Table of Contents
288 relations: A major, ABC Music, Adolf Dallapozza, Agamemnon, Agnes Baltsa, Alceste (Gluck), Alessandra Marc, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Alfred Poell, Alice Coote, Alto, André Campra, Anja Harteros, Anne Pashley, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anneliese Rothenberger, Annette Dasch, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Antoine Danchet, Anton Raaff, Antony Walker (conductor), Argos, Peloponnese, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Ashgate Publishing, B-flat major, Barbara Frittoli, Barbara Hendricks, Bass (voice type), Basso continuo, Bassoon, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Bernard Haitink, Bernarda Fink, Birgit Nilsson, Boris Goldovsky, Brass instrument, Bruce Alan Brown, Camilla Tilling, Camille Maurane, Cantillation (ensemble), Carol Vaness, Castrato, Cecilia Bartoli, Cello, Chaconne, Charles Mackerras, ... Expand index (238 more) »
- 1781 operas
- Cultural depictions of the Trojan War
- Operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Operas set in ancient Greece
- Operas set in mythological places
A major
A major (or the key of A) is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, sharp, D, E, sharp, and sharp.
ABC Music
ABC Music is Australia's largest independent record label.
Adolf Dallapozza
Adolf Dallapozza (born 14 March 1940 in Bolzano) is an Austrian tenor in opera, operetta and musical theatre He worked for more than 40 years at the Vienna Volksoper.
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Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War.
Agnes Baltsa
Agni Baltsa (Aγνή Mπάλτσα; also known as Agnes Baltsa; born 19 November 1944) is a leading Greek mezzo-soprano singer.
Alceste (Gluck)
Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. Idomeneo and Alceste (Gluck) are Italian-language operas.
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Alessandra Marc
Alessandra Marc, born Judith Borden (born July 29, 1957) is an American dramatic soprano who has appeared at many of the world's opera houses and orchestras.
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Alexandrina Pendatchanska
Alexandrina Pendatchanska (sometimes written as Alexandrina Pendachanska) (Александрина Пендачанска) (born 24 September 1970) is a Bulgarian operatic soprano.
See Idomeneo and Alexandrina Pendatchanska
Alfred Poell
Alfred Poell (18 March 1900 – 30 January 1968) was an Austrian operatic baritone.
Alice Coote
Alice Coote OBE (born 10 May 1968) is a British mezzo-soprano.
Alto
The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: altus), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range.
André Campra
André Campra (baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several tragédies en musique and opéra-ballets that were extremely well received.
Anja Harteros
Anja Harteros (born 23 July 1972) is a German soprano.
See Idomeneo and Anja Harteros
Anne Pashley
Anne Pashley (5 June 1935 – 7 October 2016) was a British track and field sprinter, who represented Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano.
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Anneliese Rothenberger
Anneliese Rothenberger (19 June 192424 May 2010) was a German operatic soprano who had an active international performance career which spanned from 1942 to 1983.
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Annette Dasch
Annette Dasch (born 24 March 1976) is a German soprano.
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Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (5 November 1940 – 21 July 2010) was an English operatic tenor.
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Antoine Danchet
Antoine Danchet (7 September 1671 – 21 February 1748) was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet.
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Anton Raaff
Anton Raaff (6 May 1714 – 28 May 1797) was a German tenor from Gelsdorf near Bonn.
Antony Walker (conductor)
Antony Walker is an Australian conductor who currently resides in Washington, D.C. He has held the positions of musical director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Chorus Master and staff conductor of Welsh National Opera, and is currently artistic director and Conductor of Washington Concert Opera and music director of Pittsburgh Opera.
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Argos, Peloponnese
Argos (Άργος; Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe.
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Arnold Schoenberg Choir
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir (Arnold Schoenberg Chor) is a Viennese/Austrian choir which was founded 1972 by Erwin Ortner, who is still its artistic director.
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Ashgate Publishing
Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).
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B-flat major
B-flat major is a major scale based on flat, with pitches B, C, D, flat, F, G, and A. Its key signature has two flats.
Barbara Frittoli
Barbara Frittoli (born 19 April 1967) is an Italian operatic soprano, specializing in operas by Verdi and Mozart.
