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Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Following the great successes of Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte was the last of the three operas that Mozart wrote with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Although well received at its premiere in Vienna in 1790, it was then largely neglected until the mid-twentieth century. Its comic ...Show more
Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: Overture Opera Guides
This guide has articles which describe the opera's background and genesis through its various early versions. It also has an analysis of the music, a detailed survey of the opera's extensive performance history throughout the world and an exploration of its continuing significance as a beacon of hope an ...Show more
La Bohème by Gary Khan (Volume Editor); Giacomo Puccini
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Category: Music | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Puccini 's La boh me is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera 's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi 's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto over the co ...Show more
Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Otello, Verdi's penultimate opera, was composed more than a dozen years after Aida, which he had intended to be his last work for the stage. He was persuaded by his publisher Giulio Ricordi to work with the librettist Arrigo Boito on an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello; the resulting work is one of t ...Show more
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