It should not be imagined that the various operas of Haydn have anything like the vitality, the dramatic life or the quality of "theatre" we find in the stage works of Mozart.
When we recall the fact that these five operas are the most widely known, the most popular and by far the best of M.
These are rather light comic operas than true opéras-bouffes, but if there is an elevation in the style of the music, there is an emphatic falling off in the quality of the words.
Two further operas of recognized merit have emanated from his pen--"Cleopatra" and "Aucassin og Nicolette.
Lavoix calls attention to the criticism that whereas Cherubini's operas were not sufficiently dramatic, his church music was too much so.
Wagner's operas and music dramas may be divided into either of two general classifications.
Nor must his permanent influence upon the form of French opera be underestimated, notwithstanding the fact that his own operas were only moderately successful.
For the Gluck-Piccini controversy impressed him deeply; moreover, Mozart's operas were at that time already exciting world-wide admiration.
The Merry Wives of Windsor" is still one of the popular comic operas of the day.
As the most famous representative of French romantic and historic grand opera, Meyerbeer would appear, at first sight, to have embraced in his operas every conceivable meretricious device for the sensational and the spectacular.
Strauss has not been so conspicuously successful with his operas as with his orchestral works,[67] but the following themes from "Guntram" disclose the general nature of his operatic conceptions.
And the value of his forty insipid Italian operas lies only in the experience it gave him in manipulation of vocal forces, and the benefits derived from keeping in touch with a cosmopolitan public.
The Italians were primarily engaged in composing church music and in writing operas that should satisfy the existing demands for vocal virtuosity.
About twenty new "Viennese" operas made their debut during the war.
He obtained his discharge from the army, and henceforth his operas followed each other in rapid and uninterrupted succession at the rate of three or four a year.
She appeared in twelve operas by native composers in Berlin, and thence went to Vienna and St. Petersburg.
He soon became principal tenor at the Académie, and created all of the leading tenor rôles of the operasproduced in France for ten years.
Like so many of the great singers of the modern school, Rubini first gained his reputation in the operas of Bellini and Donizetti, and many of the tenor parts of these works were expressly composed for him.
She remained for several years at Dresden, and among other operas she appeared in Weber's "Euryanthe," with Mme.
His school of singing quickly became famous, though he continued to appear on the stage, and to pour forth operas of more than average merit.
One of the noblest operas ever written, it has been relegated to the musical lumber-room on account of the almost unparalleled difficulties which it presents.
Other operasby Bendl are Indicka princezna, Cernohorci, a prize opera, and the two operas Carovny Kvet and Gina.
Of La Petite Nanette (1795) and several other operashe wrote both the words and the music.
To this spirit, combined with a rich flow of cantilena, Bellini's operas owe their popularity.
He was indefatigable in finding out the balls, soirees, and operas she would attend.
It was not difficult when dinner was over to open the grand piano for Valentine, to fetch her music, and listen while she talked of operas he had never heard.
Of course I know most of the Italian operasand many French ones.
The talk easily drifted into the subject of the modern operatic stage, and modern operas of the Italian school, in which one is so often tempted to shout rather than sing.
Or she is brought up behind the scenes in some great Opera House of the world, where, all unnoticed by her elders, she lives in a dream world of her own, peopled by the various characters in the operas to which she daily listens.
ONE VOICE" "I was trained first as a coloratura and taught to do all the old Italian operas of Bellini, Rosini, Donizetti and the rest of the florid Italian school.
Best of all I had the opportunity of creating all the new tenor rôles in the recent operas of Puccini, Montemezzi, Pizzetti and Gratico.
It is a far greater strain on the voice to interpret one of the modern Italian operas than to sing one of those quietly beautiful works of the old school.
My idea would be to have a regular stock local opera company, and have the standard operas studied.
The old Italian operas required little or no action, only beautiful singing.
The old Italian operas cultivate the bel canto, that is--beautiful singing.
We have not yet produced a composer who can write enduring operas or symphonies.
We know the operas of Mozart are largely founded on Italian models.
His operas are constructed on a conventional pattern.
Unless the voice has received a correct and fine culture, the German comic operas lead immediately to destruction of the voice, especially of the sensitive, easily injured German tenor voice.
Part of him seems to have gone out toward a new free Russian music; part of him seems to have been satisfied with the style of the Italian operas in vogue in Russia during his youth.
Even before the war his operas held the stage only with difficulty.
The texts of his operas are adopted from Russian history and folklore, and he continually attempted to find a musical idiom with the accent of the old Slavonic chronicles and fairy tales.
Scarcely a phrase in his operasand songs moves in a conventional or unoriginal curve.