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Barbara Hendricks
Barbara Hendricks (born November 20, 1948) is an American operatic soprano and concert singer.
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Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.
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Basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.
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Bassoon
The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, BRSO) is a German radio orchestra.
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Bavarian State Opera
The Bavarian State Opera is a German opera company based in Munich.
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BBC Symphony Chorus
The BBC Symphony Chorus is a British amateur chorus based in London.
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.
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Bernard Haitink
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (4 March 1929 – 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist.
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Bernarda Fink
Bernarda Fink (born 29 August 1955) is an Argentine-Slovenian mezzo-soprano.
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Birgit Nilsson
Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a Swedish dramatic soprano.
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Boris Goldovsky
Boris Goldovsky (Борис Анисимович Голдовский; June 7, 1908 - February 15, 2001) was a Russian Empire-born conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States.
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Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
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Bruce Alan Brown
Bruce Alan Brown is a professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music Los Angeles, California.
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Camilla Tilling
Camilla Viktoria Rydh (born 1971), best known as Camilla Tilling, is a Swedish soprano in opera and concert.
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Camille Maurane
Camille Maurane (November 29, 1911 – January 21, 2010), born Camille Moreau, was a French baryton-martin singer.
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Cantillation (ensemble)
Cantillation is an Australian vocal ensemble founded in 2001 by Antony Walker and Alison Johnston.
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Carol Vaness
Carol Theresa Vaness (born July 27, 1952) is an American lirico-spinto soprano and university professor.
Castrato
A castrato (Italian;: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.
Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli OMRI (born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist.
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Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
Chaconne
A chaconne (chacona; ciaccona; earlier English: chacony) is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offers a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention.
Charles Mackerras
Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (1925 2010) was an Australian conductor.
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Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
Charles Theodore (Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) was a German nobleman of the Sulzbach branch of the House of Wittelsbach.
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Christian Cannabich
Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (28 December 1731 (bapt.) – 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
Coda (music)
In music, a coda (tail; plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.
Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.
Concentus Musicus Wien
Concentus Musicus Wien (CMW) is an Austrian baroque music ensemble based in Vienna.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Cuvilliés Theatre
The Cuvilliés Theatre (Cuvilliés-Theater) or Old Residence Theatre (Altes Residenztheater) is the former court theatre of the Residenz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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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.
D minor
D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. Its key signature has one flat.
Daniel Harding
Daniel John Harding (born 31 August 1975) is a British conductor.
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Daniel Heartz
Daniel Heartz (1928–2019) was an American musicologist and professor emeritus of music at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Delores Ziegler
Delores Ziegler (born September 4, 1951) is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active international performance career since the late 1970s.
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Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon (DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram.
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Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin.
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Development (music)
In music, development is a process by which a musical idea is transformed and restated in the course of a composition.
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Deyan Vatchkov
Deyan Vatchkov (Деян Вачков; born April 8, 1979) is a Bulgarian bass opera singer.
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Die ägyptische Helena
Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen), Op. 75, is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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Dieter Dorn
Dieter Dorn (born 31 October 1935 in Leipzig) is a German theatre director, also for the opera, the manager of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1983 to 2001 and now manager of the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel.
Diplomatics
Diplomatics (in American English, and in most anglophone countries), or diplomatic (in British English), is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents: especially, historical documents.
Divertissement
Divertissement (from the French 'diversion' or 'amusement') is used, in a similar sense to the Italian 'divertimento', for a light piece of music for a small group of players, however the French term has additional meanings.
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Dominant (music)
In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale.
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Dorothea Wendling
(Maria) Dorothea Wendling, née Spurni (21 March 1736 – 20 August 1811) was a German soprano.
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E-flat major
E-flat major (or the key of E-flat) is a major scale based on flat, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, flat, flat, C, and D. Its key signature has three flats.
Eberhard Waechter
Eberhard Freiherr von Waechter (9 July 1929 – 29 March 1992) was an Austrian lyric baritone (categorized as a Kavalierbariton in the German Vocal Fach System), celebrated for his performances in the operas of Mozart, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.
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Edda Moser
Edda Moser (born 27 October 1938) is a German operatic soprano.
Edinburgh International Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August.
