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Ads by Google      Opera (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Opera 5, released 6 December 2000, was the first version which was ad-sponsored instead of having a trial period. The first public release was Opera 2.1 for Windows, released as shareware in 1996 [2]. Opera was designed to run on low-end and small computers, and with a commitment to computer accessibility for users who may have visual or mobility impairments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(browser)   (3383 words)      Encyclopedia4U - Opera - Encyclopedia Article The singers are accompanied by a musical ensemble, which in some operas can be as large as a full symphonic orchestra. In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, which came to be associated with the poet Pietro Metastasio, whose librettos helped crystallize opera seria's moralizing tone. Opera did not remain confined to court audiences for long; in 1637 the idea of a "season" (Carnival) of publicly-attended operas supported by ticket sales emerged in Venice. http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/o/opera.html   (1221 words)      Musical Forms - Opera New operas continue to be composed; but the expense of staging them and the difficulty of reconciling advanced forms of musical utterance with the requirements of the traditional opera house and its audience have induced many composers to prefer chamber opera or other kinds of music theatre susceptible to concert, 'workshop' or experimental production. The rigid separation of recitative and aria was gradually broken down, and virtually eliminated in the Wagnerian music drama, with its 'endless melody' and elaborate system of leitmotifs, and (in a different way) in the final works of Verdi and the verismo operas of his Italian successors, above all Puccini. French opera, as seen in the tragedies lyriques of Lully, was essentially a court spectacle, predominantly on legendary or mythological themes, and in five acts, with big choral and ceremonial scenes reflecting the magnificence and social order of the age of Louis XIV. http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/g_opera.html   (829 words)      Opera Today But the rise of "crossover opera", where Puccini meets the pop charts, is set to achieve new heights with three more tenors. Some opera sets are meant to be an introduction to the work presented. Following its performance as an opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this production by William Christie now appears at the Barbican in London. http://www.operatoday.com   (1300 words)      Ballad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A ballad is sung to a modal melody. Ballads are most often folk poetry in a musical format, passed along orally from generation to generation, set to conventional tunes and usually sung by a solo voice, the hearers joining in the refrain. A ballad is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad   (1300 words)      THE NEW ZEALAND OPERA SOCIETY Home of the New Zealand Opera News Opera productions are becoming an increasingly frequent feature of the Music Department of Otago University. 'Songs For The Return Home' Samoan brothers put on an Opera concert to raise funds for mothers heart surgery Through opera.net.nz, the New Zealand Opera Society provides New Zealand's opera lovers—both at home and overseas—with the means to share their views with a wider community: reviewing performances, debating issues, or simply discussing opera. http://www.opera.net.nz   (1496 words)      Planet Opera Opera released today the first issue of Opera Bits, a monthly email newsletter. Finally you probably don't want to do this everytime you want to use IM with Opera. Opera Bits is put out for the community and shaped by the community, so if you have a suggestion or idea that you'd like to see in an upcoming issue, let us know in the forum. http://planet.opera.blaut.biz   (6111 words)      Hotels in Paris France - Best Western Anjou Lafayette Opéra At the Best Western Anjou Lafayette Opéra, you will be able to appreciate the plush elegance of our lounge bar, we also have Wi-Fi high-speed Internet access in public areas, meeting room and complimentary newspapers. The Best Western Anjou Lafayette Opéra is ideally located at the very heart of Paris for business and pleasure, offering easy and quick access to the department stores. Home >> France >> Hotels in Paris, >> Best Western Anjou Lafayette Opéra http://www.onetravelsource.com/10192881.html   (6111 words)      Opera Theatre of Saint Louis One of the greatest of all comic operas, Barber is gloriously funny and pure joy as music theater. Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, with lyrics by poet Langston Hughes, Kurt Weill's brilliant Street Scene was a hit on Broadway and went on to great success on opera stages everywhere. A nostalgic, tuneful portrait of New York in the twenties, Weill called it a "dramatic musical," then a "Broadway opera" and finally "an American opera." Staged by the team that created our stunning Nixon in China, Street Scene will be a colorful showcase for a large cast including many of OTSL's Gerdine Young Artists. http://www.opera-stl.org/SiteOne/season/rep/rep.html   (258 words)      Operacast - Opera Broadcasts on the Internet If you know of a regularly scheduled operatic broadcast which you do not see listed here and which broadcasts in quality audio on the Net, or of some special upcoming high-quality operatic webcast, please let us know about it about it and we will add it to our posted information. is a comprehensive list of all stations of which we are currently aware that broadcast high-quality audio on the Net and who also broadcast regularly scheduled opera programs. To keep you abreast of the current state of the streams