Opera is a drama set to music. An opera is like a play in which everything is sung instead of spoken. Operas are usually performed in opera houses. The...

Paris Opéra or the Opéra National de Paris is the most important opera company of France. It stages performances at the Opéra Bastille and Opéra Garnier...

Opera is a web browser that formerly included e-mail, webfeed reader, and IRC Chat. There are versions available for several operating systems. These...

The Opéra-Comique is an opera house and opera company in Paris. Its full name is théâtre national de l’Opéra-Comique (National Opéra Comic Theatre). The...

A soap opera is a television or radio program that airs in episodic series. This means that each episode continues telling a story, which, in turn, tells...

The Metropolitan Opera Association is a big organization in New York City which puts on performances of opera. The Metropolitan Opera House (often simply...

Opéra comique is a French opera tradition. Many French operas from the early 18th century to the early 20th century are opéras comiques. In this French...

Opera buffa is an Italian term meaning “comic opera”. It is mainly used for 18th century Italian comic operas. Opera buffa contrasts with opera seria...

The Paris Opera Ballet (French: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris) is the oldest national ballet company in the world. Many European and international ballet...

An opera house is a building where operas and ballets are performed. It is similar to a theatre. The first opera houses were built in the 1630s in Italy...

The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra) is a French novel by Gaston Leroux. It was published in 1910. An English edition came out a year...

Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Azeri: Axundov adına Azərbaycan Dövlət Akademik Opera və Balet Teatrı) is an opera house in Baku, Azerbaijan...

The Royal Opera House is a famous opera house in London. Sometimes it is called "Covent Garden" because it is in the area of London called Covent Garden...

The Bavarian State Opera (in German: Bayerische Staatsoper) is an opera company based in Munich, Germany. It has been in existence since 1653. Its orchestra...

The Civic Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. It is part of a building which contains a 45-story office tower and...

Queen of Spades (Russian: Пиковая дама, pronounced Pi-KO-va-ya DA-ma) is an opera by Tchaikovsky. It is based on a short story by Alexander Pushkin. Sometimes...

The Sydney Opera House is an opera house and iconic building on the shores of Sydney Harbour, in Sydney, Australia. It is shaped like the sails of a boat...

Opera seria is an Italian term which refers to the "serious" style of Italian opera in the 18th century. It was different from opera buffa which was a...

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) is a silent horror movie. It is based on a novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux. The movie was directed by Rupert Julian...

Opera Software is a company in Oslo, Norway that makes Opera, a set of tools for using the Internet. "Opera Software ASA – Annual Report 2012" (PDF)....

Grand opera is a term which is used to describe an opera with continuous music. It is a kind of opera that was popular in the 19th-century. Grand operas are...

The War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California is home to the second largest opera company in the United States. It was built in 1932 and seats...

famous theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened in 1860 and soon became the most important theatre for opera and ballet in Russia...

Singers' Contest at Wartburg) is a three-act opera with words and music by Richard Wagner. It was Wagner's fifth opera. He worked on it between 1842 and 1845...

English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, England. The opera house where it performs is called the London Coliseum. It is in St...

A Night at the Opera is a Queen album from 1975. It is generally regarded as Queen's strongest and most influential album. The album is in the 2005 book...

Salome is a short opera by Richard Strauss. It is based on the Biblical story of Salome, Herod and John the Baptist. The original play Salomé was written...

The Leipzig Opera is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig. It was created in 1693. Georg Philipp Telemann was the opera house's director from 1703...

three-act French opera. It is based on the story of Samson and Delilah in the Old Testament of the Bible. The words and story of the opera (the libretto)...

"evening gloves", but never "Opera Gloves". In this case, the term "opera" is the same as "opera length necklace" or "opera length stockings" and refers...

A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy movie starring the Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf...

Rock operas, concept albums, song cycles and oratorios all are not the same from a rock album, which usually has songs that are unrelated to each other...

Berlin State Opera, known in Germany as Staatsoper Unter den Linden is a world famous German opera company. Its permanent home is the Opera House on the...

Norma is an Italian opera in two acts. The music was composed by Vincenzo Bellini. The libretto is by Felice Romani.The opera was first performed at La...

Faust is a grand opera in five acts. The music was composed by Charles Gounod. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The...

it. "ju" means (Chinese) opera. At present, Yueju Opera is the second most popular opera in China, after the Beijing Opera. This short article about...

Opera is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region of Lombardy. "Classificazioni statistiche – anno 2026". www.istat.it. Italian...

Fate (in Czech: Osud), is an opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. Janáček wrote this opera between 1903 and 1905. His daughter Olga had died shortly...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of...

Belle au bois dormant (English: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood) is an opera in three acts by Michele Carafa to a French libretto by François-Antonine-Eugène...

The Oslo Opera House is a opera house in Oslo, Norway and is the home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet Construction started in 2003 and was finished...

Opera GX is a version of the web browser Opera built for gamers, It was released on June 11 2019. On 5 September 2019, Opera winner a Red Dot award in...

Siegfried is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the third of the four operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the...

Opera Air is a version of the web browser Opera for mindfulness. It was released in February 4, 2025. "Opera Air Browser With Mindfulness Exercises and...

has a 3,563-seat opera house, the Civic Opera House, which is the second-largest opera auditorium in North America. Today, the opera house is the permanent...

The Opéra Bastille (French: [opeʁa bastij] (listen), "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was...

Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). It was the only opera that Mussorgsky finished. It is his most famous...

My Opera Community is a virtual community, which provides help and social networking services for people who use the Opera browser. The My Opera Community...

Space opera is adventure science fiction in outer space or on distant planets. There are usually a strong heroes and villains and a very epic conflict...

Macbeth is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. It is based on Shakespeare’s play with the same name. The opera is normally in Italian, though there is also a French...

in Russian) is an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It is usually thought to be his greatest opera and one of the best of all Russian operas. Tchaikovsky finished...

Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. Berg took the story from two plays called Erdgeist and Die Büchse des Pandora by the German playwright Frank...

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1986 musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe wrote the book. Charles Hart and Stilgoe wrote the lyrics. Andrew...

American opera company in Buffalo, New York which puts on performances of opera. The Nickel City Opera (often simply called: The NCO) has staged opera productions...

Tapestry Opera is a Canadian opera company in Toronto. It boasts of being "the only Canadian company solely dedicated to the creation and performance...

Opera Atelier is an opera company, based in Toronto. It was founded in 1985. The company produces baroque operas and ballets from the 17th and 18th centuries...

Billy Budd is an opera by Benjamin Britten. It was first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 1 December 1951. It is based on the...

The Nose is an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1927. At this time a lot of exciting new movies were being made in the Soviet Union. There...

Falstaff is an Italian opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, on a libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor...

The Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) is a scientific experiment for detecting tau neutrinos from muon neutrino oscillations...

Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) is an opera by Richard Wagner. Wagner wrote the libretto himself. The story comes from the legend of the...

Greek National Opera (Greek: Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή) is an organization in Athens which puts on performances of opera. The Greek National Opera is the country's...

Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto. It boasts as the largest opera company in Canada and one of the largest opera producers in...

Café Opera is a café and nightclub in Stockholm, Sweden. It is a bistro, brasserie and tea house during the day, and a popular nightclub at night. It...

The Turn of the Screw is an opera by Benjamin Britten. It is a chamber opera (an opera for a small number of characters and very small orchestra). The...

Lohengrin is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Wagner wrote both the words and the music. It is based on an old German legend. Lohengrin is a...

The Opera House is a former opera house and current pub in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. It is also a Grade II listed building. "The Opera House"...

the novella by Thomas Mann see Der Tod in Venedig Death in Venice is an opera by Benjamin Britten. It is based on the story Death in Venice (Der Tod in...

Leipzig – 13 February 1883 in Venice) was a German opera composer. He was one of the most important opera composers in Germany during the Romantic period...

The Opéra de Monte-Carlo (Salle Garnier) is an opera house in Monaco. It was built in the 1870s by Prince Charles III of Monaco and the Société des bains...

Don Giovanni is an Italian opera in two acts. It is about the character better known as Don Juan. The music was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The...

Otello is an Italian opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto is by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's play Othello. It was first...

Cinderella (Italian: La Cenerentola) is an opera by Gioachino Rossini. It was first performed in Rome in January 1817. It is based on the 1697 fairy tale...

January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas. Verdi and Richard Wagner were the greatest composers of opera in the 19th century although they were completely...

the New York City Opera in 1965, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1968. This was followed by La Scala in Milan (1969), the Royal Opera House in London (1971)...

Paris Opéra. He held the position until 1836. He became a pupil of Rossini, and created all the principal tenor roles in Rossini's French operas. In time...

François d'Assise is an opera in three acts and eight scenes. The music and libretto were written by Olivier Messiaen. The opera was written from 1975 to...

of the Nibelung (Alberich)) is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner. The names of the four operas from the cycle are as follows, and in this succession:...

Passions was a television soap opera which aired starting July 5, 1999 until September 7, 2007 on NBC and on DirecTV from September 17, 2007 to August...

Madness) is an opera buffa with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the Italian libretto (the text of the opera). The opera premiered...

an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. It is the largest of the three major ballet...

Italian opera in four acts. The music was written by Giacomo Puccini. The libretto was written by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The opera tells the...

Madama Butterfly is an Italian opera in three acts with music by Giacomo Puccini. The libretto was written by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. It was...

Scala, is one of the most famous opera houses in the world. It is in Milan, Italy, which is the country where opera started at the beginning of the 17th...

1858 - 29 November 1924) was the most famous Italian opera composer after Verdi. He wrote 16 operas. Most of them are performed very often today. Many of...

describe an opera that was not too serious and often full of fun. It is often described as “light opera” (“light” meaning “not serious“). In an opera everything...

popular American soap opera. The show is the highest-rated soap opera, which means that more people watch it than any other soap opera. It aired its first...

A libretto is the text (the words) which are set to music to make an opera. A libretto can also be the words for an oratorio, cantata, mass or a musical...

composer. He was the most famous composer of operas in his time. His operas had lots of new ideas. Italian operas had become rather unimaginative, with composers...

musical works. Many have the highest musical quality. His works include the operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and The Magic Flute;...

television programming. Telenovelas are different from soap operas, because unlike soap operas, telenovelas have an ending and do not run for many years...

(commonly abbreviated GH) is the longest-running ABC Daytime American soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network. It is...

Act III of Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera, Robert le Diable. It premiered in November 1831 at the Paris Opéra. The choreography (now lost) was created...

Idomeneo is an opera seria with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto (words in Italian) was written by Giambattista Varesco. He based it on...

Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Wagner took most of the story from a medieval poem Parzival by the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach...

saxophone. In opera there are different kinds of soprano voices: A dramatic soprano will sing big, dramatic roles such as Aida in Verdi's opera Aida. A coloratura...

father's ballet Endymion. Vestris was appointed a soloist at the Paris Opéra in 1776, premier danseur in 1778, and premier sujet de la danse in 1780...

longest-running television soap opera in the world. It began on 9 December 1960. It is one of the two most popular soap operas in the UK, the other being EastEnders...

Festival Theatre) is an opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany. The German opera composer Richard Wagner got the opera house built so that his own...

roles, notably in the operas Il trovatore and Aida. She was one of the first black singers to enjoy an international career in opera. Price was born in Laurel...

operatic soprano, particularly associated with bel canto repertory and French operas. She possessed a voice of great beauty and considerable power combined with...

the Royal Opera House in London, the Berlin State Opera, the Paris Opéra, the Lyric Chicago Opera, the Dallas Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York...

Beautiful is a popular American soap opera. After The Young and the Restless, it is the highest-rated soap opera there. The series is shown in over 100...

middle C. It is the most common male voice type. Famous baritone roles in opera include: Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Figaro in Rossini's The...

scuola degli amanti (Women are like that, or The school for lovers) is an opera with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian lyrics by Lorenzo Da Ponte...

Emmerdale is a British soap opera. It is set in a made-up village called Emmerdale, called Beckindale until 1994, in the Yorkshire Dales. The plot is...

contralto. There are many roles in opera that need a mezzo-soprano voice, for example the role of Carmen in the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet or Cherubino...

period, Bach and Handel’s music developed differently. Handel wrote many operas and oratorios and by them became very famous. He took many trips, including...

for the ballet Giselle by Adolphe Adam, for the opera La fille du regiment by Donizetti, and the opera La jolie fille de Perth for Bizet. He wrote over...

Cavalleria rusticana is an Italian opera in one act. The music was written by Pietro Mascagni. The story and words (libretto) were written by Giovanni...

Teatro La Fenice is a famous opera house in Venice, Italy. People often call it simply La Fenice. Its name comes from the Italian word Fenice, meaning...

As the World Turns (ATWT) is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS. Set in the made-up town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show first...

Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the only comic opera that Wagner wrote. Wagner wrote the words (the libretto)...

referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) was the home of the Paris Opera from 1821 until the building was destroyed by fire...

Giulio Cesare in Egitto (English: Julius Caesar in Egypt) is an opera in three acts with music by George Frideric Handel. The Italian libretto was written...

wrote a lot of music for his long-term partner, the tenor Peter Pears. His operas include Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Death in...

popular contemporary vocal performers in the world. He not only sang in opera but also in other kinds of music. Known for his televised concerts, media...

2 May 1864) was a famous German-born opera composer. He was the most important composer of French Grand opera during the 1830s and 1840s. Although he...

most well known for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. He won a contest for designing the Sydney Opera House in 1957. However, he left Australia...

The title role in a play or an opera is the role (the part) that is also the title of the play or opera. The actor, singer, or dancer who performs that...

is an Italian opera in three acts. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the libretto (story and words). Gaetano Donizetti wrote the music. The opera is based on Sir...

biggest opera house in the world. Today, it is still one of the biggest opera houses in Italy. It is also the oldest opera house in Italy. Many operas were...

La traviata is an Italian opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Alexandre Dumas, fils's novel La dame aux camélias...

dialect he spoke. This was quite close to Polish. Janáček is famous for his operas which are all based on Czech stories. The Cunning Little Vixen is especially...

an opera by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It is one of the most important Russian operas of the 20th century. The words for the opera (the...

operas in Italy in the years between the death of Bellini (1835) and the time when Verdi was becoming well-known. Bellini and Donizetti wrote operas in...

capital of the world and its important influence on design, economics, opera, and the media make it amongst the world's top 18 Global cities, along with...

Italian opera in four acts. The music was written by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto (story and words) was written by Antonio Ghislanzoni. The opera is based...

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. When Puccini died he had not...

overture is a piece of music for the orchestra to play at the beginning of an opera or ballet. The word comes from the French word for "opening" because it...

