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Minnesota Opera

Index Minnesota Opera

Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1]

57 relations: Armida (Rossini), Bernard Herrmann, Casanova's Homecoming, Croesus (opera), Dominick Argento, Gaetano Donizetti, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Jacques Offenbach, John Adams (composer), Jonathan Dove, Kevin Puts, Kurt Weill, La clemenza di Tito, La donna del lago, Lakmé, Léo Delibes, Les pêcheurs de perles, Libby Larsen, Libretto, Little Women (opera), Lucrezia Borgia (opera), Maria Padilla, Mark Adamo, Maurice Sendak, Michael Korie, Minneapolis, Nixon in China, Oliver Knussen, Opera America, Orazi e Curiazi, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Passion (musical), Paul Moravec, Portland Opera, Postcard from Morocco, Poul Ruders, Reinhard Keiser, Richard Condon, Ricky Ian Gordon, Roberto Devereux, Rusalka (opera), Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saverio Mercadante, Stephen King, Stephen Sondheim, Street Scene (opera), The Adventures of Pinocchio (opera), The Grapes of Wrath, The Grapes of Wrath (opera), The Handmaid's Tale (opera), ..., The Manchurian Candidate, The Shining (novel), The Tales of Hoffmann, Vincenzo Bellini, Walker Art Center, Where the Wild Things Are (opera), Wuthering Heights (1951 opera). Expand index (7 more) »

Armida (Rossini)

Armida is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto (dramma per musica) by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso.

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Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures.

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Casanova's Homecoming

Casanova's Homecoming is an opera in three acts by Dominick Argento to an English libretto by the composer, based in part on Giacomo Casanova's memoirs.

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Croesus (opera)

Der hochmütige, gestürzte und wieder erhabene Croesus (The Proud, Overthrown and Again Exalted Croesus) is a three-act opera (described as a "Singe-Spiel") composed by Reinhard Keiser.

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Dominick Argento

Dominick Argento (born October 27, 1927) is an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer.

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I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues) is an Italian opera (Tragedia lirica) in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.

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Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.

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Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove (born 18 July 1959) is an English composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music.

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Kevin Puts

Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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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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La donna del lago

La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) based on the French translationOsborne, Charles 1994, p. 94 of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the image of the romantic highlands.

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Lakmé

Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.

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Léo Delibes

Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French composer of the Romantic era (1815–1910), who specialised in ballets, operas, and other works for the stage.

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Les pêcheurs de perles

Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré.

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Libby Larsen

Elizabeth Brown Larsen (born December 24, 1950) is a contemporary American classical composer.

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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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Little Women (opera)

Little Women (1998) is the first opera written by American composer Mark Adamo to his own libretto after Louisa May Alcott's tale of growing up in New England after the American Civil War, Little Women.

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Lucrezia Borgia (opera)

Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Maria Padilla

Maria Padilla is a melodramma, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Mark Adamo

Mark Adamo (born 1962) is an American composer, librettist and professor of music composition at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Michael Korie

Michael Korie is an American librettist and lyricist whose writing for musical theater and opera includes the musicals Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven, and the operas Harvey Milk and The Grapes of Wrath.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Nixon in China

Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman.

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Oliver Knussen

(Stuart) Oliver Knussen CBE (born 12 June 1952) is a British composer and conductor.

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Opera America

Opera America, officially OPERA America, is a service organization promoting the creation, presentation, and enjoyment of opera in the US.

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Orazi e Curiazi

Orazi e Curiazi (The Horatii and the Curiatii) is an opera by the Italian composer Saverio Mercadante.

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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is located in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota and hosts a variety of performing arts, such as touring Broadway musicals, orchestra, opera, and cultural performers.

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Passion (musical)

Passion is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine.

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Paul Moravec

Paul Moravec (born November 2, 1957) is an American composer and a University Professor at Adelphi University on Long Island, New York.

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Portland Opera

Portland Opera is an American opera company based at The Hampton Opera Center in Portland, Oregon.

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Postcard from Morocco

Postcard from Morocco is an opera in one act composed by Dominick Argento and libretto written by John Donahue that was commissioned by the Center Opera Company (now the Minnesota Opera).

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Poul Ruders

Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949, in Ringsted) is a Danish composer.

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Reinhard Keiser

Reinhard Keiser (9 January 167412 September 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg.

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Richard Condon

Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915 in New York City – April 9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas) was a prolific and popular American political novelist.

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Ricky Ian Gordon

Ricky Ian Gordon (born May 15, 1956) is an American composer of art song, opera and musical theatre.

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Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux (or Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Rusalka (opera)

Rusalka, Op. 114, is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Saverio Mercadante

Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (baptised 17 September 179517 December 1870) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Street Scene (opera)

Street Scene is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book).

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The Adventures of Pinocchio (opera)

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a 2007 opera in two acts by Jonathan Dove with a libretto by Alasdair Middleton based on the Italian novel of the same name by Carlo Collodi.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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The Grapes of Wrath (opera)

The Grapes of Wrath is an opera in three acts composed by Ricky Ian Gordon to a libretto by Michael Korie based on John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel of the same title.

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The Handmaid's Tale (opera)

The Handmaid's Tale is an opera composed by the Danish composer Poul Ruders, to a libretto by Paul Bentley based on the novel of the same name written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

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The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate is a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959.

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The Shining (novel)

The Shining is a horror novel by American author Stephen King.

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The Tales of Hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann (French) is an by Jacques Offenbach.

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer,Lippmann and McGuire 1998, in Sadie, p. 389 who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".

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Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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Where the Wild Things Are (opera)

Where the Wild Things Are, Op. 20, is a 'fantasy' opera in one act by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own children's book of the same title.

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Wuthering Heights (1951 opera)

Wuthering Heights is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Opera

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