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Edita Gruberová
Edita Gruberová (23 December 1946 – 18 October 2021) was a Slovak coloratura soprano.
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Edith Mathis
Edith Mathis (born 11 February 1938) is a Swiss soprano and a leading exponent of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart worldwide.
Electra
Electra, also spelt Elektra (amber), is one of the most popular mythological characters in tragedies.
Eleonora Buratto
Eleonora Buratto (born 1982) is an Italian soprano opera singer.
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Elisabeth Wendling
Elisabeth ("Lisl") Augusta Wendling, (née Sarselli; 20 February 1746 (baptised) – 10 January 1786) was a German soprano, for whom Mozart wrote the role of Electra in his opera Idomeneo, re di Creta.
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Elza van den Heever
Elza van den Heever (born 1979) is a South African soprano in opera and concert, who began her career as a mezzo-soprano.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
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English Baroque Soloists
The English Baroque Soloists is a chamber orchestra playing on period instruments, formed in 1978 by English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
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English Opera Group
The English Opera Group was a small company of British musicians formed in 1947 by the composer Benjamin Britten (along with John Piper, Eric Crozier and Anne Wood) for the purpose of presenting his and other, primarily British, composers' operatic works.
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Eric Cutler
Eric Cutler is an American tenor notable for his performances of bel canto repertoire and Mozart operas in particular.
Erinyes
The Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), also known as the Eumenides (commonly known in English as the Furies), are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876 – January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher.
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Eva Mei
Eva Mei (born 1967) is an Italian coloratura soprano.
Exposition (music)
In musical form and analysis, exposition is the initial presentation of the thematic material of a musical composition, movement, or section.
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Felicity Palmer
Dame Felicity Joan Palmer, (born 6 April 1944), is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor.
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Fiona Campbell (mezzo-soprano)
Fiona Campbell is an Australian operatic mezzo-soprano.
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Fortepiano
A fortepiano, sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano.
Francesco Meli
Francesco Meli (born 15 May 1980 is an Italian operatic tenor particularly associated with the romantic repertoire.
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Francisco Araiza
José Francisco Araiza Andrade (born 4 October 1950) is a Mexican operatic tenor and lied singer who has sung as soloist in leading concert halls and in leading tenor operatic roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America during the course of a lengthy career.
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Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade (born 1 June 1945) is a semi-retired American classical singer.
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Freiburger Barockorchester
Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) is a German Baroque orchestra founded in 1987, with the mission statement: "to enliven the world of Baroque music with new sounds".
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Fritz Busch
Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 – 14 September 1951) was a German conductor.
G minor
G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, flat, C, D, Eflat, and F. Its key signature has two flats.
Gavotte
The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source.
George Shirley
George Irving Shirley (born April 18, 1934) is an American operatic tenor, and was the first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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Gertrude Grob-Prandl
Gertrude Grob-Prandl (11 November 191716 May 1995) was an Austrian Wagnerian soprano.
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Giambattista Varesco
Father Giambattista Varesco (Trento, 26 November 1735 – Salzburg, 25 August 1805) was a chaplain, musician, poet and (most famously) librettist to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Giovanni Valesi
Giovanni Valesi (born Johann Evangelist Wallishauser, Walleshauser or Wellesberger; pseudonym also spelled Walesi or Vallesi) (28 April 1735, Hattenhofen – 10 January 1816, Munich) was a German tenor.
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Glasgow Grand Opera Society
The Glasgow Grand Opera Society, known by its members and audiences alike as simply 'The Grand', was an opera company based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Glyndebourne (record label)
The Glyndebourne Label is a UK-based record label founded in 2006 to release live recordings of Glyndebourne Festival Opera performances.
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
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Grace Jane Wallace
Grace Jane Wallace, Lady Wallace (née Stein formerly Lady Don; 1804 – 13 March 1878) was a Scottish author.
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Gundula Janowitz
Gundula Janowitz (born 2 August 1937) by Alan Blyth, Grove Music Online is an Austrian lyric soprano singer of operas, oratorios, lieder, and concerts.
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Gustave Cloëz
Gustave Cloëz (3 August 1890 – 15 March 1970)Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.
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Guy de Mey
Guy de Mey (born Hamme, 4 August 1955) is a Belgian operatic tenor from Sint-Niklaas.
