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  2. List of musical items in Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

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    Ben mi lusinga alquanto ("Much I am flattered") Orfeo Ahi, sventurato amante ("Ah, unhappy lover that I am") In two sections; the Underworld sinfonia plays at the end of each section Coro di spiriti (Chorus of spirits) Nulla impresa per uom si tenta invano ("Nothing is undertaken by man in vain")

  3. Armida (Rossini) - Wikipedia

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    Armida was written to be performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 11 November 1817 to celebrate the opening of the rebuilt opera house, which had been destroyed by fire the previous year. Isabella Colbran sang the title role, which is one of the longest and most demanding that Rossini wrote, with difficult coloratura passages of every ...

  4. Opera - Wikipedia

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    In Italian opera after about 1800, the "overture" became known as the sinfonia. [54] Fisher also notes the term Sinfonia avanti l'opera (literally, the "symphony before the opera") was "an early term for a sinfonia used to begin an opera, that is, as an overture as opposed to one serving to begin a later section of the work". [54]

  5. List of compositions by Gioachino Rossini - Wikipedia

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    Sinfonia "al conventello" (1806) Cinque duets pour cor (1806) Sinfonia (1808, used in L'inganno felice) Sinfonia (1809, used in La cambiale di matrimonio et Adelaide di Borgogna) Sinfonia "obbligata a contrabasso" (1807–10) Variazioni di clarinetto (1809) Quartetto per flauto, clarinetto, fagotto e corno (1810?) Andante e tema con variazioni ...

  6. List of operas by Alessandro Scarlatti - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725).. Scarlatti wrote 45 drammi per musica, also 7 melodrammi, 2 commedia per musica (or opere buffe), 2 opere drammatice, 2 favole boscherecce, 2 tragedie in musica, 1 commedia, 1 dramma pastorale, and 1 dramma sacro per musica.

  7. La gazza ladra - Wikipedia

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    Decor by Alessandro Sanquirico for the 1817 La Scala performance.. The first performance of The Thieving Magpie was on 31 May 1817, at La Scala, Milan.In 1818, Rossini revised the opera for subsequent productions in Pesaro; and then in 1819 for the Teatro del Fondo, in Naples; in 1820 for the Teatro di San Carlo, in Naples; and in 1866 he revised the music for performance in Paris.

  8. Falstaff (Salieri) - Wikipedia

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    Defranceschi moves the plot and structure away from Elizabethan drama and closer to the standard conventions of late 18th century opera buffa. Highlights include the Sinfonia (overture) in the style of contra dances. [citation needed] The entire opera shows the influence of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, which was being successfully revived at ...

  9. Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi - Wikipedia

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    The Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (Symphony Orchestra of Milan Giuseppe Verdi) is an Italian orchestra based in Milan. The orchestra refers to itself as La Verdi colloquially. The orchestra's primary residence is the Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo .