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transferred to Broadway in 1988 with Crawford and Brightman repeating their roles. The show was a resounding success and gave Andr...
This research paper discusses the purpose of opera and provides insight into its style, development and general characteristics. T...
vocal and instrumental music, soloists, ensembles, and chorus, orchestra and ballet, with poetry and drama, acting and pantomime, ...
Design Modern Expressionist Construction The Sydney Opera House complex is made up of two main buildings, principally of reinfor...
leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...
This paper examines how Gay employs political and cultural satire in The Beggars Opera in 7 pages....
title character: The Pirate - telling us of tragic love, blackmail and murder. This young man was just warming up. The Stranger...
The use of PGMs (precision guided missiles) against the Israeli tanks (supplied by the U.S.), prompted production halts and more ...
buffs, that is, "picturesque scenery, ballets, processionals and mass scenes," which is all presented within the context of the fa...
divisions.vi For twelve years he wrote music as a member of the court of the Duke of Mantua, before being appointed as choirmaster...
and of the English choral sound" (Thiers). By this point, Handel had realized that in order for his music to be successful in Engl...
that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...
which is precisely why other more universal methods of visual and auditory stimuli are used in tandem. Soap operas are particular...
In five pages this paper discusses the libretto symbolism and the characters' complicated interrelationships in this opera by Wolf...
characterized by works which present contemporary characters in real-life situations (Carmen). Schonberg indicates that, with Carm...
chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...
"In the present instance the whirling nebula of incandescent dust from which the Ring music was being generated spontaneously thre...
as dated, as indicated by Robin who states that "The free joyful, light, elegant and unbuildable concept of the fifties became a s...
and dies. The natural imagery, which is emphasized in the dream sequences, reflect the Daoist emphasis on the importance of nature...
an unthinking adherence to ritual. Analect 9.3 reads: The Master said, According to ritual, the ceremonial cap should be made of ...
encounter between the young heroine and the dream-image of a young scholar. In similar scenes throughout the production, the lack...
Giulio Cesare is Handles opera about Julius Caesar and is considered to be one of his finest. The action pivots around Cleopatras...
its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...
Huaguxi Opera, also known as "Flower Drum" opera was first seen in Chinas Hunan province, with the first mention of it in 1695 (Ch...
has, thus far, not been repelled by what she has discovered. The Duke finds hope in this and summons Judith to his embrace (Simon,...
who introduces a new admirer, Alfredo Germont who admits to having adored the beautiful Violetta from a distance. He offers a toas...
underscore the tension between the Count and Countess Characterization of the Countess The Countess is alone on the stage w...
takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...
with Barbarina who is the gardeners daughter. "The Count pursues Susanna but conceals himself when the gossiping music master Don ...
years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...