Hans Neuenfels
Hans Neuenfels (31 May 1941 – 6 February 2022) was a German writer, poet, film producer, librettist, theatre director, opera director and theatre manager.
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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (5 May 190028 May 1973) was a German conductor and composer.
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Harald Heckmann
Harald Heckmann (6 December 1924 – 5 November 2023) was a German musicologist who focused on source documentation, particularly supported by electronic data processing, and music iconography.
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Harmonia Mundi
Harmonia Mundi is an independent record label that specializes in classical music, jazz, and world music (on the World Village label).
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Harpsichord
A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.
Heather Harper
Heather Mary Harper (8 May 1930 – 22 April 2019) was a Northern Irish operatic soprano.
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Heidi Grant Murphy
Heidi Grant Murphy (born 1965) is an American operatic soprano and academic voice teacher.
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Herbert Handt
Herbert John Handt (May 26, 1926 – October 2, 2023) was an American operatic tenor and later conductor, particularly known for his conducting and editions of rarely performed Italian scores.
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Hermann Winkler (tenor)
Hermann Winkler (3 March 1924 – 21 January 2009) was a German operatic tenor.
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Hildegard Behrens
Hildegard Behrens (9 February 1937 – 18 August 2009) was a German operatic soprano with a wide repertoire including Wagner, Weber, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg roles.
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Hildegard Hillebrecht
Hildegard Hillebrecht (26 November 1925 – 7 October 2018) was a German operatic soprano.
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Hillevi Martinpelto
Hillevi Martinpelto (born 9 January 1958 in Älvdalen) is a Swedish lyric soprano.
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Ian Bostridge
Ian Charles Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer.
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Idoménée
Idoménée (English: Idomeneus) is an opera by the French composer André Campra.
Idomeneo (film)
Idomeneo is a 181-minute television film of the Metropolitan Opera's first staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1781 opera Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante, produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and performed by a cast headed by John Alexander, Hildegard Behrens, Ileana Cotrubaș, Luciano Pavarotti and Frederica von Stade under the direction of James Levine.
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Idomeneus of Crete
In Greek mythology, Idomeneus (Ἰδομενεύς) was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships.
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Ileana Cotrubaș
Ileana Cotrubaș (born 9 June 1939) is a Romanian operatic soprano whose career spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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Iphigénie en Aulide
Iphigénie en Aulide (Iphigeneia in Aulis) is an opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage.
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Iphigénie en Tauride
Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigenia in Tauris) is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts.
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Ivor Bolton
Ivor Bolton Ivor Bolton (born 17 May 1958) is an English conductor and harpsichordist.
James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (June 23, 1943 – March 9, 2021) was an American conductor and pianist.
Janine Micheau
Janine Micheau (17 April 1914 – 18 October 1976) was a French operatic soprano, one of the leading sopranos of her era in France, particularly associated with lyric soprano and coloratura soprano repertory.
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Jörg Schneider (tenor)
Jörg Schneider (born 1969) is an Austrian operatic tenor.
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Júlia Várady
Júlia Várady (Várady Júlia; born 1 September 1941) is a Hungarian-born German soprano who started out as a mezzo-soprano.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.
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Jerry Hadley
Jerry Hadley (June 16, 1952 – July 18, 2007) was an American operatic tenor.
Jessye Norman
Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist.
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John Alexander (tenor)
John Alexander (October 21, 1923 – December 8, 1990) was an American operatic tenor who had a substantial career during the 1950s through the 1980s.
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John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of 2000, performing Bach's church cantatas in liturgical order in churches all over Europe, and New York City, with the Monteverdi Choir, and recording them at the locations.
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John Mark Ainsley
John Mark Ainsley (born 9 July 1963) is an English lyric tenor.
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John Pritchard (conductor)
Sir John Michael Pritchard, (born Stanley Frederick Pritchard, 5 February 1921 – 5 December 1989) was an English conductor.
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Josephine Barstow
Dame Josephine Clare Barstow, (born 27 September 1940) is an English operatic soprano.
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Julia Kleiter
Julia Kleiter (born 5 May 1980) is a German operatic soprano and a concert singer.
