They don't even complain about the lewdness and promiscuity being displayed on the so-called soap operas. |
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If one looks hard, a small but viable repertory of choice American operas does exist. |
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In the later 1700s Covent Garden and Drury Lane continued to provide English operas as part of the six days a week theatrical repertory. |
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Thus, these operas, while clearly relating to Shakespeare's works on one level, are often at many different removes from their sources. |
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Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho. |
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These prolific composers often wrote several operas in a single year, and reports of new performances spread quickly from city to city. |
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Inevitably, the most rewarding sections are those which deal with the gestation of the well known operas. |
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One minute you're all genned up on the digestion of proteins, then you're writing about the beauty of Mozart's operas. |
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The original 1857 orchestral prelude is only rarely being heard these days and so the Chailly CD is a true gem for connoisseurs of Verdi operas. |
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Daytime television, when not featuring soap operas or game shows, is about embarrassing yourself and your family and friends in public. |
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Perhaps the nub of it all was that, just like soap operas, current affairs shows love a wedding. |
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It's just like the issue of Aida being one of the greatest of all operas and still being a crashing bore. |
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The composer of some 70 operas, Adam is remembered as a pioneer and writer of graceful, fluent music in an Italianate idiom with dramatic power. |
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A flat-screen television set was installed, which is still used to view operas. |
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Dove's goal was to condense the operas so that none of them exceeded three hours of performance time. |
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Many of his operas deal with the loss of innocence in the young and their corruption by adults. |
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Such motives form the basis for his musical compositions, especially the operas. |
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In general, however, the fantasia became a potpourri of themes from operas compiled by virtuoso pianists as display pieces. |
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The commonly held view of soap operas is that they don't truly represent real life. |
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It's too bad that our soap operas only show the glamorous and comfy lifestyles of the upper class. |
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In the 1980s the relationship between soap operas and tabloid newspapers reached hitherto unprecedented heights of incestuousness. |
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Their legacy is a series of low coloratura contralto roles which serve to add variety and depth to the operas. |
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This young Chinese clarinettist's recital of potted fantasias on operas by Verdi, Bellini and Ponchielli is bravura fluff. |
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In the early 1590s, he had produced a series of three musical pastorals that are sometimes claimed as the earliest operas. |
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Their program of four operas includes three recognized classics and one new work that has already won many important prizes in China. |
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You could dismiss this swankily shot Latin American trifle as an upscale soap opera, but that would be an insult to soap operas. |
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Like so many horse operas, this is the story of an outlaw whose return threatens to destroy the bonds that hold a community together. |
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Then a handsome blonde with a magnificent singing voice, she didn't seem exactly well-suited to horse operas. |
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Because it performs operas in their original language, it uses surtitles to translate the libretti into English. |
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There's a certain subset of opera fans who dismiss Rossini comic operas with a haughty wave. |
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Successful operas have powerful, involving stories, even if they're overblown, rhetorical and, indeed, operatic. |
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This is a serviceable Western hampered by the unchanged story aspects of a thousand horse operas and some peculiar and unnecessary stunt casting. |
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The middle classes preferred the German light or comic operas of Nicolai and Lortzing to the French or Italian heroic works. |
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I walk out of movies and plays, and I never accept invitations to operas that have no catchy tunes in them. |
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His repertoire on discs included excerpts from operas and operettas, popular songs, and later, songs from his films. |
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He produced not only popular operettas, but incidental music to plays and interpolations into other operas as well. |
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Realism seems to be in at the moment, so operas are dramatic stories set to music. |
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He declared that some of his best ideas came to him while listening to chamber music and Mozart operas. |
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These include seven symphonies, nine operas, and chamber, organ and piano works. |
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Yet it is hard to avoid some sense, in many of his operas, that the music is at times cerebral in its conception. |
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Of course he played tricks in his songs, as in his orchestral music and operas. |
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The discretionary fund is used to pay musicians, broadcast live classical music concerts and operas. |
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It's a liturgical work incorporating all the drama of the composer's operas. |
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The portrayal of the situations is assisted by cantatas, arias, duets, operas and music. |
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The festival has been going since then, and every summer it presents operas, plays and concerts of the finest. |
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For someone reason, I got it into my head the other day that he only wrote a few symphonies and operas, the odd piano concerto, and the Requiem. |
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But then, I seldom have the sense that Miller ever listens to the music of the operas he directs. |
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In the 1770s he began composing symphonies, concertos, operas and theater music. |
