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The Opera Game was a chess game played in 1858 at an opera house in Paris. The American master Paul Morphy played against two amateurs: the German noble Karl II, Duke of Brunswick , and the French aristocrat Comte Isouard de Vauvenargues.
Pagliacci (Italian pronunciation: [paʎˈʎattʃi]; literal translation, 'Clowns') [a] is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who murders his wife Nedda and her lover Silvio on stage during a ...
' booklet ') is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as the Mass, requiem and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet.
Opera is a key part of Western classical music, and Italian tradition in particular. [3] Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as Singspiel and Opéra comique.
The opera originated as a stage play by George Brant. The play, also called Grounded, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, [1] then became internationally popular. One New York production, at The Public Theater, starred Anne Hathaway and was directed by Julie Taymor. The play is a one-woman show in which the character is unnamed. [2]
Edgar is an operatic dramma lirico in three acts (originally four acts) [1] by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, freely based on the play in verse La Coupe et les lèvres by Alfred de Musset. [2] The first performance was given at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 21 April
The play was later the subject of numerous revisions. It is part of what Camus called the "Cycle of the Absurd", together with the novel The Stranger (1942) and the essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). [2] A number of critics have reported the piece to be existentialist, though Camus always denied belonging to this philosophy. [3]
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 used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most composers used more precise designations to present their work to the public.