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Verdi
Greatest italian composer of the century

Nabucco


first great triumph

Verdi

Rigoletto


mid-period

Verdi

Il Trovatore


mid-period

Verdi

La Traviata


mid-period

Verdi

Les Vepres siciliennes
violent and bloody tale about the massacre of the French by theSicilians in the thirteenth century; Eugène Scribe, librettist; combination ofFrench (spectacle, choruses, ballet) and Italian styles.

Verdi
La Forza del destino

Verdio

Don Carlos

Verdi

Aida
crowning synthesis of the best of the Italian and French traditions; inauguration of his final period; composed incelebration of the opening of the Suez Canal; contains a new continuity ofaction and music; harmonic language more elaborate.

Verdi

Requiem


first performed in La Scala opera house in Milan

Verdi

Otello

What would the one single governing principle in opera be for the late 19th century?

striving for continuity

cabaletta
rousing, showstopping, often irrelevant section that closed many ariasand ensembles in early nineteenth-century Italian opera

Falstaff

after Shakespeare’s TheMerry Wives of Windsor (only his second comic opera)


Boito

Mefistofele

Ponchielli

La Gioconda

Pietro Mascagni

Cavalleria rusticana
a rough-hewn and lachrymose tale of passion andrevenge amidst the local color of a Sicilian village; with its stark depictionof violence and passion among ordinary people, and its superheated musicaleffects, was promptly hailed as the epitome of verismo in music

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

companion piece for Cavalleria rusticana; both exude a heightened pathos; about atroupe of commedia dell’arte players.

Puccini

Manon Lescaut
contains a profusion of sensuous melodies; almost continuous activity inthe orchestra; obbligato bits of melody and splotches of instrumental coloraccompnay almost everything that occurs on stage

What is Puccini's harmonic style?
little of the characteristic ornamental chromaticism

experimentswith expansions of tonal language that have a basically diatonic sound nonfunctional,colorist use of seventh chords modalconstructions

Puccini
La Bohème (1896) – Puccini’s greatest success and one of most popular operas of all time; about starving but high-spirited artists in the Latin quarter of Paris; consumptive heroine ave
Puccini
Tosca (1900) – nonfunctional use of traditional sororities

Puccini
Madama Butterfly(1904)

Puccini
La Fanciulla del West (1910)

Puccini
Turandot (1926)

Puccini
Gianni Schicchi (1918)