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	Operas by Famous Composers
		Mozart Opera List -- Complete list of Mozart operas including Idomeneo, King of Crete and Cosi fan tutte.
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		Whether you prefer to attend a concert performance in person, listen to an audio cd or watch your favorite orchestra or opera company on dvd, a knowledge of the composer and facts and information about the provenance of various pieces enhances the experience.
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	Top Operas List
		The table below lists the 12 most famous operas of all time, in chronological order, based upon my impartial judgment (Ha!).
		I have searched the internet high and low for a "short list" of the most famous operas, to no avail.
		This Vaughns 1-Pagers Most Famous Operas Chart web page was updated on 2007-08-25.
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	List of famous operas - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This list comprises the standard operatic repertory, arranged alphabetically by composer followed by city and date of first staged performance.
		Skirmishing about any accepted canon tends to be most intense around the periphery; please do not add an opera to this list unless it has had a significant performance history.
		These lists are not complete: complete lists of composers' operas are to be found in the composers' individual entries (linked), and in Category:Operas.
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	Talk:List of famous operas/from Talk:Famous Operas - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Europe they are mostly known by their original name, and opera eminently speaks italian.
		But this way you would have Gershwin listed only as a "musical" composer, or perhaps as a jazz standards producer, which is not, or not only.
		Therefore we should refer to single works and have them listed in their own genre, if they might belong to only one.
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	List of famous operas: Encyclopedia II - List of famous operas - Standard operatic repertory
		List of famous operas - Standard operatic repertory: Encyclopedia II - List of famous operas - Standard operatic repertory
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	Opera
		Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the dialogue and plot-driving passages often sung in a non-melodic style characteristic of opera, and aria, during which the movement of the plot often stops and the music and the singers focus on one topic using full voice.
		The bel canto opera movement flourished in the early 19th century and is exemplified by the operas of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti.
		Historically the most famous opera in the French grand opera tradition is probably Gounod's Faust, particularly in the United States where it was a favorite at the Met for the better half of the 20th century.
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	Opera - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For centuries, Italian opera was the standard form of opera, and many operas were written in Italian even though their composers spoke primarily English or German.
		The operas of Mozart are an example, although he also wrote an opera in German, The Magic Flute (a type of opera with spoken dialogs known as a singspiel in German).
		The evolution of opera reached its height in the 19th century, first in the age of Bel Canto (literally beautiful singing) with the operas of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, later with the greatest opera composers of the century, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi.
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	Floridian: Operas for a new century
		The three new operas all took place during the opening week of the sixth annual summer festival at Lincoln Center, the performing arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side that is home to the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera and New York City Ballet the rest of the year.
		In the opera, staged by choreographer Trisha Brown, the drama was depicted in starkly abstract fashion.
		Opera has always been the most passionate art form, and the great opera of ideas has yet to be written.
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		Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content or primary entertainment is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the lyrics.
		Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the dialogue and plot-driving passages often sung in a non-melodic style characteristic of opera, and aria, during which the movement of the plot often pauses, with the music becoming more melodic in character and the singer focusing on one or more topics or emotional affects.
		All types of singing in opera are accompanied by musical instruments, though until the late 17th century generally, and persisting until even later in some regions, recitative was accompanied by only the continuo group (harpsichord and 'cello or bassoon).
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	opera
		Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content or primary entertainment is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the lyrics.
		Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the dialogue and plot-driving passages often sung in a non-melodic style characteristic of opera, and aria, during which the movement of the plot often pauses, with the music becoming more melodic in character and the singer focusing on one or more topics or emotional affects.
		Opera was imported into both countries before the middle of the 17th century, where it fused with the local incipient genres.
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	Opera : Exploring Essential Information, Data and Explanation.
		Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the dialogue and plot-driving passages often sung in a non-melodic style characteristic of opera, and
		The bel canto opera movement flourished in the early 19th century and is exemplified by the operas of Rossini,
		Verdi's operas resonated with the growing spirit of Italian nationalism in the post-Napoleonic era, and he quickly became an icon of the nationalist movement (although his own politics were perhaps not quite so radical).
	www.llpoh.org /Art_Revisited/Opera.html (1655 words)

