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    verismo operas still performed today take historical subjects: Puccini's Tosca, Giordano's Andrea Chénier and Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. In Opera After...
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  • Englishman Henry Purcell wrote numerous prominent operas. The early 18th century was dominated by the operas of George Frideric Handel, while other important...
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    feature of late 20th-century opera is the emergence of contemporary historical operas, in contrast to the tradition of basing operas on more distant history...
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  • drama without interruption. The number opera became unfashionable, and the late operas of Verdi and those of Puccini and the Verismo school, cannot be described...
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  • ISBN 978-0300151138 Schell, Michael. "The Phantom of the Opera: Thoughts on Euromusicals, Puccini, leitmotifs, whole tones and symbolism as the "New Production"...
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  • 'Italian Opera Night' Ends Lewisohn's First Week". The New York Times. p. 33. Retrieved 8 November 2020. Briggs, John (July 2, 1959). "Music: Puccini Concert"...
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    the Dresden Opera, where he was one of the main promoters of opera seria. He left some seventy operas. Fux was the author of eighteen operas, mostly with...
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    included with sound recordings of most operas). Sometimes (particularly for operas in the public domain) this format is supplemented with melodic excerpts...
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    most famous of whom was his great-great-grandson, the opera composer Giacomo Puccini. Puccini studied in Bologna under Giuseppe Carretti, who was maestro...
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    pit and stage areas. Notes Curmally, Fareed (23 February 2020). "Puccini at the Opera Bastille". Serenade Magazine. Retrieved 29 November 2023. (in French)...
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    stabilize a format of three operas a season and to hire a full-time Production Manager. In subsequent years, it staged notable productions of such operas as Der...
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  • Gianni Schicchi discography (category Operas by Giacomo Puccini)
    the third of a group of three one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini collectively known as Il trittico; the other operas are Il tabarro and Suor Angelica. The...
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    corresponds to the norms of opéra comique. They are more akin to the verismo style that would find fuller expression in the works of Puccini. Dean considers that...
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    bohème 1896: opera by Giacomo Puccini, adapted from Murger's novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème. Mimì and Musette in La bohème 1897: opera by Ruggiero Leoncavallo...
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    opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera...
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  • La Bohème (1965 film) (category Opera films)
    film production of the 1896 opera of the same name by Puccini, filmed in a Milan studio and recorded at the Munich Opera. The film director and producer...
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  • Tosca (2001 film) (category Films based on operas by Giacomo Puccini)
    directed by Benoît Jacquot, closely based on the 1900 opera Tosca with music by Giacomo Puccini and an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa...
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    Enrico Caruso (category 20th-century Italian male opera singers)
    presided in the orchestra pit and Puccini himself, supervised the production. Caruso's success in the Metropolitan Opera drew the attention of Black Hand...
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    Lombardi, two operas which employed the format of large choral tableaux and something which the librettist was prepared to re-use for the new opera. No clear...
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    and more recently also Amfortas in Wagner's Parsifal and Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca. As a recitalist Hampson has won worldwide recognition for his thoughtfully...
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    theater and performed three operas. Verismo, especially Puccini, is a late-19th-century tradition. The first Russian opera was staged in 1915 with great...
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    Jonathan Antoine (category Opera crossover singers)
    Antoine released his second album, Believe. It contains classical arias by Puccini, as well as a version of the classic Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" and...
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  • Fracassi, 1955, Giordano's opera Tosca by Carmine Gallone, 1956, Puccini's opera La Bohème by Franco Zeffirelli, 1965, Puccini's opera The Magic Flute by Ingmar...
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    Complete Operas of Verdi, New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1969. ISBN 0-306-80072-1 Parker, Roger (2007), The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas, Oxford...
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    Britain's Got Talent with his performance of "Nessun dorma", an aria from Puccini's opera Turandot. As a singer of operatic pop music, Potts recorded the album...
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    José Cura (category 20th-century Argentine male opera singers)
    premiere of the third version of Puccini's La Rondine (Turin) and Roberto in the same composer's rarely performed first opera, Le Villi (Martina Franca); the...
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    Eleanor Steber (category 20th-century American women opera singers)
    Berlioz, Alban Berg, Giacomo Puccini and also in French opera. Steber sang the lead in the world premiere of the American opera Vanessa by Samuel Barber....
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    Gabriela Beňačková (category 20th-century Slovak women opera singers)
    Copycat singing Puccini's aria Vissi d'arte from the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. She appeared as Marguerite in the Vienna State Opera's production of...
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  • – “Cio-Cio San” by Puccini 2010 – “Otello“ by Verdi 2011 – “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky Repertoire includes more than 50 operas and ballets. Announcement...
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    French opera. Its current mission is to reconnect with its history and discover its unique repertoire to ensure production and dissemination of operas for...
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