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.

These orchestral works are mainly in the galant style and though they show some development toward the late classical they reflect a general weakness in comparison to his operatic works of the same and later periods.

Haydn was not a virtuoso at the international touring level ; nor was he seeking to create operatic works that could play for many nights in front of a large audience.

Although the company's repertoire included works from the French, Italian and English operatic literatures, they always performed in English.

Besides solo works, the historical harpsichord was widely used for accompaniment in the basso continuo style ( a function it maintained in operatic recitative even into the 19th century ).

This period also includes his operatic works – Merlin, Henry Clifford, and Pepita Jiménez.

Strauss continued to produce a highly varied body of operatic works, often with libretti by the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, right up until Capriccio in 1942.

* Notes on 20th century productions of Rospigliosi's operatic works

In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas, Wilde's drawing-room comedies, Symbolism, and proto-Expressionism in the late works of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen.

Since its premiere, The Magic Flute has always been one of the most beloved works in the operatic repertoire, and is presently the fourth most frequently performed opera world wide.

While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either ; and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique.

Donizetti is best known for his operatic works, but he also wrote music in a number of other forms, including some church music, a number of string quartets, and some orchestral works.

Among Pergolesi's other operatic works are his first opera La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo ( 1731 ), Lo frate ' nnamorato ( The monk in love, 1732, to a text in the Neapolitan language ), L ' Olimpiade ( 31 January 1735 ) and Il Flaminio ( 1735 ).

He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H. M. S.

However, this house had been the venue for presentations of all of the works of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini up to this time, and a flourishing operatic culture existed in Modena.

Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists.

Both of them featured bel canto works, dating from Rubini's day, in their operatic repertoires, and both of them can be heard on recordings which faithfully capture the distinct shimmer inherent in their timbre.

Indeed, many operatic works of the 18th century have roles marked as bass that in reality are low baritone roles ( or bass-baritone parts in modern parlance ).

Derek Hughes in Culture and Sacrifice traces the topic's iterations through the works of Shakespeare, Dryden and Voltaire, and its central position in the operatic tradition from Mozart to Wagner and into 20th century works such as those of D. H. Lawrence.

James was definitely out of his element when it came to music, but Benjamin Britten's operatic version of " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1954 ) has become one of the composer's most popular works.

Famous Modenesi include Mary of Modena, the Queen consort of England and Scotland ; operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti ( 1935 – 2007 ) and soprano Mirella Freni, born in Modena itself ; Enzo Ferrari ( 1898 – 1988 ), eponymous founder of the Ferrari motor company ; the Catholic Priest and Senior Exorcist of Vatican Gabriele Amorth ; and the rock singer Vasco Rossi who was born in Zocca, one of the 47 comuni in the Province of Modena.

Other recent operatic parts written for the countertenor voice include Edgar in Aribert Reimann's Lear ( 1978 ), the title role in Philip Glass's Akhnaten ( 1983 ), Claire in John Lunn's The Maids ( 1998 ), the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight ( 1999 ), and Trinculo in Thomas Adès's The Tempest ( 2004 ).

Examples of contralto roles in the standard operatic repertoire include the following:.

Despite these influences and her classical training, the diverse musical styles that she has used throughout her career and sometimes in the same soundtrack include " rock, electronica, oriental, ambient, industrial, pop, symphonic, operatic, chiptune, and more ".

Notable performers of the era include Tymofiy Bilohradsky who later studied lute under Sylvius Leopold Weiss in Dresden, his daughter Yelyzaveta who was a famous operatic soprano, and Oleksiy Rozumovsky, a court bandurist and the morganatic husband of Empress Elizabeth.

Rosenstock was also the first NYCO director to include musical theatre in the company's repertoire with a 1954 production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat ; a production which starred Broadway musical veteran and operatic soprano Helena Bliss.

His interests include snooker memorabilia, Art Deco and operatic singing.

Available videos include a full-length performance ( in German ) as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, and a recital of operatic arias.

His recordings also include some works with no operatic associations, such as the Harp Concerto in E-flat by Reinhold Glière, with harpist Osian Ellis.

The songs they perform range from Russian folk tunes to church hymns, operatic arias and popular music ; examples include The Volga Boatmen's Song,

Though principally singing concert works, her operatic roles include parts in Britten ’ s The Rape of Lucretia, Gluck ’ s Orfeo ed Euridice, Handel ’ s Flavio, Mozart ’ s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Wagner ’ s Ring cycle.

Antonovich requested that the company broaden the scope of the festival to include other classical and operatic performers, while the company argued that proper attention was made to educate festival-goers on Wagner's racist views, and that broadening the scope would be inappropriate.

Her operatic roles include Susanna, Constanze, Sandrina, Adina, Lucia, Juliette, Micaela, Miss Wordsworth, Tytania and Baby Doe.

Eroica soloists include the aforementioned concert pianists ; violist Scott Slapin, the only artist to record the entire Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the viola ; conductor and violinist Guillermo Figueroa, the only artist to record all three Bartók Sonatas for violin on a single CD ; lutenist F. Edgar Gilbert playing Lute music from the Baroque and Renaissance periods ; Carol Wood playing Early Music for harp and voice ; Andrea Steckermeier-Thiele playing contemporary harp works ; Dominique Piana performing traditional and contemporary harp works, Cellists Yehuda Hanani and Michael Rudiakov, each performing Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for cello Solo ; Organist Richard Heschke ; Organist James Riker, opera tenor Camillo d ' Antonio, operatic sopranos Eileen Mager, Isolda Jones, Elin Carlson, and Alicia Solomon, and classical guitarists Jonathan Adams, Scott Morris, Glenn Strauss, Joseph Sullinger, Troy King, Susan McDonald and many others.

