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    Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare, Keiser's Croesus, Florian Leopold Gassmann's L'opera seria and Scarlatti's Griselda. These works were performed by Belgian conductor...
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    Opera, where he performed as Ritornello in Florian Leopold Gassmann's L'opera seria, and Giocondo in Rossini's La pietra del paragone. He also took part...
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  • opera buffa 3 acts Carlo Goldoni 5 January 1768 Vienna, Burgtheater L'opera seria commedia per musica 3 acts Ranieri de' Calzabigi and Metastasio 1769...
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    Martín y Soler". NewOlde.com. Retrieved 2018-02-11. "Gassmann's comedy L'Opera Seria in Brussels". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 2018-02-11. "Don Chisciotte della...
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    Alessandro Stradella, in 1679. Opera buffa was a parallel development to opera seria, and arose in reaction to the so-called first reform of Apostolo Zeno and...
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  • Opera Gala co-hosted by Joan Sutherland and the ARTE film documentary L'Opera Seria. She was featured in an Oscar-winning documentary of the San Francisco...
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    Haydn's Il mondo della luna, Mozart's La finta semplice, and Gassmann's L'opera seria The festival's concerts are often centered on a particular theme. Among...
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  • "Armida al campo d'Egitto". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian). L'opéra baroque – Les compositeurs – Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi : tableau...
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    Gassmann's L'Opera Seria at the Schwetzingen Festival. Inspired by his Baroque experiences Martinoty published the book Voyages à l'intérieur de l'opéra baroque...
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    attempted to replace the abstruse plots and overly complex music of opera seria with a "noble simplicity" in both the music and the drama. The opera is...
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  • (1996) Johann Adolph Hasse: Solimano (1997) Florian Leopold Gassmann: L'opera seria (1997) Georg Friedrich Handel: Semele (1998) Marc-Antoine Charpentier:...
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    France), attracting foreign composers such as George Frideric Handel. Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Christoph Willibald...
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    such as Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello. He also composed opera seria works such as Tancredi, Otello and Semiramide. All of these attracted admiration...
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  • Teseo riconosciuto (1798) is the first opera seria by Gaspare Spontini to a libretto by Cosimo Giotti. It was premiered at the Teatro della Pallacorda...
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    Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi...
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    (who wrote the libretto to Gluck's Orfeo), wrote L'opera seria in 1769. Giovanni Bertati's L'opera nuova (1781). Giambattista Casti's Prima la musica...
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  • Mitridate Eupatore (category Opera seria)
    Il Mitridate Eupatore (Mithridates Eupator) is an opera seria in five acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti with a libretto by Girolamo Frigimelica...
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    another Mozart trousers role in 1977, when she sang Idamante in his opera seria Idomeneo at the San Francisco Opera. In 1980 and 1984, she appeared in his...
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  • between the Venetian opera of Francesco Cavalli and the new form of opera seria. Modern reactions to the work have been mixed, with Tim Carter describing...
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    (1980). "Imperatrice di molte favelle". In Ufficio Stampa dell'E.A. (ed.). L'Opera di Genova. Stagione Lirica 1980–81. Teatro Margherita (in Italian). E.A...
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  • became known as the sinfonia. Fisher also notes the term Sinfonia avanti l'opera (literally, the "symphony before the opera") was "an early term for a sinfonia...
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    light relief between the acts of Telemann's adaptation of Handel's opera seria Tamerlano. Pimpinone was highly successful and pointed the way forward to...
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    which led to commissions from the Teatro San Carlo, where his first opera seria, Andromaca, was premiered in 1761. Meanwhile, Sacchini was pursuing his...
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    Griselda (A. Scarlatti) (category Opera seria)
    Griselda is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti, the last of Scarlatti’s operas to survive completely today. The...
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  • Wolf-Ferrari in 1931 (see La vedova scaltra). Tribuzio, Giovanni (2019). "L'opera ritrovata di Gennaro D'Alessandro e Carlo Goldoni: dall'"Ottone" per Federico...
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  • theatres were brought under the aegis of an institution called the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique. In spite of fierce opposition from rival theatres the venture...
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    reformist ideology. Algarotti proposed a heavily simplified model of opera seria, with the drama pre-eminent, instead of the music, ballet or staging. The...
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    zarzuela. On the other hand, as in theater, there is dramatic opera (opera seria) and comic opera (opera buffa), as well as a hybrid between the two: the...
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    at Miri and Seria and refinery at Lutong be quickly demolished. At dawn on 16 December, two Japanese landing units secured Miri and Seria with little...
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    Inquest. Florent Mothe portrays Salieri in the French musical Mozart, l'opéra rock (2009). C. Ian Kyer's first work of fiction is the historical novel...
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