The English never again developed a strong native music that could obliterate the traces of an earlier great age the way, say, the opera in Italy blotted out the Italian madrigal.

Upon Gassmann's death on 22 January, most likely due to complications from an accident with a carriage some years earlier, Salieri succeeded him as assistant director of the Italian opera in early 1774.

Les Danaïdes followed in the tradition of reform that Gluck had begun in the 1760s and that Salieri had emulated in his earlier opera Armida.

However, two years earlier, Umlauf had watched as the composer's attempt to conduct a dress rehearsal of his opera Fidelio ended in disaster.

The music is remarkable for its freedom from the conventions discovered and utilized by Rossini in his earlier works, and marks a transitional stage in the history of opera, the overture serving as a model for romantic overtures throughout the 19th century.

Some feel that although masterfully orchestrated, it lacks the melodic lustre so characteristic of Verdi's earlier, great, operas, while many critics consider it Verdi's greatest tragic opera, containing some of his most beautiful, expressive music and some of his richest characterizations.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Gilbert initially proposed a story for a new opera about a magic lozenge that would change the characters, which Sullivan found artificial and lacking in " human interest and probability ", as well as being too similar to their earlier opera, The Sorcerer.

One such tradition is the patter song exemplified by Gilbert and Sullivan but that has origins in earlier Italian opera.

An earlier opera by Joplin, A Guest of Honor, has been lost.

Beaumarchais's earlier play The Barber of Seville had already made a successful transition to opera in a version by Paisiello.

Rossini's opera recounts the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy, by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

It has been assumed ( see The New Grove Dictionary of Opera ) that Leoncavallo left the opera more or less complete ( except for the orchestration ), but Pennacchio may have had to do more and may have " filled in the gaps " using Leoncavallo's earlier music.

To this end, he brought a copy of his earlier opera Zaide and showed it to Stephanie, who was duly impressed.

Mozart's opera includes a Westernized version of Turkish music, based very loosely on the Turkish Janissary band music that he had employed in earlier work.

Gilbert told a correspondent many years later that Sullivan was unable to recall his setting of the entrance of the women's chorus, so they substituted the chorus " Climbing over rocky mountain " from their earlier opera, Thespis.

Some of the plot elements of Ruddigore had been introduced by Gilbert in his earlier one-act opera, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), including the tale of the wicked ancestor and the device of the ancestors stepping out of their portraits.

In contrast, the model that generally held for opera buffa was having two acts ( as, for example, The Barber of Seville ), dealing with comic scenes and situations as earlier stated and using the lower male voices to the exclusion of the castrati.

He also began adapting musical works of earlier eras for contemporary theatrical presentation, including Claudio Monteverdi's opera L ' Orfeo ( 1607 ).

Shortly after this performance, the court produced Francesca Caccini's opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall ' isola d ’ Alcina, which she had written for Prince Władysław three years earlier when he was in Italy.

She had earlier turned down the role of Sable Colby on The Colbys, the Aaron Spelling spin-off of the nighttime soap opera Dynasty.

Nonetheless, collaborations with Boito in the revision of the earlier opera Simon Boccanegra helped to convince Verdi of Boito ’ s ability as a librettist.

Twenty years earlier, Del Monaco had been warned not to sing Otello because his voice was nothing like that of Ramon Vinay, who was then performing the opera all over the world.

Eileen Farrell in the title role, Mignon Dunn as La Cieca and Richard Tucker as Enzo were holdovers from earlier performances this season, and all contributed to a vigorous performance.

In 1925, Ottorino Respighi orchestrated four pieces from Péchés de vieillesse as the suite Rossiniana ( he had earlier used pieces from the same collection as the basis of his ballet La Boutique fantasque ).

During the following years, Verdi worked on revising some of his earlier scores, most notably new versions of Don Carlos, La forza del destino, and Simon Boccanegra.

Following the earlier La Tène and Roman influence cultures, the Slavic people have been in this territory for over 1500 years.

On 25 March 2006, after a public announcement made weeks earlier, the FARC-EP released two captured policemen at La Dorada, Putumayo.

" He told Washington that France's claim to the region was superior to that of the British, since René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had explored the Ohio Country nearly a century earlier.

Léon: The Professional is to some extent an expansion of an idea in Besson's earlier 1990 film, La Femme Nikita ( in some countries Nikita ).

Don recounts to Nat how he met Helen three years earlier at the Metropolitan Opera after a matinee performance of La Traviata.

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads ?, a sequel to the earlier show, surpassed the original, while the same writers ( Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ) provided Ronnie Barker with his most successful sitcom vehicle, Porridge ( 1974 – 77 ).

He also attended and wrote a report on the inauguration of a statue to Beethoven in Bonn, and began composing La damnation de Faust, incorporating the earlier Huit scènes de Faust.

Bartholomew Columbus founded the settlement and named it La Nueva Isabela, after an earlier settlement in the north named after the Queen of Spain Isabella I.

An earlier version of La Danse ( 1909 ) is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Some years earlier, Martinelli had had Antonin Trantoul, who had sung Otello at La Scala in the twenties, held up to him as a shining example ; but at La Scala, those who still remembered the very first Otello, Francesco Tamagno, had found Trantoul completely unsatisfactory.

In France, La Pléiade aimed to break with earlier traditions of French poetry ( especially Marot and the grands rhétoriqueurs ), and, maintaining that French was a worthy language for literary expression, to attempt to ennoble the French language by imitating the Ancients.

" This earlier group was composed of pit musicians from New York's La MaMa Theater, which Cuomo music-directed.

Gluck's two London operas, ( La caduta de ' giganti and Artamene ) eventually performed in 1746, borrowed much from his earlier works, a method that was to re-occur throughout his career.

The reason for building Rochefort was to a large extent that royal power could hardly depend on rebellious Protestant La Rochelle, which Cardinal Richelieu had to besiege a few decades earlier.

Concha Velasco, a talented singer and movie star, launched the scene with her 1965 hit " La Chica Ye-Yé ", though there had been hits earlier by female singers like Karina ( 1963 ).

The name was later changed to the French " De La Plaine " ( of the plain ) in recognition of the earlier French trading post.

An even earlier community water well is documented to have existed about two blocks south from the present one ( before La Russell was founded ), also located in the center of the road until it was replaced at the beginning of the 20th century.

The city of La Belle was incorporated in 1872, although it had been a village and stage coach stop much earlier.

Steinhauer's missionary work had actually begun 15 years earlier in 1840 when he was assigned to Lac La Pluie to assist in translating, teaching and interpreting the Ojibwa and Cree languages.