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Juliane Banse
Juliane Banse (born 10 July 1969 in Tettnang, Germany) is a German opera soprano and noted singer.
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Karl Böhm
Karl August Leopold Böhm (28 August 1894 – 14 August 1981) was an Austrian conductor.
Köchel catalogue
The Köchel catalogue (Köchel-Verzeichnis) is a chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, originally created by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, in which the entries are abbreviated K. or KV.
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Kenneth Tarver
Kenneth Tarver is an American operatic tenor, born in Detroit.
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Kent Nagano
Kent George Nagano OC, GOQ, MSM (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator.
Key (music)
In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.
Kurt Equiluz
Kurt Equiluz (13 June 1929 – 20 June 2022) was an Austrian classical tenor.
Kurt Streit
Kurt Streit (born 14 October 1959 in Itazuke, Fukuoka, JapanInternational who's who in music and musicians' directory: (in the classical and light classical fields), David M. Cummings, Volume One, 2000/2001) is an Austrian-American tenor who performs in operas.
La Scala
La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.
Léopold Simoneau
Léopold Simoneau, (May 3, 1916 – August 24, 2006) was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time.
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Leo Goeke
Leo Goeke (November 6, 1937, Kirksville, Missouri — September 18, 2012, Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was an American operatic tenor who had an active international career from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Leo Nucci
Leo Nucci (born 16 April 1942) is an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with Verdi and Verismo roles.
Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist.
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Libretto
A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.
Lisa Milne
Lisa Milne (born 22 April 1971 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish soprano described by the BBC as "one of RSAMD's best-known alumni", who was among the first artists to be invited to the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme in 1999-2001.
List of monarchs of Bavaria
The following is a list of monarchs during the history of Bavaria.
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List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. Idomeneo and List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London.
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Lorenzo Quaglio
Lorenzo Quaglio (25 May 1730 – 7 May 1804) was a German stage designer of Italian extraction.
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (March 1, 1954 – July 3, 2006) was an American mezzo-soprano.
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Lothar Wallerstein
Lothar Wallerstein (6 November 1882 – 14 November 1949) was Czech-born musician and conductor of Austrian descent who became a U.S citizen in 1945, four years before his death.
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Luc Bondy
Luc Bondy (17 July 1948 – 28 November 2015) was a Swiss theatre and film director.
Lucia Popp
Lucia Popp (born Lucia Poppová; 12 November 193916 November 1993) was a Slovak operatic soprano.
Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 19356 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time.
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Lucilla Udovich
Lucilla Udovich (September 7, 1930 – September 23, 1999) was an American soprano of Croatian ancestry.
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Magdalena Kožená
Magdalena Kožená, Lady Rattle (born 26 May 1973) is a Czech mezzo-soprano.
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Mannheim school
Mannheim school refers to both the orchestral techniques pioneered by the court orchestra of the Elector Palatine in Mannheim in the latter half of the 18th century and the group of composers of the early classical period, who composed for the orchestra of Mannheim.
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Margherita Rinaldi
Margherita Rinaldi (12 January 1935 – 7 September 2023) was an Italian lyric soprano, primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s, after she made her debut as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1958, prompting her career at La Scala in Milan.
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Marie-Claude Chappuis
Marie-Claude Chappuis is a Swiss mezzo-soprano particularly known for her performances in baroque operas and sacred music.
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Matthew Polenzani
Matthew Polenzani (born 1968) is an American lyric tenor.
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MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
The MDR-Sinfonieorchester (in English, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra) is a German radio orchestra based in Leipzig.
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Meinhard von Zallinger
Meinhard von Zallinger-Thurn (25 February 1897 – 24 September 1990) was an Austrian conductor.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)
The Metropolitan Opera House (also known as The Met) is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Metropolitan Opera Live in HD
Metropolitan Opera Live in HD (also known as The Met: Live in HD) is a series of live opera performances transmitted in high-definition video via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to select venues, primarily movie theaters, in the United States and other parts of the world.
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Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.
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Michael Steinberg (music critic)
Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg (4 October 1928 – 26 July 2009) was an American music critic and author who specialized in classical music.
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Modulation (music)
In music, modulation is the change from one tonality (tonic, or tonal center) to another.
