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Norma, or A Politician's Love (Norwegian: Norma eller En Politikers Kjærlighed) is an eight-page drama written as an opera parody by Henrik Ibsen. It is influenced by Bellini's Norma, which Ibsen saw in 1851, but the characters are contemporary politicians.
" Nessun dorma" (Italian: [nesˌsun ˈdɔrma]; English: "Let no one sleep") [1] is an aria from the final act of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot (text by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni) and one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera.
This is a list of recordings of Norma, a two-act opera by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian-language libretto by Felice Romani. It was first performed on 26 December 1831, at La Scala in Milan . Year
Meade and her husband have a newborn, a son named Henry, which deepens her understanding of Norma as a mother. And although the opera's setting is more than 2,000 years in the past, librettist ...
This season-closing mounting of Bellini's bel canto epic constituted a triumph for director Keturah Stickann.
Turandot (Italian pronunciation: [1] [2] or [turanˈdɔt] ⓘ; [3] [4] see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it premiered in 1926 after the music was posthumously completed by Franco Alfano.
This opera ran into trouble with the censors because it originally dealt with the assassination of a monarch. [103] 1861 Bánk bán (Erkel). Erkel's third opera is considered the Hungarian "National opera". [104] 1862 Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz). The last opera Berlioz wrote is the final fruit of his lifelong admiration for Shakespeare. [105]
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