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    Giuseppe Verdi and Rigoletto Rigoletto was an opera that consisted of four acts. Giuseppe Verdi was the producer of Rigoletto and Francesco Maria Piave was the librettist. This opera made it’s premiere at a theater called Le Fenice located in Venice in March of 1851. Giuseppe Verdi showed interest in musical arts at an early age. When Verdi discovered the 3rd and 5th of the key of C‚ he was overjoyed (Great Composers). In Rigoletto‚ there are four main characters. One of them being the Hunchback

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    composer Giuseppe Verdi‚ who is primarily known for his operas. Whenever I come attend an indoor performance‚ I like to be seated in the middle section‚ from my experience that’s the perfect spot to enjoy an indoor concert‚ it gives me the opportunity to look at all the performers and I feel I hear all the distinct sounds properly. The program was divided into two parts‚ “Four Sacred Pieces” with Utah voices conducted by Dr. Michael Huff and “Opera Choruses” conducted by Dr. Robert Baldwin. The concert

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    composers who made a distinctive contribution into a development of French opera genre. Born in 1632‚ Jean – Baptiste Lully was probably the most powerful force in French music in the seventeenth century. With a generous support of Louis XIV who granted him an exclusive right to produce sung drama in France‚ he and his librettist Jean – Philippe Quinalt reconciled the demands of drama‚ music and ballet in a new French form of opera called tragédie lyrique. Being successful in their attempts‚ Lully

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    Include textual evidence to support 6 answers. 1. Summarize the plot of the opera‚ “Madame Butterfly‚” in your own words. Why would Moore include an 
epigraph that quotes this opera? In Madame Butterfly the plot of the opera is that a birth mother loses her a child an adoptive mother who later on loses the baby. The whole time Suzuki‚ the servant‚ witnesses everything‚ but can do nothing to help. Moore quoted this opera in the epigraph because much in Madame Butterfly where Suzuki is very relied

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most important classical composers in history. By the age of four Wolfgang Mozart was playing the piano like a professional. He was writing his own music when he was five. He wrote over six hundred compositions. This essay will briefly outline the background of composer Wolfgang Mozart and then discuss an influence on him and a contribution he made to music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in January 27‚ 1756 in Salzburg‚ Austria. His father Leopold Mozart

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    Romantic Period 1820-1900 General Notes: • Cultural Movement that stressed ⁃ Emotion ⁃ Imagination ⁃ Individualism Diverse and Complex • Fascination with Fantasy • Revered ⁃ Middle Ages ⁃ Chivalry ⁃ Romance • Inspired by ⁃ Medieval Folk Ballads ⁃ Tales of Fantasy ⁃ Adventure • Coincided with the Industrial ⁃ Revolution Visual Arts of the Period: • Most important influence on painters and sculptures was Nature Music in Society: ⁃ Making

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    genres of theater

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    speech or an opera theatre to listen to a story being sung‚ the choices are unlimited. There are simply too many genres of theatre to name them all but the main ones that people go to theatres o see are listed below: Musical theatre: Is a theatre where you will hear and see a story told through the performance of singing‚ speech and dance. Some of the major musical productions that people have been going to see in recent times include productions such as Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. These two

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    practice taught to him by demonstrating it through two instruments: the clarinet and the violin. Mozart had the various opportunities to work in several different musical genres like composing symphonies‚ string quartets‚ sonatas and serenades and a few operas also‚ as being the assistant concertmaster. He developed a strong emotion for violin concertos‚ making only five he wrote. In 1776‚ he turned his efforts toward piano concertos‚ adding in the Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat major in early 1777. Wolfgang

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    “Before the year had passed‚ the work was in the repertory of every German opera house; also abroad its success was extraordinary and lasting”. The opera this quote refers to is‚ Hänsel und Gretel‚ written by Engelbert Humperdinck. Humperdinck is responsible for many operas in his lifetime‚ but the one he is most famous for is Hänsel und Gretel (1893). This paper will analyze Humperdinck’s inspiration for Hänsel und Gretel‚ and some of the techniques he used in Hänsel und Gretel. Engelbert Humperdinck

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    Convention‚” Philip Gossett discusses Verdi’s problems finding a librettist who could supply him with texts that sufficiently met his need for articulating drama as well as push the bounds of conventional musical forms. Gossett singled out Verdi’s opera Aida‚ using examples of correspondence between the composer and the librettist to paint a picture of what Verdi had originally intended and what eventually came to be. Much of the essay contains correspondence from Verdi and Gossett begins with Verdi’s

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