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Monteverdi Choir
The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Vespro della Beata Vergine in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
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Mostly Mozart Festival
The Mostly Mozart Festival was an American classical music festival based in New York City.
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Munich Residenz
The Residenz (Residence) in central Munich is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria.
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Nadine Sierra
Nadine Sierra (born May 14, 1988) is an American soprano.
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Natural horn
The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves).
Naxos (company)
Naxos comprises numerous companies, divisions, imprints, and labels specializing in classical music but also audiobooks and other genres.
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Neptune (mythology)
Neptune (Neptūnus) is the Roman god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion.
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Netherlands Film Festival
The Netherlands Film Festival (Nederlands Film Festival) is an annual film festival, held in September and October of each year in the city of Utrecht.
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Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
The Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA; English: New Mozart Edition) is the second complete works edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Nicolai Gedda
Harry Gustaf Nikolai Gädda, better known as Nicolai Gedda (11 July 1925 – 8 January 2017), was a Swedish operatic tenor.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt (6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances.
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Non piu, tutto ascoltai
"Non più.
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Oboe
The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.
Opera seria
Opera seria (plural: opere serie; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to about 1770.
Orchestra of the Antipodes
Orchestra of the Antipodes is an Australian early music ensemble founded by Antony Walker and Alison Johnston.
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Overture
Overture (from French ouverture, "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century.
Palais Auersperg
Palais Auersperg, originally called Palais Rosenkavalier, is a Baroque palace at Auerspergstraße 1 in the Josefstadt or eighth district of Vienna, Austria.
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Panzacchi
Domenico de' Panzacchi (1733 – after 1805) was an Italian operatic tenor and the first Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo re di Creta.
Passacaglia
The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers.
Passepied
The passepied ("pass-foot", from a characteristic dance step) is a French court dance.
Pauline Tinsley
Pauline Cecilia Tinsley (27 March 1928 – 10 May 2021) was a British soprano, notable for her performances for the Welsh National Opera (1962–1972, 1975–1981) and the English National Opera (1963–1974).
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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Peter Pears
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.
Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier (29 July 1935 – 25 December 2019) was a German tenor in opera, concert and lied, and a conductor.
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Philip Langridge
Philip Gordon Langridge (16 December 1939 – 5 March 2010)Millington (7 March 2010) was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio.
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Philipp Harnoncourt
Philipp Harnoncourt or Philipp Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (9 February 1931 – 25 May 2020) was an Austrian theologian, priest and musician.
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Philips Records
Philips Records is a record label founded by Dutch electronics company Philips and Dutch-American music corporation Universal Music Group.
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Piccolo
The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.
Pier Luigi Pizzi
Pier Luigi Pizzi (born 15 June 1930) is an Italian opera director, set and costume designer.
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Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
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Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator.
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Priam
In Greek mythology, Priam (Πρίαμος) was the legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (13 January 1674 – 17 June 1762) was a French poet and tragedian.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.
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Rachel Yakar
Rachel Yakar (3 March 1936 – 24 June 2023) was a French operatic soprano and academic voice teacher.
Rae Woodland
Rae Woodland (9 April 1922 – 12 December 2013) was a British soprano who studied with Roy Henderson.
RAI
i, commercially styled as i since 2000 and known until 1954 as i, is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
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Rainer Trost
Rainer Trost (born on October 30, 1966) is a German tenor whose performance repertoire encompasses operas, operettas, Lieder and oratorios.
Ramón Vargas
Ramón Vargas (born 11 September 1960) is a Mexican operatic tenor.
Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Ranieri de' Calzabigi (23 December 1714 – July 1795) was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his "reform" operas.
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Recapitulation (music)
In music theory, the recapitulation is one of the sections of a movement written in sonata form.
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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 and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do. It resembles sung ordinary speech more than a formal musical composition.
René Jacobs
René Jacobs (born 30 October 1946) is a Belgian musician.
Resolution (music)
Resolution in western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one).
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RIAS Kammerchor
The RIAS Kammerchor (RIAS Chamber Choir) is a German choir based in Berlin, Germany.
