Opera and Music Theater in the Later Nineteenth Century
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What were Verdi's three most important early operas?
Il trovatore
La traviata
What was special about Verdi's Aida?
He officially retired after this opera
Who wrote I Pagliacci?
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Four major works of Puccini
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
Turandot
What three things made Wagner so important?
2. Created a new drama, the music drama
3. Rich chromatic idiom influenced later composers
Name two of Wagner's essays
Opera and Drama
Wagner felt that poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music should all work together to create....?
Many of which composer's operas were based on Germanic and Nordic legends?
Which operas exploited an interest in exoticism?
Samson et Dalila - Saint-Saens
Lakme - Delibes
Which opera combined exoticism and realism?
Who is considered the founder of Opera bouffe?
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory and taught at Moscow conservatory
Who were the Mighty Handful and what did they believe?
Aleksander Borodin
Cesar Cui
Modest Mussorgsky
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
They stood against the professionalism of the conservatories
What was operetta modeled after?
Who were famed composers of operetta?
Johann Strauss the Younger
What was the most frequently performed opera in the last 3rd of the 19th century?
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