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A Midsummer Night’s Dream was Benjamin Britten’s seventh major opera and had its premiere in 1960. Britten and his partner Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, using (with the exception of only one line) Shakespeare’s own text, as...
By: Benjamin Britten ISBN: 9781847495440 |
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Carmen is one of the most enduringly popular of all operas and the most successful of Georges Bizet’s works. Following its premiere at the Opéra- Comique in Paris in 1875, it went on to be performed at all the major opera houses in the world. With...
By: Georges Bizet ISBN: 9781847495525 |
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Der fliegende Holländer is the first of Wagner’s operas that the author considered to be representative of his mature style. The Dutchman embodies one of the major themes that recur throughout Wagner’s work, that of a central character seeking...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9781847495495 |
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Don Giovanni is one of Mozart's most popular and enduringly fascinating works. E.T.A. Hoffmann described it as the "opera of all operas". This edition begins with a discussion of its comic elements by Michael F. Robinson. An overall view of the...
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ISBN: 9781847495419 |
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Eugene Onegin is the most popular of Tchaikovsky’s operas. Entitled ‘Lyrical Scenes after Pushkin’ by the composer, the work takes as its basis the poem of the same name by the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. Its story of the unrequited love...
By: Pyotr Tchaikovsky ISBN: 9781847495464 |
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Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as "one of those works that even a genius like Mozart could write only once in his life". It is one of most astonishing achievements of an...
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ISBN: 9781847495396 |
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Puccini's La Bohème is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John...
By: Giacomo Puccini ISBN: 9781847495402 |
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La traviata was Giuseppe Verdi’s eighteenth opera and shows him at the height of his middle-period powers. Adapted from La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, it portrays the love between the courtesan Violetta Valéry and the young Alfredo...
By: Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 9781847495518 |
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Le nozze di Figaro is one of Mozart’s best-loved and most enduring works. The first of the three operas he wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte and based on Beaumarchais’s play, it established the thirty-year-old Mozart as an opera composer of the very first...
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ISBN: 9781847495457 |
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From its conception in 1857 to its first performances in 1882, Parsifal represented the culmination of the themes that preoccupied Wagner during the latter part of his life. This guide includes a series of articles on Wagner's profound and complex...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9781847495426 |
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