Opera

he did his first opera (Kamien, 210). Mozart quickly established himself as the finest keyboard player in Vienna, and steadily built his reputation as a composer. After encountering many obstacles to finding another operatic opportunities, he teamed for the first time in 1785–86. He got with the Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, a happy collaboration that resulted in Le nozze di Figaro. This partnership, which finally produced Don Giovanni and Cosi fan…

Philip J. Riley’s, “Gaston LeRoux, Faust and the Phantom,” he demonstrates to his readers how LeRoux derived “The Phantom of the Opera” from Faust. Riley analyzes LeRoux’s work to show how LeRoux created the entire world of Erik and the opera house. After talking about Erik’s character, based on Faust, Riley additionally refers to how LeRoux integrated the actual Paris Opera House. Eventually, Riley shows how LeRoux incorporated Erik’s disease from the medical reference books he kept on…

pieces is Requiem Mass in D minor. His works were considered the high point in symphonies, operas, and chamber music (“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”). According to Patrick Castillo, Mozart was known for his piano concertos and many people labeled him as the finest piano player in Vienna. His playing abilities on the piano was superior because he had to play it often due to composing, conducting, and organizing operas. Although he was skilled on the piano, he enjoyed the violin more because it…

Europe. Family pressures and expectations allowed him to focus and improve his music, sparking a passion within him in which he wanted to pursue as he got older. After already “gaining a reputation throughout Europe as a composer of instrumental music, opera was still the royal road to fame.” Vienna was the center of music in Europe at that time, and after given the opportunity to play there, Beethoven impressed people and attracted many to his music. Despite his recent success, turmoil in…

On the surface, one might not think that the great Italian opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi and the acclaimed indie group Dinosaur Jr. have much in common. One concert, for instance, took place in an intimate performing arts center to an attentive and quietly reverent audience while the other in a loud, rough-and-tumble rock venue to a lively and informal audience. Indeed, there may appear to be no similarities between the effortlessly skilled classical stylings of the UNT College of Music…

he also wrote the music for operas. Even though The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni are his three most famous operas, Cosí fan Tutte is largely underrated. This opera is the story of two sets of lovers. Under the guidance of their old friend Don Alfonso, the two men decide to test their partners ' loyalty by pretending to go off to war and coming back disguised. Slowly, each man and the other 's lover begin to fall in love! At the end of the opera, the two reveal that they…

Ellens dritter Gesang is written in strophic form like many other religious songs, repeating the same melody for every verse. This places importance on the lyrics and forces the listener to focus on the text rather than the melody. The melody is nevertheless attractive and simple, thus is easy to sing in church or at a religious gathering. Just like in many religious pieces, the song implements plagal cadences to create a greater effect of holiness and righteousness (Audio reference 4). The song…

English-language opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin, with a libretto written by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin from Heyward's novel Porgy and later play of the same title. Porgy and Bess was first performed in New York City on September 30, 1935, and featured an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. After suffering from an initially unpopular public reception due in part to its racially charged theme, the Houston Grand Opera…

It was first performed on May 30, 1866. The opera has three acts and starts out in a small Bohemian village. It is centered around the plot of arranged and unarranged marriages. I have decided to focus in on Act III, Scene IV of The Bartered Bride. In this scene, Vasek tells his parents—Mícha and…

romances and chamber pieces. At the age of eighteen Hector Berlioz moved to Paris to study medicine, a field in which he had no interest. After he moved to Paris, he started taking advantage of the scenery Paris had to offer. He visited the Paris Opera and the Paris Conservatoire library, both of which helped his interest in music grow significantly. (Macdonald) Hector Berlioz’s “Symphony Fantastique” tells the story of an artist who is madly love with a woman but the woman doesn’t express the…