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2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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   A work containing the words to an opera, musical, or ballet Melodramma: melodrama: A style of opera Opera: work: A drama set to music for singers and instrumentalists Opera buffa: humorous opera: A comic opera Opera semiseria: semi-serious opera: A variety of opera Opera seria: serious opera: An opera with a serious, esp. classical theme ...

3. Lascia ch'io pianga - Wikipedia

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   Lascia ch'io pianga. " Lascia ch'io pianga " ( Italian: [ˈlaʃʃa ˈkiːo ˈpjaŋɡa]; English: "Let Me Weep" ), originally " Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa " ( Italian: [ˈlaʃʃa la ˈspiːna ˈkɔʎʎi la ˈrɔːza]; English: "Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose" ), is an Italian-language soprano aria by composer George Frideric Handel that has ...

4. Music of Italy - Wikipedia

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   Opera has had a lasting effect on Italy's classical and popular music. Opera tunes spread through brass bands and itinerant ensembles. Canzone Napoletana, or Neapolitan song, is a distinct tradition that became a part of popular music in the 19th century, and was an iconic image of Italian music abroad by the end of the 20th century. [40]

5. List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini - Wikipedia

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   The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas , his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative ...

6. Semiramide - Wikipedia

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   Semiramide was Rossini's final Italian opera and according to Richard Osborne, "could well be dubbed Tancredi Revisited". [3] As in Tancredi , Rossi's libretto was based on a Voltaire tragedy. The music took the form of a return to vocal traditions of Rossini's youth, and was a melodrama in which he "recreated the baroque tradition of ...

7. Rinaldo (opera) - Wikipedia

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   Rinaldo. (opera) Rinaldo ( HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1711, and was the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage. The libretto was prepared by Giacomo Rossi from a scenario provided by Aaron Hill, and the work was first performed at the Queen's Theatre in London's Haymarket on 24 ...

8. Italian opera - Wikipedia

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   Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous operas in Italian were written by foreign composers, including Handel, Gluck and Mozart.

9. La Gioconda (opera) - Wikipedia

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   La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio), based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a 1835 play in prose by Victor Hugo (the same source Gaetano Rossi had used for his libretto for Mercadante 's Il giuramento in 1837). First performed in 1876, La Gioconda was a major ...