Premiering in 1598, "Dafne" was the first of these musical dramas
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The Invention of Opera - WW Norton & Company  The art of opera is a union of poetry, drama, and music, all brought to life ... Both views are correct, because the creators of early operas drew on ideas ... Musical interludes before, after, and between the acts of plays; There were ... Example: Vedr 'l mio sol (NAWM 64 and HWM Figure 13.9) premiered in ... Dafne (1598).
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Baroque Music - Blackbird Library  Jan 11, 2015 ... most important musical forms were developed during this period, including the ... These are called da capo arias, a form that became very popular in ... The world's first opera was Dafne, which had its premiere performance in 1598. ... Lully emphasized the drama in his operas and gave the orchestra a more...
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J! Archive - Show #3455, aired 1999-09-17  In 1902 Nabisco introduced these under the Barnum's label ... Premiering in 1598, "Dafne" was the first of these musical dramas...
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Opera - Wikipedia  Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical .... Significantly, Dafne was an attempt to revive the classical Greek drama, part of the wider revival of ... In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some...
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Euridice (Peri) - Wikipedia  Premiere, 6 October 1600 (1600-10-06) Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Euridice (also Erudice or Eurydice) is an opera by Jacopo Peri, with additional music by Giulio Caccini. It is the earliest surviving opera, Peri's earlier Dafne being lost. ... (The first, Dafne, was written by the same authors in 1597.) ... Musical numbers[edit]...
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University Productions Presents - Hansel and Gretel  In 1890 Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, devised a dramatized version of ... Engelbert Humperdinck's first professional opera was also his most ... The opera premiered in Weimar (with Strauss himself at the podium) on December 23, 1893. ... Originally written for Humperdinck s own family's entertainment, "Hansel and...
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Free Flashcards about COMPOSERS - StudyStack  HE MOVED TO VIENNA IN 1766; IN 1778 HE PRESENTED HIS NATIVE ITALY WITH THE FIRST OPERA STAGED AT LA SCALA, ANTONIO SALIERI.
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Today in history: The Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new ...  Sep 15, 2016 ... 16, 1966, the Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new opera ... In 1953, "The Robe," the first movie presented in the widescreen process...
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The Mikado (2012) | Young Vic  It opened on March 14, 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for ... Gilbert and Sullivan's previous opera, Princess Ida, had run for only nine ... One day an old Japanese sword that, for years, had been hanging on the wall of his study, ... the sword was mentioned, and in one of them he said it was the inspiration...
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Masterpiece Theatre | The Forsyte Saga , Series I | Essays + - PBS  A soap opera in the classic sense, the show introduced themes never before seen on ... of Masterpiece Theatre with the first episode of the 12-part The First Churchills ... He appeared in several Masterpiece Theatre presentations including Anna ... His Masterpiece Theatre credits include The Possessed and The Barchester...
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Opera 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  "Salome", this composer's first successful opera, was banned in Boston in 1923. ... A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas. ..... It was truly a red-letter day when an opera based on this Hawthorne novel premiered in Boston in 1896.
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List of operas by Handel - Wikipedia  George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. He began composing operas in Germany and then for a brief time in Italy to ... Handel's first opera (opera seria - serious Italian opera) was Almira (1705). During the 36 .... London, Queen's Theatre?
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William Shakespeare facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Shakespeare's first extant play is probably The Comedy of Errors (1590; like most dates for ... characters with convincing representations of the human life he knew. ... this time in love; and in 1600 the pastoral As You Like It, a mature return to the ... despite its one strong character a relatively weak play; and the second and...
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A Man for All Seasons  Broadway Play  Original | IBDB  A Man for All Seasons (Play, Original) opened in New York City Nov 22, 1961 and played through Jun 1, 1963.
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Das Rheingold - Wikipedia  Das Rheingold WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ... Although Das Rheingold comes first in the sequence of Ring operas, it was the last .... Fricka is worried for her sister, but Wotan is confident that they will not have to ... The giants seize Freia and start to leave, this time forever.
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HANDEL: Saul - Naxos  Handel's first opera for London was Rinaldo, with which he won general ... first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 16th January 1739 and ... borrowed of the Duke of Argyll a pair of the largest kettle-drums in the Tower, ... The oratorio starts with the aftermath of the boy David's victory over Goliath (Samuel I, xvii).
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Richard Wagner - Conductor, Composer - Biography.com  Feb 9, 2016 ... Richard Wagner was famous for both his complex operas, such as the ... Wagner attended Leipzig University in 1831, and his first symphony was performed in 1833. ... and wrote the text and music of his first opera, Die Feen (The Fairies), ... Wagner completed his last opera, Parsifal, in January 1882, and it...
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Henry IV, Part 1 - Shakespeare in quarto - British Library  The creation of Henry IV, Part 1 - Shakespeare's works and plays. ... It was first published in 1598 as The History of Henrie the Fourth, apparently to advertise a ... In the earliest quarto, Shakespeare's character had become Sir John Falstaff. ... This quarto exists only as a fragment of four leaves, quire C. The manuscript from...
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Finlandia - Jean Sibelius  Completed in 1899; first performance at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki, 4th November ... This stirred opposition in most Finnish cultural circles, and paintings with protest themes became very popular. Sibelius, too, wanted to use his art to add to the protests. .... The world-famous hymn motif is first heard in the woodwinds.
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The First American Theatre - TheatreHistory.com  First theatre in America built in Williamsburg, VA. ... A History of the Theatre in America, Vol. 1. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919. pp. ... He makes no mention of the opening of the Playhouse in Dock Street, Charleston, S.C., in 1736. .... Commerce thrived, stately ships left its docks for all ports of the world, beautiful...
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English Renaissance theatre - Wikipedia  English Renaissance theatre, also known as early modern English theatre, or (commonly) as Elizabethan theatre, refers to the theatre of England between 1562 and 1642 ... Once they were in operation, drama could become a fixed and permanent .... Entries in Philip Henslowe's Diary show that in the years around 1600...