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5 days ago · If Rossini's principal legacy to Italian opera was in vocal forms and dramatic structure for serious opera, his legacy to French opera was to provide a bridge from opera buffa to the development of opéra comique (and thence, via Jacques Offenbach's opéras bouffes to the genre of operetta).
- List of Compositions by Gioachino Rossini
It dates from 1989, when it was commissioned by the Rossini...
- The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Italian:...
- List of Compositions by Gioachino Rossini
2 days ago · Elmer Bernstein scored the film, using Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera buffa The Marriage of Figaro as an underlying theme. Trading Places was considered a box-office success on its release, earning over $90.4 million to become the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1983 in the United States and Canada, and $120.6 million worldwide.
- June 8, 1983
- Aaron Russo
Information. Location. Cunning plans, alluring singing, affrays and slapped cheeks – Don Pasquale features all this and more on stage, remaining a pearl of charm and carefree humour. The intrigue in Gaetano Donizetti’s opera buffa masterpiece centres around the idea of cooling the protagonist’s hot temperament.
5 days ago · Operas consist of acts and scenes featuring songs and recitative (sing-speak dialogue), and two common types include opera buffa (a comic opera) and opera seria (based on a serious topic).
5 days ago · 1. This is an opera buffa; you’re allowed to laugh: That literally means comic opera, which defines Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” a story of love longed for and love rejected, mistaken identities, greed, lust, comical hijinks and some pretty hilarious bait-and-switch scenarios.
5 days ago · Mozart’s indelible opera buffa, starring Ailyn Pérez (Countess), Nadine Sierra (Susanna), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Katarina Leoson (Marcellina), Mariusz Kwiecien (Count), Ildar Abdrazakov (Figaro), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo).
3 days ago · Franz Lehár’s light-hearted operetta, The Merry Widow, has been a crowd-pleaser ever since its premiere. After opening at the Theater an der Wien on 30 December 1905, The Merry Widow went on to tour Austria before travelling to Hamburg, Berlin and Budapest.