Offenbach Arias and Overtures information

Offenbach Arias and Overtures is a 65-minute studio album of excerpts from operettas by Jacques Offenbach performed by the American mezzo-soprano Frederica...

Waisenhausmesse, cond. Claudio Abbado Mozart and Rossini: Mozart and Rossini Arias, cond. Edo de Waart Offenbach: Arias and Overtures, cond. Antonio de Almeida Porter:...

Jacques Offenbach (/ˈɒfənbɑːx/; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly...

several of the arias are quoted. This "medley form" persists in the overtures to many works of musical theatre written in the 20th and 21st centuries...

Underworld and Orpheus in Hell are English names for Orphée aux enfers (French: [ɔʁfe oz‿ɑ̃fɛʁ]), a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by...

early on by Rossini in his career and consistently followed by him thereafter as regards overtures, arias, structures and ensembles, has called them "the...

Reger, Offenbach and Liszt), overtures by Daniel Auber, the first in a series of showpieces for piano and orchestra with Ian Munro as soloist, and harp...

in the Wagnerian style, without cabaletta and with arias without a fixed standard. They eliminated overtures, but added intermezzi, of a showy orchestration...

century was Jules Massenet composing works such as Manon, Werther, and Thaïs. Jacques Offenbach, who composed Les Contes d'Hoffmann, established himself as the...

aria, but used it sparingly in his comic works. In performances of his serious operas, leading soloists would as a matter of course interpolate arias...

drama. In the early 19th century, opera's influence led to musical overtures and incidental music for many plays. In 1820, Franz Schubert wrote a melodrama...

story and a mixture of political satire and grand opera parody, Thespis was reminiscent of Orpheus in the Underworld and La belle Hélène by Offenbach, whose...

unfavourably to the Offenbach genre. Smetana was hurt by this remark, which he felt downgraded his opera to operetta status, and was convinced that press...