A Night at the Opera

The History of Italian Opera Introduction There are many forms of art such as, paintings, sculptures, buildings, etc. Opera is another form of art though it may not seem like art to many people. “Few forms of art… are as overtly involved as opera in the social and historical contexts within which they are created and consumed” (Lindenberger 235). Italian opera which obviously formed in Italy is a form of art in the Italian language. It was introduced in Italy in the 1600s. Ironically many

Name: MD HOSSIN Prof. Name: MARK ADAMS Course: Music 101 Date: 10/31/2017 Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro The main purpose to write this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the opera “The Marriage of Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The plot of this comic opera all revolves around love triangles and misplaced affections. The main characters of the play are the Count Almaviva and Countess Rosina, and Figaro, and his bride-to-be Susanna are the other couple in the affair. The Count wants

undisclosed South American country. Foreign wealthy and powerful figures and one opera singer are all together in one mansion for a dinner party. This party is thrown for a rich Japanese businessman, Mr. Hosokawa’s birthday, to convince him to build and invest his next project in their country. In order to entice Mr. Hosokawa to come, they pay his favorite opera star, Roxane, to come and sing. However, towards the end of the night, terrorists break in and take everyone hostage, under the assumption the

Only Mask Deep All is silent and still on a foggy Parisian night, when suddenly a single rapport of pistol fire breaks the calm. Most people associated gunfire to that of an ominous sound, but to Gaston Leroux it was reason for celebration. Night air gunfire meant that Leroux had completed another novel. Every novel he wrote ended with a single shot (V. Leroux). Welcoming a novel in this way was classic Leroux; big, bold, audacious, with a touch of the flamboyant (Mackintosh 6). In 1889, Leroux

spotless vocals. You most definitely have to have an acquired taste for the style of music that they were singing, but not to appreciate it. Throughout the opera I had to constantly remind myself to keep a positive outlook on the performance; nevertheless, I developed a great reverence for opera singers by the end of the opera. The title opera was The Magic Flute and the main character Tamino had a magic flute as a prop. The prop wasn’t a real flute though it was a pretend flute made out of a wooden

In act one of the play, the first scene of music occurs following Titania’s departure from Oberon, concurring after an argument regarding the possession of an Indian boy. Two of Titania’s fairies sing of the joys of the countryside: “come, come, come, let us leave this town”. Following this, a drunken poet enters singing ‘fill up my bowl’. throughout the rest of this act the fairies torture and torment the drunken poet, resulting in driving him away. This torment given by the fairies is reflected

opening nights, and one of the aforementioned nights, which though one of the smallest of the century is possibly of the greatest of all time, was of Handel’s Messiah. George Frideric Handel, the German-born, Italian-trained, England-living composer: a beautiful cultural anomaly who could compose music with the best of them. His ‘Hallelujah

titled in Italian, is a light-hearted opera buffa in four acts with musical setting by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. The libretto is based on La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (The Madcap Day, or the Marriage of Figaro), a comically titled stage play by Pierre Beaumarchais. Mozart’s opera is in fact part of a trilogy. The Marriage of Figaro continues the story of The Barber of Seville, another of Beaumarchais’ plays adapted for opera by Paisiello. Composed in 1786 and

On April 10th, 11th, and 12th, Anchorage Opera performed a modernized rendition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s last opera; The Magic Flute (1791). The cast consisted of quite a few local performers as well as guest appearances from acclaimed artists such as Branch Fields and Michael Scarcelle. On the 11th, I attended the evening production accompanied by my music “hating” (her words, not mine) mother. She was such a good sport until we found ourselves in the balcony seating of the Discovery Theatre

his own identity in which he is allowed to be a queer man. It is only through mismatching reality and fantasy that he can be free and live his reality. Opera is the only time in which Dieyi's