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Opera & Musical Theater Educational Posters & Art Prints
for the music, art, and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and theme decor for office or home.
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music index > composers > OPERA < opera singers < social studies
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Opera is a dramatic theatre art where the story and emotions are expressed through vocal and instrumental music, lyrics, acting, costumes, and scenery.
• “No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” ~ W. H Auden
• “Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.” ~ Sarah Caldwell
• “Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.” ~ Sir Kenneth Clark
• “People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.” ~ Noel Coward
• “In opera, there is always too much singing.” ~ Claude Debussy
• “Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.” ~ H. L. Mencken
• “Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.” Molière
• “Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.” ~ Hannah More
• “One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.” Gioachino Rossini
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Carmen Opera Posters
George Bizet
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“La Gioconda” of 1876 is an example of the Italian genre of Grande opera. It was first performed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
There are many recordings as “La Gioconda” is frequently performed and features a principal role for each of the six major voice types (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass).
The famous “Mona Lisa” painting of Leonardo da Vinci is also called “La Gioconda”.
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Jules Massenet Opera Posters Index
Esclarmonde, Le Mage, Panurne, Roma, Werther
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Puccini Opera Posters Index
La Boheme, Madame Butterfly,
Manon Leslaut, Tosca, Turandot
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Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss-
• more Strauss posters
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Richard Strauss Opera Posters Index
Ariadne Auf Naxos, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome
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Guiseppe Verdi Opera Posters Index
Aida, Falstaff, Rigoletto, La Traviata
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Richard Wagner Opera Posters Index
The Ring Cycle, Die Nibelungen: Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Twilight of the Gods (Gotterdannerung); Lohengrin, Meistersinger, Parsifal, Tristan and Isolde, Tannhauser
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La Muette de Portici (The Mute of Portici) by Auber is considered the first grand French opera, a grand opera being defined as having five-acts, a ballet sequence, spectacular stage effects, and a story of romantic passions against a background of historical troubles.
• Auber: La Muette de Portici, CD
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In the beginning of the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera, the character Lassparri has just finished performing Pagliacci.
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