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Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. [1] During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres such as the symphonic poem.
Tosca is the most Wagnerian of Puccini's operas, with its frequent use of leitmotif. [59] 1901 Rusalka (Antonín Dvořák). Dvořák's most successful opera with international audiences, based on a folk tale about a water sprite. [154] 1902 Adriana Lecouvreur (Francesco Cilea). Unique among Cilea's operas in that it has remained in the ...
In spite of this, the opera has since had several champions. Victor Hugo in Les Misérables calls the huntsman's chorus in act 3 "perhaps the most beautiful piece of music ever composed". [4] During his term as director of the Vienna State Opera, Gustav Mahler mounted a new production of Euryanthe in 1903. Despite amendments in the libretto by ...
Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 1819 – 21 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia , Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia).
Later examples can be found as the opening movement of each of Johann Sebastian Bach's orchestral suites, Partita in D major, BWV 828, C minor Cello Suite, BWV 1011, and as an opening to many operas and oratorios by George Frideric Handel (including Messiah and Giulio Cesare). The 16th of Bach's Goldberg Variations is a miniature French overture.
Gustavo Dudamel brings the Paris Opera Ballet to the Hollywood Bowl for the first time to perform a mixed program with the L.A. Phil.
The overture to the opera is one of Hérold's most famous works and is a staple of orchestral repertoire. Performance history Zampa ...
Overture in E minor and incidental music to Raupach's König Enzio (1832; only the Overture survives) [4] 27: orchestral: Concert Overture No. 2 in C major (1832) [4] 37: orchestral: Overture and incidental music to Guido Theodor Apel's historic drama Columbus (1834-35; only the Overture survives) [4] 39: orchestral: Polonia Overture in C major ...