiritual life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Zitkala-Sa--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...referred to the operas religious content...performed in the opera with the "emasculated...differently: The composer ... has provided...Indianist" composer, Charles Sanford...by art-music composers in their own works...historical narration to opera plot, confirms...nature of his operas and lyceum presentations...Hipsher, American Opera and Its Composers, 2d ed. (Philadelphia...Moore: American Composer (Ann Arbor...
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Proserpina Rapita: an Unknown Opera Fragment*

Journal article by Mary Térey-Smith; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 10, 1990

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Classical music, Composers, Manuscripts, Munich Germany, Opera, Vienna Austria

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...Rapita: an Unknown Opera Fragment* by Mary...Francesco ... Italian composer... was active in Venice as a composer of opera during the...him "one of the best composers around" ... None...7-20). The two composers most frequently credited...with the authorship of operas actually composed by...the identity of the composer of the Proserpina rapita...
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Kitsch, Camp, and Opera: der Rosenkavalier*

Journal article by Gary Le Tourneau; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 14, 1994

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Composers, Culture, Musical criticism, Musicology, Opera, Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)

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...Kitsch, Camp, and Opera: der Rosenkavalier...poems and the operas Salome and Elektra...in which the composer clearly saw himself...result of the composers entrapment, partially...beginning of the opera, the title character...Chrysothemis.25 The composers employment of...references in his early operas clearly aligned...the onset of the opera. At measure 7 of the operas Introduction he...a sign of the composers "jaded view of...However, the composer and librettist...

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Magazine Articles on: opera composers

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Little Women's Big Man: As His Hit Opera Little Women Debuts in New York, Composer Mark Adamo Talks about Bringing Theatrical Spice to the Classical World and Living Happily Ever after with His Partner, Composer John Corigliano

Magazine article by Joseph Dalton; The Advocate, April 1, 2003

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Adamo, Mark--Authorship, Alcott, Louisa May May--Works, Composers--Authorship, Gay musicians--Interviews, Little Women (Opera)--Authorship, Little Women (Opera)--Performances

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...Womens Big Man: As His Hit Opera Little Women Debuts in New...a playwright as well as a composer," says Adamo, who was...memorable tune by another composer-lyricist, Stephen Sondheim...boy will be the death of me operas," says Adamo, still laughing...one of his strengths as a composer. "Mark has a lyric gift...tradition of 20th-century composers who came before him," says...
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Too Hot to Handel: The Composer's Operas Delight in the the Crazy, Capricious Side of Human Nature, Writes Peter Conrad

Magazine article by Peter Conrad; New Statesman, Vol. 136, February 26, 2007

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Composers--Works, Handel, George Frideric--Works

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Too Hot to Handel: The Composers Operas Delight in the the Crazy...insane asylum was one, the opera house another. Eighteenth...Frideric Handel composed his operas displayed the same crazily...monsters, however, lived on in opera, defined by Dr Johnson as...
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Catan: A Tribute to Spanish-Language Opera's Lyrical Voice April 3, 1949-April 9, 2011: With Lush Orchestrations and Melodic Lines, the Neoromantic Style of Mexican Composer Daniel Catan Forever Changed the Repetoire of Modern Opera

Magazine article by Janet Crane; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 63, July 2011

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Catan, Daniel--Appreciation, Catan, Daniel--Works, Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Works

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...Spanish-Language Operas Lyrical Voice April...Style of Mexican Composer Daniel Catan Forever...Repetoire of Modern Opera. by Janet Crane...name," says the composer. "For new audiences...has stamped the opera with his signature...There arent many operas written in Spanish...suitable language for opera writing." If anyone...the first Mexican composer and librettist to...
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The Rush on the New: It May Be Tough to Find Financial Support, but Composers Are Turning to Opera to Express Themselves

Magazine article by Robert Everett-Green; Opera Canada, Vol. 35, Summer 1994

Subjects:

Arts, Economic impact, Opera

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...Find Financial Support, but Composers Are Turning to Opera to Express Themselves by...excerpts from seven Canadian operas, most of them staged within...money, not the right kind of composer, not the right sort of audience...however, is coming from the composers and librettists -- many...ago, it was hard to find a composer interested in what many regarded...
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Lynes: Four Sonatinas, Opus 39 (Master Composer Library Series)

Magazine article by Myrna Capp; American Music Teacher, Vol. 53, October 2003

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Lynes: Four Sonatinas, Opus 39 (Book)

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Lynes: Four Sonatinas, Opus 39 (Master Composer Library Series). by Myrna...overused. Four Sonatinas, Opus 39 are in traditional classic...collections by a variety of composers. This is commendable and a...lived? The Four Sonatinas, Opus 39 would be useful for recitals...

