Opera semiseria ('semi-serious opera') is an Italian genre of opera, popular in the early and middle 19th century. Related to the opera buffa, opera semiseria...

Opera is a form of Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation...

Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7 Budden, Julian: "Opera semiseria" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley...

Niccolò Piccinni produced with La Cecchina (1760) another new genre: opera semiseria. This had two buffo characters, two nobles and two "in between" characters...

China, but other genres like Yue opera, Cantonese opera, Yu opera, kunqu, qinqiang, Huangmei opera, pingju, and Sichuan opera are also performed regularly...

Alisa di Rieux, opera semiseria in 3 acts, libretto by Gaetano Rossi, Rome, Teatro Argentina, spring 1838 La modista, opera semiseria in 2 acts, Florence...

Barbarian À la zingara, a garnish in French cuisine La zingara (1822), an opera semiseria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti "La zingara" (1845), a song by Giuseppe...

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Opéra bouffe (French pronunciation: [ɔpeʁa buf], plural: opéras bouffes) is a genre of mid- to late 19th-century French operetta, closely associated with...

pronunciation: [la ˈɡaddza ˈlaːdra], The Thieving Magpie) is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini...

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...

Opera buffa (Italian: [ˈɔːpera ˈbuffa], "comic opera"; pl.: opere buffe) is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic...

Benvenuto Cellini is an opera semiseria in four tableaux (spread across two or three acts) by Hector Berlioz, his first full-length work for the stage...

Opéra comique (French: [ɔpeʁa kɔmik]; plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the...

sleepwalking is a uniquely human phenomenon. Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 Italian opera semiseria, La sonnambula, the plot of which is centered on the question of the...

said that "the opera is a masterpiece". 1891 L'amico Fritz (Mascagni). This work has been thought of as a late example of opera semiseria. 1892 Iolanta...

sonnambula (Italian pronunciation: [la sonˈnambula]; The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini...

Naples) I due gemelli (opera buffa, libretto by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, 1783, Naples) Il convitato di pietra (opera semiseria, libretto by Giovanni...

The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer...

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book by Christopher Clark La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker), an 1831 opera semiseria by Vincenzo Bellini Sleepwalker (The Kinks album) or the title song...

two operas which were never performed, but his opera semiseria Lina was successfully given at Foroni's Teatro Filarmonico in 1840, and his next opera, Clara...

jazz group Trio 3 from the 2014 album Wiring Chiara e Serafina, an opera semiseria by Gaetano Donizetti Chiaramonte Ciara (disambiguation) Keira (disambiguation)...

'comédie larmoyante' in both French and Italian opera where it gave birth to the genre of opera semiseria: André Grétry's Lucile, Nicolas Dalayrac's Nina...

Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera Cendrillon with music by Nicolas Isouard (first performed Paris, 1810) and...

Rossini (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...

French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language. It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing...

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countries. German-language opera appeared remarkably quickly after the birth of opera itself in Italy. The first Italian opera was Jacopo Peri's Dafne of...