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We tend to associate Handel operas with high voiced prima donnas, the castrati and the sopranos. |
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The program typically has two staged operas with piano accompaniment per season. |
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As a Nordic, he is especially good at adapting Wagner's operas into puppet shows. |
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When his operas are sung in any other language, the shift in vowels, consonants, and rhythms changes the character of the music. |
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The saving grace to the whole artistic endeavour is that the works are classic verismo operas with sky-high true-life grit. |
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Mahler had completed his first three symphonies, and Mascagni and Leoncavallo were creating new orchestral colours in their verismo operas. |
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For these operas, Wagner mined the same vein of Nordic myth that J.R.R. Tolkien used a century later for his own Ring epic. |
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Cellier wrote numerous comic operas, vaudevilles, one grand opera, The Masque of Pandora, and a few instrumental works. |
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But networks mostly offered soap operas and newsmagazines and held back their popular sitcoms and dramas due to rights issues. |
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The posthumous engraved editions of Lully's operas reached high levels, and among French songbooks, Laborde's Choix de chansons is outstanding. |
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Televised soap operas are extremely popular with Brazilians of all social classes. |
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As usual in his Neapolitan operas, there are also splendid opportunities for rival tenors. |
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It's been a slow process, but his many operas, long considered musty and unstageable relics of the past, are once again hit shows everywhere. |
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Letting famous film directors direct operas has resulted in both smashing successes and dismal failures. |
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Now she only performs in two or three operas a year, spending the rest of the time on recital work. |
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His operas include several monodramas, and he has also written a considerable quantity of chamber and vocal music. |
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The bel canto operas of Vicenzo Bellini are endowed with an endless font of inspired melodies. |
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The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention. |
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He wrote songs, operas, and operettas, pantomimes, melodramas, and in 1823, a History of Music. |
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It is filled with melodic ideas sufficient for five operas, and many of them vanish as soon as they appear. |
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She says none of the five bite-sized operas is trying to break from traditional narrative. |
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The same could be said of musicals, operas, ballets, songs, and other narrative forms. |
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Perhaps in days gone by people had more time when they attended concerts, operas, and ballets. |
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What could have been more appropriate for this marital tragedy than, of all operas, Tristan und Isolde? |
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They show both Viennese classical charm and the inflection of English and Scottish folk-song characteristic of his many ballad operas. |
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Quickly, however, Americans began to write their own ballad operas attuned to American society. |
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Stephen Storace is best known for ballad operas, and his sister Nancy was the first Susannah in Mozart's Figaro. |
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This has to be seen in the context of a tour where the company is performing five Handel operas, and one near miss out of five is no bad thing. |
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His French operas were extravagantly admired cultural monuments 150 years ago. |
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After all, more than 40 per cent of the top-rated shows around the world are mini-series, sitcoms, soap operas, movies and telenovelas. |
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These operas were created between 1966 and 1976, each one full of workers, soldiers and slaves who were burning with revolutionary zeal. |
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Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels? |
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His drawings are also found in travel books and the stories of operas by Richard Wagner. |
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At one time only operas with religious themes could be staged during Quadragesima. |
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An orchestra of attractive women played gay tunes from operas and light marches. |
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Television is dominated by films and soap operas from Thailand and Hong Kong, dubbed into Khmer. |
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After Lully's death in 1687 Collasse began composing operas on his own account, but with relatively little success. |
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Her next step into the world of acting was performing in television dramas in Delhi, with occasional roles in stage plays and operas. |
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These African actors say until their awareness campaign pays off, they'll pay the rent by working soap operas on radio. |
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I don't really care for movies, nor do I follow TV shows, be they soap operas, sitcoms, variety shows, reality shows or what have you. |
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Still, his aficionado's enthusiasm for Wagner's operas numbs him to the sensitivities and dilemmas of others. |
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The occasion emphasized continuity with an admired past, but these composers' operas embraced a new style of realism. |
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The Khedivial Opera House was the first on the African continent to perform world famous operas and symphonic masterpieces. |
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The absurd story, like that of many heroic operas, declares itself as wish-fulfilment unadulterated. |
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There is a lot she misses about home, like soap operas, cosy carpets, her favourite clothes shops and quality cottage cheese. |
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Placido Domingo has released more than 100 recital discs, crossover albums and complete operas over his five-decade career. |
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The Arian crisis, both for its longevity and its melodrama, puts modern-day soap operas to shame. |
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For a while we chatted about operas we had seen, and so on, the occasional passing reference to life outside opera, nothing special, nothing heavy. |
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Given this sort of language, it is not surprising that Adler watched soap operas voraciously for a period of two and a half years. |
