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Gaetano Donizetti
…for their emotional depth and dramatic weight, as well as their sparkling wit and gaiety when it comes to his comic pieces. Early Life and Education The youngest of three…
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Gaetano Donizetti’s Il Campanello di Notte – Cavatina for Annibale
Gaetano Donizetti’s “Il campanello di notte” is one of his lesser-known works. It is a comical opera composed for Naples, following the success of “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The story revolves…
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Waltz from Der Freischütz – Weber
…as Agathe and Max Proebstl as the comically evil Kaspar. Hans Hopf delivers a heroic performance as Max. Kleiber’s precise and transparent conducting draws out the orchestra’s brilliance. Overall, this…
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Telemann’s Canary Cantata, 3 of 3
Telemann’s “Canary” Cantata is a tragic-comic composition about the death of a canary. It was composed around 1737 and is believed to have been commissioned by a pet lover in…
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Telemann’s Canary Cantata, 1 of 3
Telemann’s “Canary” Cantata is a tragic-comic composition about a pet canary being killed by a cat. The cantata, titled “Cantata or Funeral Music for an Artistically Trained Canary-Bird Whose Demise…
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Verdi’s La Donna è Mobile – Played by Emre Sabuncuoglu
Giuseppe Verdi’s “La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto is a famous canzone sung by the playboy Duke of Mantua. The aria provides comic relief in the midst of a dark…
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Jacques Offenbach
…passion, however, lay in creating comic pieces for the musical theater. He began composing operettas in 1847, with his first work, L’alcove. Despite initial challenges in staging his pieces, Offenbach…
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Bedřich Smetana
…the Czech lands. Smetana’s second opera, The Bartered Bride, demonstrated a mastery of comic writing akin to Mozart and became immensely popular. His other operas, Dalibor and Libuše, contain sublime…
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Selections from Die Drei Pintos Opera by Weber and Mahler
Selections from Die Drei Pintos (The Three Pintos), a comic opera started by Carl Maria von Weber and completed by Gustav Mahler.
