Tutanic 8 Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 Titles of Operas and Operettas, but who wrote them and in what year? Macbeth Cavallerio Rusticana The Fair Maid of Perth Albert Herring Nixon in China Mask of Orpheus Semele Pagliacci The Pearl Fishers The Damnation of Faust When were they born and where: Enrico Caruso Dame Clara Butt Kathleen Ferrier Lucia Popp Joan Sutherland Benjamino Gigli Victoria De Los Angeles Jenny Lind Mario Del Monaco Thomas Allen Some are easy but some are not.... Best of luck. Ann Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 Macbeth - William Shakespeare - 1606 Cavallerio Rusticana - ? SEE BELOW. The Fair Maid of Perth - Georges Bizit - 1866 Albert Herring - Benjamin Britten - 1947 Nixon in China - John Adams 1985-87 Mask of Orpheus - Harrison Birtwistle - 1986 Semele - George frideric Handel - 1744 Pagliacci - Ruggero Leon Cavallo - 1892 The Pearl Fishers - Georges Bizet - 1863 The Damnation of Faust - Hector Berlioz - 1846 Cavallerio or Cavalleria B) Cavallerio Rusticana - Pietro Mascagni - 1890 B) Cavalleria Rusticana - Franz Schubert - Ave Maria - 1813 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 Enrico Caruso - Naples - Feb 25th 1873 Dame Clara Butt - Southwick - 1st Feb 1872 Kathleen Ferrier - Higher Walton - Apr 22nd 1912 Lucia Popp - Bratislava Formerly Pressberg - Nov 12th 1939 Joan Sutherland - Sydney Australia - 7th Nov 1926 Benjamino Gigli - Recanati near Ancona Italy - 20th Mar 1890 Victoria De Los Angeles - Barcelona Spain - 1st Nov 1923 Jenny Lind - Stockholm Sweden - 1820 Mario Del Monaco - Firenze italy - 27th July 1915 Thomas Allen - Seaham Co Durham - 1944 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Great!!! saved me the trouble of doing it................... next!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 :D I'm so sorry Caz, the next is all yours.. :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 That's alright Dennis, I know absolutely zilch about opera,i'm more of a dance music gal myself won't promise I know anything about the next lot of trivia either but ill have a go Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tutanic 8 Posted March 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Mmmm you did well there. Macbeth was written by Shakespeare but it was not made into an opera by him. It was some years later that it became an opera. Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) is Mascagni's most famous opera and is part of today’s mainstream opera repertoire. It made 26 years old Mascagni instantly world-famous in 1890 when it won the opera contest of music publisher Sonzogno in Italy. “Cav” launched the so-called verismo movement in opera and inspired such works as Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. The libretto, based on a short story by famed Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga, tells of the story a young Sicilian man, Turiddu, who is unfaithful to his fiancée Santuzza, because he is in love with his ex-girlfriend, the now married Lola. When Santuzza discovers Turiddu’s infidelity, she reveals it out of spite to Lola’s husband, Alfio, who provokes a duel with Turiddu and kills him. One of my favourites and also Pagliacci but I think Jussi Bjorling made this his own. You have probably realised that I prefer classical to pop music. Well done and I will give you a rest for a while to allow your brain to cool down. Ann Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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