In 1908 he came to New York to conduct the operas of Wagner, Mozart and Beethoven at the Metropolitan.
The operas of Moussorgsky have begun to achieve the eminence that Wagner's once possessed.
And it is towards an engulfing consummation, some extinction that is both love and death and deeper than both, that the music of his operas aspires.
Modern German drama has found the highest art it has ever attained in the compositions of Richard Wagner, whose operas are entirely German and National, and mostly founded on the old German legends.
Science under Leibnitz also began to take shape in this century, while Opitz wrote operas in imitation of the Italian style; and translations from the Italian Marini came into vogue.
No change in German drama occurred until the seventeenth century, when operas after the Italian superseded the Mysteries and Moralities.
The finest of our operas is founded on the history of this devoted family, and the Honijady march is the very gathering tune of all who hate the iron yoke under which we groan.
We have had so many balls and operas and dissipations, that papa says he is quite knocked up; and who do you think is in London, Vere, and who do you think has been dancing with me night after night?
Why, Padre, I think that your library contains none of the masses and all of the operas in the world!
Not even desirous of a brief holiday, but finding an old organ and some old operas enough recreation!
And so I have taught the old operas to my choir--such parts of them as are within our compass and suitable for worship.
Caffarelli was a pupil of the famous vocal teacher Porpora, who wrote operas consisting chiefly of monotonous successions of florid arias resembling the music that is now written for flutes and violins.
But, some one will argue, with the passing of bel canto what will become of the operas of Mozart, Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti?
In Handel's operas the phrases were repeated so many times that the singer was excused if he proclaimed the meaning of the line once.
She had very little to learn except the rôles in the operas she was to sing and her future was very clearly marked from the night she made her début as Gilda in Rigolettò.
Ruin it for performances of Linda di Chaminoux and La Sonnambula very possibly, but if young singers sit about saving their voices for performances of these operas they are more than likely to die unheard.
Not long ago I heard a man speak of the cadet operas in Boston (did a man named Barnet write them?
William Shield, the composer who wrote many operasfor Covent Garden Theatre, beginning aptly enough with one called The Flitch of Bacon, was something of an eater.
No one doubts that the plays of Æschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles are great dramas; the operas I have just referred to can also be admired in the closet and probably they will be.
It may occur to you that there is something wrong when singers of a certain type can only find the proper means to exploit their voices in works of the past, operas which are dead.
A number of songs from operas are accessible in modern editions.
Lesueur composed eight operasand several masses, and other sacred music.
His serious operas suffer from a coldness and severity of style, but in his comic operas he shows a keen sense of humour.
This place he resigned in 1787; and, after a retirement of five years in a friend's country house, he produced La Caverne and two other operas at the Theatre Feydeau in Paris.
In the evening we were at the theatre, which is large and handsome; and the constant residence of a numerous garrison enables it to entertain a very good set of performers:--their operas in particular are extremely well got up.
Not one of the series of operas which he wrote during his sojourn in St. Petersburg was composed to a Russian libretto or sung in the Russian tongue.
None of Korsakov's operas show a greater profusion of little lyrical gems than this one, which embodies the Slavonic legend of the spring.
The most distinctly humorous of all Rimsky-Korsakov's operas is the Christmas Eve Revels, a subject also treated by Tchaikovsky under the title of Cherevichek and re-published as Le Caprice d'Oxane.
The great enthusiasm of his youth had been Glinka's music, and while living at Nijny-Novgorod he had studied his operas to good purpose.
Jurgenson, head of the famous firm of music publishers in Moscow, who has diligently collected the Russian musical publications of the eighteenth century, states that he has never found any of Araja's operas printed with music type.
So says your friend, Milord Bolingbroke, a person who knows about operas almost as much as I do, which, vanity apart, is saying a great deal.
Mendelssohn's opinion of the subjects chosen for operasin his day (even such a story as that of the Sonnambula) was scornful in the extreme.
In particular when it comes to one of them operas with a coloratura soprano in it, y'understand, it seemed to me they could of cut down on the working time without hurting the quality of the goods in the slightest.
There ain't many grand operas where both the tenor and the soprano sticks it out alive till the end of the last act, Mawruss.
Until one has heard the operas once, it is a terrible effort of attention.
Unlike Mrs. Murchison, he did not consider himself bound to worship Wagner, although the operas did not sound to him the least alike.
The end of the Carnival is frantic, bacchanalian; all the morn one makes parties in masque to the shops and coffee-houses, and all the evening to the operas and balls.
Our operas are almost over; there were but three-and-forty people last night in the pit and boxes.
But perhaps the chief pleasure he had in these operas was in watching Emmy's rapture while listening to them.
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