Opera Australia

acomnited praize singer I became a member of fifteen youth group praise singers in Chodae Community Church. I wanted to be a drummer or a guitarist for the band, so I talked with my roommate who was in charge of the group. He said the band didn’t need a drummer or guitarist, but needed a singer. So I tried out for the band as a singer and they accepted me. In that group we have six boys and nine girls and have two teachers. We have one drummer who is a girl , two acoustic guitar players…

Among the many legends in humanities, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stands out for the hundreds of pivotal compositions established throughout his short-life. At age 3, Mozart began his musical education in his childhood home in Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart, a German composer and teacher, acknowledged the rapid advancement of his son’s talent. “‘The miracle which God let be born in Salzburg’ was Leopold’s description of his son” (Sadie 2017). Leopold influenced his son by not only…

Un Bel Di Vedremo: “is a soprano aria from the opera Madama Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San, when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon.” (Wikipedia, Un Bel Di Vedremo). It is an extraordinary soprano aria sung by Madama Butterfly in the moment act of Giacomo Puccini's appalling opera, Madama Butterfly. The lyrics was composed by Luigi…

Concert Make-Up Assignment Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in December 1770 in Bonn, Germany. His father was a musician in Bonn. Beethoven was interested in music from an early age and when his father was at home, his father would teach Beethoven music. He learned to play the piano and the clavier, an instrument like a harpsichord. His father would punish him when he made mistakes or hesitated and that affected Beethoven's life and future. On March 26th, 1778, when he was seven years old, he had…

Kala Pickney Mr. Hagberg Orchestra Report 25 March 2016 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria to his parents, Leopold and Anna Maria Pertyl. His father, Leopold, was the author of a famous violin-playing manual and came from a well standing family of bookbinders and architects , while his mother, Anna, was born into the middle class. He also had a sister named Maria Anna or Nannerl for short. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Very…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was known for being the father of music. I would like to visit him because of what he was able to accomplish during his life. He was able to compose many musical works . Mozart also had the gift of imitating music. Lastly, his briliance in writing music. Mozart is an inspiration to me for his compositions, imitations of music, and his originality in writing music. To begin with, Mozart inspired me in many ways with his compositions. He wrote many compositions in his…

result of decades of voice use, and lots of singers develop vocal cord growths or nodules that often bleed and can scar, making the voice more hoarse in quality. Surgeries to remove such growths are much more common these days, but especially among opera singers, because of substantial demands on their voices. One voice surgical specialist has been developing a special gel that he hopes, when put to use, will allow restoration and preservation of the voices of…

Italian opera. This style of opera is known to be closely related because the focus is exclusively on the solo voice and on a lyrical, beautiful voice line. The lines orchestrated in the Italian opera are harmonic and more simplistic than of what a German opera orchestrates. As stated, "For Italians, music and voice are almost one and the same." The Italian opera composer aims not at musical and dramatic subtlety but, rather, at banner headlines of emotion as stated. In this particular opera…

He wrote several operas about mythological creatures and historical figures, for operas were the ones to be published. However, his smaller works, especially his sonatas, are mainly focused on God and Christianity (“Claudio”). Humanism was declining, but history and tales of old were still popular. Monteverdi…

Music teachers all over the world today argue and discuss what genre is best to teach students to. A large portion of teachers usually narrows it down between two decisions in genre choice and those are Jazz and Classical. While both genres give exceptional lessons they both have differences at what’s important for a student to learn. Mastery of both of these genres would prepare someone for almost any musical situation a musician could come across but people still assume one is better than the…