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Act 2, scene 4 begins with Galatea's cavatina Placidetti zeffiretti. After recitative between her and Polifemo, her lover Aci responds with the cavatina Amoretti vezzosetti . As the lines of Aci's cavatina closely resemble Galatea's with the same music, Rolli and Porpora make clear this is an expanded and modified da capo aria.
Debussy decided to remove four scenes from the play (act 1 scene 1, act 2 scene 4, act 3 scene 1, act 5 scene 1 [18]), significantly reducing the role of the serving-women to one silent appearance in the last act. He also cut back on the elaborate descriptions that Maeterlinck was fond of.
Radamès (Giuseppe Fancelli) and Aida (Teresa Stolz) in act 4, scene 2 of the 1872 La Scala European première (drawing by Leopoldo Metlicovitz) Verdi originally chose to write a brief orchestral prelude instead of a full overture for the opera. He then composed an overture of the "potpourri" variety to replace the original prelude.
The title is a translation into German of the Old Norse phrase Ragnarök, ... Act II, Scene 2. Prelude to Act 2 Scene 1. As Hagen sits sleeping on night watch, ...
The opera premiered on 26 September 1835 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. However, John Black notes that "the surprising feature of its subsequent performance history is that it established so slowly in the Neapolitan repertoire", [4] noting that while there were 18 performances in the rest of 1835, there were only four in 1836, 16 in 1837, two in 1838, and continuing in this manner with ...
Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 431–440 ... Scene 4. Hoist with his own petard I must be cruel, only to be kind (several songs, including Cruel to Be Kind by Nick Lowe)
Almirena's recitative, and few bars of "Lascia ch'io pianga", from Handel's 1711 autograph score Rinaldo (HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1711, and was the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the London stage. The libretto was prepared by Giacomo Rossi from a scenario provided by Aaron Hill, and the work was first performed at the Queen's Theatre in ...
Indeed the opera is unusual for having nearly as much instrumental music as vocal: act 1, scene 2 consists entirely of a short symphonic poem (with distant voices) called Intermedio, depicting sunset in Granada; act 2, Scene 1 includes the above-referenced Danza and Interludio, with the latter ending the scene, i.e. in the opposite sequence to ...