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68K. 6.6M views 3 years ago. 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄. Dive into the beautiful world of opera with some of the most acclaimed arias, performed by renowned singers such as Anna...
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Opera is a key part of Western classical music, and Italian in particular, tradition. [3] Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as Singspiel and Opéra comique.
2 days ago · Opera is a staged drama set to music with vocal and instrumental elements. Learn about the origins, development, and variations of opera in the Western tradition and beyond.
- 20) Wagner’s Die Walküre (1870) The second instalment of the colossal Ring tetralogy is packed full of musical wonders. With the Ring, Wagner redefined the scope and scale of music drama.
- 19) Handel’s Giulio Cesare (1724) A vast, rich score that displays the composer’s sharply honed instinct for dramatic pace. At almost three-and-a-half hours, Giulio Cesare in Egitto is one of Handel’s longest and most elaborate creations (longer than Wagner’s Parsifal), and yet this seemingly unwieldy opera is actually delicately balanced, beautifully proportioned and always engaging.
- 18) Verdi’s Falstaff (1893) Verdi at his most inventive, proving himself a genius of comedic characterisation. Everything about Verdi’s late comic opera about a plump, arrogant, cowardly knight leaps from the stage: its ingenious libretto by the composer’s long-term collaborator, Arrigo Boito, combining elements of three Shakespeare plays, The Merry Wives of Windsor and both parts of Henry IV; the detail of the orchestrations over which Verdi laboured, changing and revising right up to the day of the premiere; and its sheer wit, often displayed through Verdi’s sudden and rapid changes of musical pace and direction.
- 17) Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (1607) An extraordinary creation that sets its glittering music at the service of the text. Orfeo was not the first opera to have been written, but it was the first great opera.
Listen to great emotions in the most moving moments in operatic history! Get to know much-loved Arias and Duets including “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s Turan...
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50 Greatest Opera Classics. Album • Various Artists • 2012. 50 songs • 3 hours, 20 minutes. Play. Save to library. Bellini: Norma / Act 1 - Casta Diva. Joan Sutherland, Samuel Ramey, Welsh...