Bel canto is a way of singing in opera. It comes from the Italian, meaning "beautiful singing". Bel canto singing means singing beautifully, flexibly...

a tragedienne, but her dance talent led her to the ballet of the Paris Opéra. She performed from 1840 to 1848. She rose quickly from minor parts to principal...

of remarkable buildings nearby. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is the main theatre for ballet and opera in London. It has several rehearsal rooms...

by the Paris Opera Ballet on 1 April 1846. It starred Carlotta Grisi and Lucien Petipa. Paquita remained in the repertory of the Opéra until 1851. The...

Xerxes) is an opera seria in three acts with music by George Frideric Handel. The Italian libretto was written by Silvio Stampiglia. The opera was first performed...

wrote some music in Renaissance style, and other music in Baroque style. Opera was being invented. It was a time of musical change. The change from writing...

particularly famous for his ballets, especially Coppélia, and operettas and operas, of which Lakmé is the most famous. Delibes’s father worked for the post...

a symphony. He was also a great conductor and helped to make the Vienna Opera world-famous. Gustav Mahler was born on 7 July 1860 into a Jewish family...

the Vienna State Opera (1968), La Scala in Milan (1969), the Royal Opera House in London (1970), and finally at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1975...

Business Is Good! (1985) Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? (1986) Fatal Opera Fatal Opera (1995) The Eleventh Hour (1997) Talevski, Nick (2006). Knocking on...

aria is a long song accompanying a solo voice. An aria is usually in an opera. It is an Italian word of the 18th century meaning “air” (i.e. a tune)....

Paris, 13 August 1912) was a French composer. He is most famous for his operas, although he wrote a large amount of other music as well. Jules’ father...

Sometimes, it is written in the "C-clef", which is also called a tenor clef. In opera the role of the young male is usually sung by a tenor. Depending on characteristics...

Bizet's opera, Carmen, set in Philadelphia and Los Angeles in modern times, and features a mostly original hip-hop/R&B score in place of Bizet's opera. The...

all the major opera houses of Italy. She then began singing abroad and made her debut at the Royal Opera House in 1950, at the Paris Opéra in 1951, and...

with the English Opera Group. Then he sang the part of Albert Herring in Britten’s opera. In 1978, he joined English National Opera. He sang several roles...

opera by Puccini. The opera is three acts long. It was based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. The first showing of the opera...

She danced mostly in London at Her Majesty's Theatre and in Paris at the Opéra. In 1827, she began a three-year stint with the Imperial Ballet in St Petersburg...

Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Eremitage, Spitalkirche, The Old Castle, Margravial Opera House, and Wahnfried. Most of the sights have been built in the 18th century...

Geir Ivarsøy (June 27, 1957 – March 9, 2006) was the main programmer at Opera Software. He and Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner were part of a research group...

dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for the comic operas (or operettas) that he wrote with Sir Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert worked in...

about two hours long: a whole concert. It is rather like an opera, but whereas an opera is acted out in costume on a stage, an oratorio is sung and played...

(The Threepenny Opera). It was based on an opera called The Beggar's Opera which had been written in 1728 by John Gay. The Threepenny Opera includes a song...

of Lieder (German art songs), but he was also a superbly great singer of opera as well as a concert singer with orchestras. Later in his career he also...

in Lybensk, near St Petersburg, 21 June 1908. He is best known for his operas, orchestral music and songs. He was brilliant at writing music for orchestras...

great works including symphonies, concertos, piano sonatas, ballets and operas. Prokofiev was born into an educated family, and his mother recognized very...

Vishnevskaya (born Leningrad, October 25, 1926 - December 11, 2012) was a Russian opera singer and recitalist. Vishnevskaya was born in Leningrad, the town which...

used in Italian opera. Later, in the 19th century, Richard Wagner wrote operas in which the singers needed to be more dramatic. Opera singers today can...

late 19th century to write fourteen well known comic operas. W.S. Gilbert wrote the words to the operas, while Arthur Sullivan was the composer who wrote...

musical theme that is often repeated in a piece of music, very often in opera. The leitmotif is linked in the musical story with a person or a thing or...

Julian calendar. January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante plays at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. February 14 – The Order...

1801 - Puteaux, near Paris, September 23 1835) was an Italian composer and opera composer. Bellini was well liked for his melodies. His first success was...

Peking opera artist. He was also a performer of the Dan role type in Peking Opera and Kunqu opera. He was the leader of Mei Lanfang Peking Opera troupe...

Don Carlos is an opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed to a libretto in the French language by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry. It was based...

Götterdämmerung is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the fourth and last of the cycle of operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen...

or opera) they are showing that they did not like it. Booing and hissing used to be very common, especially at the opera. In the early days of opera (from...

over Europe. After 1900, he spent most of his time writing operas including Salome. His opera Der Rosenkavalier, written in 1910, is extremely popular....

calendar. January 8 – Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. June 17 – French troops take Philippsburg...

Lyon, France, and studied with Auguste Vestris. He debuted at the Paris Opéra in 1830, and became premier sujet (principal dancer) within a year. He became...

singers were very sought after in the early days of the opera. Most of the main soprano roles in operas by Handel and other composers of that time were written...

Verismo is a word which refers to a type of literature and a type of opera that was popular towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the...

orchestra or for piano. He also wrote some songs, chamber music and one opera. He made his music very different from the Romantic style, which other composers...

more so than Schoenberg or Webern. His most important works are his two operas Wozzeck and Lulu and his Violin Concerto. Berg was brought up in the centre...

and pianist. He was known for being music director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 until 2016. He was fired from the Met on March 12, 2018, over...

Petersburg, 28 March 1881) was a Russian composer. Mussorgsky is famous for his operas and songs. He discovered new ways of writing for the voice which were very...

The Barber of Seville (in Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia) is a comic opera (opera buffa) in two acts by the composer Gioachino Rossini. The libretto (words)...

an opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935). It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. Berg wrote this opera before...

Teatro Regio ('Royal Theatre') is a well-known opera house and opera company in Turin, Italy. Operas had been performed in various buildings in Turin...

Orchestra (Tokyo). Opera houses usually have their own orchestra, e.g. the orchestras of the Metropolitan Opera House, La Scala, or the Royal Opera House. In many...

Ariodante is an opera seria in three acts with music by George Frideric Handel. The libretto was based on parts of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso...

A breeches role is a part in an opera in which a woman plays the role of a man. It is also called a trouser role (British) or pants role (U.S.) or travesti...

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the first of the four operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen...

Another World is an American television soap opera that was broadcast on NBC from May 4, 1964, to June 25, 1999. This short article about television can...

important German composers of the early Romantic period. He wrote many operas, of which Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon are especially famous. He...

his librettos (the story and words) for operas. Many composers used them for their operas. More than 800 operas have a libretto by Metastasio. Metastasio...

Il trovatore (The Troubadour) is an Italian opera in four acts. The music was written by Giuseppe Verdi. The story and words were written by Salvatore...

Kasamh Se is an Indian television soap opera. It was produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. The soap opera aired on Zee TV. From 16 January 2006...

2018) was a Spanish (Catalan) operatic soprano. She was one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century. She possessed a voice of remarkable beauty...

was a great inspiration for Britten’s vocal writing. Many of Britten's operas have a main tenor role which was written for Pears to sing. Britten also...

