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41Opera seria — A caricature of a performance of Handel s Flavio, featuring three of the best known opera seria singers of their day: Senesino on the left, diva Francesca Cuzzoni in the centre, and art loving castrato Gaetano Berenstadt on the right. Opera seria …
42Opéra comique — This article is about the opera genre. For the Paris opera company, see Opéra Comique. For the London opera house associated with the premieres of several Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, see Opera Comique. Opéra comique (plural: opéras… …
43Gaspar Cassadó — i Moreu (September 30, 1897 ndash; December 24, 1966) was an influential cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played …
44Entremés — Entremés, is a short and comic theatrical performance of one act, usually played during the interlude of a performance of a long dramatic work, in the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain. Later it became the sainete.When the genre begun it was… …
45Julián Orbón — (August 7, 1925, Avilés, Spain May 21, 1991, Miami, Florida) was a Spanish/Cuban composer. He lived in Cuba from 1940 to 1960, moving to Mexico. Afterwards he became lecturer at University of Washington and the University of Miami and since 1981 …
46Dramma giocoso — For the Law Order episode, see Dramma Giocoso (Law Order: Criminal Intent). Dramma giocoso (Italian, literally: jocular drama; plural: drammi giocosi) is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid 18th century. The term is a contraction of… …
47Opéra-ballet — was a popular genre of French Baroque opera, that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeeth century [1]. It differed from the more elevated tragédie en musique as practised by Jean Baptiste Lully in several ways. It contained more …
48Opéra bouffon — is the French term for the Italian genre of opera called opera buffa performed in 18th century France, either in the original language or in French translation. The term was also used by Offenbach for three of his works: Orphée aux enfers, Le… …
49Opéra bouffe — Not to be confused with Opera buffa. Opéra bouffe (French pronunciation: [ɔpeʁa buf], plural: opéras bouffes) is a genre of late 19th century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques Offenbach, who produced many of them at the… …
50List of opera topics — Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work (called an opera) which combines a text (called a libretto) and a musical score.[1] Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. While the scale of opera can… …
