Ormindo ( L ' Ormindo ) is an opera in three acts and a Prologue by Francesco Cavalli to an original Italian libretto by Giovanni Faustini.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

`` La Gioconda '', like it or not, is a singer's opera.

And so, of course, it is a fan's opera as well.

But one wishes, when the appetite is whetted, as it was in the case of the all-too-brief excerpt from the Blomdahl opera, that further opportunity would be provided both for hearing the works in their entirety and for a closer analytical look at the sense and nature of the compositions.

Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

* Abimélech, Satrap of Gaza is a character ( baritone ) in Saint-Saëns ' opera " Samson et Dalila " ( Weimar, 1877 )

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

The opera is set during the First Crusade and it features a dramatic mix of ballet, aria, ensemble and choral writing combining theatricality, scenic splendor and high emotionalism.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

And if Ponte is in league with Salieri, I'll never get a text from him, and I would love to show here what I can really do with an Italian opera.

* Salieri's supposed hatred for Mozart is also alluded to in a spoof opera entitled A Little Nightmare Music, by P. D. Q.

In the opera, Salieri attempts to poison an anachronistic Shaffer but is bumped by a " clumsy oaf ", which causes him to inadvertently poison Mozart instead and spill wine on his favorite coat.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera.

From about 1697 onwards ( La caduta del Decemviri ), influenced partly perhaps by the style of Giovanni Bononcini and probably more by the taste of the viceregal court, his opera arias become more conventional and commonplace in rhythm, while his scoring is hasty and crude, yet not without brilliance ( L ' Eraclea, 1700 ), the oboes and trumpets being frequently used, and the violins often playing in unison.

Berg is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century and to date is the most widely performed opera composer among the Second Viennese School.

Adelaïde is the heroine of Gioacchino Rossini's 1817 opera, Adelaide di Borgogna.

Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups.

The work is performed as an operetta in many professional opera companies.

Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era ( roughly 1600 – 1750 ), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre and opera.

Its style is clearly reflective of the mature Haydn and Mozart, and its instrumentation gave it a weight that had not yet been felt in the grand opera.

Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it, Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-century opera buffa, Salieri showed a penchant for experimentation and for mixing the established characteristics of specific operatic genres.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

Salieri's first great success was in the realm of serious opera.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Salieri's first French opera contained scenes of great solemnity and festivity ; yet overshadowing it all was darkness and revenge.

Da Ponte would write his first opera libretto for Salieri, Il ricco d ' un giorno ( A Rich Man for a Day ) in 1784, it was not a success.

) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.

In November 2009 at the Teatro Salieri in Legnago occurred the first staging in modern times of his opera Il mondo alla rovescia, a co-production between the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri and the Fondazione Arena di Verona for the Salieri Opera Festival.

From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera, Wozzeck.

The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was first performed on December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed the first performance in Berlin.

Berg completed the orchestration of only the first two acts of his later three-act opera Lulu, before he died.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

Because of the popularity of Italian opera throughout 18th-century Europe ( except France ), singers such as Ferri, Farinelli, Senesino and Pacchierotti became the first operatic superstars, earning enormous fees and hysterical public adulation.

" On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.

In 2010, American Idiot became the first punk rock opera to make it to Broadway where it has garnered two Tony Awards.

In 2008, Cronenberg directed Howard Shore's first opera, The Fly.

* 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis.

* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

By mid-1892 Satie had composed the first pieces in a compositional system of his own making (), had provided incidental music to a chivalric esoteric play ( two ), had had his first hoax published ( announcing the premiere of, an anti-Wagnerian opera he probably never composed ), and had broken with Péladan, starting that autumn with the Uspud project, a " Christian Ballet ", in collaboration with.