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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 680. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2. Willis, Stephen C. "Opera composition". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. "Television's audience for opera", The Guardian, 8 December 1966, p. 8. [full citation needed
The Beggar's Opera: Johann Christoph Pepusch: John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, 1953 Peter Brook: Bluebeard's Castle: Béla Bartók: Béla Balázs: Herzog Blaubarts Burg, 1963 Michael Powell: La bohème: Giacomo Puccini: Luigi Illica Giuseppe Giacosa: La Bohème, 1926 King Vidor: La Bohème, 1965 Franco Zeffirelli: La Bohème, 1988 Luigi Comencini ...
Royal Opera House chorus & orch. cond. John Pritchard: Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. [2] 1966–69 The Knot Garden: Voices and orchestra 2 December 1970: London. Royal Opera House cond. Colin Davis: Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. [3] 1973–76 The Ice Break: Voices and orchestra 7 July 1977: London. Royal Opera House ...
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.
William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Highway 1, USA is an American opera in one act with music by William Grant Still and libretto by Verna Arvey. [1] [2] Originally composed during the 1940s with the title A Southern Interlude, the opera received its premiere under its revised and definitive title in 1963.
The opera opened two weeks later (March 15, 1950) at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City where it enjoyed a run of nearly eight months (269 performances). It was initially conducted by Lehman Engel who was substituted by Thomas Schippers for nearly eight months until the last performance on November 4, 1950.
George Rose/Getty Images For the first time in decades, daytime TV might be getting another soap opera. CBS Studios and the NAACP announced on Wednesday, March 6, that they are developing The ...
Alcina (HWV 34) is a 1735 opera seria by George Frideric Handel.Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after during his travels in Italy.