) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.

After all, the opera has juicy music to sing and the goodies are well distributed, with no less than six leading parts.

She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie, and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.

A complete opera composed in 1769 ( presumably as a culminating study ) La vestale ( The Vestal Virgin ) has also been lost.

His late opera based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff ossia Le tre burle ( Falstaff, or the Three Tricks ), ( 1799 ) has found a wider audience in modern times than its original reception promised.

It has played in opera houses around the world.

The complete opera has rapidly entered the repertoire as one of the landmarks of contemporary music and, like Wozzeck, remains a consistent audience draw.

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 musical has also become part of the repertoire of a few opera companies.

The piece has also become a popular choice for amateur musical theatre and light opera companies.

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

Patrick Stoddart of The Times wrote: " The millions who watch Coronation Street – and who will continue to do so despite Lord Rees-Mogg – know real life when they see it ... in the most confident and accomplished soap opera television has ever seen ".

In 2010, American Idiot became the first punk rock opera to make it to Broadway where it has garnered two Tony Awards.

Since the Renaissance the myth of Diana has often been represented in the visual and dramatic arts, including the opera L ' arbore di Diana.

The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera Hänsel und Gretel ( opera ) | Hänsel und Gretel ( 1893 ) by Engelbert Humperdinck and a stop-motion animated feature film based on the opera.

No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one " unauthorized " release in the early 1980s on the Voce Label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice ( K. 51 ) for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne ( K. 50 ), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place.

In 1907, Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version, which has become known as the " standard version ".

However, the opera has been acclaimed for its incorporation of advanced harmonic language and rhythmic complexity into the Italian operatic form.

In addition, one aria from the opera, Ch ' ella mi creda, has become a staple of compilation albums by operatic tenors.

With the possible exception of Giacomo Puccini, no composer of Italian opera has managed to match Verdi's popularity.

The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.

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.

The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.

In February 1684 he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy of Naples, perhaps through the influence of his sister, an opera singer, who might have been the mistress of an influential Neapolitan noble.

The song " Kärlekens Tid "-performed by Helen Sjöholm with BAO !--has also been performed in English by opera baritone Bryn Terfel.

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.

Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.

Rossini, who had been considering the subject of Faust for a new opera, did return, however, to Paris in November of that year.

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

The opera had been originally commissioned by Vienna's Carltheater ; however the outbreak of World War I prevented the premiere being given there.

Moreover, the firm of Ricordi had declined the score of the opera, which had been taken up by their rival, Lorenzo Sonzogno, who arranged the first performance in neutral Monaco.

Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

Years later, Arturo Toscanini recorded the music for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony Orchestra which complements the 1947 Toscanini performance of the complete opera.

Scott attended a performance of it and recorded in his journal, " It was an opera, and, of course, the story sadly mangled and the dialogue, in part nonsense.

" Alabama Song " was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ); " Back Door Man " was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin ' Wolf.

While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.

In 1904 it became the first opera to be recorded complete.

The opera was recorded for La Voce del padrone (" His Master's Voice ") at La Scala under the direction of Mascagni, who recorded a special spoken introduction.

More likely it was completed the day before, in light of the fact that Mozart recorded the completion of the opera on 28 October.

The opera with Alfano's original ending has been recorded more than once.

Boris Godunov comes closer to the status of a repertory piece than any other Russian opera, even Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and is the most recorded Russian opera.

His comic opera style served as a model for the generations of musical theatre composers that followed, and his music is still frequently performed, recorded and pastiched.

After the unfavourable reception that the opera received on opening night, Gilbert and Sullivan made numerous significant cuts and alterations :< ref > A copy of the libretto, including material cut before the first night and during the initial run, is at at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive .</ ref > Sullivan recorded in his diary:

In opera, many roles originally written for castrati are now sung and recorded by countertenors, as are some trouser roles originally written for female singers.

* German band Corvus Corax recorded Cantus Buranus, a full-length opera set to the original Carmina Burana manuscript in 2005, and released Cantus Buranus Werk II in 2008.

High-profile examples of programme losses include many episodes of Doctor Who, The Wednesday Play, most of the seminal comedy series Not Only But Also, all of the 1950s televised Francis Durbridge serials ( further, the first two serials were never recorded ), the vast majority of the BBC's Apollo 11 Moon landing studio coverage, all but one of the 39 episodes of The First Lady, and all 147 episodes of the soap opera United !.

The rarely-staged opera was performed in English for the Peter Moores Foundation series of opera in English, recorded by Chandos Records Ltd., and released on a 2-disc set of CDs under the catalog number CHAN 3097 ( 2 ).

For Unicorn Records, he recorded several of his own concert-hall works, including the cantata Moby Dick, his opera Wuthering Heights, his Symphony, and the suites Welles Raises Kane and The Devil and Daniel Webster.

In 1964, Igor Stravinsky recorded his opera The Rake's Progress with the RPO.

Twin brothers Keith and Kurt Landaas also composed, recorded, and performed a compelling rock opera version of the work in the early 1990s.

There have been tributes or covers recorded since before the first albums became technically feasible ; Enrico Caruso's 1907 recordings of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci are one early example.

Several one-off recordings followed, including a 2002 duet with opera singer Filippa Giordano of the " Barcarolle " from Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d ' Hoffman as well as the song " The Sun Will Shine Again ", written especially for Lyngstad by former Deep Purple member Jon Lord, and recorded in 2004.

The location filming coincided with another significant production change, as the series became the first American weekday soap opera to be recorded digitally.