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	Dardanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All accounts agree that Dardanus came to the Troad from Samothrace and was there welcomed by King Teucer and that Dardanus married Batea the daughter of Teucer.
		Dardanus' son and heir by Batea was Erichthonius.
		Dionysius also says (1.61.4) that Dardanus' son Idaeus gave his name to the Idaean mountains, that is Mount Ida, where Idaeus built a temple to the Mother of the Gods (that is to Cybele) and instituted mysteries and ceremonies still observed in Phrygia in Dionysius' time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dardanus (378 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Opera Chronology
		The opera is full of delightful melodies and ensembles, such as the sextet when the newly married Lucia falls in love, but her climactic mad scene is one of the great vehicles and tests for the coloratura soprano.
		Puccini was from a family of opera composers, and this, his third attempt, won acclaim, particularly for its freshness of sound and fine choral writing.
		Written when Strauss was 78, his last opera may not have repeated the triumphs of his hey-day, but the conversation-piece on the value of words and music in opera is a worthy coda.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /media_461542336/Opera_Chronology.html (2998 words)

	PRODUCTIONS / DARDANUS / STORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Dardanus reveals that he is in love with Iphise, Isménor promises, as a priest of Dardanus' father Jupiter, to help and protect him.
		Dardanus is warned of the perils that may lie ahead, but Isménor gives him a cloak which enables him to appear as Isménor.
		Dardanus arrives with the sword given to him by Antenor who, realizing that Dardanus is the one who killed the monster and saved his life, concedes that Dardanus should have Iphise.
	www.pinchgutopera.com.au /productions/dardanus/story (566 words)

	Strong (background) - Theatricality, Public Space, Music and Language in Rousseau
		Thus, in the operas of Lully, the most important composer of the period, the music is as much declaimed as it is sung and the difference between song and recitatif is often had to determine.
		The advantage of Italian opera is that it is close to what had been attained by the Greek tragedians, not in terms of subject matter on which Lully was considerably closer to the ancients than were the Italians, but in terms of the relation of language to music.
		What makes this opera approved by people of taste is the perfect accord of words and music, the tight bond of the parts that make it up, the exact togetherness of the whole which makes this work the most unified of any I know in its style.
	www.focusing.org /apm_papers/strong.html (6854 words)

	Document
		Dardanus was Rameau's third excursion into tragedie-lyrique; he completed it in 1739 but it was not a success and so modifications were made for performances later in the year.
		Still unsatisfactory, Rameau was forced to look at the opera anew and, for a revival in 1744, no fewer than three acts (Three, Four and Five) were virtually composed afresh.
		The spectrum is vast, ranging from airy, lightly-scored Tambourins to the broad, sweeping gestures of the closing Chaconne—unquestionably amongst the composer's profoundest utterances.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jdpt/reviews/R/Ram-Dardanus-Gdn.htm (416 words)

	Dardanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the first act Iphise is in love with Dardanus, enemy of her father Teucer, who proposes her marriage to Antenor.
		Dardanus, in love with Iphise, is warned by the magician Ismenor, whose form he now assumes, advising Antenor and learning, before he reveals his true identity, of Iphise's love for him.
		Dardanus enters Teucer's palace and is welcomed as the killer of the monster and consequent husband of Iphise.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Dardanus.htm (197 words)

	Dardanus: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		...71 The flood of Ogyges and the vicissitudes of the Copaic Lake 71 The flood of Dardanus.
		DARDANUS dar d n s, in Greek mythology, founder of Troy; son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra.
		According to legend, the image was sent by Zeus to Dardanus, the founder of Troy, and it was believed that the city could not be taken while it possessed the Palladium.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/dardanus.jsp?l=D&p=1 (962 words)

	RameauEntertain
		The plot is a sort of prequel to the founding of ancient Troy by Dardanus, who initially loses battles and the woman he secretly loves but has the good fortune to have Jupiter as his father.
		The hero, Dardanus is a high tenor, Iphise, his beloved, is a high lyric mezzo while the three low males voices, two basses and a baritone, require an incredible range.
		A riskier dramatic anachronism was the Saint Sebastian stance given to Dardanus, as he sang the moving Lieux funestres tied to a pillar, stripped to the waist, with the illusion of arrows protruding from his body.
	www.chdirector.com /rameauentertain.htm (1149 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Rameau composed Dardanus in 1739 at the height of the war between the Lullistes and the Ramistes.
		The opera was almost universally trashed but still managed to run up 26 performances, due mostly to a thousand avid Ramistes who attended all of them.
		The opera was revived in 1744 and it was turned into something far more down-to-earth, textually speaking--in other words, much of the supernatural hoo-ha was eliminated.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=1672 (412 words)

