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Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).
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Though it was Rossini's first opera, written when he was thirteen or fourteen, the work was not staged until the composer was twenty years old, premiering as his sixth official opera.
Though an excellent opera, it is rarely heard uncut today, as the original score runs more than four hours in performance.
Though panoplied with all the pomp and mystical trappings of a Wagnerian opera, its message was as blunt and brutal as a lead pipe: We, the Herrenvolk, are the new invincible gods!
Though Clementi noted in subsequent publications of his sonata that it had been written ten years before Mozart's opera — presumably to make clear who was borrowing from whom — Clementi retained an admiration for Mozart, as reflected in the large number of transcriptions he made of Mozart's music, among which is a piano solo version of the " Zauberflöte " overture.
Though he was extremely popular and widely credited with bringing about a revolution in French opera, Gluck's mastery of the Parisian operatic scene was never absolute, and after the poor reception of his Echo et Narcisse he left Paris in disgust and returned to Vienna to live out the remainder of his life.
Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Weber and Wagner, whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.
Though Wolf himself was obsessed with the idea that to compose only short forms was to be second-rate, his organization of lyrics of particular poets ( Goethe ; Mörike ; Eichendorff ; Heyse & Geibel in the Spanish and Italian Songbooks ) into semicyclical anthologies, finding connections between texts not explicitly intended by the poets he set and his conceptions of individual songs as dramatic works in miniature, mark him as a talented dramatist despite having written only one not particularly successful opera, Der Corregidor.
** Less visible motion blur, thanks in large part to very high refresh rates and a faster response time, contributing to superior performance when displaying content with significant amounts of rapid motion ( Though newer LCD screens have similar refresh rates, that also introduces the soap opera effect ).
Though German had little experience with opera or choral music, Richard D ' Oyly Carte invited him to finish Arthur Sullivan's The Emerald Isle for the Savoy Theatre after Sullivan's death in 1900.
Though told she has no chance, she perseveres and after three years becomes the lead dancer in an opera company.
Though Bizet's Carmen ( 1875 ) was the first gutsy slice-of-life opera, true Verismo came to the fore a decade and a half later in Italy, with the historic premiere ( 1890 ) of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.
Though la Castafiore is obviously Italian, her pet aria is from a French opera ( Faust was composed by Charles Gounod ) rather than the Verdi, Puccini, or Donizetti one might expect from a star of La Scala.
Though originally set to an Italian libretto, Orfeo ed Euridice owes much to the genre of French opera, particularly in its use of accompanied recitative and a general absence of vocal virtuosity.
Though Berg began work on the opera in 1914, he was delayed by the start of World War I and it was not until he was on leave from his regiment in 1917 and 1918 that he was able to devote his attention to it.
Though he began in Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer was more famous for his contributions to Italian and ( especially ) French opera.
Though pitch standards were not fixed in the eighteenth century, this rare note is also heard in the opera Esclarmonde by Jules Massenet and Les contes d ' Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach.
Though the music of the symphony is based on that of the opera, the material is developed symphonically ; the symphony is therefore absolute rather than programmatic.
Though a Court returned to Lisbon in 1640, it preferred, for one hundred and fifty years, Italian opera and French plays to vernacular representations.
Though Elisabet is nearly catatonic when the film begins, she does react with extreme panic upon seeing Thích Quảng Đức's suicide on television, and laughs mockingly at Alma's radio soap opera.
" Though Peri's Dafne was the first performed opera, its music has been lost to the centuries.
Though generally well crafted and full of humorous satire and grand opera parodies, plots and characters in his works were often interchangeable.
Though Cushman was an incredibly great student and achieved much academically, she left school to pursue a career in the opera.
Though other supercouples came before them, Luke and Laura are the best known outside of the soap opera medium and are credited with defining the term " supercouple " and leading other soap operas to try to duplicate their success.
Though and patronage
Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.
Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.
Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.
Though his fiery temperament was not ideally suited to teaching, Wolf's musical gifts, as well as his personal charm, earned him attention and patronage.
The largest bout of publicity around LeBlanc and regarding his governor generalcy came immediately after the announcement of his appointment to the post: Though previous governors general had worked as politicians prior to and after serving as viceroy, the recommendation of a prominent Liberal Party politician and organiser was criticised as being little more than a patronage gift from the Prime Minister to a loyal party member.
Though he holds no official rank in the Inner Circle, the telepathic Bogan is one of the Club ’ s most important and powerful members ; his patronage guarantees success in the organization.
Though she enjoys patronage as part of the Mahavidyas, her individual temples – mostly found in Northern India and Nepal – and individual public worship is rare, due to her ferocious nature and her reputation of being dangerous to approach and worship.
Though the Westons were not wealthy, they were well connected and through her uncle ’ s patronage Weston was educated in England, where she lived until she returned to Boston in 1828, to serve as principal of a newly founded and socially progressive girls ’ high school.
Though the nature of the sponsors has changed — from churches to charitable foundations, and from aristocrats to plutocrats — the term patronage has a more neutral connotation than in politics.
Though striking a responsive chord among the rural poor and urban underclass, his movement deeply perturbed the Muslim urban elite as it threatened their political and patronage connections with the British Mandatory authorities.
Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and dominance of the True Whig party.
Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and dominance of the True Whig party.
Though political patronage has certainly been a factor in the appointment of some judges, judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada have been remarkably non-partisan and well respected by Canadians of all political stripes.
Though Ironsi moved swiftly to dispel this notion by courting the aggrieved ethnic groups through political appointments and patronage, his failure to punish the coup plotters and the promulgation of the now infamous " Decree No. 34 "— which abrogated the country's federal structure in exchange for a unitary one — crystallized this conspiracy theory.
Though evangelical in his views he by no means confined his patronage to that school.
Though the church and village were now so dilapidated, it was obvious that once they had enjoyed royal patronage as munificent as Gondar itself.
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Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
Though put in rather maudlin terms, Steele's defense of himself has a reasonable basis.
Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.
Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.
Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.
Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.
Though brief, it has a sharp dramatic edge and great poignancy.
Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.
Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.
Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.
Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:
Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.
Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.
Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.
Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.
Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.
Though Todd's last name has never been mentioned in the series, it was revealed in This Book Sucks.
Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Though no doubt also motivated by an affection towards Ruth, in marrying her he has to pay a cost in money and uncertainty.
* " Though the hippopotamus has no sting, the wise man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee.
" Though she claims thousands of followers, mostly in Germany, there has been no verification that any have lived for extended periods without food.
Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.
Though astronomers are not sure what has caused this ring of new stars, some hypothesize that it is from shock waves caused by a bar that is thus far invisible.
Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II.
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