Don Giovanni

About Nothing, at the Globe. However, if I can’t travel the three hours I’ll watch the performances at my local cinema, where I’ve seen such plays as Love’s Labour’s Lost and Othello, but also had the pleasure of viewing the Royal Opera House’s Don Giovanni and The Metropolitan Opera’s Lulu. Being able to see such performances, especially operas, allows for a deeper understanding and appreciation of the texts: there’s a whole side to plays that just can’t be seen when it remains on…

A college education is an important stepping stone in many students lives. What is a college education though, and how do you get one? In the article “How to Get a College Education” Jeffrey Hart, Professor at Dartmouth University, he argues his own opinion on the experience and struggle of today's students working to achieve an education after high school. He also goes on to talk about what he believes should be the goal of a further education. No only are students not being taught basic and…

The enlightenment period focused on reasoning and individualism, as happiness and equality became priorities in society. The era was influenced by philosophers such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu, along with artists, most notably Amadeus Mozart. The movie Amadeus demonstrates that enlightenment worldviews were slowly being introduced to society, but they were not completely established by the late 18th century. Amadeus expresses the enlightenment worldview F, claiming the purpose of life…

Tony New York City, 1930, The Bronx: Local mob Don Antonio Andolini Sr has died of natural causes or that’s what everyone thinks. His son, Antonio Andolini Jr –Tony - is certain that his Uncle Luca had something to do with it. Tony’s monomaniacal obsession with avenging his father’s death is driving him insane. All mafia big shots like entertainment and love to be seen, so Luca wasn’t unfamiliar with the theatre. With this knowledge, Tony had an epiphany. This was the realization that he could…

opera had to perform for the noble people, the writer of this opera, Ottavio Rinucci’ni, changed its finale to the happy ending. After the 17th century, opera started to spread out from Italia to the overall Europe. In this period, Mozart composed ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and Beethoven composed ‘Fidelio’, the only one opera in his life. In the 19th century, opera also influenced by nationalism; moreover, at the same time, two great composers, Wagner and Verdi, composed…

The Romantic period of music began in the late 18th century and it spanned until the early 20th century. It was heavily influenced by Romanticism, which was a European movement involving art and literature. Many of the famous early composers from these years were Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Berlioz, and others. The famous later composers include Bruckner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and others. This period is recognized as being more emotionally expressive than past periods because it explores…

piece was the fact that I felt some familiarity to the piece, since it was not the first aria I had analyzed. I felt compelled to draw comparisons between this aria and arias I had heard before in class, mainly the aria we analyzed from Mozart’s Don Giovanni (The one involving Donna Elvira). Although the text and overall story are complete opposites, one a tale of star-crossed lovers and the other of a womanizing hopeless man, the style of the music as well as the type of form employed are…

September 24, 2015, in Duncan Recital Hall at Baird Musical Hall stars many of Morehead State University’s musical professors. The compositions it features are Donald Gillis’s They’re Off, Béla Bartók’s Quarrel, W.A. Mozart’s La ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni), Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Fantasie Concertante for Piano, Clarinet, and Bassoon, Michel Blavet’s Variations on a Theme by Corelli, John Macky’s Damn, and Ryan Mcguillicuddy’s On The Bus. In Donald Gillis’s They’re off it centers on the…

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms 1. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Beethoven was born on December 17, 1827 in Vienna, Austria. Brahms was born on May 07, 1833 in Hamburg, West Germany. 2. Mozart died on December 05, 1791 in Vienna, Austria. Beethoven died on March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria. Brahms dies on April 03, 1897 in Vienna, Austria. 3. Mozart had six siblings and he was the youngest, five of his siblings died whe…

Around then, Jusepe de Ribera, Massimo Stanzione, and Domenichino were working there, and later, Giovanni Lanfranco and numerous others would run to the city. Amid her first Neapolitan period, she painted the Birth of Saint John the Baptist. In these depictions, Artemisia again exhibits her capacity to adjust to the curiosities of the period and handle…