• list of authors who have written libretti for operas. Only librettists with their own articles in Wikipedia are listed. The name of the composer of each...
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    Libretto (redirect from Opera libretto)
    thorough reading of an entire show. List of opera librettists See, for example Smith, Marian Elizabeth (2000). Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle. Princeton...
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    prepared it for Domenico Cimarosa's opera Le donne rivali, 1780. For two instances in which Mozart coaxed his librettists into reshaping their work, see Die...
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  • opera experts. List of opera librettists – inclusive list of libretto writers. List of opera directors (in the sense of stage director, not general manager...
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    British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind "comic operas" to distinguish...
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  • origins of opera in late 16th century Italy, a central repertoire has developed, shepherded by major opera composers. The earliest major opera composer...
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    This is a list of notable opera houses listed by continent, then by country with the name of the opera house and city. The opera company is sometimes named...
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  • list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of...
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    list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some...
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  • Bess. The American Indian opera also emerged in the early 20th century, as both Native American composers and librettists, such as Zitkala-Ša (Yankton...
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  • This list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the...
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  • Classical music lists (category Lists of lists)
    opera librettists List of operatic pop artists List of people associated with the Royal Academy of Music List of Royal College of Music people List of royal...
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  • (1792–1868) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote 39 between 1806 and 1829. Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello...
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  • Russian opera (Russian: Ру́сская о́пера Rússkaya ópera) is the art of opera in Russia. Operas by composers of Russian origin, written or staged outside of Russia...
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    stage, representing more than 50 years of creative life, comprise his 13 completed operas and a similar number of failed or abandoned projects. His first...
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    with their librettists, e.g. Mozart with Lorenzo Da Ponte. Traditional opera, often referred to as "number opera", consists of two modes of singing: recitative...
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    more relevant. In the field of opera seria, a unique phenomenon in the history of opera took place in this period: librettists were more relevant than composers...
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    This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...
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    produced at La Scala in Milan on 26 December 1831. The opera is regarded as a leading example of the bel canto genre, and the soprano prayer "Casta diva"...
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  • This is a list of feature films based on operas. This is a list of feature films based on rock operas. This is a list of other opera or opera based films...
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    Eisa Davis (category African-American opera librettists)
    Davis's play Bulrusher was adapted into an opera by West Edge Opera in Berkeley, California. The production was part of the company's summer festival, bringing...
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    entirely plastic. London Opera Glass Company Monocular Spotting scope Opera Opera hat Opera cloak Opera gloves "How to Choose Opera Glasses". Archived from...
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    Temistocle Solera (category Italian opera librettists)
    Italian opera composer and librettist. He was born in Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia...
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    Il trovatore (category Operas by Giuseppe Verdi)
    composer was beginning to prepare an opera with a librettist but without a commission of any kind from an opera house. In his first letter to Cammarano...
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    La traviata (category Opera world premieres at La Fenice)
    frequently performed of all operas. For Verdi, the years 1851 to 1853 were filled with operatic activity. First, he had agreed with the librettist Salvadore Cammarano...
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  • Claudia Stevens (category American opera librettists)
    works, and for her collaborations with composer Allen Shearer as librettist of twelve operas. Claudia Stevens was born in Redding, California on May 29, 1949...
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    September 1835) was an Italian opera composer famed for his long, graceful melodies and evocative musical settings. A central figure of the bel canto era, he was...
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  • English-language opera in two acts with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by George Brant. The libretto is adapted from Brant's play of the same name. The opera features...
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    Traditional Chinese opera (traditional Chinese: 戲曲; simplified Chinese: 戏曲; pinyin: xìqǔ; Jyutping: hei3 kuk1), or Xiqu, is a form of musical theatre in...
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    The art form known as opera originated in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though it drew upon older traditions of medieval and Renaissance...
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