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Overture, a 2018 novel by Zlatko Topčić; Overture, a 2015 action-adventure game; Overture Center, a performing arts center and art gallery in Madison, Wisconsin; Penumbra: Overture, a survival horror PC video game, the first installment of the Penumbra series by Frictional Games
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given.
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The Cockaigne Overture does not eclipse the Mastersingers prelude, but neither is it outshone by Wagner's most symphonically satisfying introductory composition from which it actually borrows some procedures. Elgar's piece is as splendidly evocative a picture of Edwardian London as Wagner's is of medieval Nuremberg, and there is nothing to ...
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The work has its origins, as had the composer's Scottish 3rd Symphony and The Hebrides overture, in the tour of Europe which occupied Mendelssohn from 1829 to 1831. Its inspiration is the colour and atmosphere of Italy, where Mendelssohn made sketches but left the work incomplete. Below is a snippet of a letter he wrote to his father: This is ...
4. in G (1907) 5. in C (1930) 6. sketches [39] — — — 39.1: 1901: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D: orchestral: the trio contains the tune known as Land of Hope and Glory: A. E. Rodewald and the members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society — Boosey 39.2: 1901: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2 in A minor: orchestral — Granville ...
An American Overture (originally titled Occasional Overture), Op. 27 is an orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten. It was composed in 1941, while Britten and his life partner, the tenor Peter Pears, lived in the United States. Personal difficulties, global events, and the desire to earn more money goaded Britten to leave England and pursue ...