	The Business & Professional / Arts / General / Opera website page. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You will find a list of famous operas with general related information at this website.
		There is a list of links to opera companies here with some opera houses, theatres and festivals where opera is performed.
		At this website you can find a list of opera resources on the World Wide Web, which are sorted by type.
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		Personal papers, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of one of the leading American opera singers of the first decades of the twentieth century, representing her stage, screen, and public service careers.
		Nearly two thousand photographs of opera singers, dating from the late nineteenth century to the present; many are inscribed to Mr.
		The music firm's rental score collection of nearly seven thousand manuscript and printed scores for operas and operettas dating from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
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	Emanuel (Il05) - Speeches and Statements - Emanuel Honors Paderewski Symphony Orchestra
		“Considered the father of Polish opera, Moniuszko was born in the spring of 1819 to a patriotic family of Polish landowners living on the eastern edge of partitioned Poland.
		One of his most famous operas is Straszny Dwor, or The Haunted Manor.
		The comic opera is claimed as Poland’s national opera, as it encompasses different levels of society, and it has a vitality that speaks to everyone.
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	Opera Composers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For composers listed in the main index there are either:
		The index is under construction; it currently contains entries for more than 3500 opera composers and over 20,000 operas.
		This list provides links to individual OperaGlass pages devoted to some of the most famous and popular opera composers.
	opera.stanford.edu /composers (113 words)

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	opera
		All types of singing in opera are accompanied by musical instruments, though until the late 18th century generally, and persisting until even later in some regions, recitative was accompanied by only the continuo group (harpsichord and 'cello or bassoon).
		During the period when composers often used both methods of recitative accompaniment in the same opera, the continuo-only practice was referred to as "secco" (dry) recitative, while orchestral-accompanied recitative was called "accompagnato" or "stromentato." Some genres of opera use spoken dialogue accompanied or unaccompanied by an orchestra rather than recitative.
		canon of operas, an opera repertory which is reflected in a "List of famous operas," for example, is a late entry in the sociology of opera.
	www.dirpedia.com /opera.html (4226 words)

	Operas: Book & Music Lists, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
		Essays on the genesis of the opera, the structure of the libretto and aspects of the work's reception are featured along with a brief study of Puccini's working methods as seen through the autograph score.
		Another study of the opera that includes a chronology its evolution and places it in the larger framework of German opera of the time.
		A fresh and engaging chronological examination of Verdi's operas, the chapter on La Traviata reexamines the original Dumas "memoir" and its dramatic adaptation by Piave and Verdi.
	www.clpgh.org /subject/music/lists/operas.html (2793 words)

	Alibris: Operas
		Written by the associate editor of Opera News magazine, the volume includes the complete plots of 150 different operas, biographical information on all of the 72 composers represented, easy access to the stories through both a table of...
		A renowned music scholar narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries by taking readers behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas.
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		He was immensely prolific in all musical genres; only his operas were not successful.
		Schubert was not a concert performer and most of his works were written for intimate gatherings which were later called "Schubertiads." Schubert's long list of accomplishments includes more than 300 sonatas for trios, quartets, and quintets; over 600 "lieder songs; and 9 symphonies.
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	Classical composer biographies
		Of course, one of the most famous things about Beethoven as a person was his deafness.
		Another composer who was famous as something of a child prodigy, Mendelssohn didn’t manage to achieve the fame of composers such as Mozart or
		The former is quite famous, and I think it may have been a TV theme at some point, though I couldn’t say what to.
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	Virginia Opera: Current Operas: Tales of Hoffmann
		Arriving in the tavern after her performance, the opera singer Stella, finding Hoffmann passed out on the floor, leaves instead on the arm of the triumphant Lindorf.
		His final opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, was more serious than his other works and may have reflected the eternal wish of the clown to be taken seriously.
		Though the opera has become one of the most popular in the world, Offenbach never saw it performed, as it was still unfinished at his death in 1880.
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		The operas performed at the Casa are fully staged orchestra and chorus.
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