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Scènes de la Vie Bohème Novel by Henri Murger, 1847-49 (in English translation) - the source for both Puccini's and Leoncavallo's La bohème. Madame Butterfly Novella by John Luther Long, 1903 - the source for Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Carmen Novella by Prosper Mérimée, 1845 (in English translation) - the source for Bizet's Carmen.
Of these, fewer than half use English, 17% use German, 12% Italian, 10% French, 9% Spanish." [ 6 ] In autumn of that year the British magazine Opera Now reported that "Operabase has taken on the Herculean task of making [the site] available to every European Union citizen in their own language – not only the 21 (as at January 2007) official ...
Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file ...
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Opera originated in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's mostly lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) especially from works by Claudio Monteverdi, notably L'Orfeo, and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich Schütz in Germany, Jean-Baptiste Lully in France, and Henry Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th century.
Wozzeck (German pronunciation:) is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. Composed between 1914 and 1922, it premiered in 1925. It is based on the drama Woyzeck, which German playwright Georg Büchner left incomplete at his death. Berg attended the first production in Vienna of Büchner's play on 5 May 1914, and knew at once that ...
An infobox for an opera. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Name name Title of the opera as it appears in the article title. This will appear at the top of the infobox above the image. Default {{BASEPAGENAME}} String suggested Override italic title italic title Set this to 'no' to prevent the template ...
WikiProject Opera is a group of editors writing and maintaining Wikipedia's articles on operas, opera composers and librettists, opera singers and other opera-related subjects. The project also maintains the Opera portal .