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The scope of this bibliography is limited to studies on Shakespeare television adaptations and derivatives and does not include musical versions or operas based on the plays. |
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Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention. |
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Both of Alban Berg's operas rank as James Levine specialties, and both are in the Metropolitan's repertory this season for a few performances each. |
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Mozart's operas to librettos by Da Ponte examine attempts to constrain the irrationality of desire within the artificial boundaries of class and society. |
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She still plants flowers every spring, still bakes and sews, entertains friends, attends social events and confesses to a secret addiction to soap operas. |
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And just this week, reports surfaced that the regime recently executed 10 party officials for watching South Korean soap operas. |
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Like the soap operas of yore, Marvel has replaced major and minor characters in their films as necessary. |
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Watching celebrity lives is almost exactly like watching soap operas, and in a sphere where scandal is a weekly event, a gay drug binge gone wrong is hardly worthy of note. |
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As if to defy the Depression, newspapers put a premium on cleverness, challenging readers with ballades and triolets, rhyming versions of operas, travelogues in verse. |
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By the end of 1777 he was writing operas and ballets in Naples. |
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His operas reveal careful dramatic planning, and his use of recurring themes and motifs frequently creates conceptual and musical unity within a work. |
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Like soap operas and melodramas, Magnolia is characterized by excess. |
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The cost of operas in the past was borne largely by wealthy patrons, using the money which they extracted from the common people to fund their lifestyle. |
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Much of recent news coverage is sensationalized like soap operas. |
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Unlike theatre, in which most productions are built from scratch, the majority of operas are mounted using rented productions that includes sets, props and costumes. |
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One in eight viewers thought soap operas were now unsuitable for children. |
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The creamy walls of both floors were lined with paintings of old headmasters and headmistresses, bowls of fruit, Paris operas, and fairy tale adventures. |
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Marital tension, reflecting Strauss's stormy relationship with his wife Pauline, is a subject common to several of his operas, some openly autobiographical. |
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I was busy experimenting with folk music and composing operas. |
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Starting with the semi-operas of the Restoration there have been several hundred reworkings of Shakespeare's plays into operas, operettas, and musicals. |
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She has performed in many operas, operettas, musicals and oratorios. |
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Born in Edinburgh, he was a violinist, conductor and teacher whose compositions included operas, oratorios, songs, concertos, chamber and orchestral works. |
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Shield composed more than 40 light operas, pantomimes, and ballad operas, as well as string quartets and trios, other instrumental pieces, and numerous songs. |
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The drama selects scenes from famous operas and employs them to tell the story of a young Parisienne woman, and includes music from La Bohme and La Traviata among others. |
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Like other great composers he mastered a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, program pieces and ballets such as Romeo and Juliet. |
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By the 1710s impresario John Rich was once again presenting the semi operas The Island Princess and The Prophetess as well as a full opera, Bonocini's Camilla in English. |
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He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres. |
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According to reports in the Chinese media, even the hugely popular local soap operas and game shows have had to give way to extended coverage of the Games. |
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In another time he would have plotted with the primo uomo to sing badly and ruin one of my operas, or with others of his ilk to spread rumors about me. |
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The company gave performances of operas by the Welsh composer Joseph Parry in Cardiff and on tour in Wales. |
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The piece was a great success and it encouraged Handel to make the transition from writing Italian operas to English choral works. |
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Soap operas are most popular during the time of Ramadan, when families gather to break their fast. |
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These include two operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Otello and Falstaff, whose critical standing compares with that of the source plays. |
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Vaughan Williams knew the Savoy operas well, and his music for this piece was and is widely regarded as in the Sullivan vein. |
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On 30 July 1678, a Jean Borel identified as an academiste and musician in L'academie des operas became godfather to a girl called Anne Fontange. |
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Of the operas, Savitri, The Wandering Scholar, and At the Boar's Head have been recorded. |
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Full recordings of the operas were not available until after the Second World War. |
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Musically it shows a considerable advance in style from the early operas of the apprentice years. |
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In addition to burlesque plays, operas and burlettas, the Italians invented two other species. of drama, pastoral and rustic plays. |
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The Maltings gave the festival a venue that could comfortably house large orchestral works and operas. |
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From humble beginnings he became a noted violinist and a prolific composer of songs and ballad operas. |
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He played all the great roles in ballad operas from Tile Beggar's Opera onwards and, later, commissioned more. |
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He also attended musical events, including oratorios, operas, and melodramas. |
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Shield, who composed songs, ballad operas and some string chamber music, would be commissioned to write music for royal occasions. |
