It is also the subject of increasing academic study and a small number of his operas have returned to the stage.

Since 2000, there have also been complete recordings issued or re-issued of the operas Axur Re d ' Ormus, Falstaff, Les Danaïdes, La Locandiera, La grotta di Trofonio, Prima la musica e poi le parole and Il mondo alla rovescia.

His operas Falstaff ( 1995 production ) and Tarare ( 1987 production ) have been released on DVD.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

The operas composed for Ferdinando de ' Medici are lost ; they might have given a more favourable idea of his style as his correspondence with the prince shows that they were composed with a very sincere sense of inspiration.

Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful " topsy-turvy " worlds for these operas where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion — fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong.

Their operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world.

The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humorists.

Other operas based on the novel have been composed by Gioachino Rossini ( Ivanhoé ), Thomas Sari ( Ivanhoé ), Bartolomeo Pisani ( Rebecca ), A. Castagnier ( Rébecca ), Otto Nicolai ( Il Templario ), and Heinrich Marschner ( Der Templer und die Jüdin ).

Francis Poulenc is one of the very few post-war composers of any nationality whose operas ( which include Dialogues des Carmélites ) have gained a foothold in the international repertory.

The two operas of Schoenberg's pupil Alban Berg, Wozzeck ( 1925 ) and Lulu ( incomplete at his death in 1935 ) share many of the same characteristics as described above, though Berg combined his highly personal interpretation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique with melodic passages of a more traditionally tonal nature ( quite Mahlerian in character ) which perhaps partially explains why his operas have remained in standard repertory, despite their controversial music and plots.

The major soap operas on British television each feature a pub, and these pubs have become household names.

The sets of each of the three major television soap operas have been visited by some of the members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II.

UK soap operas frequently make a claim to presenting " reality " or purport to have a " realistic " style.

Newer broadcast networks since the late 1980s, such as Fox and cable television networks, have largely eschewed soap operas in their daytime schedules, instead running syndicated programming and reruns.

* Soap operas have idiosyncratic blocking techniques.

Since 2000 new soap operas have continued to be developed.

Australia has had quite a number of well known soap operas, some of which have gained cult followings in the UK, New Zealand and other countries.

Several Australian soap operas have also found significant international success.

It has been suggested that with their emphasis on the younger, attractive and charismatic characters, Neighbours and Home and Away have found success in the middle ground between glamorous, fantastic US soaps with their wealthy but tragic heroes and the more grim, naturalistic UK soap operas populated by older, unglamorous characters.

Due to the economics of television production in Canada, relatively few daily soap operas have been produced on English Canadian television, with most Canadian stations that do air soap operas airing American or British ones.

Notable prime time soap operas in Canada have included Riverdale, House of Pride, Paradise Falls, He Shoots, He Scores, Loving Friends and Perfect Couples, North of 60, and The City.

Rossini was well known for being remarkably productive, completing an average of two operas per year for 19 years, and in some years writing as many as four.

For the latter, he penned a series of remarkably mature space operas under the pseudonym of Pierre Suragne.

According to Winton Dean the quality of the score, especially the first two acts, is remarkably high, but it shows less careful organization than most of the later operas.

The original impulses came to England late ( in the sixteenth century ) and continue strong long after everyone else had gone on to the baroque basso continuo, sonatas, operas and the like.

His last group of operas, composed for Rome, exhibit a deeper poetic feeling, a broad and dignified style of melody, a strong dramatic sense, especially in accompanied recitatives, a device which he himself had been the first to use as early as 1686 ( Olimpia vendicata ) and a much more modern style of orchestration, the horns appearing for the first time, and being treated with striking effect.

While there, he had the opportunity to hear operas by Meyerbeer and Halévy, which imparted a strong influence on him, especially the latter's La Juive.

ABC's daytime lineup became strong throughout the 1970s and 1980s with the soap operas General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Edge of Night ( which had moved to ABC from CBS in late 1975 ), All My Children, and Ryan's Hope, and the game shows The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Let's Make a Deal, Split Second, The $ 20, 000 Pyramid and Family Feud.

Cui's works are not so nationalistic as those of the other members of The Five ; with the exception of Pushkin, his operas do not display a strong attraction to Russian sources.

" The critic Alan Blyth described him as an expert on authenticity in performing Handel, a pioneer of Janáček, " a scholarly Mozartian ... a sure advocate of French opera, a strong, no-nonsense interpreter of the Viennese classics, an expert in early 19th-century operas by Donizetti and others, and an abiding admirer of Gilbert and Sullivan ".

Like Italian operas, Stamitz's compositions have a strong sense of rhythmic drive and distinctive thematic material within the exposition.

A number of previously obscure operas with strong bass / bass-baritone roles have been revived solely for Ramey, such as Verdi's Attila, Rossini's Maometto II and Massenet's Don Quichotte.

Mägo de Oz began to take a strong interest in concept albums and rock operas as was shown in Jesús de Chamberí.

His operas make too much sense, have too strong a plot, and are too masculine in their performance.

Thus was brought into strong relief a fact without which there can be no true appreciation of Plautus, viz., that his plays were comic operas rather than comic dramas.

He has strong interests in music, including the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and is the co-author ( with Frederic Lloyd ) of Gilbert and Sullivan: The Official D ' Oyly Carte Picture History.

They might include the hiring of actors, the development of a season of plays or operas with a sense of coherence among them, assistance with and editing of new plays or operas by resident or guest playwrights or composers / librettists, the creation of programs or accompanying educational services, helping the director with rehearsals, and serving as elucidator of history or spokesperson for deceased or otherwise absent playwrights or composers.

Mozart, in many ways Gluck's successor, combined a superb sense of drama, harmony, melody, and counterpoint to write a series of comedies, notably Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni ( in collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte ) which remain among the most-loved, popular and well-known operas today.

While not soaps in the traditional sense, these shows managed to appeal to wide audiences with their high drama mixed with humor, and are soap operas by definition.

They extend the language of Carmina Burana in interesting ways, but they are expensive to stage and ( on Orff's own admission ) are not operas in the conventional sense.

Orff was reluctant to term any of his works simply operas in the traditional sense.

Patience ( 1881 ) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true " Savoy Opera ", although the term " Savoy Opera " has, for over a century, included the complete set of thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D ' Oyly Carte:

While Australian soap operas have found huge success in Britain, British comedies have been consistently popular in Australia, with programs such as Fawlty Towers, The Goodies, Blackadder and The Office appealing to the Australian sense of humour.

His serious operas suffer from a coldness and severity of style, but in his comic operas he shows a keen sense of humour.

:" In the last decade or so, after almost a century of saloon art and horse operas that romanticized Indian fighters and white settlers, Americans have been developing a reasonably acute sense of the injustices and humiliations suffered by the Indians.

Mozart, in many ways Gluck's successor, combined a superb sense of drama, harmony, melody, and counterpoint to write a series of comedies, notably Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni ( in collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte ) which remain among the most-loved, popular and well-known operas today.

The intoxicating chemicals in marijuana and hashish are not considered addictive in the strict sense of the word, and are only thought to be habit-forming in the same way as tennis, ice cream, or soap operas.

Most of his operas were composed and staged during the early 1790s, and this, combined with an apparent lack of business sense, led to a noticeable decline in production.

The solo vocal writing in the mature operas, whilst not strictly comparable with verismo, is generally declamatory and follows naturalistic speech-rhythms: in this sense at least, along with many of his contemporaries, Holbrooke was indebted to Wagner although his musical idiom is more dissonant.