Elizabeth Connell (22 October 1946–18 February 2012) was an opera singer born in South Africa. During her career she sang mainly in the United Kingdom...

known classical music singers in opera, concert, and lieder. She sang a lot of Baroque music including early Italian opera as well as works by modern composers...

La clemenza di Tito is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The text of the opera was written by Caterino Mazzolà. It is based on an earlier libretto...

This is a list of the current characters in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, listed in order of appearance. Kilkelly, Daniel (24 March 2025). "Coronation...

in 1957, she sang with the Netherlands Opera, then was invited at the Glyndebourne Festival, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1961. She made...

The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera by Richard Strauss. The words (libretto) were especially written for the opera by the German poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal...

particularly associated with lyric-coloratura roles in Italian and French operas, she was admired as much for her vocal gifts as her great beauty and affecting...

was a Welsh opera singer. She was famous for singing parts from Mozart operas. She sang in the opera Aida. She also sang in other operas. Price was born...

nationalist music. His music is typical of the Czech people. His eight operas are about Nationalist stories. He wrote six tone poems for orchestra called...

Fidelio is an opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner based on a French...

This page is about the Shakespearean character. For the opera by Verdi see Falstaff (opera) Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three...

Manon is a French opera in five acts by Jules Massenet, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on March 19, 1884, libretto by Henri Meilhac et...

November 1887) was a Swedish opera singer. She was nicknamed the "Swedish Nightingale". She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern...

With Martin Scorsese Billboard. February 25, 2015 "The Fly The Opera". The Fly The Opera. Archived from the original on August 18, 2012. Retrieved December...

L'incoronazione di Poppea (English: The Coronation of Poppea) is an opera in three acts by Claudio Monteverdi. The libretto is by Giovanni Francesco Busenello...

Faustina Bordoni, an opera singer. His opera Artaserse was performed there. It was his first opera which uses Metastasio's text. The opera was a success. He...

Theater) is a world-famous theatre and opera company in Moscow, Russia, which gives performances of ballet and opera. It is in the centre of Moscow, near...

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an Italian opera in three acts. The music was written by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Antonio Somma...

6 December 2010) was a Swiss opera singer. He was a tenor. He was particularly famous for singing comic roles in opera. He had an extremely long career...

style. The first opera ever written was composed in 1597 by a composer named Jacopo Peri. Just eleven years later Monteverdi wrote an opera Orfeo which was...

an opera by Richard Wagner. Its full title is Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes). It is one of the earliest operas Wagner...

Anna Bolena is an Italian opera in two acts. Gaetano Donizetti wrote the music to a libretto by Felice Romani. The opera was first performed in Milan,...

Manon Lescaut is an Italian opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, first performed in Turin, on February 1, 1893, libretto by Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa...

Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. As always, Wagner wrote the words for the opera himself. He took the famous old...

the English National Opera. When the theatre reopened they performed Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes. In 1946 the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden...

I pagliacci or Pagliacci (English: The Players) is a short two-act opera with libretto and music by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It was first performed in the...

century the Czechs in these areas wanted to be able to put on plays and operas in the Czech language. The National Theatre was built at a time when this...

Tuscany and died in Rome. In 1890, he wrote the one-act opera, Cavalleria rusticana. This famous opera is often paired with Ruggero Leoncavallo's I pagliacci...

performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are performed. It was Wagner's own idea to start a festival for his operas in Bayreuth...

Alcina is an opera seria with music by George Frideric Handel. The libretto was written by Riccardo Broschi. The opera is based on an episode in Ludovico...

Die Feen (The Fairies) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. The German libretto was written by the composer. He was adapting a story by Carlo...

Austrian film director and screenwriter during the Weimar Republic. The most influential works are The Threepenny Opera (1931) and Pandora's Box (1929)....

Der Freischütz is an opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus...

“to recite” i.e. to tell a story. Recitative is used in opera, oratorio and cantatas. When opera was invented around 1600 the composers needed to tell the...

Malena Ernman (born as Sara Magdalena Ernman, 4 November 1970) is a Swedish opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Ernman has performed chansons, cabaret, jazz and...

Opera singers, in particular, have to develop very powerful voices which will be heard over the orchestra and project right to the back of an opera house...

wanted to write opera as well, but he wanted to make his music sound very Russian. Glinka went back to Russia. He wrote two great operas. The first one...

The ballet was first performed on October 16, 1942 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. It was a great success. The ballet consists of five...

Waltz, member of the faculty at Columbia University Christoph Waltz, Academy Award-winning Viennese actor Gustavus Waltz, English opera singer Mike Waltz...

13, 1924 – 25 July 2014) was an Italian tenor. He performed in Italian operas, especially in the works of Giuseppe Verdi. He was noted for his very good...

together they wrote fourteen comic operas. Their names are always mentioned together: "Gilbert and Sullivan". Their operas were very popular a hundred years...

Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) is a French opera. It has a prologue, three acts and an epilogue. The music was written by Jacques Offenbach...

An orchestra pit is the space where an orchestra plays in a theatre or opera house. The actors or singers are on the stage, and the orchestra pit is normally...

conductor of several opera houses. As a conductor, he worked at the Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Opernhaus Kiel and Hamburg State Opera, and led the radio...

works of Szymanowski include four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat...

is especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is thought of as the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of the famous...

Operation Opera (Hebrew: מִבְצָע אוֹפֵּרָה, also called Operation Babylon and Operation Ofra) was a 1981 Israeli surprise attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor...

Dallas is an American soap opera. It is about the Ewings, a family from Texas involved in oil and cattle ranching. The show began as a television miniseries...

the Belgrade Opera in 1954. She was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1959 to 1979. She first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 1961 as Amneris...

baritone. He was a long-term member of the Opéra-Comique and the Paris Opera. He also appeared at leading opera houses in Europe and the United States. Bacquier...

the Romantic period. He is best known for his opera Carmen, which is the best-known of all French operas. Bizet was born in Paris and died in Bougival...

touring opera Soon he was being asked to sing all over the world in opera houses such as La Scala, Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera. His performances...

or movie It can mean a musical concert It can mean a performance at the opera It can also mean a television program The Simple English Wiktionary has...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the second of the four operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen...

Austria) was a German-British soprano. She was one of the most famous opera singers of the 20th century as well as a famous recitalist. She was particularly...

opera singer. Chu made her singing debut on television when she was eight years old. She studied at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera....

August 1633) was an Italian composer and singer. He composed the first opera ever written. Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence. He had several...

Oresteia is a Greek opera by Iannis Xenakis made in 1965 and 1966. The work is based on Oresteia by Aeschylus. It is made for a chorus and twelve instrument...

music from the Classical music period but changed it. His only full-length opera The Rake's Progress was written in this way. In his later years he wrote...

Teatro Real (Royal Theatre) or simply El Real, is a major opera house in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1818 and opened on 19 November 1850. It closed...

Goyescas is a Spanish opera with music by Enrique Granados and libretto by Fernando Periquet y Zuaznabar. It is based on the piano work by Granados which...

Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten. It was first performed in 1945. It is generally thought to be the most important British opera of the 20th century...

2023) was an American opera singer and a bass-baritone, who at first spent a decade as a leading baritone at the New York City Opera. With Beverly Sills...

opportunity to write a grand opera on the condition that he continue to write the light operas. Sullivan accepted. The grand opera would be Ivanhoe. Gilbert...

from the Seraglio) is a musical opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is an example of a Singspiel: a type of German opera which had spoken dialogue as well...

three-act opera of realism with words and music by Leoš Janáček. It is based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová. The opera was first performed...