Some of her operatic roles include Musetta ( La bohème ), Valencienne ( The Merry Widow ), Amelia ( Amelia al Ballo ), Arminda ( La finta giardiniera ) and Contessa Ceprano ( Rigoletto ).

Early musical influences include opera ( his father was an operatic tenor ), the post-punk group Joy Division, and the avant-garde electronic band Kraftwerk.

Other operatic works include La Contrebasse ( 1930 ), La Gageure Imprévue ( 1942 ), Les Caprices de Marianne ( 1954 ), and Boule de Suif ( 1978 ).

Other operatic stage designs include: Cherubini's Medea, directed by Liliana Cavani, for the Opéra National de Paris ; Strauss ' Elektra, directed by Nuria Espert, for De Munt Theatre in Brussels ; Verdi's Ernani, directed by Luca Ronconi, 1980, Beethoven's Fidelio, directed by Werner Herzog in 1999 for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan ; Bellini's Norma, directed by Piero Faggioni, for the Vienna State Opera in 1977 ; Verdi's

His works include anthologies of poetry, books of song lyrics, children's books, plays, operatic librettos and translations.

They include his operatic debut at the Glyndebourne in 1998, Bertarido in Handel's Rodelinda, repeated in 1999 and 2002.

In the first instance, Will Smith's character sings the song after he and cousin Carlton Banks are thrown into prison ( Smith sings the first two lines, Banks sullenly providing the refrain, then a prisoner sings the final four lines in an operatic voice.

The opera was withdrawn after only two performances ; and the failure of this work, even though the composer attempted a later revision, was enough to drive him to abandon the operatic stage for good.

The opening movement relates so closely to the two remaining movements that it functions like an operatic prelude.

During the two operatic scenes in the film, MacDonald sang excerpts from Charles Gounod's Faust and Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata.

But the latter work had only a few short runs, and for the next 15 years, Sullivan's sole operatic collaborator was Gilbert ; the two created an additional 12 operas together.

The Mikado ; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations.

The theatrical / operatic possibilities of Schoenberg's score have been realized by at least two major ensembles: the Opera Quotannis, which staged a version of Pierrot lunaire ( with singer Christine Schadeberg ) at the New School for Social Research in 1995 and, more recently, the internationally acclaimed contemporary music sextet eighth blackbird, which premiered a " cabaret opera " dramatizing the Schoenberg cycle in 2009.

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range ( using scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C < sub > 4 </ sub >) from approximately middle C ( C < sub > 4 </ sub >) to " high A " ( A < sub > 5 </ sub >) in choral music, or to " soprano C " ( C < sub > 6 </ sub >, two octaves above middle C ) or higher in operatic music.

Luckily, the gramophone was invented early enough to capture on disc the voices of the top Italian Verdi and Donizetti baritones of the last two decades of the 19th century, whose operatic performances were characterized by considerable re-creative freedom and a high degree of technical finish.

Grown Backwards ( 2004 ), released by Nonesuch Records, used orchestral string arrangements, and includes two operatic arias as well as a rework of X-Press 2 collaboration " Lazy ".

During the first part of his operatic career ( 1733 – 39 ), Rameau wrote his great masterpieces destined for the Académie royale de musique: three tragédies en musique and two opéra-ballets that still form the core of his repertoire.

The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas ; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece.

A well-known operatic vocal genre of the late 18th century, referred to at that time by the same name but distinguished today in English and German writing by the differently accented term " rondò " is cast in two parts, slow-fast.

During the two operatic scenes in the film, MacDonald sang excerpts from Charles Gounod's Faust and Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata.

" The song has been confused with the closing chorus of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, probably because both begin with the same word (" Slav ' sya "), but the two compositions are unrelated ( though the operatic music, too, has been suggested as a candidate for the Russian national anthem ).

" " The crimes called for a sentence of two to three years but Judge Robinson sentenced Kerik to more than that because of " the almost operatic proportions of this case.

In 2006, Salzburg celebrated the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth by staging all 22 of his operatic works ( including two unfinished operas ), to great acclaim.

His older brother Aldo subsequently quit school to become an operatic baritone, and two of his uncles sang in the Teatro delle Muse chorus in Ancona.

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo ( Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant ) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini.

L ' italiana in Algeri ( The Italian Girl in Algiers ) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca.

The two operas have since been frequently performed as a double-bill, a pairing referred to in the operatic world colloquially as " Cav and Pag ".

She leaves a discography that is considerable both in quality and in quantity and will be mostly remembered for her Mozart and Richard Strauss operatic portrayals, her two commercial recordings of Strauss's Four Last Songs, and her countless recordings of lieder, especially those of Wolf.

Of his eight sons two at least acquired fame as musicians: Pietro Carlo Guglielmi ( 1763-1827 ), a successful imitator of his father's operatic style, and Giacomo Guglielmi, an excellent singer.