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74Opera Plots - Verdi's Aida
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The plots of great operas are often difficult to fathom, partly because opera composers are generally more interested in writing great music than telling a believable story. The plot is merely a peg on which... published 7 months ago
67Opera plots - Puccini's Tosca
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There are not too many laughs in Tosca, which is based on a drama by the French playwright Victorien Sardou, set in Rome in 1800. The play was first performed in 1887, and it first attracted the attention of... published 7 months ago
75Opera plots - Puccini's La Boheme
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The willing suspension of disbelief is required for any dramatic performance, but this seems to be especially so in the case of opera. For one thing, people just don't go around singing at each other, at... published 6 months ago
68Opera Plots - Weber's Der Freischutz
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The plots of great operas are often difficult to fathom, partly because opera composers are generally more interested in writing great music than telling a believable story. The plot is merely a peg on which... published 7 months ago
69Opera plots - Puccini's Madame Butterfly
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This is one of the best-known and loved of all operas, both for its superb music and its plot, a tragedy of broken faith in which the whole audience longs to scream out to Butterfly, "don't trust him!" The... published 9 days ago
60Opera plots - Wagner's Das Rheingold
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Das Rheingold is the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen, usually referred to as the Ring Cycle. Wagner based the story on a number of Scandinavian and Norse myths, and disentangling... published 7 months ago
65Opera plots - Wagner's Siegfried
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The third part of the Ring Cycle takes place twenty years after the events of Die Walkure, or half an hour if you're enjoying (or enduring) the whole cycle in one fell swoop. If you remember, we left Brunhilde... published 7 months ago
72Opera plots - Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte"
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The plots of great operas are often difficult to fathom, partly because opera composers are generally more interested in writing great music than telling a believable story. The plot is merely a peg on which... published 7 months ago
61Opera plots - Wagner's Die Walkure
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This is the second of the four operas that make up the Ring Cycle. Wagner does not tell the whole story on stage, and for a full understanding of what is going on, it is necessary to know a little background... published 7 months ago
69Opera plots - Puccini's Turandot
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The plots of great operas are often difficult to fathom, partly because opera composers are generally more interested in writing great music than telling a believable story. The plot is merely a peg on which... published 7 months ago
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