Definitions

1. Grand opera is usually in four or five acts and includes dance interludes for a complete ballet company.
2. But grand opera was also a major influence on the works of Verdi, one of the most significant and beloved composers in the history of opera. (Web site)
3. Grand Opera was perhaps the greatest legacy of the Late Romantic period.

Peking Opera

1. Peking Opera is a harmonious combination of the Grand Opera, ballet and acrobatics, consisting of dance, dialogue, monologues, martial arts and mime. (Web site)

Metropolitan Opera Association

1. The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. (Web site)

Italian Grand Opera

1. There is a fascinating chapter on Italian grand opera by Fiamma Nicolodi in the Charlton "Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera".

First Great Exponent

1. Meyerbeer was the first great exponent of grand opera (spectacular Romantic opera involving big character scenes, dramatic vocal style, etc).

Production

1. This production won the Houston Grand Opera a Tony Award —the only opera ever to receive one—and a Grammy Award. (Web site)
2. Stuttgart takes up another French grand opera, Halévy's "La Juive," in a new production in March.

Master

1. A nineteenth-century Italian composer, a master of Italian grand opera. (Web site)

Size

1. All fine Otellos but in size and volume they do not compare to Del Monaco, the master of grand opera.

Four

1. Verdi's Aida, despite having only four acts, corresponds in many ways to the Grand Opera formula.

Genre

1. It helped to establish the genre of French grand opera. (Web site)

Little

1. Orpheus and Euridice  is undeniably a "little" work that would be smothered entirely by the ministrations of a "grand opera" company.

Performances

1. For production statistics of Grand Opera in Paris, see List of performances of French Grand Operas at the Paris Opéra.
2. Fourteen years earlier, Caruso and other prominent Met artists had gone to San Francisco to participate in a series of performances at the Grand Opera House. (Web site)

Form

1. After Bizet's death, the musical community felt it would be more appreciated in the form of Grand Opera rather than opéra comique.

Manner

1. I Puritani, written somewhat in the manner of French grand opera, suffers from a weak libretto. (Web site)

Grandest

1. All of the musical and artistic elements of this production add up to grand opera at its grandest.

Ragtime

1. When Salisbury left the act, Benny found a new pianist, Lyman Woods, and re-named the act "From Grand Opera to Ragtime". (Web site)

Film Scores

1. Perhaps such film scores can in some sense even be considered both the heirs and the competitors of grand opera. (Web site)

Late Eighteenth Century

1. Grand Opera, which starts in the late eighteenth century, reached its peaks in the Viennese, Italian, French, German, and Russian schools. (Web site)

Berlioz

1. Spontini's opera about a vestal virgin in love was a great influence on Berlioz and a forerunner of French grand opera. (Web site)

Last Work

1. Most experts are of the opinion that his last work, The Tales of Hoffmann, was his only grand opera.

National Theatre

1. Unfortunately, the success of the Grand Opera of the Fifth of May began to create unwanted competition for the National Theatre.

Giuseppe Verdi

1. Il Trovatore or The Troubadour, a grand opera in four acts, with words by Salvatore Cammanaro and music by Giuseppe Verdi, was first produced in Rome, Jan.

Comic Opera

1. Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and San Diego Opera, Cold Sassy Tree is a comic opera named for the rural Georgia town in which the action takes place. (Web site)

Juive

1. His grand opera La juive (The Jewess), which was produced at the Paris Opéra in 1835, established Halévy as a major operatic composer.
2. Halévy, Fromental: (1799-1862); composer of French grand opera; his most famous work is La Juive.
3. His best known opera, La juive, is a primary example of French grand opera. (Web site)

Giacomo Meyerbeer

1. Rossini's Guillaume Tell helped found the new genre of Grand opera, a form whose most famous exponent was another foreigner, Giacomo Meyerbeer.
2. Giacomo Meyerbeer (5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a noted German -born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. (Web site)

Hector Berlioz

1. Hector Berlioz 's masterpiece Les Troyens (The Trojans, 1856-58), while owing nothing to Meyerbeer, may also be considered grand opera. (Web site)

Influence

1. During her time, Bernhardt had a strong influence on grand opera, an influence that continues to this day. (Web site)
2. Be that as it may, Forza did show some influence of French grand opera, but not enough to qualify as an Italian grand opera.

Course

1. Grand Opera outside France Italy French Grand Opera was generally well received in Italy, where of course it was always performed in Italian translation.

Porgy

1. Today, Porgy and Bess is revered by many as one of the finest examples of grand opera ever penned by an American composer.
2. In 1976, Porgy was revived again, this time by the Houston Grand Opera.

Traditional Sense

1. Treemonisha is not grand opera in the traditional sense; it is not a ragtime opera; it isn't this, that or the other thing.

Rossini

1. The next major grand opera was Rossini 's Guillaume Tell (his final opera; 1829).

Gounod

1. Gounod, Charles: (1818-93); composer of French grand opera; his best known works are Faust and Romeo et Juliette.

Sullivan

1. Sullivan insisted that the next opera must be a grand opera. (Web site)
2. Paul Potts (Don Carlos) is a relative new comer to Grand Opera after an apprenticeship in Gilbert and Sullivan in Bristol.

Libretto

1. Gershwin received a commission from the Metropolitan Opera to write a grand opera in 1930 and was free to select the libretto. (Web site)

Aida

1. Verdi's most famous opera, Aida, is in the French grand opera style.

Spectacle

1. In tradition of grand opera, Dame Joan Sutherland's farewell perfromance to the operatic stage in Les Huguenots is a gala triumph of spectacle and drama.
2. All of these have some of the characteristics of size and spectacle that are normally associated with French grand opera.

Ivanhoe

1. Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, was initially highly successful, but it has been little heard since his death. (Web site)

Operas

1. The operas of Nicola Zingarelli and of Ferdinando Paer were transitional, between Classical and grand opera in mode and manner.
2. In addition to producing standard repertoire, Florida Grand Opera also presents lesser known operas, as well as commissions and produces new operas.

Opera

1. Grand Opera: Opera on a large scale, usually entirely sung, in contrast to comic opera.
2. In London, however, Handel's fight for the grand opera failed due to a bourgeois movement aimed against the Italian opera seria as opera of the nobility.
3. The other style of opera that dominated the early part of the century was grand opera. (Web site)

Verdi

1. The influence of French grand opera was enormous, reaching even to the early works of Wagner and Verdi.
2. Verdi accepted Perrin's proposition, hoping to score a major success in grand opera.

Meyerbeer

1. The opera was planned around five acts, similar in size to the grand opera of Meyerbeer.
2. This libretto, along with the one Scribe provided for Meyerbeer 's Les Huguenots, would help to change the course of French grand opera. (Web site)
3. It also saw the advent of Grand Opera typified by the works of Meyerbeer.

Grand Opera

1. Les Huguenots is a French opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most popular and spectacular examples of the style of grand opera.
2. The influence of Wagner 's operas began to be felt, and it is a moot point whether these works can be simply called Grand Opera.
3. La juive (The Jewess) is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original libretto by Eugène Scribe.

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