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	Musical Forms - Opera
		Antecedents of opera indude the intermedio, but the earliest operas staged by the group of 'camerata' around patrons in Florence were courtly entertainments in the form of the pastorale.
		French opera, as seen in the tragedies lyriques of Lully, was essentially a court spectacle, predominantly on legendary or mythological themes, and in five acts, with big choral and ceremonial scenes reflecting the magnificence and social order of the age of Louis XIV.
		New operas continue to be composed; but the expense of staging them and the difficulty of reconciling advanced forms of musical utterance with the requirements of the traditional opera house and its audience have induced many composers to prefer chamber opera or other kinds of music theatre susceptible to concert, 'workshop' or experimental production.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for nose
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	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=nose&StartAt=21 (619 words)

	The Nose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nose is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol, subsequently made into an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich.
		Kovalyov's joy is cut short when he finds that he is unable to re-attach the nose, even with the help of the doctor.
		Peace also notes that some critics have interpreted the story as referring to a castration complex: the removal of Kovalyov's nose (and its developing a mind of its own) threaten both his chances of acquiring a position of power and of being a success with women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Nose (472 words)

	Composers Opera Styles Music Arts
		The opera would be a disaster were it not a star vehicle.
		Gendre?s opera (in its original 20-minute version) was premiered three years ago, as part of a night of pieces by fl composers, the Royal Opera would not...
		The New Grove Dictionary of Opera reports that its libretto by Metastasio had already been set by more than 40 other composers, and that Mozart was in such a...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Music/Styles/Opera/Composers (363 words)

	Opera Reviews
		The logistic challenges the work presents have discouraged the largest operatic institutions in the composer's home-country with the irony that it is pulled-off in a tour-de-force by the tiny Pokrovsky company in a studio-sized theatre.
		If opera productions were eligible for the award of Veteran of Soviet Labour, this 1974 production would now be due to pick-up an extra bar too, but it shows no signs of dating (and has been re-costumed recently).
		Appearing in the same season as the Helikon Opera's "Lady Macbeth of Mtensk", it was a chance for a reappraisal of both works.
	www.theoperacritic.com /Pages/Reviews/V2NMNose.htm (1073 words)

	Opera Design SL500 - Features - European Car Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Opera, with all its overtures of an educated audience, is solely concerned with the three-pointed star.
		It was always a torquey engine, but Opera's ECU has taken it to the next level--delivering its 360 horses at 5500 rpm, compared to the original model's 302 bhp at 5600 rpm.
		Of course, the Opera car can't soak up all the bumps quite so well, but that's the tradeoff with a lowered car, and this machine certainly felt refined enough to satisfy the kind of person that would want this kind of performance and cosmetic jewelry on their Merc.
	www.europeancarweb.com /features/0408ec_opera_design_sl500/index.html (1414 words)

	News
		Li focused on the use of breath and breathing techniques in Beijing Opera and how these techniques could be applied to western acting to facilitate a greater physical relaxation and fluidity of movement.
		The opera is a story of tragic love set in ancient China, during the Warring States period.
		At the conclusion of the opera Golden Falcon and his birds defeat the army of celestial gods in a specially choreographed dance-fight scene set to modern instrumentation.
	www.cmu.edu /cfa/drama/news/news/archive/chinese_opera.htm (1067 words)

	Chinese Culture - Chinese Opera
		The main features of Chinese Opera are a spectacle of song and dance which, together with the colorful costumes, make-up, acrobats, jesters, storytellers, acting, poetry and martial arts combine to present the Opera in a very attractive way.
		During the period of first emperor Kublai Khan in the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1279 to 1368) the opera had evolutional changes and the period was classified as the Golden age of the Classical Opera.
		Chinese opera has little in common with Western opera, and the screeching falsetto of the singers, the loud clacking of the clappers and the noisy banging of drums and cymbals can sound strange to Western ears.
	www.west-meet-east.com /opera.htm (273 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shostakovich's first opera, The Nose (1929), modeled on the expressionistic and atonal techniques of such Western composers as the German Paul Hindemith and the Austrian Alban Berg, was well received by the critics and public but was censored by Communist party officials as bourgeois and decadent.
		His next opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934; rev. as Katerina Ismailova, 1963), again received both popular and critical acclaim, but party publications condemned the opera as counterrevolutionary.
		first opera, The Nose (1929), modeled on the expressionistic and atonal techniques of such Western composers as.
	history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..sh106900.a#FWNE.fw..s... (370 words)

	Shostakovich's opera 'The Nose', enjoyed by David Wilkins
		Shostakovich's The Nose is, long before the confusions of the Cold War, a mystery and an enigma within the wrappings of sheer comic nonsense.
		It's an hilarious bit of vaudeville at the same time as being a clear indication of the path of pessimistic irony that was all he could follow and map for the remainder of his compositional life.
		The Opera Group's production seems to do everything it can to encourage the side-splitting comedy while always allowing the music to linger in the mind with the doubts and ambiguities of a story that's too ridiculous for words but never without a sniff (the audience are assumed not to have olfactory challenges) of the profound.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2006/05/nose1.htm (412 words)

