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80 relations: Accademia degli Arcadi, Achille in Sciro, Adriano in Siria, Alceste (Gluck), Alessandro nelle Indie (Pacini), Alessandro Scarlatti, Alexander the Great, Alto, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Sacchini, Antonio Salieri, Apostolo Zeno, Artaserse, Austria, Castrato, Catone in Utica, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Classical unities, Commedia dell'arte, D major, D minor, Da capo aria, Daniel Heartz, Demetrio (1773), Demofonte, Didone abbandonata, Domenico Cimarosa, Dramma per musica, Edward Joseph Dent, England, Ezio (Handel), Farinelli, Figured bass, French opera, French Revolution, George Frideric Handel, Germany, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Giuseppe Sarti, Hesperides, House of Habsburg, Il re pastore, Italian opera, Italy, Johann Adolph Hasse, John Warrack, Josef Mysliveček, Joseph Haydn, Key (music), ..., L'incoronazione di Poppea, L'Olimpiade, La clemenza di Tito, Leonardo Vinci, Libretto, Marianna Bulgarelli, Melodramma, Michael F. Robinson, Niccolò Jommelli, Nicola Porpora, Opera buffa, Orfeo ed Euridice, Paride ed Elena, Pietro Metastasio, Prima donna, Rage aria, Recitative, Ritornello, Saxony, Semiramide riconosciuta, Senesino, Serenade, Siroe, Soprano, Spain, Temistocle (J.C. Bach), The Musical Quarterly, Tommaso Traetta, Winton Dean, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Expand index (30 more) »
Accademia degli Arcadi
The Accademia degli Arcadi or Accademia dell'Arcadia, "Academy of Arcadia" or "Academy of the Arcadians", was an Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690.
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Achille in Sciro
Achille in Sciro is an opera seria by composer Domenico Sarro.
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Adriano in Siria
Adriano in Siria (Hadrian in Syria) is a libretto by Italian poet Metastasio first performed, with music by Antonio Caldara, in Vienna in 1732, and turned into an opera by at least 60 other composers during the next century.
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Alceste (Gluck)
Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767.
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Alessandro nelle Indie (Pacini)
Alessandro nelle Indie (En. Alexander in India) is an opera seria in two acts by Giovanni Pacini, with libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on Alessandro nell'Indie by Pietro Metastasio.
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Alessandro Scarlatti
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
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Alto
The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: altus), refers to the second highest part of a contrapuntal musical texture and is also applied to its associated vocal range, especially in choral music.
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Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara (1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer.
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Antonio Sacchini
Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini (14 June 17306 October 1786) was an Italian composer, most famous for his operas.
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Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher.
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Apostolo Zeno
Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1669 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.
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Artaserse
is the name of a number of Italian operas, all based on a text by Metastasio.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Castrato
A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati) is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.
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Catone in Utica
Catone in Utica is an opera libretto by Metastasio, that was originally written for Leonardo Vinci's 1728 opera.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (born on 2 July, baptized 4 July 1714As there is only a documentary record with Gluck's date of baptism, 4 July. According to his widow, he was born on 3 July, but nobody in the 18th century paid attention to the birthdate until Napoleon introduced it. A birth date was only known if the parents kept a diary. The authenticity of the 1785 document (published in the Allgemeinen Wiener Musik-Zeitung vom 6. April 1844) is disputed, by Robl. (Robl 2015, pp. 141–147).--> – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.
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Classical unities
The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.
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Commedia dell'arte
(comedy of the profession) was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italy, that was popular in Europe from the 16th through the 18th century.
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D major
D major (or the key of D) is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, sharp, G, A, B, and sharp.
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D minor
D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, flat, and C. Its key signature has one flat.
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Da capo aria
The da capo aria is a musical form for arias that was prevalent in the Baroque era.
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Daniel Heartz
Daniel Heartz is an American musicologist and Professor emeritus of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Demetrio (1773)
Demetrio is an eighteenth-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček.
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Demofonte
Demofonte (also Demofoonte; Il Demofoonte; Demofoonte, ré di Tracia; Démophon; Demophontes; or Dirce, L'usurpatore innocente.
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Didone abbandonata
Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio.
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Domenico Cimarosa
Domenico Cimarosa (17 December 1749, Aversa, Kingdom of Naples, now Province of Caserta – 11 January 1801, Venice) was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school.
