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... opera form we must skip somewhat ahead , through the work of Monteverdi , the first composer of real importance , to Scar- latti , who instituted certain changes which were to determine the course of Italian opera practically to our own ...
... opera form we must skip somewhat ahead , through the work of Monteverdi , the first composer of real importance , to Scar- latti , who instituted certain changes which were to determine the course of Italian opera practically to our own ...
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Edmund Fuller. made into an opera by the composer Rossini , who , we will remember , also based an opera upon Beaumarchais ' The Bar- ber of Seville . THE CREATOR OF ANOTHER FAUSTUS Without question the outstanding genius of German let ...
Edmund Fuller. made into an opera by the composer Rossini , who , we will remember , also based an opera upon Beaumarchais ' The Bar- ber of Seville . THE CREATOR OF ANOTHER FAUSTUS Without question the outstanding genius of German let ...
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... operas , and his great Parsifal he called a " Consecrational Festival Play . " Wagner's genius stripped the gaudy wrappings from the traditional forms of Grand Opera and brought new life and vigor to the musical stage . No longer did ...
... operas , and his great Parsifal he called a " Consecrational Festival Play . " Wagner's genius stripped the gaudy wrappings from the traditional forms of Grand Opera and brought new life and vigor to the musical stage . No longer did ...
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