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The Comic Opera revolution | From Opera Seria to modern opera

At the beginning of the eighteenth century starts to develop a type of opera uniquely based on comic characters. It was a consequence of Zeno’s reform which separated the comic scenes within an opera, from all the rest. Two types of performances started then to take shape, marking a turning point in the history of opera. They were the interludes or intermezzi and a music comedy in Neapolitan dialect, called Commedeja pee Mmuseca.

July

Italian Opera the August monthly program

Italian Opera the August monthly program of main events in the most famous Italian theaters.

October

Moving forward from Baroque opera | Zeno, Metastasio, Gluck

Gluck finally estabilished an indissoluble link between music and words, with music becoming the main element for the success of an opera. As in the striking aria “What shall I do without Euridice?”. It is through to the incomparable beauty and expressiveness of the melody sung by Orpheus that Love is presuaded to bring Euridice back to life.

January

I Pagliacci ¦ Leoncavallo’s Calabria

Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci is a opera of tremendous energy and impetus, up to the final scene, one of the most gripping of Italian opera. The aria”Vesti la giubba” “put on your costume” is one of the best-renowned tenor arias of the whole repertoire. It is in fact both an expressive and a vocal test for any lyric tenor.

Rome, the Domus Aurea | Monteverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea

L’incoronazione di Poppea For a long time, Monteverdi’s operas had been regarded essentially for their historical…

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The Comic Opera revolution | From Opera Seria to modern opera

Italian Opera the August monthly program

Moving forward from Baroque opera | Zeno, Metastasio, Gluck

I Pagliacci ¦ Leoncavallo’s Calabria

Rome, the Domus Aurea | Monteverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea

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