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Unsung.
Opera was, in effect, born twice. Its first coming was during the last decade of the sixteenth century, when humanist musicians and poets at the court of the Medici, in Florence, began to present a new kind of sung drama. The inaugural operas had impeccably high-minded subjects--Daphne changing into a laurel tree, Orpheus descending into Hades with his lyre--and were hyper-elegant in execution. Then, in 1637, a travelling troupe set off a fad for opera in the republic of Venice, and the art underwent a mutation. The season took place during Carnival, the time of dissolution and self-reinvention. Melodrama, bawdy humor, and disorienting collisions of high and low permeated ...
- Jommelli: Didone Abbandonata / Armida Abbandonata
- Magazine article from: Opera News Kerschbaumer, Susan March 16, 1996 700+ words
JOMMELLI: Didone Abbandonata Bach, Borst...producing more than fifty operas. As an Italian who spent...Pietro Metastasio, in his opera-seria debut with Didone Abbandonata, imbued...creature for Purcell's opera. Nevertheless, Metastasio...
- Sacrifizio di Didone.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Bernieri, Andrea,fl. 1826-1842--Engraver January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Enea e Didone.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Malco, Magone, Annibale, Didone ec.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Bernieri, Andrea,fl. 1826-1842--Engraver January 1, 1934 700+ words
- U.S. premieres uncover roots of opera's past.
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) June 20, 2006 700+ words
...explore works from opera's early years...Cavalli's La Didone from 1641. And Wolf Trap Opera, one of the country...count. But unlike operas by Purcell and...same subject, Didone ends happily...backsides), this opera presents a challenge...
- Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth...
- Magazine article from: Notes Thorburn, Sandy March 1, 2007 700+ words
...current studies of opera and the arts industry...hazards of studying opera in the seventeenth...that many of the operas have not been recorded...Calisto, Xerse, La Didone, Statira pincipessa...of Monteverdi's operas), this list is...in the book is any opera dealt with, musically...
- Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Notes Forment, Bruno September 1, 2009 700+ words
...reading of Tommaso Traetta's Didone abbandonata (in "Abandonments...As a text," she argues, "Didone abbandonata resonates with the...complex reception history of the opera seria); rather, it is in...Metastasio's intentions. For Didone abbandonata does not "celebrate...
- Reissiger, Karl Gottlieb
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
...conductor. Weber cond. his opera Didone abbandonata in Dresden...dir., Dresden Court Opera, 1826, and was appointed...Hofkapellmeister 1828. Made Dresden Opera best in Ger. Cond. f...cond. 1843. Wrote 9 operas, incl. Turandot (1843...