we list, we have started a blog - OperaBlog - where we can let you know when one of the streams is down or experiencing difficulties and when it is working properly again. http://www.operacast.com   (517 words)      Opera buffa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Opera buffa (Comic opera), also known as Commedia per musica (musical comedy), or Dramma giocoso per musica (musical dramatic comedy), is a form of opera. One of the functions of opera at the time was to bring some of the technique and aesthetic of serious music--oratorio, cantata, and other forms--into something more "accessible" by musicians and listeners, a process as culturally significant in 18th century Italy as it is today in other countries. The genre declined in the 19th century, and it is often considered that Verdi's Falstaff, in 1893 was the last of the Opera buffa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_buffa   (1218 words)      Opera metal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One of the first serious metal bands to hire an actual opera singer and orchestra was the progressive metal band Celtic Frost, on the album Into the Pandemonium. The primary influence of Opera Metal is the Power Metal genre created by Iron Maiden in the 1980s although a strong influence of gothic rock can be heard as well. Currently, the idea of mixing opera with metal is being explored in-depth within a small portion of the genre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_metal   (284 words)      Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s. Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel, Hillbilly and country and western. In 1954, Elvis Presley recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun studios in Memphis, the regional hit "That's All Right, Mama." Elvis played a rock and country and western fusion called rockabilly, which was characterized by hiccuping vocals, slapping bass and a spastic guitar style. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll   (1829 words)      Beijing Opera Page The combination gradually formed the mainstream of Beijing Opera's melodies. It then absorbed music and arias from other operas and musical arts in China. Although it is called Beijing Opera, its origins are not in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Opera/8692/index0.html   (631 words)      Antigone (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While Antigone has never been as popular as, say, Rigoletto, it has set new standards for the orchestra, the singers and the committed listener. The structure of the work, its heavy emotional content, its novel fabrics of sound, all demand more of the listener than required in the usual opera performance. Antigone is in Orff's words a "musical setting" for the Greek tragedy by Sophocles of the same name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone_(opera)   (579 words)      Phantom of the Opera - Encyclopedia Dramatica The first musical of The Phantom of the Opera was produced in 1974 by Ken Hill, who made the mistake of asking Sarah Brightman to be in it some years later. Film versions of The Phantom of the Opera range from Phantoms who are father figures, psychotic slashers, sympathetic chaps with a witty tongue, and barely deformed men who cannot sing. The Phantom of the Opera is a book by French author Gaston Leroux which no one other than Phantom fans has ever read. http://phantom.alleykitten.org/phantomoftheoperaae.php   (460 words)      Learn more about Opera seria in the online encyclopedia. The age of opera seria corresponded with the rise to prominence of the castrati, prodigiously gifted singers with high, powerful voices backed by decades of rigorous musical training. Mozart wrote some beautiful music for these operas, but the characters, drawn in from classical antiquity accordance with the conventions of the genre, did not inspire in him the same level of incandescent musical theater as the three Shakesperean Da Ponte operas. Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and 'serious' style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries. http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/o/op/opera_seria.html   (460 words)      Opera Southern Rock Opera Southern Rock Opera was an album released in 2001 by the Drive By Truckers, a 1960s and 1970s and hi... Boston Lyric Opera Boston Lyric Opera New England (BLO) is an 1976. Benvenuto Cellini (opera) Benvenuto Cellini is an Hector Berlioz. http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/opera.html   (460 words)      Opera - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch Opera did not remain confined to court audiences for long; in 1637 the idea of a "season" ( Carnival) of publicly-attended operas supported by ticket sales emerged in Venice. Opera in France has continued to include ballet interludes and feature elaborate scenic machinery. Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: recitative, declamation, and aria, which refers to sung solo passages. http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/opera.htm   (460 words)      opera. