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| Guillame Tell Composer and Language |
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| Name two Shakespere Opera's Verde did |
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Desdemona prays, not understanding why he husband is acting very strangely. As she sleeps, Otello enters to kill her, but his
kiss wakens her. He kills her, but later learns that the intrigue was all a plot by Iago. Otello stabs himself and dies near Desdemona. |
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| Who wrote the libretto to Falstaff and Otello? |
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| Madame Butterfly Composer |
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| Turandot Plot and Composer |
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Puccini
At the opening of the opera, the people are told that Turandot will marry the man that can
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| Der Feischutz Plot and Composer |
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Weber
A man has entered into a contract to sell his soul to receive magic bullets to win a shooting competition for the
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| Simple Motif associated with a character, not a full melody |
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| Weber's Two operas after his most famous |
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| Who was Wagner's librettist? |
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| Wagnerian Concept, total art work |
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| Tristan and Isolde musical elements |
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| Very chromatic, greatest and most influential work. |
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| Ring Cycle based on what? Composer? |
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| Ring Cycle includes which opera's? |
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Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung |
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| Who wrote opera Bouffe? What were they? |
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| OffenBach, satirized French society |
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| Meyerbeer was famous for what kind of Opera? |
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Grand Opera
Most famous composer |
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| Girl of Golden West Composer |
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| Meyebeer country and language |
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| Equivalent of blockbuster movies. People who see them had NO CLASS. |
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| Rebirth of Italian Nationalism |
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| Themes and Motives used earlier in the score that return |
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| Who influenced great 19th century German and Italian opera? |
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Bizet
Don Jose has been betrayed by Carmen. When she refuses him he stabs her to end the opera. |
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| Orpheus in the Underworld composer and plot |
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Offenbach
Orpheus has descended into the underworld to retrieve his wife. He has asked the Gods from Mount Olympus to go with him.
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| The Barber of Seville composer and plot |
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Rossini
Count Almaviva unsuccessfully serenades Rosina. He hears Figaro bragging about what he can do and
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| Gilbert and Sullivan Opera topics |
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| Satirized English government, military, and royalty. |
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Wotan, the king of the Gods must punish his favorite daughter for disobeying him.
He kisses her, causing her to fall into a sleep. Wotan calls Loge, the God of fire to put a ring of
fire around her, so that only the bravest man will cross into it and become her mate.
(This is a different production than we saw in class). |
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Strauss
The Princess Salome has become obsessed with John the Baptist. When he refuses and insults her she asks
her stepfather Herod to bring her his decapitated head. She has gone mad and her stepfather has her killed. |
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