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2. The Bohemian Girl - Wikipedia

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   by Miguel de Cervantes. Premiere. 27 November 1843. ( 1843-11-27) Drury Lane Theatre, London. The Bohemian Girl is an Irish Romantic opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Miguel de Cervantes ' tale, La gitanilla . The best-known aria from the piece is "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble ...

3. Salome (opera) - Wikipedia

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   Salome (opera) Salome. (opera) Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann 's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, edited by the composer. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer. [1] The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for ...

4. 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 ...

5. List of online digital musical document libraries - Wikipedia

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   Cover of the Edition Peters sheet music of "Lux aeterna" by György Ligeti. This is a list of online digital musical document libraries.Each source listed below offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources).

6. Semiramide - Wikipedia

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   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 decorative singing with unparalleled skill". [4] The ensemble-scenes (particularly the duos between Arsace and Semiramide) and choruses are of a high order, as is the orchestral writing, which makes ...

7. Elektra (opera) - Wikipedia

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   Sophocles ' Electra. Premiere. 25 January 1909. ( 1909-01-25) Königliches Opernhaus, Dresden. Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, [ 1] which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal.

8. Médée (Cherubini) - Wikipedia

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   Médée. (Cherubini) Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides ' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille 's play Médée. [ 1] It is set in the ancient city of Corinth.

9. Méditation (Thaïs) - Wikipedia

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   The Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs; a wordless chorus joins in for the last reprise. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God.