Peking Opera Peking Opera is China’s national opera. Opera is so popular in China that they declared a “Peking Opera Month”. Peking Opera has been around for 200 years. “Its main melodies originated from Xipi and Erhuang in Anhui and Hubei respectively and‚ overtime‚ techniques from many other local operas were incorporated”. Peking Opera is said to have come to the front after 1790 when the famous four Anhui opera troupes came to Beijing. Peking Opera was developed quickly over the reign of Emperor
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Listening to an opera is one of the most interesting classical music performances you could see live. This 90 minute opera I seen was played on Tuesday‚ November 13‚ 2012 and performed at 8 p.m. The name play was Wozzeck by Alben Burg and performed by the Philharmonic Ocrhestra. At the opera the person who was suppose to be the doctor was ill so Kevin Beurdette took Tijil Faveyls place. The people that attended the concert varied‚ some people were older and other people were young. The type of class
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The Phantom of the Opera Review The Phantom of the Opera is a play written by Andrew Lloyd Webber that is an adaptation from the novel of the same name. It premiered on September 27‚ 1986 at the Her Majesty’s Theatre in London‚ England in New York City. Its Broadway premiere was on January 26‚ 1988 at the Majestic Theatre. The production is still currently running at the Majestic Theatre and at many other venues around the world. The writer‚ Andrew Lloyd Webber‚ is from London‚ England
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The Phantom of the Opera The 2004 film‚ The Phantom of the Opera‚ directed by Joel Schumacher ‚ is an adaptation of the Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera‚ music and book by Andrew Llyod Webber. The musical The Phantom of the Opera is based on the novel by Gaston Leroux. The movie stars Gerard Butler as The Phantom‚ Emmy Rossum as Christine‚ and Patrick Wilson as Raoul‚ in the leading roles. While watching the movie‚ you can’t help but notice all of the spectacular sets. Each of the sets
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go wrong‚ will go wrong”. This is evident in the case of the Metropolitan Welfare Department. The welfare system was in desperate straits and after a total revamp of the welfare’s department and offices‚ the Clearly Street office began to crumble under the new structure. What had been a sombre and quiet place of business‚ before the re-structure‚ was now riddled with problems and in need of effective solutions. Summary of the facts The Metropolitan Welfare system was in a state of imminent collapse
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The Phantom of the Opera! In the play Phantom of the Opera written by Arthur Kopit‚ it contains many inner and outer realities. That form between many characters. People’s inner realities can distort their image of themselves and alter their perception of the outer world. The character phantom who has lived in the subterranean levels of the opera house his whole life. He shadowed himself from the face of reality. He can not let in the reality that is the world above him
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On a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ I took a tour of the museum with a lecturer. During the tour‚ the leader lectured on particular paintings. She told the know history behind each shown painting. She also gave the history of the period in which the painting was painted. The lecturer also helped everyone to understand what the colors in the paintings brought to each painting. While viewing the many paintings‚ the first one that caught my eye was Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and
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Rob Murphy Art and Culture Extra Credit My Second Visit to the Met 12/10/11 My second visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was equally enjoyable as the first. On my first visit‚ I hovered around the American wing and Egyptian wing mainly. On the contrary‚ my second visit consisted of a trip to enjoy the Greek and Roman wing. Wings such as the Egyptian‚ are big enough to re-visit‚ as I was able too. The works I was able to enjoy on my second trip were the “Cleopatra” sculpture‚ and the world
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The most popular sport in the south‚ football‚ is a game that stumbled out of rugby and soccer. In 1823‚ English soccer player‚ William Ebb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it‚ inspiring the students of Princeton to become involved in a sport they called “ball town”. The first football game was played on November 6th of 1869 in Brunswick‚ New Jersey between the Rutgers and Princeton. The game was observed by one-hundred spectators and the players wore no helmets or uniforms. The players kept
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Founded in 1943‚ New York City Opera‚ dubbed “the people’s opera” by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia‚ was seen as the alternative to the high-class and high-priced Metropolitan Opera. City Opera operated with a fraction of the budget of the Met‚ and was interested in developing the work of new American composers and singers‚ and often used it’s stature to prove it made the better platform for these works. Behind the scenes‚ management struggled for many years‚ with strong artistic voices combatting
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