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The group's express purpose was to produce and commission new English operas and other works, presenting them throughout the country. |
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The thirty-something from Barcelona is a counter-tenor and his 12 track recital explores the seamier side of Handel's operas. |
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Kitty Clive, who starred in some of Fielding's ballad operas, had strong views on how best to interpret the script. |
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Creating scenery for the operas of Benjamin Britten was both a testing and rewarding occupation. |
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Recurring themes in his operas include the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society and the corruption of innocence. |
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The amorality of this masterpiece ensures that it remains one of the most shocking and compelling of operas. |
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He subsequently wrote and presented more than 40 such operas in London's theatres. |
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The channel is dedicated to Afrikaans soap operas, children's programmes, as well as lifestyle and entertainment news. |
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Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas. |
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On the other hand, Cosmos is now the hot topic since there are no Turkish soap operas on television. |
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BulgariaA ranks second in the world in terms in the number of Turkish TV soap operas that it purchased. |
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There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds. |
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They also share the lyrical and dramatic qualities of Handel's Italian operas. |
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All countries have national theatres, where plays, ballets and operas are performed. |
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Among current musical events and institutions in France, many are dedicated to classical music and operas. |
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The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian Chicagoans in 1956, and presents operas in Lithuanian. |
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It was a comic book with a real mythology that you would see in a lot of the space operas and the sci-fi books. |
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The most significant reason for this change was the dwindling financial returns from his operas. |
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Increasingly ITV's primetime schedules are dominated by its soap operas, such as the flagship Coronation Street and Emmerdale. |
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In 1963, Sargent recorded Gay's The Beggar's Opera, one of his few operas on record other than Gilbert and Sullivan. |
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Handel's operas are filled with da capo arias, such as Svegliatevi nel core. |
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Late in his career he made several recordings of operas, of which his 1967 set of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for EMI is probably the best known. |
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During twelve months between 1724 and 1725, Handel wrote three outstanding and successful operas, Giulio Cesare, Tamerlano and Rodelinda. |
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The conception of an opera as a coherent structure was slow to capture Handel's imagination and he composed no operas for five years. |
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Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte tried for many years to control the American performance copyrights over their operas, without success. |
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Familiar arias and choruses are dropped into a crazy quilt of a story, making up an on-the-spot opera using pieces from other operas. |
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Once he became established, Gilbert was the stage director for his plays and operas and had strong opinions on how they should best be performed. |
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He would later return to many of these as source material for his plays and comic operas. |
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He purchased patents from the monarchy to be the sole composer of operas for the French king and to prevent others from having operas staged. |
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El mundo de afuera tells the story of the kidnapping of Don Diego, a Colombian Germanophile who admires Wagner's operas. |
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In later years, Gilbert wrote several plays, and a few operas with other collaborators. |
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Although Gilbert and Sullivan were persuaded to collaborate on two last operas, they were not as successful as the previous ones. |
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In the 1880s, Gilbert focused on the Savoy operas, including Patience, Iolanthe, The Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard and The Gondoliers. |
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With the writing of the operas L'Orfeo and L'incoronazione di Poppea among others, Monteverdi brought considerable attention to this new genre. |
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Since then, much of Sullivan's serious music and his operas without Gilbert have been recorded. |
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Between 1988 and 2003, after the company was revived, it recorded seven of the operas. |
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The first commercial recordings of Sullivan's music, beginning in 1898, were of individual numbers from the Savoy operas. |
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For instance, the Irish Symphony contains two long solo oboe passages in succession, and in the Savoy operas there are many shorter examples. |
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He was not the first composer to combine themes in this way, but it became a characteristic feature of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. |
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The overtures from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas remain popular, and there are many recordings of them. |
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In composing the Savoy operas, Sullivan wrote the vocal lines of the musical numbers first, and these were given to the actors. |
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For operas, the room features a proscenium arch, fly-tower, and orchestra pit. |
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Among later operas, there is Heinrich Sutermeister's 1940 work Romeo und Julia. |
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Rose took principal roles in many of the companion pieces that played with the Savoy operas. |
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Opera's director of artistic operations, who has directed several operas in Europe, said film directors offer a fresh perspective. |
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Sullivan's operas have often been adapted, first in the 19th century as dance pieces and in foreign adaptations of the operas themselves. |
