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Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet - Music by P. Hindemith
I didn't know where to post it: Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet - music by P. Hindemith Das Triadische Ballet. Best Quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jErmplUpA&feature=player_embed...
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Gioachino Rossini's William Tell... was August 3rd ...
On August 3, 1829, Gioachino Rossini's William Tell was staged at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. For reasons that remain mysterious to this day, but are likely linked to a conditio...
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Hans Werner Henze - Libretto of "die Bassariden"
Does anyone know how to obtain the libretto for Henze's Die Bassariden? Thank you
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The Name Of The Carmen Character "Lieutenant Zuniga"
I would like to know how the name of the Carmen character "Lieutenant Zuniga" is pronounced in the various editions. In the (French) version I heard, it seemed to me that he was announced as...
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A work for the week (goodness gracious)
With this discussion, I am inaugurating the new "Opera" section. It was born after some considerations in another thread, and after some messages with TheSimon we decided to try and see how...
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Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung
Hello everyone In one week I have to take my State Exam and the external Italian professor, knowing that I study music and that I am covering the Holocaust in my thesis, said that he will as...
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Don Giovanni at the Arena di Verona
Hello everyone, I don't know if anyone has already touched upon this subject (in which case I apologize to the moderators). I saw that Don Giovanni, conducted by Daniel Oren, will be perform...
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Greatest Examples of 18th-Century Concertato
I propose something "truly" significant from "La molinara", a work that for some musical reason drove Vienna crazy in the last decade of the 1700s. Leaving aside the usual hackneyed little s...
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The Marriage of Figaro
I would like to share this great work with you and discover as much as possible about it. Can someone attempt, propose, or draw attention to the important aspects that should be known? Thank...
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La Traviata
In attesa che Thallo faccia la sua terza proposta vi intrattengo proponendovi La Traviata at Ferry Building - Festival Opera 20th Anniversary Season, Walnut Creek, CA: http://festivalopera.c...
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Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen
Fresh off the press on RAI5... http://musicofilia.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/la-piccola-volpe-astuta-di-janacek-firenze2009-su-rai-5/ Despite not liking Janáček, I am highlighting this delight...
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Italian Music Criticism
"La Bohème, I believe, as it does not leave a great impression on the souls of the listeners, will not leave a great trace in the history of our lyric theater, and it will be well if the aut...
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Paisiello: I Pittagorici: Chorus, Aria And Finale
...atypical proposal, what do you think? Paisiello: I Pittagorici: chorus, aria and finale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmowsZKbRt8 Libretto: http://www.domenicoscarlatti.it/files/attach/I...
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U.o.a.s. "Lucia Di Lammermoor"
I would say we can start from a very well-known opera, something of an emblem of Italian Romanticism, "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Gaetano Donizetti. I found the link to a complete performance o...
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