best opera performances

To Mr. Grimm: Yes, you are of course correct re the nationalities of the main characters. Monteverdi was the "founding father" of operatic form. >Rake’s Progress Here is the Dido’s lament for the downfall of Carthage, “Farewell, proud city”: At a time when opera was either buffa or seria, Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte created what they called a dramma giocoso (“jocular drama”), and Mozart’s masterpiece wonderfully blends the serious, even the frightening, with the humorous.

5) Carmen. The exuberant and prolific Donizetti's sharp humour is at play in the shrewish character of the love object, Adina. This is perhaps the last great Romantic opera, rich with symbolism, myth, taboo: the innocent Elsa of Brabant is accused of murdering her brother. But it is not unequalled.

He will help her so long as she doesn't ask his name. Written to a backdrop of revolution, Beethoven's only opera is a hymn to freedom and marital love.

I frequently have to stop and just take a moment to absorb the incredible harmonies and progressions, the small melodies I find that I had never noticed despite listening a thousand times (and the piano reduction leaves plenty of things out, mind you). Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Enabled on this site. 6. Here is the delightful duet, “Vivat Bacchus,” during which Pedrillo talks a Moorish guard into getting drunk, so that the Europeans can escape his clutches.

One point about Kierkegaard and Don Giovanni: I believe that Kierkegaard’s endorsement of Don Giovanni was a part of his book Either/Or. Thanks for the recommendation of the Vivaldi rarity. Carl Maria von Weber Berlin, Germany, 1821.

Be prepared. Leonora dresses as a man, Fidelio, to rescue her husband Florestan from imprisonment.

Opera is really one of the more under-rated browsers around. Then I read Dante, or The Plague, or Phaedrus and have the same feeling. I think Giulio Cesare would most belong on the top-ten list. Firefox paved the way for other browsers to become extensible, and its extensions architecture offers plenty of choice for users.

9. A predecessor of the other great Mozart operas included here, The Abduction already shows the composer’s mastery of operatic writing and his ability to depict the comedic and tragic elements of life in a seamless musical mosaic. Salome. (By the way, Belmonte and Pedrillo in the Abduction are Spanish, not English. Right now, Edge is fairly plain, but that’s normal for a new browser. Keep in mind that this is not a list of the most popular operas of all time. Heck, see all of them. After a first-night disaster, it became one of the best-loved operas. The Romantics, who did not like old-fashioned moralizing, often cut the opera’s final sextet, in which the surviving characters make sense of the Don’s downfall: “Thus it is to evildoers.” And though Mozart was surely committed to having the lascivious Don get his comeuppance at the end of the opera, there is little doubt that the composer could not help but admire the prowess of Giovanni, who runs circles around the opera’s other characters and who is only defeated by an act of supernatural revenge. In particular it was part of the “Either” (first half) of the book, written in the voice of “The Seducer,” the person who lived the purely aesthetic life. Don Giovanni

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Every folk-jazz inspired number is a hit: A Woman is a Sometime Thing, Leavin' for the Promised Land, Bess, You is My Woman Now and, best known of all, Summertime. Knowledge of the final fugue, celebrating the folly of the human condition (Tutto nel Mondo) is essential to any opera lover's armament. Thank you for compiling this – I really enjoyed your video clips – but a top ten list cannot be without Boito’s Mephistopheles (WAY superior to Berlioz’s Faust), Cavalleria Rusticana, and Eugene Onegin. Their greatnesses, each in his own way, were essentially equal, or at least incommensurate. Puccini uses the vocal lines to give us characterization and thematic clues: in her little piece describing how she wants to retire to a little cottage in the country, Frugola, wife of one of the poor barge workers, sings on virtually one note. This is one of the Russian operatic greats.

In his book on Puccini, a clearly well educated musician like Osborne just makes appallingly inane and false observations about the dramatic construction of Puccini’s works. San Francisco is way ahead in the lead, having been picked first by all members who have voted; 200 points - it seems to be on its way to be solidly considered by Opera Lively members as the second best American opera company. So much can happen in a year! And the same for Bizet. St. Matthew’s Passion, an oratorio, is equally great in my opinion. The subject matter – based on Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck about a victimised soldier – is brutal, dark and modernist in mood. All browsers have a private mode that lets you browse without any of your activity being logged in your saved history. Rigoletto is a great opera. Anyway, I could write a book (and sort of plan to) on why Puccini was a genius of a musical-dramatist. Technically, Bach’s passions are not oratorios per se, and they are however much more inaccessible to the public, more introspective and heavy, than Handel’s ones. Did it persuade Frances, Erica and Hannah that 'opera is an incredible amazing art form'? The only list Wagner should be on is the opera equivalent of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

(To be clear, I’m not saying all works are equal, or that there are no bad works; just that among the greats, how can one choose?). Indeed, Vivaldi spent much of his career as a traveling impresario, staging often-hastily-assembled operas across Europe (and traveling with two young sister-singers who starred in his productions and who became the subject of lascivious rumors about the middle-aged priest/composer). She demands that he unlock the doors of his castle. The Fairy Queen (Purcell) Rosa Ponselle, Habanera, from Bizet’s Carmen. The William Tell overture is one of the most famous pieces of classical music. I love that work, and greatly prefer it to the more prestigious Les Troyens, although the duet “Nuit paisible et serene” from Berlioz’s Beatrice et Benedict is my favorite piece by Berlioz. Monteverdi was, imo, better and more innovative than lesser composers such as Halévy. Saturday afternoon's live-streamed Inside Opera event united all seven of the UK's publicly funded opera houses in an unprecedented collaboration that aimed to introduce new audiences to the art form. La Traviata is set in Paris during the 18th century. Will you help us remain a refreshing oasis in the increasingly contentious arena of modern discourse? Alas there is no video footage to be found on youtube of Caruso so we will have to put up with this recording of his voice played over various pictures.

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