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Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category: 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: 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
Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
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Category: Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
This guide has articles which describe the opera's background and genesis through its various early versions. It also has an analysis of the music, a detailed survey of the opera's extensive performance history throughout the world and an exploration of its continuing significance as a beacon of hope an ...Show more
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: 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
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