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There is a live video recording of the 2017 production for the Festival D'Aix-en-Provence with Leonardo García Alarcón and the Cappella Mediterranea, starring sopranos Francesca Aspromonte and Susanna Hurrell, countertenors Carlo Vistoli and Jakub Jósef Orlinski, and baritone Alexander Miminoshvili. There is a full version available on YouTube.
François Sabatier-Ungher; sketch by Gustave Courbet (1854) Marie Jean Baptiste François Sabatier (2 July 1818, Montpellier - 1 December 1891, near Lunel-Viel) was a French philanthropist, art critic and translator. He changed his name to Sabatier-Ungher after his marriage to the Austro-Hungarian opera singer, Caroline Ungher.
Henze's first full-length opera is an updating of the story of Manon Lescaut, also the source for important operas by Massenet and Puccini. [222] 1953 Gloriana (Britten). Composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, this opera looks back to the relationship between her namesake Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. [223]
His opera Artaxerxes (1762) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s. His modernized ballad opera, Love in a Village (1762), was equally novel and began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century.
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
Castor and Patience is an opera composed by Gregory Spears to a libretto by Tracy K. Smith, commissioned by Cincinnati Opera for its 100th anniversary season and received its world premiere there in July 2022.
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, [1] and length of the work. [2] Apart from its shorter length, the operetta is usually of a light and amusing character. [3]
The fashion in the late Victorian era and Edwardian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so full-length pieces were often presented together with companion pieces. [10] During the original runs of the Savoy Operas, each full-length work was normally accompanied by one or two short companion pieces.