Johannes Leiacker
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After "Yevgeny Onegin", "Pikovaya Dama", also known as "The Queen of Spades", is Tchaikovsky's most famous and successful opera.
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With Le Nozze di Figaro , Mozart simultaneously capitalised on the great success of opera buffa under Joseph II...
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In his famous aria "La donna è mobile", the Duke of Mantua is probablyreferring more to his own unpredictability than the supposed ficklenessof women....
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Of the three operas for which Mozart collaborated with da Ponte, "‘Cosìfan tutte" is probably the most ambiguous. What presents itself as alight-hearted comedy...
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As in Verdi’s other operas to librettos by Friedrich Schiller, "Luisa Miller" centres on the conflict between individual freedom and political power. Luisa Miller,...
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Whereas in Le Nozze di Figaro , the notorious barber and jack-of-all-trades thwarts Count Almaviva in his amorous adventures, in Rossini’s...
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Pikovaya Dama , a.k.a. the Queen of Spades, is Tchaikovsky’s second most famous opera, after Evgeny Onegin . For the...
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With Le Nozze di Figaro , Mozart simultaneously capitalised on the great success of opera buffa under Joseph II...
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Of the three operas created by the duo of Mozart and Da Ponte, Così fan tutte isperhaps the most ambiguous....
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Don Carlos, the son of King Philip II of Spain, has decided to go his own way, both politically and in his private life....
