French Opera Arias information

French Opera Arias is a 51-minute studio album of music performed by Frederica von Stade and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of John...

typical context for arias is opera, but vocal arias also feature in oratorios and cantatas, or they can be stand-alone concert arias. The term was originally...

French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language. It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing...

share of arias of varied mood, be they sad, angry, heroic or meditative. The dramaturgy of opera seria developed largely as a response to French criticism...

In traditional number opera, singers employ two styles of singing: recitative, a speech-inflected style, and self-contained arias. The 19th century saw...

French Songs and Arias is a 1997 compilation album released by New Zealand opera diva Kiri Te Kanawa. Kiri Te Kanawa - Soprano (Vocal) John Frederick Lewis...

Various: Frederica von Stade: French Opera Arias, cond. John Pritchard Various: Frederica von Stade: Italian Opera Arias, cond. Mario Bernardi Various:...

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued...

[Audio CD] Rarely heard French opera arias with Frédéric Chaslin & Münchner Rundfunkorchester Love Entranced: French Opera Arias (2002) [Audio CD] with...

Lully adapted opera to French taste, with choirs, ballets, a richer orchestra, musical interludes and shorter arias. He developed French overture in a...

from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. The opera is written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue...

Euridice ([orˈfɛ.o e.d‿ewˈri.di.t͡ʃe]; French: Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based...

typically found in opera seria. Rage arias were known by various terms in Italian, including aria di strepito, aria agitata and aria infuriata. Typically...

Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE (née Hookham; 18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She...

Natalie Dessay (French: [na.ta.li də.sɛ] ; born 19 April 1965) is a French soprano, best known as an opera singer before her retirement from opera stage in 2013...

composition considered opera, as understood today, although with only five instrumental parts it was much more like a chamber opera than either the preceding...

(Donizetti). A grand opera in the French tradition. 1840 La fille du régiment (Donizetti). Donizetti's venture into French opéra comique. 1840 Bátori...

chorus; most fequently in the context of opera arias but also in 17th century sacred works such as vocal arias and choruses within oratorios and cantatas...

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Alfredo Kraus, conducted by Georges Prêtre, 1985 (EMI 7475598) French Opera Arias (Arias from Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas, Robert le diable – Meyerbeer, Manon...