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Opera was released in Italy on December 19, 1987. [1] Film critic and historian Roberto Curti wrote that the film was a box-office success in Italy, with 706,000 spectators 4,737 million lire grossed. [5] The film was initially going to be released in the United States by Orion Pictures, with plans to remove the film's ending in the Swiss Alps ...
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, and a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe. Based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, it tells the tragic story of beautiful soprano Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious and disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris ...
The Metropolitan Opera revived the opera in the 1994/1995 season. [4] Corigliano considers this work a "grand opera buffa" [1] because it incorporates both elements of the grand opera style (large chorus numbers, special effects) and the silliness of the opera buffa style. Commentators have noted how the opera satirises and parodies accepted ...
Beaumarchais's earlier play The Barber of Seville had already made a successful transition to opera in a version by Paisiello.Beaumarchais's Mariage de Figaro, with its frank treatment of class conflict, [3] was at first banned in Vienna: Emperor Joseph II stated that "since the piece contains much that is objectionable, I therefore expect that the Censor shall either reject it altogether, or ...
Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams's first opera, it was inspired by U.S. president Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China. The work premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris. When ...
Lully's Armide at the Palais-Royal Opera House in 1761, watercolor by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Armide is an opera in five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The libretto by Philippe Quinault is based on Torquato Tasso's poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). The work is in the form of a tragédie en musique, a genre invented by Lully and ...
Titled Falling Angel, it premiered at the Brevard Music Center on June 30, 2016, [3] [4] after having initially been commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York. [2] The novel was serialized in digest version in Playboy magazine in 1978, winner of Playboy Editorial Award for Best Major Work.
Holman counts 42, [25] while Roger Scruton, in his 2017 philosophical analysis of the Ring, numbers them at 53. [26] Apart from some early sketches in 1850, relating to Siegfried's Death, Wagner composed the Ring music in its proper sequence. [27] Thus, Das Rheingold was his first attempt to adopt the principles set out in Opera and Drama.