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Seelewig or Das geistliche Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel genant Seelewig (The Sacred Forest Poem or Play of Rejoicing called Seelewig) is an opera in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue by the German composer Sigmund Theophil Staden.
Weber's masterpiece was the first great German Romantic opera. [48] 1823 Euryanthe (von Weber). Despite its weak libretto, Euryanthe had a great influence on later German operas, including Wagner's Lohengrin. [49] 1823 Semiramide (Rossini). This is the last opera that Rossini composed in Italy. [50] 1825 La dame blanche (François-Adrien ...
2.1 Operas. 2.2 Incidental music. ... (17 June 1644 in Unterschwaningen, Mittelfranken – ca. 1710 in London) was a German baroque composer. Life
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The most famous German-born opera composer of the era, Handel, wrote four operas for Hamburg at the beginning of his career but soon moved on to write opera seria in Italy and England. [5] In 1738, the Theater am Gänsemarkt went bankrupt and the fortunes of serious opera in German went into decline for the next few decades.
Alexander the Great who appears as a character in over seventy operas, including two by George Frideric Handel This is a list of historical figures who have been characters in opera or operetta . Historical accuracy in such works has often been subject to the imperatives of dramatic presentation.
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. For a list of operas sorted by name of composer, see List of operas by composer.
August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas (died 1704) [2] December 23 – Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Peruvian organist and composer (died 1728) date unknown. Maria Cattarina Calegari, Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun (died after 1675) [3] Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, Czech organist and composer (died ...