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Explain how Romantic Period opera differs from Classical Period opera in the distinctions between recitative and aria and the use of the orchestra. Analyze Verdi’s melodic gift and his combination of comedy and tragedy in scenes from Act III of Rigoletto. Compare and contrast the operatic styles of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.
Journey through the first half of opera’s third historic “phase”: the Romantic era. Learn about the cultural, economic, and political upheaval that inspired opera’s emotional U-turn and get to know some familiar works in the canon. Discover some of the more recognizable features of Romantic art.
It combines audience, vocal training histories, and performance conventions to show that audiences, performers and composers constructed the gender of operatic characters independently of the biological sex of the performers.
Discover how cultural tastes and traditions further divided opera along national lines. Meet two game-changing composers who flipped the operatic script. Travel to some of opera’s late Romantic strongholds, including Russia and Czechoslovakia. Listen to some of opera’s most enduringly popular tunes. Phew. How’re we doing, operagoers?
Modern opera has also seen a renewed interest in works by women and composers of color, whose voices were often marginalized in the past. Composers such as Judith Weir, Jennifer Higdon, and Tan Dun have created innovative and compelling operas that challenge traditional norms and offer new perspectives on the art form.
8 lut 2023 · One the best examples of German romanticism and its essential goal at concretely defining what makes one’s national culture inherently great (or even superior) without imperial influence was the composer Richard Wagner. His four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen demonstrates how Romanticism was exploited in the defining of the ideal image ...
8 gru 2022 · The invention of opera not only introduced musical, dramatic, and aesthetic innovations, but it also prompted unexpected changes in gender roles and social relationships, in particular the appearance of the first women to sing on the operatic stage as professionals and the rise of the castrato.
