A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

First performance of Italian opera in the United StatesProduction of Rossini's opera in Rome, London, Paris, and New YorkThomas Phillipps and his English versionMiss Leesugg and Mrs. HolmanEmanuel Garcia and his troupeMalibranEarly operas in AmericaColman's "Spanish Barber"Other Figaro operasHow Rossini came to Write "Il Barbiere" The story of a fiascoGarcia and his Spanish song"Segui, o caro" Giorgi-RighettiThe plot of the operaThe overture"Ecco ridente in cielo""Una voce poco f,"Rossini and PattiThe lesson scene and what singers have done with itGrisi, Alboni, Catalani, Bosio, Gassier, Patti, Sembrich, Melba, and ViardotAn echo of Haydn. Beaumarchais and his Figaro comedies"Le Nozze" a sequel to "Il Barbiere"Mozart and RossiniTheir operas comparedOpposition to Beaumarchais's "Marriage de Figaro"Moral grossness of Mozart's operaA relic of feudalismHumor of the hornsA merry overture The story of the operaCherubino,"Non so pi cosa son" Benucci and the air "Non pi andrai""Voi che sapete"A marvellous finaleThe song to the zephyrA Spanish fandango"Deh vieni non tardar." The oldest German opera current in AmericaBeethoven's appreciation of Mozart's operaIts TeutonismOtto Jahn's estimatePapageno, the German PunchEmanuel SchikanederWieland and the original of the story of the operaHow "Die Zanberflte" came to be writtenThe story of "Lulu"Mozart and freemasonryThe overture to the opera The fugue theme and a theme from a sonata by ClementiThe opera's play"O Isis und Osiris""Hellish rage" and fiorituriThe song of the Two Men in ArmorGoethe and the libretto of "Die Zauberflte" How the opera should be viewed. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 5724
Author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English