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Dramma per musica
Dramma per musica (Italian, literally: drama for music, plural: drammi per musica) is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries.
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Edward Joseph Dent
Edward Joseph Dent, generally known by his initials as E. J. Dent (16 July 1876, Ribston, Yorkshire – 22 August 1957, London), was a British writer on music.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Ezio (Handel)
Ezio ("Aetius", HWV 29) is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Metastasio.
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Farinelli
Farinelli (24 January 170516 September 1782), was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.
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Figured bass
Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of musical notation in which numerals and symbols (often accidentals) indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) play in relation to the bass note that these numbers and symbols appear above or below.
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French opera
French opera is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Draghi (4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), often referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.
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Giovanni Francesco Busenello
Giovanni Francesco Busenello (24 September 1598 – 27 October 1659) was an Italian lawyer, librettist and poet of the 17th century.
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Giuseppe Sarti
Giuseppe Sarti (also Sardi; baptised 1 December 1729 – 28 July 1802) was an Italian opera composer.
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Hesperides
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (Ἑσπερίδες) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West".
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House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (traditionally spelled Hapsburg in English), also called House of Austria was one of the most influential and distinguished royal houses of Europe.
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Il re pastore
(The Shepherd King) is an opera, K. 208, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Metastasio, edited by Giambattista Varesco.
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Italian opera
Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse (born in Bergedorf, near Hamburg, baptised 25 March 1699 – died in Venice 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music.
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John Warrack
John Hamilton Warrack (born 1928, in London) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist.
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Josef Mysliveček
Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music.
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Joseph Haydn
(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.
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Key (music)
In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.
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L'incoronazione di Poppea
L'incoronazione di Poppea (SV 308, The Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice during the 1643 carnival season.
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L'Olimpiade
L'Olimpiade is an opera libretto in three acts by Metastasio originally written for an operatic setting by Antonio Caldara of 1733.
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La clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito (English: The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Metastasio.
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Leonardo Vinci
Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.
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Libretto
A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.
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Marianna Bulgarelli
Marianna Bulgarelli (c. 1684 – 26 February 1734), also known as Maria Anna Benti, was an Italian soprano of the 18th century.
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Melodramma
Melodramma (plural: melodrammi) is a 17th-century Italian term for a text to be set as an opera, or the opera itself.
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Michael F. Robinson
Michael Finlay Robinson (born 3 March 1933) is an English composer, musicologist, and academic.
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Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli (10 September 1714 – 25 August 1774) was a Neapolitan composer.
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Nicola Porpora
Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (or Niccolò Porpora) (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli.
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Opera buffa
Opera buffa ("comic opera", plural: opere buffe) is a genre of opera.
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Orfeo ed Euridice
(French:; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.
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Paride ed Elena
(Paris and Helen) is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
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Prima donna
In opera or commedia dell'arte, a prima donna (plural: prime donne; Italian for "first lady") is the leading female singer in the company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given.
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Rage aria
A Rage aria is an operatic aria expressing the rage of the character performing it.
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Recitative
Recitative (also known by its Italian name "recitativo") is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech.
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Ritornello
A ritornello (Italian; "little return") is a recurring passage in Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.
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Saxony
The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen; Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions).
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Semiramide riconosciuta
Semiramide riconosciuta (Semiramis recognized or revealed) is an opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782), written in 1729.
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Senesino
Senesino (Traditional Tuscan pronunciation) (Francesco Bernardi) (31 October 1686 – 27 November 1758) was a celebrated Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel.
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Serenade
In music, a serenade (also sometimes called serenata, from the Italian) is a musical composition and/or performance delivered in honor.
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Siroe
Siroe, re di Persia ("Siroes, King of Persia", HWV 24), is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel.
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Soprano
A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Temistocle (J.C. Bach)
Temistocle (Themistocles) is an opera seria in three acts by the German composer Johann Christian Bach.
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The Musical Quarterly
The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America.
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Tommaso Traetta
Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (30 March 1727 – 6 April 1779) was an Italian composer.
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Winton Dean
Winton Basil Dean (Birkenhead, 18 March 1916Hambledon, 19 December 2013) was an English musicologist of the 20th century, most famous for his research concerning the life and works—in particular the operas and oratorios—of George Frideric Handel, as detailed in his book Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques (1959).
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_seria
