He has also co-authored the libretto of an opera in the Klingon language: ' u ', debuting at The Hague in September 2010.

Kahless is the subject of an opera in the Klingon language: ’ u ’, which debuted at The Hague in September 2010.

The opera is patriotic with a famous aria " U boj, u boj ".

* Ivan Zajc, opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski ( famous aria U boj, u boj )

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

`` La Gioconda '', like it or not, is a singer's opera.

And so, of course, it is a fan's opera as well.

But one wishes, when the appetite is whetted, as it was in the case of the all-too-brief excerpt from the Blomdahl opera, that further opportunity would be provided both for hearing the works in their entirety and for a closer analytical look at the sense and nature of the compositions.

Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

* Abimélech, Satrap of Gaza is a character ( baritone ) in Saint-Saëns ' opera " Samson et Dalila " ( Weimar, 1877 )

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

The opera is set during the First Crusade and it features a dramatic mix of ballet, aria, ensemble and choral writing combining theatricality, scenic splendor and high emotionalism.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

And if Ponte is in league with Salieri, I'll never get a text from him, and I would love to show here what I can really do with an Italian opera.

* Salieri's supposed hatred for Mozart is also alluded to in a spoof opera entitled A Little Nightmare Music, by P. D. Q.

In the opera, Salieri attempts to poison an anachronistic Shaffer but is bumped by a " clumsy oaf ", which causes him to inadvertently poison Mozart instead and spill wine on his favorite coat.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera.

From about 1697 onwards ( La caduta del Decemviri ), influenced partly perhaps by the style of Giovanni Bononcini and probably more by the taste of the viceregal court, his opera arias become more conventional and commonplace in rhythm, while his scoring is hasty and crude, yet not without brilliance ( L ' Eraclea, 1700 ), the oboes and trumpets being frequently used, and the violins often playing in unison.

Berg is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century and to date is the most widely performed opera composer among the Second Viennese School.

Adelaïde is the heroine of Gioacchino Rossini's 1817 opera, Adelaide di Borgogna.

Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups.

The work is performed as an operetta in many professional opera companies.

Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era ( roughly 1600 – 1750 ), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre and opera.

Its style is clearly reflective of the mature Haydn and Mozart, and its instrumentation gave it a weight that had not yet been felt in the grand opera.

An individual episode of a soap opera will generally switch between several different concurrent story threads that may at times interconnect and affect one another or may run entirely independent of each other.

During the 1980s the Australian attempts to emulate big-budget US soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty had resulted in Taurus Rising and Return to Eden, two slick soap opera dramas with big budgets and shot entirely on film.

It is the only mature Wagner opera to be based on an entirely original story, devised by Wagner himself.

Paisiello conducted the music of the court in the Tuileries with a stipend of 10, 000 francs and 4800 for lodging, but he entirely failed to conciliate the Parisian public, who received his opera Proserpine so coldly that, in 1803, he requested and with some difficulty obtained permission to return to Italy, upon the plea of his wife's ill health.

While the earliest extant sketches date from December 1856, it was not until August 1857, however, that Wagner began devoting his attention entirely to the opera, putting aside the composition of Siegfried to do so.

" The Purcell counter-tenor ' tenor ' did not flourish in England much beyond the early years of the century ; within twenty years of Purcell's death Handel had settled in London and opera seria, which was underpinned entirely by Italian singing, soon became entrenched in British theatres ".

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment ; they may be extracts from a ballet ( Nutcracker Suite ), incidental music to a play ( L ' Arlésienne Suites ), opera, film ( Lieutenant Kije Suite ) or video game ( Symphonic Suite the Another Story of Shining Force ), or they may be entirely original movements ( Holberg Suite, The Planets ).

Rosina Brandram | Brandram as BlanchePrincess Ida is the only Gilbert and Sullivan work with dialogue entirely in blank verse and the only one of their works in three acts ( and the longest opera to that date ).

Simpson is notable for being the only college in the United States with an entirely student-cast opera program.

As well as his entirely original works, Ippolitov-Ivanov completed Modest Mussorgsky's opera The Marriage.

So far, changes to the original had been of a minor nature ; when the opera reappeared in June 1869, however, it had been entirely restructured.

Its usual placement at the beginning of a wedding ceremony is not entirely in accordance with its placement in the opera.

Press accounts were almost entirely favourable, and the opera enjoyed a run longer than any of their other joint works except for H. M. S.

Hajibeyov's second opera Sheikh Sanan was written in 1909 in a form that was entirely opposite to the first.

The opera remained popular throughout the 1830s in Europe and then disappeared entirely from the repertory for roughly the next one hundred years.

Where Berlioz ' symphony is more than an hour and a half of expressionistic, heavily orchestrated drama, an opera forced into the form of a symphony, Satie's thirty minute composition reveals little drama in the music: the drama is entirely concentrated in the text, which is presented in the form of recitativo-style singing to a background of sparsely orchestrated, nearly repetitive music, picturing some aspects of Socrates ' life, including his final moments.

He produced a Mass ( Marseille, 1873 ), an oratorio, La sulamite ( Marseille, 1876 ), Adoro te, a motet ( Paris, 1882 ) and numerous minor works, but he is known almost entirely as a composer of light opera.

In 1993 / 1994, a new operatic version was taped, featuring opera singer Marilyn Horne as Cleopatra in an Egyptian setting, with a pyramid made entirely out of cookies in the background.

Korean opera and an entirely redeveloped western opera season, and opera school, to compete with the Beijing opera house, and Japan's historical centre for western operas in the far east is the present focus.

" A work of multimedia art is usually mounted on a smaller scale than an opera or a movie and is typically created entirely by a single person ( rather than the collaborative effort of opera or moviemaking ).