	Beijing opera - the passion of an Emperor
		Of China's various operatic schools, the most famous is that which developed in her capital city, referred to simply as Beijing opera.
		For his eightieth birthday therefore, he invited opera troupes from all over the country to perform in the capital.
		Unlike Western opera, where roles are categorized by voice, this is done in Beijing opera according to the characters' gender, age, social status, rank and disposition.
	www.imperialtours.net /beijing_opera.htm (462 words)

	Best of Hong Kong - Chinese Opera
		For example, in Beijing opera, a white patch on the nose suggests a comical character of low rank, while a fully white face shows an evil and treacherous character and a red face signifies a courageous but dim-witted man. Black faced actors are average people.
		Chinese opera performers wear heavy makeup, which is a cosmetic style derived from the use of painted masks in older operatic forms.
		Traditional opera performances in Hong Kong are referred to as sunkung opera (god's eulogy opera), as they are performed to celebrate festivals or commemorate birthdays of numerous gods.
	www.marimari.com /content/hong_kong/best_of/chinese_opera/main.html (735 words)

	Metroland Online - Classical
		The Nose is pretending to be praying in church, but he is actually hitting on babes, who are quite googly over his tumescent protuberance.
		That is, as an opera singer portraying an actor who portrays a wealthy nobleman, who returns at the final curtain in his initial guise as the now-bloodied Braxton.
		Nevertheless, the spectacle of two tortured poets beloved by the village’s “20 lovesick maidens,” scattering poesy to their adorers remains risible, especially when contrasted with the officers of dragoon guards who used to be the town’s romantic cynosures.
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol_27_no32/classical.html (1699 words)

	Chinese Beijing Peking Opera
		It is generally accepted that Beijing opera gradually came into being after 1790 when the famous four Anhui opera troupes came to Beijing.
		Beijing opera underwent fast development during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and the notorious Empress Dowager Cixi under the imperial patron, and eventually became more accessible to the common people.
		It is a harmonious combination of Grand Opera, Ballet and acrobatic display, consisting of dancing, dialogue, monologue, acrobatic combat and mime.
	asiarecipe.com /chiopera.html (794 words)

	The Nose @ Coliseum, London: opera review
		Of all Shostakovich's compositions, The Nose is surely the closest he came to committing outright musical rebellion.
		He also ensures that the entire opera seems to pass without repetition of ideas, with little or no thematic development.
		Vivid lighting and various incendiary effects ensure the last ounce of madness is wrung from the story, and with Gergiev at the helm the results are never less than thrilling.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/kirov-nose_0706.htm (588 words)

	Review of 2005: London Opera and Classical Concerts : feature (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Opera Holland Park consolidated their growing reputation with an engaging production of Eugene Onegin and a welcome opportunity to hear the rarely performed Andrea Chénier by Giordano.
		Opera Rara's atmospheric concert performance of Donizetti's Il diluvio universale was marred by the sad news of the death of Patric Schmid, the company's founder, just before the curtain went up.
		His contribution to the revival of bel canto operas brought a number of forgotten or lost masterpieces back to life, and when the recordings of Il diluvio and Dom Sébastien (seen at the Royal Opera in September) are released, they will be a fitting memorial to his lifelong achievements.
	www.musicomh.com.cob-web.org:8888 /comment/opera-2005_1205.htm (1079 words)

	Chicago Opera Theater - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chicago Opera Theater, under new general director Brian Dickie, is preparing to remedy the situation.
		After selling out the Athenaeum Theater in July for Philip Glass' 1984 opera, "Akhnaten," they are going back almost four centuries to opera's birth, to Monteverdi's "Orfeo." Presented in 1607, it is generally considered to be the first surviving work in which the fledgling artform of opera really crystallized.
		But "Orfeo" is her first "official" opera, and she is relishing telling the story within the confines of Monteverdi's libretto and music.
	www.chicagooperatheater.org /news/news-reviews-orfeo.shtml (1210 words)

	Wired News: Opera Thumbs Nose at Big Browsers
		Opera Software's Opera browser is a throwback to the days before the jumbo applications and bitter rivalry of the Big Two dominated the browser scene.
		Opera's roots extend to 1994, when von Tetzchner and other engineers developed the program for internal use at their former employer, Telenor, a Norwegian telecom company.
		Opera's von Tetzchner said that by paying for a full version, Opera's users are sending Netscape and Microsoft a hint about their free, or nearly free, products.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,9474,00.html (1012 words)

	ollapodrida: The Nose
		The Nose is the first opera by Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) if one ignores an attempt at opera from his student’s days, which was destroyed.
		He throws the nose into the Neva, but a district constable cathves him in the act and demands to know what he has done.
		Kovalyov does indeed encounter his nose in the uniform of the State Councilor, he begs it to return to his face, but it refuses and disappears.
	ollapodrida.net /blog/2005/03/nose.php (313 words)