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This also failed, and Sullivan never worked with Gilbert again, although their operas continued to be revived with success at the Savoy. |
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Although still comic, the tone and style of the work was considerably more serious and romantic than most of the operas with Gilbert. |
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Therefore, he concluded that his financial needs required him to continue writing Savoy operas. |
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Sullivan continued to compose comic operas with other librettists and wrote a number of other major and minor works throughout the decade. |
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They reunited in the 1890s for two more operas, but those did not achieve the popularity of their earlier works. |
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He mimed Tchaikovsky and Gounod, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the symphonies of Haydn, the operas of Pergolesi and Glinka. |
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Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there. |
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Often, operas are presented in their original languages, which may be different from the first language of the audience. |
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This occurs in the Met's productions of operas such as Aida and Tales of Hoffman. |
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Many operas are better suited to being presented in smaller theatres, such as Venice's La Fenice with about 1,000 seats. |
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He gained considerable fame there with performances of his operas and oratorios. |
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While some venues are constructed specifically for operas, other opera houses are part of larger performing arts centers. |
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Vaughan Williams's liking for long tableaux, however disadvantageous in his operas, worked to successful effect in this ballet. |
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He took on the two Siegfried operas the following season, and, with ringing heldentenors in short supply, has been in heavy demand for this repertoire since. |
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Yet other ballad operas from around this time, such as Charles Johnson's The Village Opera, also have arias sung to the tune of All in the Downs', but print Leveridge's tune. |
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But, besides fasting during Ramadan, they stay tuned, with punctuality, to watch soap operas and special shows that are broadcast on different channels. |
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Sullivan invariably conducted the operas on their opening nights. |
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The Lyceum, which opened in 1897, serves as a venue for touring West End productions and operas by Opera North, as well as locally produced shows. |
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I call him Bradford because it makes me feel like I'm in a soap opera. That's what they name men on soap operas. Bradford and Desmond and Elliott and Royce. |
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Over the following 30 years the great majority of Dvorak's works were published, but only Rusalka, The Jacobine and the Devil and Kate among his operas. |
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Music critics have frequently commented on the recurring theme in Britten's operas from Peter Grimes onward of the isolated individual at odds with a hostile society. |
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Gilbert brought suit, and after The Gondoliers closed in 1891, he withdrew the performance rights to his libretti, vowing to write no more operas for the Savoy. |
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In his comic operas, Sullivan followed Offenbach's lead in parodying the idioms of French and Italian opera, such as those of Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. |
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In the operas, and also in concert works, another characteristic Sullivan touch is his fondness for pizzicato passages for all the string sections. |
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This sounds like one of those cheesy space operas in which a galactic emperor with trillions of subjects somehow manages to micromanage their lives directly. |
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The River Keeper, by Bridie Jackson and Nell Leyshon, is the first of three 30-minute operas in the Streetwise Opera's Little Opera 2014-15 season. |
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He is the author of sixteen operas, fifteen ballets, around thirty concertante works, and almost a hundred chamber works all the way from duets to nonets. |
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Led by the operas of German composer Richard Wagner, such as Der Ring des Nibelungen, Vikings and the Romanticist Viking Revival have inspired many creative works. |
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His legacy, apart from writing the Savoy operas and his other works, is felt perhaps most strongly today through his influence on the American and British musical theatre. |
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No mention is made of musical developments in the early 1800s, such as ballad operas performed along the east coast, opera in New Orleans, or Moravian music in Pennsylvania. |
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Burrows points out that many of Handel's operas, of comparable length and structure to Messiah, were composed within similar timescales between theatrical seasons. |
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Another problem was his keenness to encourage amateurs and student groups, which sometimes led to the staging of his operas with less than professional standards. |
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There is widespread agreement among commentators that this was partly due to the composer's poor choice of librettists for some, though not all, of his operas. |
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For the voice he composed songs, operas, and choral works ranging from simpler pieces suitable for amateurs to demanding works for professional choruses. |
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His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. |
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Carte used his profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works then became known as the Savoy operas. |
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During her career, Price made many recordings of operas and of lieder. |
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She has also collaborated with numerous composers, working as the official repetiteur for the world premiere productions of several new Japanese operas. |
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I remember in the bad old days when Rock Operas were about the War Of The Worlds, or a messianic cult based on a sensorily deprived pinball player. |
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Operas were originally composed and presented as a sumptuous accompaniment to some special event, such as the weddings or birthdays of dukes, princes, and the like. |
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Ironically, as the Savoy venture gets under way, it is the ENO which has unveiled a revival of its production of one of the original Savoy Operas, The Mikado. |
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