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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
A Midsummer Night's Dream was Benjamin Britten's seventh major opera and had its premiere in 1960. Britten and his partner Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare's much-loved comedy, using (with the exception of only one line) Shakespeare's own text, as well as cutting and simplifying the play. This newly comm ...Show more
Carmen by Georges Bizet; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
The Olivier Award nominated producers of La Traviata, La boh me and Tosca present a vivid, compelling and devastatingly powerful take on Georges Bizet's masterpiece. Carmen works minimum wage jobs on the frontline of Britain's crumbling service industry. Jose falls madly in love with her after a brief f ...Show more
Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Following the great successes of Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte was the last of the three operas that Mozart wrote with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Although well received at its premiere in Vienna in 1790, it was then largely neglected until the mid-twentieth century. Its comic ...Show more
Der Fliegende Hollander: The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
An essay in the guide places the opera in the context of emerging German Romanticism and another highlights the musical riches of the score. A further article explores the emerging importance of myth to Wagner and his contemporaries. As well as a detailed description of the work's performance history, W ...Show more
Der Rosenkavalier by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Richard Strauss; Alfred Kalisch (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Der Rosenkavalier has one of the longest and most exquisitely crafted texts of all opera. The depth and subtlety of the characterization can only be appreciated after a careful reading. Derrick Puffett notes that the sentimentality and parody of the subject perfectly matched Strauss's genius. Michael Ke ...Show more
Die Meistersing von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner; Peter Branscombe; English National Opera Staff (Contribution by); Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Die Meistersinger von N rnberg is the only comedy among Richard Wagner's mature works. Unusually for Wagner, it is set in a historically specific time and place, sixteenthcentury Nuremberg, and tells of a song contest among the town's guildsmen. It nevertheless explores the same themes of renewal, renun ...Show more
Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor); Kenneth Chalmers (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Die Zauberflöte had its premiere at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30th September 1791, less than ten weeks before Mozart's death. It has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular of all his works and has enchanted generations of opera-goers of all ages. In a fairy-tale allegory imbued wi ...Show more
Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
This tender, lyrical and passionate story of unrequited love holds a special place in Russian hearts. Tatyana's letter scene and the Polonaise are two much loved glories of the score; each act is tightly constructed around an antithesis of public and private scenes, and the dances are integral to the dr ...Show more
IDOMENEO by MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as 'one of those works that even a genius like Mozart could write only once in his life'. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether astonishing career. In this newly commissioned gui ...Show more
La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
Puccini's masterpiece "La boheme" is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto ...Show more
La Bohème by Gary Khan (Volume Editor); Giacomo Puccini
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Puccini 's La boh me is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera 's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi 's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto over the co ...Show more
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
A complete guide to Giuseppe Verdi's 18th opera, showing him at the height of his middle-period powers Adapted from "La dame aux Camelias" by Alexandre Dumas, fils, "La Traviata" portrays the love of the courtesan Violetta Valery and the young Alfredo Germont in fashionable Parisian society, with its in ...Show more