Gulliver's Travels to make fun of people’s stupidity. Works like The Beggar’s Opera (1728) used satire to show how silly the politicians of the time were. The...

vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around...

29 – Jerry Lee Lewis, musician (d. 2022) October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer (The Three Tenors) (d. 2007) November 30 – Woody Allen, movie maker...

Svetlana Beriosova as the Tsarevna. This production played the Metropolitan Opera House in September 1955 with the same principals. George Balanchine staged...

1953 – 17 July 2021) was an English opera director. He was known for being the director of the Birmingham Opera Company. Vick was born in Birkenhead...

wrote chamber music including several string quartets, piano music, songs, operas, oratorios and nine symphonies. The last of his symphonies is known as the...

2016) was a Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament. He was a singer at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theatre appearing...

for the theatre, even popular drinking songs. He wrote the first English opera. He lived in the time called the Baroque period. He liked Italian and French...

of the opera Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky the crowd of poor people gather round the simpleton who is the last person to sing in the whole opera. His moans...

wrote many different kinds of pieces, but he is best known today for his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette and, especially, for the very popular “Ave Maria”...

contemporary music in opera and concert. He first worked in Vienna and was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) of the Royal Swedish Opera. He conducted world premieres...

16 December 1939 – 5 March 2010) was a British tenor. He sang in many operas. He also sang in many concerts and recitals. Langridge studied the violin...

March 2018) was a Swedish opera singer and theater manager. Dellert made her opera debut at Stora teatern (the old Gothenburg Opera stage) in Gothenburg in...

beautiful opera houses in Europe. The Estates Theatre became part of the National Theatre in 1948. People from three different groups perform opera, ballet...

orchestral and opera conductor. His Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut came in 1965, with first appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City...

from the 1950s to the mid-1970s for singing some of the great roles in the operas of Mozart and Richard Strauss. She was known for the naturalness of her...

a Chinese Peking opera artist. Tan Xinpei played in many sheng roles. Tan Xinpei was thought to be the most important Peking opera performer in his generation...

the first public opera house opened in Venice. Cavalli became so famous that he was invited to Paris in 1660 where he performed his opera Xerxes. He visited...

23, 1857 – August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. He is best known for his 1892 opera, I pagliacci. In 1906, he toured the United...

Rigoletto is an Italian opera in three acts. Giuseppe Verdi wrote the music. Francesco Maria Piave wrote the libretto (words and story). Piave based his...

He was a pupil of Jean-Georges Noverre and made his debut at the Paris Opéra on June 12, 1762. He was a superb mime. He choreographed few ballets, but...

barons paid for a big biggest luxury from Europe, a copy the Grand Paris Opéra - the TEATRO AMAZONAS. Other monuments from this time include the MERCADO...

Nabucco is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi composed it in 1841. It was first perfomed at La Scala, in Milan in 1842. It has two main themes, the Jews...

the librettos (the story and words) for many operas. He is most famous for the librettos he wrote for operas composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Piave was born...

the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She was particularly associated with light coloratura roles in Italian, French and German operas. Born Roberta Peterman...

Italy. He composed 18 operas. He also composed, cantatas, oratorios, and music for flutes and other musical instruments. His operas placed great importance...

The Edinburgh International Festival is a festival of music, theatre, opera, dance, visual arts and literature that takes place every year in the city...

an opera in one act with music written by the English composer Gustav Holst. Holst wrote the work over the time period from 1918 to 1922. The opera was...

Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears) is an opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. Janáček loved animals, and in this opera some of the characters are humans...

L'Orfeo is a five-act opera. The music was written by Claudio Monteverdi. The words were written by Alessandro Striggio. The opera is based on the myth...

Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев; born Moscow, 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian birth. He is general director and artistic...

2021) was an American opera composer. Many of his songs were based on his life living in the American South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is...

operas such as The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera, L'italiana in Algeri at Opéra National de Paris, and La Cenerentola with Dallas Opera...

first dramatic works include an opera called The Nose and a ballet called The Golden Age. In 1930, he wrote an important opera called Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk...

Les Troyens is an opera by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz wrote the words and music between 1856 and 1858. The opera is based on Virgil's Aeneid. It took many...

Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Béla Bartók. The words are written in Hungarian. The opera is based on the 1697 French fairy tale "Bluebeard"...

after Jeremias Gotthelf, 1936 Romeo und Julia, opera after William Shakespeare, 1940 Die Zauberinsel, opera after Shakespeare, 1942 1. Piano Concerto, 1943...

Internet + Social Network Art gallery Museum Park Cafe Cabaret Concert Opera Ballet Theme park Beach Exhibition Toys Fashion show Zoo Water park Bathhouse...

Home and Away (often called H&A) is an Australian soap opera that has been made in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. The show first aired on...

American opera singer who sung both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. Ewing made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976...

internationally renowned opera singer. After studying at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, she appeared internationally in opera and concert. In January...

career. He started writing operas. His first opera, Salustia, was not successful. He wrote Il prigioniero superbo in 1733. The opera celebrates Empress Elisabeth...

for his operas. His most well-known operas are: Hippolyte et Aricie, Castor et Pollux, and Dardanus. He is also known for his one act opera "Pigmalion"...

Texas) was a Mexican opera composer of Jewish descent. He is best known for turning the Italian movie, Il Postino, into an opera. He was working at the...

Carmen is a French opera written and first performed on 3 March 1875 by Georges Bizet. The story is set in Spain, althorugh the libretto is written in...

Europe, but his music also sounds very Russian. His compositions include 11 operas, 3 ballets, orchestral music, chamber music and over 100 songs. His famous...

the Performing Arts is an opera house in Toronto, Canada. It was opened on June 14, 2006. It is home to the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet...

These great pianists became great stars in the way that, in music, only opera singers had been great stars before. Some concert halls have become well-known...

Armide is an opera. The music was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The words were written by Philippe Quinault. The story of the opera is based on Jerusalem...

Don Pasquale is an Italian comic opera in three acts. Gaetano Donizetti wrote the music. Giovanni Ruffini wrote the libretto (story and words). Don Pasquale...

All My Children was an American soap opera set in a fictional suburb of Philadelphia. Susan Lucci plays Erica Kane. Other famous people have starred,...

Guiding Light is an American radio and television soap opera. It is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running television drama in American...

Orchestra from 1967 to 1979, music director at Glyndebourne Opera from 1978 to 1988 and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 1987 to 2002. He also held...

Erika Slezak (born August 5, 1946) is a soap opera actress. She is strongly known because of her role as Victoria Lord in the television series One Life...

The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor...

Marseilles. He later held the post of First Ballet Master of the Paris Opéra Ballet. He is best known for the creation of the Romantic ballet Giselle...

A claque (pronounce: ‘clack’) is a small group of people in an opera house who deliberately either clapped loudly (applauded) or shouted boo for a particular...

until he moved back to Chile in the early 2010s. He has performed at many opera houses around the world. He also performs at different scenes and TV-shows...

the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera. Squarciapino worked with Ezio...

Semiramide is an Italian opera written by Gioachino Rossini. It has two acts. It was first performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, on February 3...

in the rebirth of interest in Baroque music. He conducted operas at major international opera houses and festivals, including the Glyndebourne Festival...

