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When, in 1900, Giacomo Puccini attended David Belasco’s play "Madame Butterfly" in London, he found it to be ideal material for an opera. Although...
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"Tristan und Isolde" is the fulfilment of romantic ecstasy as well as the transition to the new sounds of Expressionism.
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With this La Fanciulla del West Flanders Opera adds a new chapter toit's Puccinicycle which was organised with conductor Silvio Varviso anddirector Robert Carsen....
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Giovanna d’Arco , Verdi’s first opera, adapted from a play by Friedrich Schiller, was written after Nabucco and ...
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Gaetano Donizetti was determined to present an opera after Schiller’s tragedy Maria Stuart (1800) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples,...
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After La Bohème , Puccini went resolutely for innovation and drama pur sang with Tosca. One of the...