Opera seria was elevated in tone and highly stylised in form, usually consisting of secco recitative interspersed with long da capo arias.

Opera seria had its weaknesses and critics.

Opera buffa was a parallel development to opera seria and arose in reaction to the so-called first reform of Zeno and Metastasio.

Opera seria ( plural: opere serie ; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio ) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and " serious " style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770.

Opera seria was less popular in France, where the national genre of French opera was preferred.

Opera seria built upon the conventions of the High Baroque era by developing and exploiting the da capo aria, with its A-B-A form.

Opera seria acquired definitive form early during the 1720s.

Opera seria plot-lines are heavily shaped by this criterion: Il re pastore displays the glory of Alexander the Great, while La clemenza di Tito does the same for the Roman emperor Titus.

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he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

Opera lovers will be interested to learn that this church was the scene for the first act of Tosca.

This production was recorded on DVD, and subsequently won the 2009 Grammy Awards for " Best Classical Album " and " Best Opera Recording.

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

For example, it was added to the New York City Opera Company repertoire in 1990.

At the time of Lerner's death, he had just begun to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera, and was replaced by Charles Hart.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

In addition the Theater Basel was chosen in 1999 as the best stage for German-language performances and in 2009 & 2010 as " Opera of the Year " by German Opera Magazine " Opernwelt ".

Opera or other vocal music was the feature of most musical events, with concertos and " symphonies " ( arising from the overture ) serving as instrumental interludes and introductions for operas and church services.

The Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe quoted parts of it in his opera or music theatre work Rites of Passage ( 1972-73 ), which was commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House but was not ready in time.

The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian Chicagoans in 1956, and presents operas in Lithuanian.

The building was designed by the famed architect Wallace Harrison, who would later design the similar-looking façade of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

She was awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and made her début at Covent Garden as Marie in La Fille du régiment in 1876.

Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) was a major influence on the librettist Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni and the composer Tommaso Traetta, and in the development of Gluck's reformist ideology.

The Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro ( OND ) or " National After-work Program " was one major social welfare initiative in Fascist Italy.

This was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie.

During his senior year, he worked as a supernumerary with the Metropolitan Opera, earning 50 ¢ per appearance, and $ 1 if he was required to perform in blackface.

In 1847, I Lombardi, which was revised and renamed Jérusalem, was produced by the Paris Opera.

It could be said that Martyr was the 15th opera of the partnership, since the Carl Rosa Opera Company presented the work as an opera in 1898.