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Tristan and Isolde a Legend of Passion and Romance

TitleHere — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:17:59 +0000

The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most influential medieval romances. The original texts bears the tale of a love triangle between Tristan, the hero, Isolde, his uncle’s wife and Mark, his uncle. The story in the early traditions was altered and modified by alternative accounts with time, but the legend still [...]

The Operatic Legend in Madama Butterfly

TitleHere — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:09:15 +0000

The events purported to have occurred in Nagasaki at around 1886, triggered the genesis of one of the greatest operas to grace world theatres, Madama Butterfly. These events were compiled by Pierre Loti and transformed into a novel by the name Madame Chrysantheme in 1887. From there on, the story was picked up by John [...]

The Il Turco in Italia Masterpiece

TitleHere — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:02:33 +0000

It is rare to find an opera that has been composed on two variant librettos, and written by three reputable opera experts at different times. Perhaps this is what sets apart Rossini’s opera from the rest. Il Turco in Italia is an Italian version, which was the original, of the masterpiece opera, The Turk in [...]

Summarizing Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

TitleHere — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:20:21 +0000

An opera is basically any play which has most or all of the lines sung. Oedipus Rex, the famous play written by Sophocles is indeed an opera although the date and circumstances around its production are largely undocumented. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex was a portion of a trilogy of plays the author wrote centered around one [...]

The Historic False Start of Carmen

TitleHere — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:00:37 +0000

Of all great operas of the 19th and 20th Century, Carmen stands apart as pure genius. Indeed, it has been rated amongst the best performed operas of all time since the 1880’s. Yet this same opera was shredded to failure by critics and given such a negative reception that its composer died of a heart [...]

Revisiting Mozart in Don Giovanni

TitleHere — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:50:18 +0000

With the popularity and fame of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, almost everyone has an idea what Don Giovanni is. The place of Mozart in opera was just above the pack, and in his few years of life, he achieved what nobody less than a genius could have. This amazing two-act opera was composed by Wolfgang [...]

Reincarnated Originals of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot

TitleHere — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:48:07 +0000

In the premiere version of Turandot, performed on 25th April 1926 at Milan, the opera has three acts as composed by Giacomo Puccini on a libretto by Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami. During that premiere performance, the music was exclusively that of Puccini, as completed without additions by Franco Alfano and conducted by Ettore Panizza. [...]

Grease Music From Broadway to Silver Screen

TitleHere — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:43:58 +0000

The original Grease title song for the 1978 motion picture was sung by Frankie Valli in combination with John Travolta who was at his musical prime.

This included the two most successful songs; ‘You’re the One That I Want’ and the Grease title song, ‘Grease’, both of which made it to number one on the billboards. [...]

Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera Signature in Nabucco

TitleHere — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:40:32 +0000

Verdi mastered the art of opera perhaps better than any other composer has in history. Nabucco was actually his third opera and one that experts regard as his stepping stone to world popularity. The success of this third opera elevated and permanently solidified his reputation as a master composer. Before that, he had already composed [...]

Anna Bolena Reminiscence of Loyalty through Opera

TitleHere — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:04 +0000

The lyric tragedy Anna Bolena is a two–act Italian opera composed by Gaetano Donizetti on an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. The opera’s libretto was largely based on two plays with accounts of the life and times of Queen Anne Boleyn. One account was by Marie-Joseph Chénier in Henry VIII while the second was by [...]