Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Brooklyn Academy of Music" ¶ 3
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Mercadante and Il
His best known opera is La Gioconda, which his librettist Arrigo Boito adapted from the same play by Victor Hugo that had been previously set by Mercadante ( Il giuramento, 1837 ) and Carlos Gomes ( Fosca, 1873 ).
The subject was well known and had been used by other composers, including Daniel Auber, for his 1833 opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué and later by Saverio Mercadante for his Il reggente in 1843.
The libretto was to be used twice more, first by Saverio Mercadante for Il reggente, with the action transferred to Scotland, and, next by Giuseppe Verdi, as Un ballo in maschera.
Other operas performed in the Liceu during the first year were ( in chronological order ): I due Foscari ( Verdi ), Il bravo ( Mercadante ), Parisina d ' Este ( Donizetti ), Giovanna d ' Arco ( Verdi ), Leonora ( Mercadante ), Ernani ( Verdi ), Norma ( Bellini ), Linda di Chamounix ( Donizetti ) and Il barbiere di Siviglia ( Rossini ).
The plot of Roberto Devereux was hardly original, mainly derived from Felice Romani's libretto Il Conte d ' Essex of 1833, originally set by Saverio Mercadante.

Mercadante and first
According to Rodolfo Celletti ; in the first thirty-five years of the 19th century, more than one hundred cases of original resort to the " contralto musico " can be counted up, and it was employed also by musicians of the rising post-Rossini generation, such as Donizetti, Mercadante, Pacini, Bellini himself.
The film was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante on March 10, 1911.

Mercadante and opera
The bel canto opera movement flourished in the early 19th century and is exemplified by the operas of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Pacini, Mercadante and many others.
The opera composer Gioachino Rossini said to the conservatory Director, Niccolo Zingarelli, " My compliments Maestro-your young pupil Mercadante begins where we finish ".
Early in following year, while composing Elena da Feltre ( which premiered in January 1839 ), Mercadante wrote to Francesco Florimo laying out his ideas about how opera should be structured, following the " revolution " begun in his previous opera:
), " Saverio Mercadante ( 1795-1870 )" Elena da Feltre ", in the booklet accompanying the 1997 recording of that opera at the Wexford Festival released on the Marco Polo label.
Like Saverio Mercadante, who also reassessed the strength and weaknesses of this period in opera, Pacini's style did change, but he quickly became eclipsed by the rising influence of Giuseppe Verdi on the Italian operatic scene, and many of his operas appeared to be old fashioned and rarely, if ever, appeared outside of Italy.
After Rossini moved to Paris in 1824, Pacini and his contemporaries ( Giacomo Meyerbeer, Nicola Vaccai, Michele Carafa, Carlo Coccia, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, the brothers Federico and Luigi Ricci, and Saverio Mercadante ) collectively began to change the nature of Italian opera and took bel canto singing in a new direction.
The opera Elisa e Claudio was written for him in 1821 by Saverio Mercadante and his position was assured.
During the 1840s the story was mentioned in the Irish rebel song A Nation Once Again and again adapted as an opera, this time as Orazi e Curiazi by Saverio Mercadante.
* Virginia ( Mercadante ), an opera by Saverio Mercadante
* Gabriella di Vergy, an opera seria by Gaetano Donizetti ( 1826, revised 1838 ), and an opera by Mercadante ( 1828 ), based on the tragedy Gabrielle de Vergy by Dormont De Belloy ( 1777 )
* Saverio Mercadante ( 1795-1870 ), opera composer
* Saverio Mercadante, Italian opera composer

Mercadante and one
In addition to Giuseppe Verdi, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, other composers include Giovanni Pacini ( four librettos ), Saverio Mercadante ( at least one ), Federico Ricci, even one for Michael Balfe.

Mercadante and with
When Mercadante returned to Italy after living in Spain and Portugal, Donizetti's music reigned supreme in Naples, an ascendancy which did not end until censorship problems with the latter's Poliuto caused a final break.
But Mercadante's style began to shift with the presentation of I Normanni a Parigi at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1832: " It was with this score that Mercadante entered on the process of development in his musical dramaturgy which, in some aspects, actually presaged the arrival of Verdi, when he launched, from 1837 on, into master works of his artistic maturity: the so-called " reform operas ".
* Kaufman, Thomas G., " Catalogue of the Operas of Mercadante-Chronology of Performances with Casts ", Bollettino dell Associazione Civica " Saverio Mercadante " N. 1 ; Altamura, 1996
The repertoire was Italian with the most performed composers being Donizetti and Mercadante as well as Bellini and Rossini.
There he demonstrated his skill as a soloist in the city cathedral, for which he gained a scholarship to study with the composer Saverio Mercadante in Italy.
The Door of Baptism, on the left side, was built in the 15th century and decorated with a scene depicting the baptism of Jesus, created by the workshop of Lorenzo Mercadante of Britain.

and s
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator s meaning and the text s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

0.579 seconds.