Due, however, to their satiric and overtly liberal political inclinations, both operas were seen as unsuitable for public performance in the politically reactive cultures of Leopold II and later Francis II.

The later Neapolitan operas ( L ' amor volubile e tiranno 1709 ; La principessa fedele 1710 ; Tigrane, 1714, & c .) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional ; the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli.

Many of his operas, especially the later ones from 1851 onwards, are a staple of the standard repertoire.

In 1861, to supplement his income, the younger Gilbert began writing illustrated stories, poems and articles of his own, many of which would later be mined as inspiration for his plays and operas, particularly Gilbert's series of illustrated poems, the Bab Ballads.

Fred Sullivan was the prototype for the " patter " ( comic ) baritone roles in the later operas.

The " patter " baritone ( or " principal comedian ", as these roles later were called ) would often assume the leading role in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and was usually allotted the speedy patter songs.

" Several of the later operas are similarly set in foreign or fictional locales, including The Gondoliers, Utopia Limited, and The Grand Duke.

Yet many of the major German composers of the time, including Handel himself, as well as Graun, Hasse and later Gluck, chose to write most of their operas in foreign languages, especially Italian.

Operatic modernism truly began in the operas of two Viennese composers, Arnold Schoenberg and his student Alban Berg, both composers and advocates of atonality and its later development ( as worked out by Schoenberg ), dodecaphony.

In his later operas he employed subtle changes in instrumentation, orchestral texture, and tone color, for emotional depth and to mark dramatic shifts.

Here his advances in opera and instrumental composing interacted: his increasingly sophisticated use of the orchestra in the symphonies and concertos influenced his operatic orchestration, and his developing subtlety in using the orchestra to psychological effect in his operas was in turn reflected in his later non-operatic compositions.

But Pacini's operas were " rather superficial ", a fact which, later, he candidly admitted in his Memoirs.

Many of his later operas, such as Carlo di Borgogna of 1835, were failures, but this is one of the few Pacini operas currently available on CD, and it has received many warm reviews.

The work is lighthearted and frequently comic, with little of the deep character exploration or darker feelings found in Mozart's later operas.

Many colorful anecdotes related by Pergolesi's early biographer, Florimo, were later revealed as fabrication, though they furnished material for two nineteenth-century operas broadly based on Pergolesi's career.

Much later, in the 1920s and 1930s, Kurt Weill took a more extreme form of the Berlin operetta style and used it in his operas, operettas, and musicals.

With W. S. Gilbert writing the libretti and Sullivan composing the music, the pair produced 14 comic operas, which were later called Savoy Operas.

His operas influenced the work of later opera composers, especially in Germany, such as Marschner, Meyerbeer and Wagner, as well as several nationalist 19th-century composers such as Glinka.

Pirates was an immediate hit in New York, and later London, becoming one of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Their works, later known as the Savoy operas, dominated the musical stage on both sides of the Atlantic for more than a decade and continue to be performed today.

As was to be his usual practice in his later operas, Sullivan left the overture for the last moment, sketching it out and entrusting it to the company's music director, in this case Alfred Cellier, to complete.

Berlioz also heard two operas by Gaspare Spontini, a composer who influenced him through their friendship, and whom he later championed when working as a critic.

The composer Debussy later wrote that the musical establishment could not cope with Offenbach's irony, which exposed the " false, overblown quality " of the operas they favoured – " the great art at which one was not allowed to smile ".

Strauss went on to conduct one of Ritter's operas, and at Strauss's request Ritter later wrote a poem describing the events depicted in Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration.

Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.

Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.

Two days later Mr. Rayburn left Washington for the last time.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

Two members of the panel later told in court about receiving telephone calls at their homes from anonymous persons expressing interest in the trial.

Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.

Two years later, in 1817, Shah Khalil Allah was killed during a conflict between some of his followers and local shopkeepers.

Two days later the legislature elected the outgoing governor to the U. S. Senate.

Two years later, in 1120, he defeated a Muslim army intent on reconquering his new capital at the Battle of Cutanda.

Two months later, the Athenians under Myronides invaded Boeotia, and winning the Battle of Oenophyta gained control of the whole country except Thebes.

Two years later, he received the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, and in 1991, was awarded the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan.

Two weeks later a French envoy continued to foment the revolutionary opinions of the city.

) Two years later, Capp's studio issued Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 1958 biographical comic book distributed by The Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Two years later, to avenge his sister, Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full brother, sent his servants to kill Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

Two years later, she returned to her husband and children at his urging, and she went on to become a well-known Danish author, living to the age of 83.

Two years later, the Emperor Valens, who favored the Arian position, in his turn exiled Athanasius.

Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.

Two days later, in a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress, Clinton unveiled his economic plan.

Two decades later, the current parliament building was erected.

Two years later the Lions toured in South Africa, winning more than half of their normal matches.

Two hours later the Duke followed with the main body: 74 battalions, 123 squadrons, 90 pieces of artillery and 20 mortars, totalling 62, 000 troops.

Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Field Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff, and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile ( 6. 4 km ) front.

Two years later, WHDH-FM was licensed, and on November 26, 1957, WHDH-TV made its début as an ABC affiliate on channel 5.

Two months later, the AL declared itself a competing major league.

Two months later he married Ditta Pásztory ( 1903 – 1982 ), a piano student, ten days after proposing to her.