• Thumbnail for Cor anglais
    The cor anglais (UK: /ˌkɔːr ˈɒŋɡleɪ/, US: /- ɑːŋˈɡleɪ/ or original French: [kɔʁ ɑ̃ɡlɛ]; plural: cors anglais), or English horn (in North American English)...
    25 KB (3,221 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2024
  • 81″E / 48.8712722°N 2.3374472°E / 48.8712722; 2.3374472 Café Anglais The Café Anglais (French pronunciation: [kafe ɑ̃ɡlɛ], English café) was a famous...
    5 KB (514 words) - 23:31, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Der fliegende Holländer
    the idea of a one-act opera on the theme of the Flying Dutchman, which he hoped might be performed before a ballet at the Opéra. The voyage through the...
    16 KB (1,924 words) - 05:14, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Tell (opera)
    "March of the Swiss Soldiers". Paris Opéra archivist Charles Malherbe discovered the original orchestral score of the opera at a secondhand book seller's shop...
    33 KB (3,950 words) - 06:33, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
    André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work. It is the only opera Debussy ever completed. The plot concerns a love...
    50 KB (7,010 words) - 03:15, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carmen
    Carmen (redirect from Carmen opera)
    stage works performed. The capital's two main state-funded opera houses—the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique—followed conservative repertoires that restricted...
    72 KB (8,606 words) - 01:59, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tannhäuser (opera)
    Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (when it was sung in Italian). Wagner substantially amended the opera for a special 1861 performance by the Paris Opéra. This...
    43 KB (5,378 words) - 13:07, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for La bohème
    La bohème (category Opera world premieres at the Teatro Regio (Turin))
    premiered in Germany at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin on 22 June 1897. The French premiere of the opera was presented by the Opéra-Comique on 13 June 1898 at...
    44 KB (5,259 words) - 17:04, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Queen of Spades (opera)
    Woodwinds: three flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), two oboes (first doubling cor anglais), two clarinets (B-flat, A), bass clarinet (B-flat), two bassoons Brass:...
    25 KB (2,877 words) - 17:17, 20 October 2024
  • mezzo-soprano of the oboe family, between the oboe (soprano) and the cor anglais, or English horn, (alto). It is a transposing instrument, sounding a minor...
    6 KB (617 words) - 05:20, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Letters on the English
    edition appeared in English in 1778 as Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (Philosophical Letters on the English). Most modern English editions are...
    11 KB (1,387 words) - 10:06, 8 December 2024
  • This is a complete list of the operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813). Sources Bartlet, M Elizabeth C (1992), 'Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste'...
    15 KB (58 words) - 18:32, 14 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Jacques Offenbach
    comic pieces for the musical theatre. Finding the management of Paris's Opéra-Comique company uninterested in staging his works, in 1855 he leased a small...
    104 KB (12,774 words) - 18:05, 26 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pagliacci
    Pagliacci (redirect from Players (opera))
    Fiorentino production. The 2024 Opera Holland Park production The orchestra consists of 2 flutes, 1 piccolo, 2 oboes, 1 cor anglais, 2 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet...
    32 KB (3,799 words) - 11:59, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Nose (opera)
    following: Woodwinds: flute (doubling piccolo, alto flute), oboe (doubling cor anglais), B-flat clarinet (doubling piccolo clarinet, A clarinet, bass clarinet)...
    18 KB (1,978 words) - 20:38, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nice
    des Anglais by the French, a name that would stick after the annexation of Nice by France in 1860. The Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais was...
    93 KB (9,218 words) - 18:32, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mamelon (fort)
    Gerald (2008), Dictionnaire du pétrole et autres sources d'énergie: anglais-français, français-anglais (4 ed.), Editions TECHNIP, ISBN 978-2-7108-0911-1...
    3 KB (350 words) - 17:03, 17 March 2023
  • Double Basses Woodwinds: 3 Flutes (3rd doubling Piccolo), 2 Oboes, Cor Anglais, 2 Clarinets (B-flat, C, A), 2 Bassoons Brass: 4 Horns (F), 2 Cornets (B-flat)...
    12 KB (1,236 words) - 15:00, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Étienne Aignan
    réalité, opéra comique in 1 act and in verse, Paris, Théâtre Feydeau, 17 nivôse an XI. 1804: Le Connétable de Clisson, three-act opera, Paris, Opéra, 20 pluviôse...
    5 KB (538 words) - 20:31, 22 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for William Tell Overture
    William Tell Overture (category Opera excerpts)
    for: a piccolo, a flute, two oboes (first or second oboe doubles a cor anglais), two clarinets in A, two bassoons, four natural horns in G and E, two...
    15 KB (1,754 words) - 23:15, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boléro
    Paris Opéra on 22 November 1928, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and designs and scenario by Alexandre Benois. The orchestra of the Opéra was conducted...
    38 KB (3,630 words) - 03:40, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Sāvitri (opera)
    The opera features three solo singers, a wordless female chorus, and a chamber orchestra of 12 musicians (consisting of 2 flutes, a cor anglais, 2 string...
    7 KB (716 words) - 22:18, 4 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Cave (opera)
    Quartet: 2 Sopranos, Tenor, Baritone 2 reed players (flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bass clarinet) 4 percussionists (vibraphone, marimbaphone, bass...
    5 KB (540 words) - 09:07, 4 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for Cirque Olympique
    initially known as the Cirque d'Astley or the Cirque Anglais. Astley's theatre, the Amphithéâtre Anglais or Amphithéâtre d'Astley, was the first purpose-built...
    7 KB (718 words) - 16:23, 29 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Voyevoda (opera)
    Cellos, and Double Basses Woodwinds: Piccolo, 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, Cor Anglais, 2 Clarinets (B-flat & A), 2 Bassoons Brass: 4 Horns (all in F), 2 Trumpets...
    7 KB (662 words) - 06:16, 26 October 2024
  • No. 2, 1931–1933) calls for a player to double on cor anglais and heckelphone, but a cor anglais may be used for the entire part if a heckelphone is unavailable...
    11 KB (1,368 words) - 17:41, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Swan of Tuonela
    of cor anglais, oboe, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trombones, timpani, bass drum, harp, and divided strings. The cor anglais is the...
    5 KB (374 words) - 12:26, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fromental Halévy
    get an opera performed. Despite the mediocre reception of L'artisan, at the Opéra-Comique in 1827, Halévy moved on to be chorus master at the Opéra. The...
    12 KB (1,445 words) - 06:47, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for A Life for the Tsar
    Alexandrov Ensemble since 2004. The opera is scored for two flutes, two oboes (second oboe doubling cor anglais), two clarinets (in B flat and A), two...
    16 KB (1,606 words) - 20:01, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mazeppa (opera)
    Cellos, and Double Basses Woodwinds: Piccolo, 3 Flutes, 2 Oboes, Cor Anglais, 2 Clarinets (B-flat and A), 2 Bassoons Brass: 4 Horns, 2 Trumpets, 3 Trombones...
    19 KB (2,579 words) - 00:50, 25 October 2024