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Opera differs from operetta in its musical complexity and usually in its subject matter. The result was The Beggar’s Opera (1728), with a libretto by the poet John Gay and music composed partly by John Christopher Pepusch. The ballad opera eventually led to the singspiel, the German comic opera with spoken dialogue, which was to reach its highest development in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. http://www.bartleby.com/65/op/opera.html   (3517 words)      Romantic music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Composers such as Schubert would use song melodies in their extended works, and other compoer's such as Liszt, would transcribe opera arias and songs into purely instrumental works. verismo opera, depicting realistic, rather than historical or mythological, subjects became popular in Italy. verismo opera composer ( La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_music   (3517 words)      Opera Southern Rock Opera Southern Rock Opera was an album released in 2001 by the Drive By Truckers, a 1960s and 1970s and hi... Boston Lyric Opera Boston Lyric Opera New England (BLO) is an 1976. Benvenuto Cellini (opera) Benvenuto Cellini is an Hector Berlioz. http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/opera.html   (2221 words)      The Story of Italian Opera Opera had become a marriage of the arts, a musical drama, full of glorious song, costume, orchestral music and pageantry; sometimes, without the aid of a plausible story. Romantic opera, which placed emphasis on the imagination and the emotions began to appear in the early 19th century, and because of its arias and music, gave more dimension to the extreme emotions which typified the theater of that era. Both operas showed a marked increase in musical flexibility with a mixture of recitatives, solos, duets and ensembles. http://www.pirandello.com/opera.html   (1046 words)      Encyclopedia: Music of Finland The first Finnish opera was written by the German composer Fredrik Pacius in 1852. Founded in the 1960s, Love Records was one of the first domestic record labels dedicated to Finnish rock music, even though the label's roster also included jazz and political songs. Kullervos Curse by Akseli Gallen-Kallela In the Finnish Kalevala, Kullervo was the ill-fated son of Kalervo. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Music-of-Finland   (7081 words)      Manitoba Opera - unmask the mystery of opera Verismo opera grabs the listener from the opening note and never lets them go. As the opera progresses, their lives take on the tragedy of the play which they are to present to the villagers, and the lines between their lives and illusion are blurred forever. Verismo opera plots focus on the passions and problems of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. http://www.manitobaopera.mb.ca/operas/season/april/cavalleria.htm   (7081 words)      Learn more about Opera seria in the online encyclopedia. Mozart wrote some beautiful music for these operas, but the characters, drawn in from classical antiquity accordance with the conventions of the genre, did not inspire in him the same level of incandescent musical theater as the three Shakesperean Da Ponte operas. The age of opera seria corresponded with the rise to prominence of the castrati, prodigiously gifted singers with high, powerful voices backed by decades of rigorous musical training. Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and 'serious' style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries. http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/o/op/opera_seria.html   (7081 words)      Gail Holst on Theodorakis's Antigone The opera begins with such a combination, a version of a zebekiko dance that echoes the composerÂ’s 1984 cycle of songs Ta Asisika (The Gallant Songs) [ix] both in its Asia Minor-inspired rhythms and its modal character. Opera goers are generally conservative and the new operas that become part of the repertoire are few and far between. Instead, it is an opera that quite logically closes the circle begun with the ballet Antigone and moved through Epitaphios and the great song-cycles of the 1960Â’s to the choral symphony and back to the youthful composerÂ’s fascination with ancient drama, poetry and song. http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net/gh_antigone.html   (2635 words)      Washington, D.C. - encyclopedia article about Washington, D.C.. Go-Go band and Washington natives Experience Unlimited hit the American pop charts in 1988 with their memorable dance tune "Da Butt". Washington is surrounded by the states of Virginia (on its southwest side, and a small part of its northwest one) and Maryland (on its southeast and northeast sides, and most of its northwest one); it interrupts those states' common border, which is the Potomac River both upstream and downstream from the District. The Washington area was the target of at least one of the four hijacked planes in the September 11, 2001 attacks. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Washington,+D.C.   (7904 words)      Encyclopedia4U - Opera seria - Encyclopedia Article Mozart wrote some beautiful music for these operas, but the characters, drawn in from classical antiquity accordance with the conventions of the genre, did not inspire in him the same level of incandescent musical theater as the three Shakesperean Da Ponte operas. The rise of these star singers with formidable technical skills spurred composers to write increasingly complex vocal music, and many operas of the time were written as vehicles for specific singers, of whom the most famous is perhaps [[Farinelli. Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and 'serious' style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries. http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/o/opera-seria.html   (7904 words)      The Story of Italian Opera Opera had become a marriage of the arts, a musical drama, full of glorious song, costume, orchestral music and pageantry; sometimes, without the aid of a plausible story. Romantic opera, which placed emphasis on the imagination and the emotions began to appear in the early 19th century, and because of its arias and music, gave more dimension to the extreme emotions which typified the theater of that era. Both operas showed a marked increase in musical flexibility with a mixture of recitatives, solos, duets and ensembles. http://www.pirandello.com/opera.html   (7904 words)

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