Opera

it would have been Gioachino Rossini. From the time Tancredi premiered in 1813, Rossini’s operas were the most popular and influential all over Europe, in part because he blended the elements of opera buffa and opera seria into works that appealed to audiences from a wide range of nationalities and class. Rossini was born on Leap Year Day in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy on the Adriatic Coast. His mother was an opera singer and his father a horn and trumpet player. As a child he performed…

musicals include electric pop, classical, jazz, and rock operas. Similarities of the musical style in School of Rock are found in Starlight Express. Yet, there are still distinct differences in these two rock musicals. The stark differences in style are more apparently seen in comparing Jesus Christ Superstar and Phantom of the Opera. Both are operettas, yet one is a rock opera while the other is a more classical, horror opera. The Phantom of the Opera is a masterpiece composed by Andrew Lloyd…

librettos for Monteverdi’s operas Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria and L’incoronazione di Poppea. The ideas of the Accademia thus also reached Monteverdi, who tried to depict the different views on love in these two operas through his innovative musical language and with the help of the emerging genre…

The Baroque era was an important time in the construction of early music. Between the years of 1600 and 1750, musical composers were concerned with the effect that music could have on the interpretation of language, this lead into the creation of opera. Before the Baroque era, music was mainly produced with only an instrumental sound. This was the time when fresh categories of music were being introduced and the critiquing of existing techniques occurred (Forney 102). This time period brought…

Adolf Hitler. His music was apparently played at concentration camps, which was used to re-educate the prisoners. This created a lot of controversy, which made people reject his great pieces of work for a long period of time. “Die Feen”, the first opera he wrote, in specific sounds very calm to my ears. As the piece continues it has a battle like feel to it; probably the reason Hitler liked his music so much.…

well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His most popularest piece is a work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi…

IDOMENEO: Production Review The University Center of the Arts staged a bold production of the acclaimed opera Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, it showcased the capacity of the Griffin Hall to present a fully decorated opera rather than a concert that uses nothing more than mere instruments, voices and the audience´s imagination. Instead, the department decided to produce a complete theatrical interpretation of Idomeneo, which worked to varying degrees. Branching off from a traditional…

throughout Western Europe. This opera is classified as an allegory. According to the Carolina Performing Arts Website, an allegory is defined as a “literary device that conveys often abstract ideas beyond the narrative itself. Often associated with symbolism, the term encompasses a long tradition from Plato to Augustine to George Orwell.” The characters in the opera are portrayed as abstract ideas, such as Death, Love, Virtue, Hope, and Time. Each character…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most influential public figures in 18th-century Vienna. His impact on the public is evident in two of his most influential works — an opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio, and an instrumental piece, Violin Concert No. 5. Mozart used musical exoticism in these works to create a stereotype of Turks as violent and out of control and juxtapose it against Western European ideals of rationality and restraint. In The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart paints a…

This recital difference from the first event was rather than professors performing for the students it was students playing for a group of 50 of their peers and professors. The first student to take center stage was Miss Candice Pajda, an opera student with a mezzo-soprano voice performing the German language, An die Musik (To Music). This art song from the Romantic period was composed by the then 20 year old Austrian Franz Schubert with text from a poem of his friend Franz von Schober;…