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IDOMENEO by MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS
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Category: Music Reference | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as 'one of those works that even a genius like Mozart could write only once in his life'. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether astonishing career. In this newly commissioned gui ...Show more
La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini
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Category: Music Reference | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
Puccini's masterpiece "La boheme" is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto ...Show more
TOSCA by PUCCINI GIACOMO
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Category: Music Reference | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Here is one of Puccini's greatest hits, in an affordable version for complete orchestra. This story of love, art and death in Rome during the Napoleonic wars is today considered a classic for such arias as "Vissi d'arte" (I lived for art; I lived for love), but at its premiere in 1900 it was denounced a ...Show more
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