Tosca is an Italian opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. It was first performed in Rome on January 14, 1900. The libretto was written by Giuseppe Giacosa...

his career by helping singers at the Graz Opera to learn their roles. Böhm became very interested in the operas of Wagner and Mozart and learned a lot from...

is a three-act English opera. The story and words were written by Nahum Tate. The music was written by Henry Purcell. The opera was probably written about...

or opera. An intermission may be twenty minutes or longer: time for people to have a drink and time for the performers to relax. Plays and operas are...

soprano. She was the youngest singer who ever starred at the Metropolitan Opera. She was sometimes called "Princess Pat". Munsel was born in Spokane, Washington...

strangle people, mentioned in Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera Punjab, a character in the musical Annie Punjab (XMPP), an XMPP/Jabber server...

and French repertoire in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States. He worked with the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he sang in over 240...

at opera houses, theaters, and on television. Her career included performances with the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, the Teatro Real, Cairo Opera House...

resorts. Within the casino complex is the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and ballet house, and the headquarters of the Ballets de...

Antonio Coppola (March 21, 1917 – March 9, 2020) was an American opera conductor and composer. He was the uncle of movie director Francis Ford Coppola...

du Châtelet (French pronunciation: ​[teɑtʁ dy ʃatlɛ]) is a theatre and opera house in Paris seating 2,500 people. It was designed by Gabriel Davioud...

Roberto Devereux is an Italian opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after François Ancelot's Elisabeth d'Angleterre...

opera soprano. She first became known in 1954 for Medea at the Oxford University Opera Club. From 1956 to 1975, she was a member of the English Opera...

Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. In 2004...

She was a long-time member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She is known for her roles in operas by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi. or 23 January 1935...

most of her career with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In April 2009, she started her career with Metropolitan Opera in New York as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni...

Brookside is a British soap opera, set and shot in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982...

York City Opera. Pappano is the youngest conductor to lead the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in London, accompanying both the Royal Opera and Royal...

L'elisir d'amore (English: The Elixir of Love) is an Italian comic opera in two acts. The music was written by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote...

composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor. He worked as a professor in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper...

stadium was also used for open air opera performances and boxing events. In the 1920s the stadium was used for open air operas and boxing. 1924 the composer...

Dynasty was an American primetime soap opera which aired on ABC beginning in January 1981 and ending in May 1989. Starring in the series were John Forsythe...

I puritani is an Italian opera in three acts by Vincenzo Bellini, first performed in Paris, on January 25, 1835, libretto by Carlo Pepoli, after Jacques...

The Oxford dictionary of dance. Oxford University Press. p40 From the progamme of the Mariinsky Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011....

Mefistofele is an Italian opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue; with music and libretto. It is by Arrigo Boito and is based on Johann Wolfgang...

Tsar's Bride (Tsarskaya nevesta in Russian) is an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was the tenth opera the composer wrote. The words (libretto) were written...

Ernani is an Italian opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Victor Hugo's play Hernani. It was first...

three-act opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. It was first performed at The Broadway Theatre in New York City on December 27, 1954. The opera won...

von Nürnberg and the four operas in the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. He conducted a lot in Vienna and at the Bayreuth Opera House which Wagner had built...

was an Australian opera director, theatre director and television director. He worked at the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National...

the East Coast of Australia in Sydney. It is the location of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Before the arrival of European settlers...

1919; died Vienna, 24 November 1988) was a famous German soprano who sang opera and lieder. Irmgard Seefried was born in Köngetried, near Mindelheim, Bavaria...

The Rake's Progress is an opera by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman is based loosely on the eight paintings and...

A Répétiteur is a musician who helps opera singers to learn their parts for an opera. The word Répétiteur is a French word which comes from the verb "répéter"...

18, 1956) is an American actress who acts in soap operas. She played Nikki Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. She also played Darlene...

Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski. The show premiered in the US on January...

A mad scene is a scene in a play, ballet, opera, or other theatre work that shows a character either insane or going insane. Three famous mad scenes are...

He was persuaded to make Goyescas into an opera. The opera was going to be performed at the Paris Opéra but, because of World War I it was performed...

leading roles with The Royal Opera in London, the Welsh National Opera, the Scottish Opera, and the English National Opera. Davies was born in Wrexham...

Lakmé is a French opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on April 14, 1883, libretto by Edmond Gondinet and...

composer. He is famous for his operas which were written in a new and exciting way. He was not interested in writing operas which were just a series of songs...

active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from the 1940s through the 1990s. His best known works were operas of Richard Wagner. On the...

Hollyoaks is a British television teen soap opera. It was first broadcast on 23 October 1995, on Channel 4. There is a new episode every weekday. It is...

March 23, 2006) was an American opera conductor and a stage director. She sang, performed and was director of opera music. Sarah was born in Missouri...

American composer and writer. He was the founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre. He was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He was known for his work...

Its population (including suburbs) is about 735 000. Yueju Opera, which is a Chinese opera popular in China, originated in Shengzhou. This short article...

The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome Opera House) is an opera house in Rome, Italy. It first opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat Costanzi Theatre...

Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer. She was a dramatic soprano. She often sung works by Richard Wagner...

Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976), was an Italian theatre, opera and movie director, and screenwriter. He was best known for his movies The...

Oedipus rex Edipo re, an opera published posthumously as by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Oedipus (Seneca) Oedipus rex (opera), an opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky...

developing dancers. Between 1860–68, he was Ballet Master at the Paris Opéra Ballet, and later Professor of Mime at the Conservatory. In 1882, he produced...

(born 30 August 1919 - 21 March 2010) was a German opera director. He was the grandson of the opera composer Richard Wagner and great-grandson of the composer...

American actor. He is best known for his role of Lance Cumson in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990). Lamas is also known for his roles as Reno Raines...

opera, and chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works. He often played the piano in performances of his works. He composed an opera based...

known as Australian Neighbors in the United States) is an Australian soap opera. The show ran since March 18, 1985 on the Seven Network, but they cancelled...

first performance of the ballet Giselle in 1841. The ballet opened at the Opéra and was especially acclaimed for the setting of its second act. He was awarded...

La Gioconda is an Italian opera in four acts, music by Amilcare Ponchielli and libretto by Arrigo Boito, after Victor Hugo's play Angelo, Tyran de Padoue...

An Impresario is somebody who organizes concerts, operas, ballets or plays. The word comes from the Italian word impresa, which means "an enterprise" or...

Xerxes may refer to: Xerxes I of Persia, "Xerxes the Great", reigned 486–465 BC Xerxes of Armenia Serse (Xerxes), George Frideric Handel's opera of 1738...

composing operas. Boesmans was born in Tongeren, Belgium. He was composer in residence at the La Monnaie opera house in Brussels. He also composed the opera Reigen...

composed many operas and ballets. He is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856, his last work), and his operas Le postillon...

Finnish opera composer, conductor, choirmaster, and organist. He began his career as a church organist. He was choirmaster of the Finnish National Opera chorus...

Riccardo III is an Italian opera in four acts, music by Luigi Canepa and libretto by Fulvio Fulgonio, after William Shakespeare's play Richard III. It...

Fairclough and Sullivan) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Barbara Knox, the character first appeared...

his operas and choral music. His best-known piece is his 1982 opera The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of several operas he composed for the Opera Theatre...

(October 27, 1960 – March 24, 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. He was born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR. Bryzhak had been a protodeacon...

performed in 1994 at the Royal Opera House a group of hecklers booed and whistled loudly. However, this only made the opera more famous as lots of people...