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Newspaper Articles on: opera composers

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Composer and Opera Singer Stars at Music Festival; Philip Key's 08 Culture Diary

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 23, 2008

Subjects:

Composers, Music festivals, Opera singers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Composer and Opera Singer Stars at Music Festival...Philip Key BRITISH saxophonist/composer John Harle and opera singer Alfie Boe are two of the...because the voice had been "used by composers throughout the ages to express the...
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Composer's Death Echoes throughout the Opera World

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 9, 2007

Subjects:

Camphor, Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Composers Death Echoes throughout the Opera World. Byline...Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti...great both as a composer and stage director...only for his own operas, but in Vanessa...century opera composers, with "The Consul...those of other composers. Menotti, life partner of American composer Samuel Barber...
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'I Had to Finds Ways to Make the Music Structurally the Same as the Film' Opera Composer Lynne Plowman Has Ventured into New Territory by Writing the Score to an Old Silent Film. Gavin Allen Asks Her about the Project

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 25, 2009

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Composers, Motion pictures, Movies

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Structurally the Same as the Film Opera Composer Lynne Plowman Has Ventured...freedom than composing and opera. "I thought it would allow...critical acclaim for her two operas, Gwyneth and the Green Knight...House of the Gods, my second opera, was that I was really enjoyed...
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Chance to Meet Opera's Composer

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 30, 2007

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Composers

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Chance to Meet Operas Composer. Byline: By Karen Price Western Mail Welsh National Opera will be staging the premiere...event in the international opera calendar. But what about...decade, the writing of this opera has dominated the lives...
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'As a Composer I like to Be Pulled in Different Directions. We Exist in a Chaotic Musical Climate' Box Office Arts & Entertainment as He Prepares to Bring His New Family Opera to Wales, Composer Julian Philips Tells Mike Smith He Has No Problems Entertaining Young Audiences - It's the Adults Who Prove Difficult to Engage With

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 18, 2008

Subjects:

Adults, Climate, Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Prepares to Bring His New Family Opera to Wales, Composer Julian Philips Tells Mike...Byline: Mike Smith WELSH composer Julian Philips doesnt believe...has worked on a number of operas for families and young people...relatively young age for a composer (he is in his late 30s...going. There are lots of composers new to opera who are interested...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: opera composers

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Adams, John , American Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ADAMS, JOHN , American composer (John Coolidge Adams), 1947 , American composer, b. Worcester, Mass. A...technically adept, and influential composer of his generation, Adams...Adams is best known for operas on topical themes, including...Flowering Tree, a lyrical opera based on a South Indian folk...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...antecedent of English opera, and John Blow s...reigning "English" composer was a German who had...best known as the composer of the oratorio Messiah...1738 in composing operas. His first opera...sometimes forcing composers to write around them...all by the American composer Philip Glass . Other...on the part of the opera-going public and...a new work, many composers in the latter part...companies presenting operas by contemporary composers...
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Metropolitan Opera Company

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...he had succeeded Bing. The operas assistant manager, Schuyler...1986. Todays Metropolitan Opera produces an average of 23 different operas in six languages each season...works by such contemporary composers as Philip Glass , John Corigliano...Hamilton, ed., The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia (1987...
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Opus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

OPUS o p s Lat.,=work, in music, term used in cataloging a composers works, designating either...together or considered a unit. Opus numbers assigned by the composer are of greater value than those...first composer whose use of opus numbers was consistent enough...
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Aria

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...music was continued by such composers as Froberger, Pachelbel...in the 17th cent. Italian opera composers developed the aria...artistic perfection in the operas of Alessandro Scarlatti and...developed in the Neapolitan opera, and the subsequent formal...of this kind. But in French operas, especially those of Christoph...

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