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One of the most famous verismo operas, usually paired with Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. [149] 1892 Werther (Massenet). Along with Manon, this is Massenet's most popular opera. [150] 1893 Falstaff (Verdi). Verdi's final opera was set to another of Boito's libretti. [78] 1893 Hänsel und Gretel (Engelbert Humperdinck). The well-known fairy ...
Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the "Habanera" and "Seguidilla" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. The opera is written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers
The song was inspiration for Lars von Trier's Dogville (2003), a film about a mistreated woman who seeks revenge on her neighbors. [7] The song is paraphrased on Chico Buarque's "Geni e o Zepelim". This song is a number from his musical play Ópera do Malandro, which is based on Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. In Chico's version, Jenny (Geni ...
"A Bird's Eye View of the World's Chief Opera Composers" in The Oxford Companion to Music by Percy Scholes (10th edition revised by John Owen Ward, 1970). ISBN 0-19-311306-6. Composers with recordings included in The Penguin Guide to Opera on Compact Discs ed. Greenfield, March and Layton (1993 edition) ISBN 0-14-046957-5.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote many works well-known to the general classical public, including Romeo and Juliet, the 1812 Overture, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. These, along with two of his four concertos , three of his symphonies and two of his ten operas, are among his most familiar works.
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given.
His most famous pieces of music include the Ninth Symphony (From the New World), the Cello Concerto, the American String Quartet, the Slavonic Dances, and the opera Rusalka. This article constitutes a list of Dvořák's known works organized by their genre. They are in chronological order, referenced by Burghauser number.
Opera buffa 3 acts Italian Marco Coltellini, after Carlo Goldoni: 3 soprano, 2 tenor, 2 bass 1 May 1769 Archbishop's Palace, Salzburg: K.51/46a Score: 1770 Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mithridates, King of Pontus) Opera seria 3 acts Italian V. A. Cigna-Santi , based on G. Parini's translation of Racine's Mithridate: 4 soprano, 1 alto, 2 tenor [s]