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Richard Croft (tenor)
Richard Croft is an American opera singer who is often characterized as a lyric tenor or "Mozart tenor." Richard Croft debuted in the United States (including at the Metropolitan Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Washington Opera and Dallas), by singing the major roles of Mozart and Rossini, before being invited on the leading international stages (Salzburg Festival, Paris Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Zurich Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Theater an der Wien among others).
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Richard Lewis (tenor)
Richard Lewis CBE (10 May 191413 November 1990) was an English tenor of Welsh parentage.
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Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.
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Robert Tear
Robert Tear (pronounced to rhyme with "beer"), CBE (8 March 1939 – 29 March 2011) was a Welsh tenor singer, teacher and conductor.
Roberta Alexander
Roberta Alexander (born March 3, 1949) is an American operatic soprano.
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Roger Norrington
Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington (born 16 March 1934) is an English conductor.
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Rudolf Schock
Rudolf Johann Schock (4 September 1915 – 13 November 1986) was a German tenor.
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Russian Musical Society
The Russian Musical Society (RMS) (Русское музыкальное общество) was the first music school in Russia open to the general public.
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Ryland Davies
Ryland Davies (9 February 1943 – 5 November 2023) was a Welsh operatic tenor who appeared internationally at leading opera houses and festivals.
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Saimir Pirgu
Saimir Pirgu (born 23 September 1981 in Elbasan) is an Albanian international opera singer (tenor).
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920.
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San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony, founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California.
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is an Edinburgh-based UK chamber orchestra.
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Sena Jurinac
Srebrenka "Sena" Jurinac (24 October 1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Bosnian-born Austrian operatic soprano.
Sonata form
Sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation.
Sonia Ganassi
Sonia Ganassi (born 1966) is an Italian mezzo-soprano.
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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.
Staatskapelle Dresden
The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, or Saxon State Orchestra Dresden, is one of the oldest orchestras in the world, founded in 1548.
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Steve Davislim
Steve Davislim (born 1967) is a Malaysian-born Australian operatic tenor.
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String section
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.
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Styriarte
Styriarte (also written styriarte) is an annual summer festival of classical music in Graz and Styria, Austria, established in 1985.
Sunhae Im
Sunhae Im (born in 1976) is a South Korean soprano.
Susanne Mentzer
Susanne Mentzer (born January 21, 1957) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano.
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Sylvia McNair
Sylvia McNair (born June 23, 1956) is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres.
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Tanglewood Music Festival
The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts.
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Teatro di San Carlo
The Real Teatro di San Carlo ("Royal Theatre of Saint Charles"), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro (di) San Carlo, is a historic opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito.
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Teatro Real
The Teatro Real (Royal Opera of Madrid) is an opera house in Madrid, Spain.
Teldec
Teldec (Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten GmbH) is a German record label in Hamburg, Germany.
Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thomas Hampson
Thomas Walter Hampson (born June 28, 1955) is an American lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordings.
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Time signature
A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
Tonic (music)
In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music.
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Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.
Trojan War
The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC.
Trombone
The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.
Trudeliese Schmidt
Trudeliese Schmidt (7 November 1934 − 24 June 2004) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano who had an international career, performing at major opera houses and festivals in Europe.
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Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; Wiener Philharmoniker) is an orchestra that was founded in 1842 and is considered to be one of the finest in the world.
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Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera is a historic opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.
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Vienna Symphony
The Vienna Symphony (Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker) is an Austrian orchestra based in Vienna.
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Vincenzo dal Prato
Vincenzo dal Prato (5 May 1756 – 1828) was an Italian soprano castrato singer, famous for his work with Mozart.
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Voice type
A voice type is a group of voices with similar vocal ranges, capable of singing in a similar tessitura, and with similar vocal transition points (passaggi).
Vox Records
Vox Records is a budget classical record label.
Waldemar Kmentt
Waldemar Kmentt (Vienna, 2 February 1929 Vienna, 21 January 2015) was an Austrian operatic tenor, who was particularly associated with the German repertory, both opera and operetta.
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Werner Hollweg
Werner Hollweg (13 September 1936 in Solingen - 1 January 2007 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German operatic tenor.
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Western concert flute
The Western concert flute is a family of transverse (side-blown) woodwind instruments made of metal or wood.
