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Italian opera tends to forsake the light-heartedness of the Comic opera for the more serious fare of Italian lyric Romanticsm. Although the ever-popular Rossini is certainly an exception to that, Italian music of the 19th century is dominated at the beginning by the likes of Bellini , Donizetti , and then, of course, for the last fifty years of ...
The following is a partial discography of the many audio [1] and video [2] recordings of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La traviata.Based on the 1848 novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, La traviata has been a staple of the operatic repertoire since its premiere on 6 March 1853 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas , his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative ...
The original author of the music may be Josef Mysliveček. A slightly different version of the aria appears with the text "Il caro mio bene" in a manuscript of Mysliveček's Armida (1779). Cesare Olivieri, Il trionfo della pace [1] between 1772 and 1775 178: 417e "Ah, spiegarti, oh Dio" (Score/Crit. report) Aria for soprano and orchestra (piano ...
Handel's last opera that he composed in Italy was a great success, [11] and established his reputation as a composer of Italian opera. [12] 1711 Rinaldo (Handel). Handel's first opera for the London stage was also the first all-Italian opera performed on the London stage. [13] 1724 Giulio Cesare (Handel). Noted for the richness of its ...
Opera had become a marriage of the arts, a musical drama, full of glorious song, costume, orchestral music and pageantry; sometimes, without the aid of a plausible story. From its conception during the baroque period to the maturity of the romantic period, it was the medium through which tales and myths were revisited, history was retold and ...
Pietro Mascagni [a] (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas.His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music.
also: Music: Musical compositions: Recorded music: Opera recordings Listing of sound and video recordings of opera . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Opera recordings .