Faust (opera) in 1901. She starred or played major roles in a lot of operas before Cecil B. DeMille had her star in the movie version of the opera Carmen...

by Freddie Mercury, and was released on their 1975 album A Night at the Opera. Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs (including...

and Friends on Broadway (1974–75) and was artistic director of the Paris Opera House from 1983 to 1989. He promoted junior dancers, such as Sylvie Guillem...

and 1860s. They combined political and cultural satire with witty grand opera parodies. His popularity in France declined in the 1870s after the fall...

(2 May 1754 – 30 January 1806) was a composer from Spain. He wrote many operas and ballets. He was born in Valencia, a city in Spain. He studied music...

Ken Barlow is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by William Roache. Barlow was created by Tony Warren as...

character in the book called the Nibelungenlied. For Wagner's opera see Siegfried (opera). Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr) is a strong hero in the Nibelungenlied...

August 1867 – 12 November 1948) was an Italian composer. He wrote many operas. His opera Andrea Chénier (1896) is still performed. This short article about...

at the Royal Swedish Opera in the year 1901, she worked there until 1918 when she became the leader. She led many different operas but she is remembered...

Adriana Lecouvreur is an Italian opera in four acts, music by Francesco Cilea and libretto by Arturo Colautti, after Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé's...

them Parcae. The three Norns appear at the beginning of Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung and foretell the downfall of the gods when a thread of fate...

or Joël, (6 February 1953 – 18 June 2020) was a French opera director and administrator of opera houses. He was general manager of the Théâtre du Capitole...

ballet was first performed on 25 May 1870 at the Théâtre Impérial de l´Opéra in Paris. Coppélia was a great success. It has been performed around the...

conductor and teacher. He is generally called the father of Polish national opera. Moniuszko was born in Ubiel (Minsk district in modern Belarus) to a Polish-Armenian...

the music conservatoire in Naples. He started to write comic operas (opera buffa). His opera La Cecchina, ossia la buona Figliuola with a libretto by Goldoni...

September 2020) was a British-born New Zealand television journalist, actor and opera singer. He was born in London. He was best known for presenting on BBC's...

1968, Tourangeau appeared with the New York City Opera, as Carmen. She made her formal Metropolitan Opera debut on November 28, 1973, as Nicklausse in The...

works include several orchestral overtures, the Symphonie Fantastique, the opera Les Troyens (The Trojans), the requiem Grande messe des morts and the song...

children do not usually sing in opera, occasionally a treble is used for the part of a very small boy, e.g. in Debussy’s opera Pélléas et Mélisande or the...

Bat) is an opera by Johann Strauss II. Its first performance took place on April 5, 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria. The opera has been...

charge of the Paris Opera. He was born in 1924 at Villemomble, France and began ballet lessons at the age of nine at the Paris Opera's School of Dance. After...

used gesamtkunstwerk in creating his operas. In the Classical era, there was more emphasis on the music in an opera. But in the Romantic era, there was...

of Music and won all the major prizes. He became famous when he wrote an opera called Greek. It is typical of his musical style: quite lyrical but also...

1843 – 27 September 1919) was a highly acclaimed Italian-French 19th-century opera diva, earning huge fees, sometimes $5000 in gold, at the height of her career...

essayist and poet. He is best known for writing Moby-Dick. Billy Budd (opera) List of poets from the United States "Herman Melville | Books, Facts, &...

for their concerts, and in Glyndebourne, where the RPO had played for the opera since 1948, the London Philharmonic Orchestra became the resident orchestra...

and songwriter. He was best known for his roles on many television soap operas, mainly as villain Mitch Laurence on One Life to Live in six appearances...

1937, Karajan first conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin State Opera He was very successful when he conducted Tristan und Isolde. In 1938 a Berlin...

He joined the orchestra of an opera company and he toured South America with them in 1886. While performing Verdi’s opera Aida in Rio de Janeiro the audience...

German operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto, and opera director. She appeared at international opera houses and festivals, with a focus on contemporary...

ballet, Coppélia and for having helped translate Richard Wagner's earliest operas into French. This short article about a person or group of people can be...

Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894) December 9 – Emma Abbott, American opera singer (d. 1891) December 21 – Zdenek Fibich, Czech composer (d. 1900) July...

Roméo et Juliette is a French opera in five acts by Charles Gounod, first performed in Paris, on April 27, 1867, libretto by Jules Barbier et Michel Carré...

regained it in 1944. In this city, there are a lot of monuments like : The Opéra-théâtre, XVIII°s, the oldest theatre of France, it is on an island. The...

Maria Stuarda is an Italian opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, after Friedrich Schiller's play Maria Stuarda. It...

morphological analysis in linguistics A production, in theatre, can be a play, opera, dance, ballet, or musical Producer (disambiguation page) Productivity Labor...

Georgia. December 7 – The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened Genoa regains Corsica 139 members of the Paris Parlement...

Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera. It is based on the Gospel accounts of Jesus. Tim Rice wrote the lyrics and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music...

EastEnders is a British TV soap opera in the United Kingdom. It has been running since 19th February 1985, and has had over 7000 episodes. The programme...

Coppola, the composer and conductor Anton Coppola, is shown conducting the opera, Cavalleria rusticana. The Godfather Part III on IMDb The Godfather Part...

Knots Landing was an American soap opera. It began December 27, 1979 and ended May 13, 1993. It was a spin-off of Dallas. The show aired on CBS throughout...

played Valene Ewing in the soap opera series Knots Landing. She also played Gloria Fisher Abbott in CBS' daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. She...

He was born and died in Naples. He sang at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera House. In 1987, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. "Enrico...

January 14, 1950) Let's Make an Opera (December 13, 1950 – December 16, 1950) Wizard of Oz (Summer of 1951 at The Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis)...

Queen and is the opening track to their fourth studio album A Night at the Opera. It was the A-side to Bohemian Rhapsody in Poland. Prown, Pete; Newquist...

ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which he played from 2000 until 2016. In 2018, he appeared as Rafael Humphreys in the Australian soap opera Neighbours...

May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was a composer from Italy. He wrote more than 80 operas. He also wrote music for churches and concerts. Paisiello was born in Roccaforzata...

best known for portraying the role of Bernice Blackstock in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (1998–2002, 2004, 2012–2019, 2021–2023, 2025). Giles also portrayed...

for conducting opera, but also conducted orchestral concerts. He worked a lot with the orchestra of the Royal Opera House as well as Opera Australia. When...

Leonardo Vinci was an Italian composer known for his operas. He was part of the Neapolitan School of opera. His influence on composers such as Johann Adolph...

Il Guarany is an Italian opera in four acts, music by Antônio Carlos Gomes and libretto by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo D'Ormeville, after José de Alencar's...

was a Russian mezzo-soprano. She said by some to be one of the greatest opera singers of all time because of her large stage presence and vocal talent...

by George Frideric Handel. He wrote it in 1738 for the opera Serse (English: Xerxes). The opera was a failure. It closed after only five performances....

2008, the song was used on popular British soap opera Hollyoaks and was used again in the soap opera on October 13, 2008. On July 2, 2008, it was featured...

Amleto is an Italian opera in four acts, music by Franco Faccio and libretto by Arrigo Boito, after William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It was first performed...

Ormus") is an Italian opera in five acts. The music was written by Antonio Salieri. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte. The opera was first performed...