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Wiesław Ochman
Wiesław Ochman (born 6 February 1937) is a Polish tenor.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
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Yvonne Kenny
Yvonne Kenny AM (born 25 November 1950) is an Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel, Mozart and bel canto roles.
Zurich Opera
Zurich Opera (Opernhaus Zürich) is a Swiss opera company based in Zurich.
2006 Idomeneo controversy
On 26 September 2006 the Deutsche Oper Berlin announced the cancellation of four performances of Mozart's opera Idomeneo, re di Creta, planned for November 2006, citing concerns that the production's depictions of the severed head of the Islamic prophet Muhammad raised an "incalculable security risk".
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See also
1781 operas
- Adèle de Ponthieu (Piccinni)
- Arbace
- Belmont und Constanze
- Der Rauchfangkehrer
- Giannina e Bernardone
- Giulio Sabino
- Giunio Bruto
- Idomeneo
- Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni)
- La fedeltà premiata
- Proserpin (Kraus)
- The Agreeable Surprise
- The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern
- Zemira
Cultural depictions of the Trojan War
- Andromache Mourning Hector
- Hector Summoning Paris to Battle
- Idomeneo
- In Search of the Trojan War
- La belle Hélène
- Les Troyens
- Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous
- Phillip Parotti
- Stoa Poikile
- Tabulae Iliacae
- The Myth Makers
- Trojan War in literature and the arts
- Venus Persuading Helen to Love Paris
Operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Alexandre et Roxane
- Apollo et Hyacinthus
- Ascanio in Alba
- Bastien und Bastienne
- Così fan tutte
- Così fan tutte discography
- Da Ponte operas
- Der Schauspieldirektor
- Der Stein der Weisen
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail discography
- Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
- Don Giovanni
- Don Giovanni discography
- Idomeneo
- Il re pastore
- Il sogno di Scipione
- L'oca del Cairo
- La clemenza di Tito
- La finta giardiniera
- La finta semplice
- List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Lo sposo deluso
- Lucio Silla
- Mitridate, re di Ponto
- Thamos, King of Egypt
- The Magic Flute
- The Marriage of Figaro
- Zaide
Operas set in ancient Greece
- Alessandro (opera)
- Apollo et Hyacinthus
- Arianna in Creta
- Atalanta (opera)
- Hippolyte et Aricie
- Idomeneo
- L'Olimpiade
- L'Olimpiade (Galuppi)
- Les bergers
- Medea in Corinto
- Oresteia (Xenakis)
- Phryné (opera)
- Sapho (Gounod)
- Temistocle (Porpora)
- The Minotaur (opera)
- Thespis (opera)
- Zelmira
Operas set in mythological places
- Abesalom da Eteri
- Achilles (opera)
- Aino (Melartin)
- Aquarius (opera)
- Das Labyrinth
- Die Feen
- Die Frau ohne Schatten
- Die beiden Kalifen
- Dienstag aus Licht
- Donnerstag aus Licht
- Eithne (opera)
- Freitag aus Licht
- Hans Heiling
- Idomeneo
- Iolanthe
- Kashchey the Deathless
- Le dernier sorcier
- Licht
- Lycksalighetens ö
- Mindia
- Mittwoch aus Licht
- Montag aus Licht
- Morgen und Abend
- Oberon (Seyler)
- Oberon (Weber)
- Ossian, ou Les bardes
- Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
- Romolo ed Ersilia (Hasse)
- Rusalka (Dargomyzhsky)
- Rusalka (opera)
- Samstag aus Licht
- Sardanapalo
- Sigurd (opera)
- Sonntag aus Licht
- Sukanya (opera)
- The Ash-Lad – Pål's Story
- The Bride of Dionysus
- The Corridor (opera)
- The Magic Flute
- The Mask of Orpheus
- The Minotaur (opera)
- Thespis (opera)
References
Also known as Ideomeneo, Ideomeneo King of Crete, Ideomeneo re di Creta, Idomeneo (opera), Idomeneo Re Di Creta, Idomeneo, re di Creta, Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante, Idomeneus, King of Crete, or Ilia and Idamantes, Idomeno Re Di Creta, Ilia (Mozart), Ilia and Idamante, Ilia e Idamante, K 366, K. 366, KV 366, KV. 366, Re di Creta, Re di Creta Idomeneo.
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