A Night at the Opera

story the song tells. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is a single from the album, A Night at the Opera. The song was released October 31, 1975. The song was written by the lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury. The first time you hear the song, the lyrics might not make much sense. But the more and more I listened to it, I started to understand the lyrics and discovered what the song’s story is. The song is a representation of a play or opera. I believe the story of the song is about a boy pleading in front of

perform as an opera singer for three months. She became ill five days before the opening night and was not able to perform the first four nights. Hilton then replaced her with another opera singer. Application Madame Anne was in breach of condition and Hillton were entitled to end the contract. She missed the opening night which was the most important performance as all the critics and publicity would be based on this night.

The Austin Opera did an outstanding performance of Bizet’s “Carmen”, on Thursday night, played at The Long Center of the Performing Arts. Carmen is an Opera by French composer Georges Bizet, who died suddenly months after Carmen’s debut in Paris 1875. Bizet was a composer during the romantic era, although he has other works Carmen is his most successful work and is frequently performed in the world of operas. I don’t remember the last time I attended an opera but it was probably 10 years ago for

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a composer who lived in the 18th century. Many of his compositions are still known today. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria to his parents, Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. Mozart was born at 8 o'clock at night. A day after Mozart was born, he was baptized at St. Ruperts Cathedral. The Mozart family was very religious, and they were Roman Catholic. Mozart was one of seven children, but only him and his sister Anna Maria, commonly known as Nannerl, survived through infancy

“The Magic Flute” was the opera Mozart did, the opera premiered in Vienna, Italy where Mozart called home. The date of what “The Magic Flute premiered was September 30, 1791, three months after the death of Wolfgang Mozart. The opera is in two acts and it has a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The opera is a fairy tale, like when the prince saves the princess and they fall madly in love. The music for the opera was drama like and was in different music styles. The cast was very small, it had only

Speaking of watching a live opera, I had two extremely different experiences. Before taking this course, I have never watched a live opera in person. When I went to New York City during the spring break, I watched Prince Igor in the Metropolitan Opera House. And at the end of March, I watched The Magic Flute produced by the Music School of UM in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. It is apparent that the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre is not as magnificent as the Metropolitan Opera House in regard to construction

composers avoided writing opera in the German language. This was because of aristocratic patronage- there was low demand for German opera as the German courts still favoured opera in Italian. This forced German opera to depend on the general public. During the early 18th century, the singspiel tradition was developed in Germany and Austria, which mixed spoken dialogue and singing. They existed often as comedies. Genres such as the ballad opera in England and the opéra comique in France influenced

Phantom of the Opera is the longest running musical to date and has become one of the most beloved and well known musicals on Broadway. The musical was inspired and loosely based on the characters and the story of the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. This CD is the original London cast which means that this recording is with the first cast that ever preformed the musical with the actors that created the parts. The musical was written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber who is one of the

M. to see the lyric opera to enjoy Friday night with my girlfriend. As Professor told us, I brought wines, glasses, and a blanket to seat down on the park. I arrived there at 7'o clock. I could see a lot of people crowded in that area; some people brought their tea table, chairs, foods, and wines. While I was surprised on what I saw, I tired to find our seats to see the amazing opera that thrilled me over the weekend. First, I want to say this opera was the glorious opera. It started with a

Mozart was extremely keen when Emanuel Schikaneder suggested that they work together on a new opera. Schikaneder had arrived in Vienna in 1789. He managed the Theater-auf-der-Wieden, a theatre that specialized in popular German-language musical entertainment, which were often comical with foreign or fantastic settings. Soon after his arrival, Schikaneder had been extremely successful with the “magic opera” Oberon by composer Paul Wranitzky and librettist Carl Ludwig Giesecke. Following this success