	Gramophone - Gramofile - The world's best classical music magazine
		The opera sees Dardanus, son of Jupiter, in love with Iphise, the daughter of his enemy Teucer — a love which, though forbidden, is reciprocated.
		There is much use of the supernatural, something for which the opera was criticised in its day and which indeed prompted its revision; and there is also a sea-monster, whose appearances are derided in Graham Sadler’s booklet-note as ‘repeated and puerile’, but to my mind do not seem badly overused.
		The scene in which Antenor and Dardanus fight with the monster provides one of the more convincingly performed passages of dialogue on this recording, a significant point because ensemble acting is actually one of the least successful areas.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /gramofilereview.asp?reviewID=7073&mediaID=187440 (809 words)

	Wolf Trap Opera Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		When Dardanus reveals that he is in love with Iphise and is searching for her, Isménor promises, as a priest of Dardanus' father Jupiter, to help and protect him.
		Dardanus, who has managed to escape from his imprisonment, is visited by Vénus and her attendants as he sleeps.
		Dardanus arrives and reveals to the court his true identity.
	www.wolf-trap.org /opera/synopsis03d.html (410 words)

	A Survey of Recorded French Opera (1670-1770)
		Lully's operas were to profoundly shape the history of French opera, down to the late 19th century.
		Among the main characteristics were: a substantial and rich orchestral accompaniment, the inclusion of danced interludes throughout the opera, a standard structure of a Prologue followed by 5 acts, frequent dramatic and musical use of the chorus, libretti written in refined verse, subjects drawn from classical mythology.
		As near as one can tell, the typical audience of the Paris opera, besides the aristocrats and wealthy financiers who owned boxes, was largely made up of parliamentaries, law clerks and students, and professionals, the same crowd which was so active in the political struggles with the king's government.
	www.medieval.org /emfaq/velde/opera.htm (2820 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Dardanus@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau (libretto by C A L de La Brure), first produced at the Paris Opra, France, on 19 November 1739.
		In the plot, Iphise loves her father's enemy Dardanus, but Teucer wants his daughter to marry Antenor.
		Captured by Antenor, Dardanus later escapes and slays an avenging sea monster, saving Antenor.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100129645&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (164 words)

	THE BAROQUE OPERA BATTLEGROUND - New York Times
		And since Baroque operas can less feasibly be performed by modern opera houses than recorded in the studio, the tangible results of the controversy can best be heard on disks.
		This is Monteverdi's last surviving full-length opera, and it is no artificial spectacle, full of empty Baroque pomp: the intensity of the drama of the first grieving, then vengeful Penelope has a theatrical validity for any modern listener.
		This same opera is in the repertory of the New York City Opera, in a version by Mr.
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	Releases :: Metropolitan Opera’s Frederica von Stade at Moravian
		Described by the New York Times as "one of America's finest artists and singers," Frederica von Stade is in the midst of the third decade on an extraordinary career and continues to reign as one of the music world's most beloved figures.
		She began at the top, when she received a contract from Sir Rudolph Bing during the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and since her debut in 1970 she has sung nearly all of her great roles with that company.
		In 1983 she was honored with an award given at the White House by former president Ronald Reagan in recognition of her significant contribution to the arts.
	www.moravian.edu /news/releases/2001/002.htm (1081 words)

	It's the eternal triangle, if you don't count the beast - Arts - Entertainment
		This is Pinchgut Opera for you: no highbrow pointy-heads here, these guys are in opera for the fun of it.
		Pinchgut Opera do it their own way, determined to break down opera's fusty, predictable image.
		Dardanus is played by Glasgow-born tenor Paul Agnew, who has performed in several of Rameau's operas.
	www.smh.com.au /news/arts/dardanus/2005/11/27/1133026342731.html (1003 words)

	Rameau - Dardanus / Ainsley, Gens, Naouri, Delunsch, Courtis, Kozená, Les Musiciens du Louvre,...
		If there was any composer who could fit music to the special effects called for by the conventions of the French baroque tragédie lyrique, it was Jean-Philippe Rameau (patron saint of the late bloomers, who composed his first operatic masterpiece, Hippolyte et Aricie, at age 50).
		This is not the first recording of Dardanus, there was a 1977 recording in ERATO with a marvelous cast that included Frederica von Stade, Christiane Eda-Pierre and Jose van Dam, but it was incompetently conducted by Raymond Leppard with an inadequate modern-instrument orchestra.
		The finest singing on the recording is, appropriately, by the Dardanus, John Mark Ainsley, who takes himself completely seriously in the role - there is none of the tongue-in-cheek attitude that afflicts some singers in such parts, and he is equally credible as the conquering hero and the forlorn lover.
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	AP Worldstream: Dardanus, key opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, gets first U.S. staging@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Dardanus, key opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, gets first U.S. staging
		Dateline: WASHINGTON After 264 years, a key opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau _ "Dardanus" _ gets its first American staging Friday at the Barns of Wolf Trap in suburban Vienna, Virginia.
		There will be a Sunday matinee and another evening performance on Tuesday by the Wolf Trap Opera Company of young performers.
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	Richard Danielpour - Elegies
		Described by the New York Times as "one of America's finest artists and singers," Frederica von Stade remains at the peak of her extraordinary career and continues to be extolled as one of the music world's most beloved figures.
		She began at the top, when she received a contract from Sir Rudolf Bing during the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and since her debut in 1970 she has sung nearly all of her great roles with that company.
		She later returns to the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate Plácido Domingo's 60th birthday with a gala concert.
	www.sonyclassical.com /music/60850/frederica.html (1104 words)