	Alexander Grove, Tenor - Reviews
		The Nose itself was quite terrifyingly, and literally, man-sized in a striking performance by tenor Alexander Grove...
		When he goes to the cathedral and finds his disembodied nose (grown to a man's height and hilariously bedecked as a senior government official with pink feathers in his hat) snogging with the Icon figure (Alexander Grove and Sinead Campbell) he is, quite understandably, confused.
		The sight of a Nose, dressed for the court of Louis 14th, brandishing a pistol in aid of a working-class lady's honour, standing on the ceremony of his title and position but doomed to plebian mugging is something beyond the imagination of Monty Python.
	homepage.mac.com /alexander.grove/performance/reviews.htm (1173 words)

	Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The initial success of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, based on Leskov, and later revised as Katerina Ismailova, was followed by official condemnation, emanating apparently from Stalin himself.
		He occupies a significant position in the 20th century as a symphonist and as a composer of chamber music, writing in a style that is sometimes spare in texture but always accessible, couched as it is in an extension of traditional tonal musical language.
		Katerina Ismailova remains the principal opera of Shostakovich, with the early opera The Nose, based on Gogol, and the ballet The Golden Age.
	www.naxos.com /composer/shostako.htm (493 words)

	Opera / Ballet - The Nose at the Coliseum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shostakovich’s satirical, comic opera, composed when he was only 25, is based on the short story by Gogol.
		Major Kovalev wakes one morning to find his nose has disappeared from his face.
		The Nose assumes an independent identity, rampaging through St Petersburg, evading capture by its owner and causing chaos and consternation amongst the citizens.
	www.albemarle-london.com /OperaBalletShowInfo.php?Show_No=9135 (285 words)

	The Nose
		At least three people have told me already that when you shaved them, you damaged their noses in such a way that there was hardly any left on their faces.
		Kovalev follows the Nose into the cathedral; he is hiding his noseless face in a handkerchief.
		As for your nose, I advise you to place it in a flask of alcohol, or even better, to add a couple of spoonfuls of very strong vodka and lukewarm vinegar.
	www.mrichter.com /opera/files/nose.htm (5321 words)

	Chinese Opera, China Opera: Travel China Guide.com
		Chinese opera together with Greece tragic-comedy and Indian Sanskrit Opera are the three oldest dramatic art forms in the world.
		Qinqiang opera from Shaanxi, known for its loudness and wildness, and Yu opera, Yue opera, and Huangmei Opera are all very enjoyable.
		Beijing Opera, the best-known Chinese opera style, was formed from the mingling of these regional styles.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/arts/chinese-opera.htm (583 words)

	BBC - Southern Counties - Features - The Nose
		Comic opera came to the Festival - with the tale of The Nose in which a nose leaves is woner and sets off on a journey of its own.
		Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, the opera follows the absurd and darkly humorous tale of a Russian army major, Kavalyov, who awakes one morning and finds that his nose has completely disappeared from his face.
		In his shock and dismay he sets off to find his missing part, only to discover that the rebellious nose is pompously parading around the local cathedral dressed flamboyantly as a local state councilor.
	www.bbc.co.uk /southerncounties/content/articles/2006/05/22/review_the_nose_feature.shtml (353 words)

	Beijing Opera
		Among the hundreds of forms of opera throughout China, Beijing Opera exerts the greatest influence, and is therefore regarded as a national art form.
		This kind of opera is so popular among the Chinese, especially seniors, that a Beijing Opera Month has been declared.
		For the opera connoisseur it is the execution of these movements that mark the distinction of greatness for the actor.
	www.einaudi.cornell.edu /curriculum/monkey/opera/index.asp (1385 words)

	Russian Music, Shostakovich Festival - JRL 4-27-04
		The Festival’s first performance of the Shostakovich opera The Nose will be given on July 28.
		Francesca Zambello one of opera’s most widely acclaimed directors has recruited singers she has worked with in Russia and elsewhere in Europe for this thrilling new adventure.
		In this hilarious comic opera, a petty official awakens one morning to find that his nose has disappeared from his face and is parading around town in the uniform of a more senior official.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/8184-15.cfm (967 words)

	classical music - andante - shostakovich's running gag - the nose, performed by gergiev and the kirov/mariinsky
		When Shostakovich's fledgling opera The Nose was first previewed "in concert" back in 1929, the 23-year-old composer predicted that his action-packed satire would run at only "10 per cent of its potential".
		Valery Gergiev's Kirov Opera managed a significant advance on that estimate when it dragged the piece kicking and screaming into the Barbican last weekend.
		A nose leaves the face of a petty official and struts around St. Petersburg, masquerading as a state councillor.
	andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25261&highlight=1&...&lstKeywords= (659 words)

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