Opera

members are supposed to act the way they think their character would act. An aspect of this is the intrapersonal relationships they must understand between their characters and other characters. The actor playing the Phantom, in The Phantom of the Opera, has to have an intrapersonal relationship with Christine, Raoul, Carlotta, Madame Giry and many other cast members/characters. However, as with the personal understanding of the character, the intrapersonal relationships between characters are…

Introduction Ever since I was a little boy, I was surrounded by music, which gave me a chance to get to know many different music genres such as opera, classical music, pop, rock, and more. I have always been inspired by different styles of music, and the primary person responsible for that was my father. Although he passed away in November 28th of 2005, he lived long enough to transmit his experiences in the music industry and the positive way he perceived music. He was a very talented…

Arnold Schoenberg, a Viennese composer born on September 13th, 1874, would become one of the most important influences on classical contemporary music. Born to a non musical family, Schoenberg was a primarily self-taught cellist and joined an amateur orchestra under the direction of Alexander Zemlinsky. He would later be instructed in composition by Zemlinsky, and in counterpoint by Oskar Adler. Schoenberg became prolific in music theory and composition while working his job as a bank clerk, and…

Régime. However for the recently established bourgeoisie, there was much more room to manoeuvre. Charles Garnier’s Opéra was built during the end of the Second Empire and the beginning of the Third Republic. Through its architectural style, it communicates both the need for class distinction and the possibility of upward mobility within bourgeoisie society. The social spaces of the Opéra create…

the audience attention, to set everyone at the same level; that’s why he uses the layout of the opera. At that time, the opera was only able to be seen by the dukes, aristocrats or, in general, wealthy people. Given the status of the opera, it was thought that an opera could only be written by a high-educated person. But, thanks to the title, Gay expresses that anyone, even a beggar, can write an opera, giving less appreciation to it. And that anyone can understand it, not only the affluent…

chapter the managers of the Opera house are hosting their last performance before their retirement. After the performance, a group of young ballet dancers run into La Sorelli’s dressing room in fear that they had seen the Opera ghost. After some time a mother of one of the dancers told them that Joseph Buquet was found hanging by a rope underneath the stage. The managers blamed the missing body on the dancers, however Gaston Leroux suggests that this was done by the Opera ghost. Chapter 2: In…

Introduction to Opera Compare the characters of Carmen and Micaëla in Carmen. What are the differences between them, how is this expressed in the music, and do you think the outcome is inevitable? Introduction Bizet's Carmen is an Opera in four acts, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March with a plot based on the 1845 novella by Mérimée. Today it stands as one of the most popular french operas of all time.The Opera explores the relationship between the enchanting Carmen and…

Contemporary period is a big-mixed era in the world. Many materials and ideas all can put into music or art works. In this research paper, I will talk about the background of the contemporary era, composers of the contemporary period, the modernism and many different styles of music in this period. This piece I want to talk about, is the horn sonata, wrote by Paul Hindemith. This piece is a good piece to describe the music of the contemporary period because we still perform this at present, and…

In the United States, we have one of the lowest education rates in the world. We are behind countries like China and Japan. In New York State especially, we have a system called Common Core. Common Core is a system that provides clear and consistent learning goals to to help students prepare for college, career and life. In kindergarden, kids have to take tests and fill in bubbles on answer sheets and when they get to high school, they have to take Regent examinations which is a test that New…

In the modern era, musicians continue to play music that is reminiscent of the past. While new music is continuously produced, there is a desire to keep the musical pieces created by our ancestors alive. To honor the past, some artists have created new music that reflects the classical and baroque styles. In these pieces, the artists are free to use whichever instruments they please to create their musical effect. When a non-early music ensemble performs non-early music in the modern era, they…