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76Famous Opera Overtures
Since operas can last hours, their overtures are a short and simple introduction to them. Most overtures contain melodies which you'll hear later on in the opera. Here is a list of some of the most famous overtures ever written.
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69History of Opera
Why does opera exist? Was it musicians who created the genre of opera? Read this article on opera to find out
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84Opera plots - Puccini's Tosca
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...
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70Andrea Bocelli - Concert in Central Park New York, NY
Channel WTTW from Chicago, IL was soliciting funds to keep promoting their program with world ranked stars participating to help raise the funds to keep the programs, without advertised sponsored. Among the notable stars on 12/12/2011 was Andrea...
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68Opera plots - Puccini's Madame Butterfly
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...
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62Who is this Pisticcio character?
“How do you make pisticcio?” asked B.T. Evilpants Before reading the addendum to the question posed by Mr. Evilpants; I wondered what member of the Parthenon this character was -- I didn’t remember him. Refreshing my knowledge of the...
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79Opera plots - Puccini's Turandot
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...
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