The idea can be seen in Beethoven's overtures which tell the story of the opera or play which is about to be performed. Composers such as Felix Mendelssohn...

producer of movies and television. He was also an opera director and a designer of Italian operas. He was a former senator of Catania (1994–2001). His...

La Wally is an Italian opera in four acts by Alfredo Catalani. It was first performed in Milan on March 28, 1896. The libretto was written by Luigi Illica...

lyrics were written by Jonathan Larson. The musical is based on the Italian opera, La bohème. The musical opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on...

Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, etc. He first sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1950, as des Grieux in Manon Lescaut. Although mostly associated...

composer. He was well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. Boughton studied with Charles Villiers Stanford and Walford...

Ukrainian baritone opera singer. From 1994, he performed in France at such venues as Paris Opéra and Opéra Bastille. For his opera performance, Slipak...

composer who spent most of his working life in France. He is famous for his operas as well as for his religious music. Beethoven thought that Cherubini was...

Sivan Rotem is an Israeli opera singer, voice development teacher and a painter. Sivan Rotem was born in Buenos Aires. After moving to Israel, she lived...

one-act opera, Iolanta. In a candid letter to a friend, Tchaikovsky expressed his disappointment with the reception, noting that while the opera seemed...

principal conductor at the Royal Opera House. He stayed there until 1986. He particularly liked conducting the operas of Michael Tippett, giving the first...

to sound Spanish. In ballet and opera they are used to accompany Spanish dances. Carmen, the character in Bizet's opera Carmen, sings a song and accompanies...

University (1919), the Armenian Academy of Sciences, a historical museum, an opera house, a music conservatory and several technical institutes. The Matenadaran...

Ilyich Tchaikovsky (13 May 1850 – 15 January 1916) was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator. Like his famous composer brother Pyotr Ilyich...

composer of operas. For about 20 years Handel spent most of his time working on operas: composing them, organising performances and looking for opera singers...

Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964, to June 2, 1969. It starred Academy...

rock, progressive rock and operatic pop. Queen has also experimented with opera, music hall, folk, gospel, ragtime, and disco. Their 1980 single "Another...

German writer, poet, movie producer, librettist, theatre director, and opera director. He was born in Krefeld, Germany. He directed plays for Oper Frankfurt...

woman. Richard Wagner composed some operas featuring Valkyries (German: Walküren, singular: Walküre). These operas are Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung...

would be 'irc.[Servername].org' There are small IRC servers (for example, OperaNet) to medium IRC servers (freenode and DalNet, which have about 30,000...

and a very famous singing teacher from Italy. He composed more than 40 operas. He also composed cantatas, oratorios, sonatas for violin, and church music...

very successful, singing with the English Opera Group. He became well known for singing many roles in the operas of Benjamin Britten. He sang the part of...

The North That led To His Death At The Hands Of Gowon's Putschist | opera news". opera.news. Retrieved 2020-05-27. This short article about a person or group...

Iolanta (sometimes Iolanthe) (Russian: Иоланта) is a one-act opera. The libretto was written by Modest Tchaikovsky. It is based on the Danish play Kong...

these serial dramas started being called soap operas. With television in the 1950s and 1960s, soap operas, such as Guiding Light, went from the radio to...

Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Baghdad), is an German comic opera with music and libretto by Peter Cornelius. It is based on "The Tale of the Tailor"...

Study Centre Castrato superstar disinterred (Retrieved 8 May 2008) Castration Affected Skeleton Of Famous Opera Singer Farinelli, Archaeologists Say...

Ocean, on the Air France Flight 447, 1 June 2009) was an Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer. He studied conducting at the University of Brasília...

male in male clothing is called a breeches role. Famous travesty roles in opera include Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Siebel in Faust, and Octavian...

The Magic Flute (German: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder...

Paris about 1830. It was the basis for La bohème, an opera by Giacomo Puccini in 1896, and another opera of the same name by Ruggero Leoncavallo in 1897....

without being paid (amateur singer). Singers may sing anything: songs, opera, etc. They may be accompanied by an instrument or an orchestra. Some singers...

Majhe Pati Saubhagyavati is an Indian Marathi language 2015 soap opera. It is the story of Vaibhav Malwankar. Vaibhav and his wife Laxmi came to Mumbai...

Einstein on the Beach is an opera written by the minimalist composer Philip Glass and theater director and designer Robert Wilson. It was first acted...

plays a particular kind of character in a play, movie, television program, opera, or ballet. The character actor is not the main part and is not the lover...

ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (English: Ulysses' Return to the Fatherland) is an opera in a prologue and five acts (later revised to three acts). The music was...

singer. She became known because she sang in the opera Lulu by Alban Berg, at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. This short article about a person from the United...

In 1957 Vickers joined London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden company. In 1960 he joined the Metropolitan Opera. He became world famous for a wide range...

personality and former model. Davidson is best known for her roles in soap operas as Kristen DiMera on NBC's Days of Our Lives, as well as Ashley Abbott on...

Miller CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was a British theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter and medical doctor. He was...

the 1830s. It became the basis for Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, for Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera of the same name, and for other musical works. Murger...

in New York City. It has an annual eight week season at the Metropolitan Opera House Lincoln Center. It tours around the world the rest of the year. American...

It was first performed at the Opera Comique in London, on 23 April 1881. On 10 October 1881, it moved to the Savoy Opera, a new theatre built especially...

was an American opera singer and soprano. She was known for her many works at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and at major opera houses in Europe...

Andrea Chénier is an Italian opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano. It was first performed at La Scala in Milan on March 28, 1896. The libretto was written...

roles of Rebecca Hopkins in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1999–2000), Kate Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2002–2005), Izzie Redpath in...

of an opera by Jacopo Peri (1597), no longer existent, and is considered to be the first opera ever composed. Daphne is also the title of an opera by Richard...

female opera singer in general. The saying also means that "it's all over" when the fat lady sings. Cecil Adams, "What's the origin of "the opera ain't...

Baroque period. It was the time when opera was starting, and he was one of the first composers to write an opera. His daughter, Francesca Caccini, also...

the musicians have to work for at least three years in the opera house (the Vienna State Opera). Then they are allowed to try to become a member of the...

left the LPO in 1996. In 1995, he went to the Zurich Opera House where he conducted many operas including complete cycles of Wagner's Ring Cycle. He left...

Antonio Salieri (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was an Italian opera composer who worked in Vienna. People think that Salieri and Mozart were enemies. People...

rock music. Some fans feel that a song from this album, "Phantom Of The Opera" is the best song Iron Maiden have ever made. People who were members of...

dancer and artistic director. He was named danseur étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1980. He worked with eminent dancers such as Rudolf Nureyev, Maurice...

Cyrillic: Дејан Миладиновић; 2 December 1948 – 3 August 2017) was a Serbian opera director. He was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. Miladinović has served...

in ITV soap opera Emmerdale (1985–2001, 2005). Burrows' acting career began in the early 1980s with minor roles in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside....

conducted. In the 1930s, when Beecham conducted at the Royal Opera House, the orchestra played for operas there. Beecham made many recordings with the orchestra...

Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was a Venetian composer. He wrote operas and instrumental music. He is best remembered as the composer of a work...

La sonnambula is an Italian opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, first performed at La Scala in Milan, on March 6, 1831, libretto by Felice Romani,...

English language in the year 1711. Performing arts include the dance, music, opera, drama, magic, oratory and circus arts. Artists who participate in performing...

was very famous for his conducting of operas, especially the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Mackerras was...