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prestigious form of Italian opera, until Christoph Willibald Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. The most renowned...107 KB (12,907 words) - 15:07, 18 October 2024
Orfeo ed Euridice (redirect from Orphée (opera))is the first of Gluck's "reform" operas, in which he attempted to replace the abstruse plots and overly complex music of opera seria with a "noble simplicity"...36 KB (4,407 words) - 01:46, 5 October 2024
reform opera on the story. Schweitzer composed an opera Alceste to a libretto by Wieland, premiered in 1773 in Weimar, as a milestone of German opera...10 KB (1,007 words) - 21:22, 3 September 2024- popular opera. The first work in which the composer tried to reform the excesses of Italian opera seria. 1762 Artaxerxes (Thomas Arne). The first opera seria...82 KB (9,817 words) - 23:24, 24 August 2024
opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera...15 KB (265 words) - 15:42, 8 December 2023
Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued...30 KB (3,988 words) - 09:19, 21 July 2024
Gesamtkunstwerk (category Opera terminology)This movement, 'reform opera', is primarily associated with Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi. The themes in the operas produced by Gluck's...32 KB (3,429 words) - 12:36, 22 September 2024
Peking opera, or Beijing opera (Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance...72 KB (8,868 words) - 10:43, 5 October 2024- Iphigénie en Tauride (category Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera)how to reform opera were similar to Gluck's and Gluck himself conducted the work in 1767. Gluck may have wanted to compose his own reform opera on the...26 KB (3,530 words) - 07:48, 21 August 2024
Antonio Salieri (category Italian opera composers)tradition of reform that Gluck had begun in the 1760s and that Salieri had emulated in his earlier opera Armida. Salieri's first French opera contained scenes...60 KB (8,111 words) - 10:58, 5 October 2024
Jean-Philippe Rameau (category French opera composers)continuous music prefigures Wagnerian drama even more than does the "reform" opera of Gluck. Five essential components may be discerned in Rameau's operatic...49 KB (6,555 words) - 02:54, 21 August 2024- Paride ed Elena (redirect from Paris and Helen (opera))ˈɛːlena]; Paris and Helen) is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It is the third of Gluck's so-called reform operas for Vienna, following Orfeo ed Euridice...12 KB (1,301 words) - 00:18, 16 August 2024
Opera seria (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɔːpera ˈsɛːrja]; plural: opere serie; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical...18 KB (2,330 words) - 15:34, 30 September 2024
Euridice, first "reform opera" by Gluck, performed in Vienna 1786: The Marriage of Figaro, opera by Mozart 1787: Don Giovanni, opera by Mozart 1788: Jupiter...45 KB (4,779 words) - 17:42, 15 September 2024
Opera buffa (Italian: [ˈɔːpera ˈbuffa], "comic opera"; pl.: opere buffe) is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic...11 KB (1,349 words) - 21:08, 14 September 2024
Littler, William (23 November 1987). "Schafer on to something in trying to reform opera". Toronto Star. Toronto. pp. D6.Green, Robert Everett (23 November 1987)...21 KB (2,061 words) - 13:11, 4 October 2024
Christoph Willibald Gluck (category Male opera composers)the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning...49 KB (6,338 words) - 06:17, 21 October 2024
Kurt Weill (category American opera composers)opportunity to make opera the subject matter for an evening in the theater", part of what Weill saw as a lifelong process to "reform" opera for the modern...48 KB (5,797 words) - 18:28, 13 October 2024- Ivo Mosley (section Opera and theatre)social commentary, opera and musical theatre. In latter years his focus was works of non-fiction relating to politics and monetary reform. Born in London...12 KB (1,171 words) - 15:11, 30 May 2024
The Opéra Bastille (French: [ɔpeʁa bastij] , "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated in...18 KB (2,328 words) - 08:15, 21 August 2024
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- period in the past Peking opera in the main served feudalism and capitalism. Many attempts were made to reform Peking opera, and a number of plays were
- writing opera, he also wrote ballet suites, chamber music, orchestral music, and other genres, but is most well-known for his operatic reforms. Joseph