A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally... 30 KB (3,775 words) - 21:53, 22 March 2024 |
Gaetano Donizetti. Similar foreign genres such as French opéra comique, English ballad opera, Spanish zarzuela or German Singspiel differed as well in... 11 KB (1,347 words) - 16:17, 6 January 2024 |
"tear-jerkers" or "drawing-room ballads", they were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera, descendants perhaps... 25 KB (2,666 words) - 12:04, 6 April 2024 |
Wisdom, or The Virgin Unmasked, A Farce (1734), ballad opera Don Quixote in England (1734), ballad opera The Miser (1735), incidental music by Thomas Arne... 27 KB (3,299 words) - 15:18, 8 April 2024 |
John Gay (category English opera librettists) the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum... 18 KB (2,271 words) - 18:20, 31 January 2024 |
that evolved over several centuries through the 18th century when the Ballad Opera and pantomime emerged in England and its colonies as the most popular... 45 KB (5,786 words) - 14:39, 26 April 2024 |
after her last show 'Speakeasy', based on the 17 John Gay ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, in which she sang the theme song Kaze no machi no junjō na... 11 KB (860 words) - 15:10, 6 April 2024 |
a ballad opera with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is a sequel to Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Due to censorship, the opera was... 4 KB (537 words) - 02:41, 5 April 2024 |
Beggar's Opera (Johann Christoph Pepusch). A satire of Italian opera seria based on a play by John Gay, the ballad opera format of The Beggar's Opera has proved... 82 KB (9,817 words) - 01:07, 1 April 2024 |
from popular tunes. In this respect such afterpieces anticipate the ballad operas of the 18th century. At the same time, the French masque was gaining... 15 KB (2,036 words) - 21:25, 25 April 2024 |
Libretto (redirect from Opera libretto) exceptions before 1800 can be found in Purcell's works, Handel's first operas, ballad opera and Singspiel of the 18th century, etc. Just as with literature and... 17 KB (2,146 words) - 23:03, 7 April 2024 |
work. Victorian burlesque is one of several forms of burlesque. Like ballad opera, burlesques featured musical scores drawing on a wide range of music... 23 KB (2,862 words) - 07:06, 27 April 2024 |
Singspiel (category Opera genres) now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often... 5 KB (495 words) - 21:28, 24 March 2023 |
comic operas were produced that parodied popular songs of the time by performing them with modified lyrics. Comédie en vaudevilles and ballad operas are... 32 KB (2,285 words) - 21:12, 14 April 2024 |
Opéra bouffe (French pronunciation: [ɔpeʁa buf], plural: opéras bouffes) is a genre of late 19th-century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques... 1 KB (94 words) - 16:32, 25 January 2024 |
Opera in the United States dates to the 18th century. The first opera known to have been performed in the American colonies was the ballad opera Flora... 9 KB (985 words) - 17:30, 15 April 2024 |
early operas, however, failed to catch the imagination of the Spanish public. It was not until the increasing popularity of such genres as ballad opera and... 7 KB (968 words) - 21:36, 3 April 2024 |
Italian opera Opera in German French opera Opera in English Spanish opera Russian opera Opera in Dutch Finnish opera Hungarian opera Polish opera Opera in... 13 KB (1,232 words) - 20:38, 23 April 2024 |
This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly... 49 KB (990 words) - 21:45, 26 April 2024 |
include Friedrich Schiller's Demetrius and Shakespeare's King John. Ballad opera, a popular theatrical style of its time, marked the earliest form of... 14 KB (1,636 words) - 15:57, 18 March 2024 |
He was an important innovator and contributor in the evolution of the ballad opera. D'Urfey was born in Devonshire and began his professional life as a... 7 KB (958 words) - 15:10, 14 October 2023 |