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		Vancouver Opera Chorus conductor, pianist, and composer Leslie Uyeda reveals yet another talent with the debut of Grace Notes, at Music in the Morning Tuesday through next Friday.
	www.topix.net /arts/opera?p=5006 (1174 words)

	Rameau, Jean Philippe on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		He revolutionized music theory by his contention that harmony derives from the acoustical harmonics present in a vibrating string or tube.
		His first opera was Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), and it was followed by more than 30 stage works, including the dramatic ballet Les Indes galantes (1735) and his best opera, Castor et Pollux (1737).
		Rameau's career was marked by controversies; at first he was attacked for his Italianate departure from the classical style of Lully, and later he was criticized for his old-fashioned French style.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Rameau-J1.asp (371 words)

	Music History Resources
		Vivaldi rec'd 49 opera commissions from Venice, Florence, Verona, Rome, Vienna, and elsewhere b.
		Contemporaries whose operas were produced in Venice 1.
		Believed Rameau was subverting the old French opera tradition of Lully b.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean-Philippe Rameau
		Without denying the merits of Lully (1633-1687) and Couperin (1663-1733), the founders of the French opera, and even admitting that Rameau was not right in all the details of his theory, we must acknowledge that he opened up a new road, which was followed by all who came after him.
		His main principle, for the defence of which he had to sustain hard struggles, was that melody, far from being sufficient for a good piece of music, itself depends on the rules of harmony, so that the real guide of every composer is harmony, not melody.
		Only at the age of fifty did he begin to write for the stage, and in sixteen years (1733-1749) he composed about thirty operas and ballets, the best of which are: "Castor et Pollux", "Les Indes Galantes", "Dardanus" and "Zoroastre".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12637c.htm (448 words)

	Frederica von Stade
		Miss von Stade's career has taken her to the stages of the world's great opera houses and concert halls.
		Here too, her repertoire encompasses an expansive range, from the Italian "Arie antiche" to the songs of contemporary composers such as Dominick Argento, who compose specifically for her, from the classical style of Mozart and Haydn to the music of Broadway's greatest songs.
		She has made over three dozen recordings with many major labels, including complete operas, aria albums, symphonic works, solo recital programs, and popular crossover albums.
	www.lottelehmann.org /lehmann/llf/about/profiles/llf_advisoryProfile58.html (670 words)

	CD/DVD Reviews
		It is a tale of tug-of-war between rival lovers (Ainsley and Laurent Naouri) for Iphise (Veronique Gens), overseen by Venus (Mireille Delunsch).
		The period music orchestral playing is ever alert, lively or soothing and dreamy as required, masterminded by a specialist conductor, whose spectacularly successful Platée has been revived in Paris recently.
		Dance being an essential component of 18 C French opera, Dardanus has some thirty ballet movements, culminating in a final Chaconne which rounds it all off with a fine display of Rameau's resourceful orchestration.
	www.theoperacritic.com /Pages/Reviews/V2PGWCDDardanus.htm (368 words)

	CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z - Online Information article about CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z
		The Latin description given above is correct and quite unmistakable to any one who knows the primitive form of bagpipe; the illustrations must therefore represent theeffortofanartisttodepict an unknown instrument from a description.
		Bagpipes with drones abound on sculptured monuments and in miniatures of that century.
		Gerbert gives illustrations of the fanciful chorus from the Dardanus letter and of two other instruments of later date; one of these represents a musician playing the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHA_CHR/CHORUS_Gr_xopbs_Z.html (1380 words)

	Magdalena Kozena \| Tuesday Evening Concert Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		She sang the centenary performance of "Pelleas et Melisande" at the Opera Comique, Paris under Minkowski and most recently Cleopatra in "Giulio Cesare" under Minkowski.
		Recent engagements include Idamantes at the Glyndebourne and Salzburg Festivals (under Rattle), Cherubino for both the Bavarian State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (under Levine) and Dorabella under Rattle (Salzburg Easter Festival and in Berlin).
		Miss Kozená's forthcoming engagements include her debut with San Francisco Opera as Dorabella, Varvara ("Katja Kabanova") at the Metropolitan Opera and the title role in Cavalli's "Calisto" for the Bavarian State Opera.
	www.tecs.org /bios/magdalena.htm (681 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		That’s the offer that a Sydney opera company is making in a bid to attract new audiences to their forthcoming performance of Rameau’s Dardanus.
		I don’t think this has ever been done with opera anywhere in the world but we hope it will attract people who might be a bit uncertain about opera.’
		More recently, the national opera company, Opera Australia, was forced by the Australian Government’s Customer Claims Tribunal to refund ticket money when an audience member sued them over director Barrie Kosky’s provocative 1995 production of Verdi’s Nabucco.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2499&newssectionID=1 (469 words)

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