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This is a powerpoint presentation about the life of Giuseppe Verdi, his works, and contribution to the Italian Opera. A requirement on my Music class, s.y 2015-2016
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Verdi andthe Opera
Giuseppe Verdi and the ItalianOpera
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What is Opera?
• Shortened word for opera in musica
• An opera is generally referred to as “a stage presentation orwork that combines music, costumes, and scenery to relaya story.
• ost operas are sung, with no spoken lines.
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Diferent singing styles orOpera:
• Comic Opera
• also known as light opera, this type of opera often tackleslight, not so delicate sub!ect matter where the ending oftenhas a happy resolution. Other forms of this opera are opera
buffa and operetta, to name a few.
• "ialogue is often spoken and not sung in a comic opera.An e#ample of this opera is La serva padrona $%he aidas istress& by Gio'anni (attista )ergolesi.
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Diferent singing styles orOpera:
• Serious Opera
• opera seria in Italian
• Also referred to as *eopolitan opera mainly due to the
'olume of composers who were from *aples whocontributed to this type of opera.
• Stories re'ol'es around heroes and myths, emphasis is alsogi'en to the solo 'oice and bel canto style. Bel canto isItalian for “beautiful singing+
• #ample is -inaldo by George rideric /andel
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Diferent singing styles orOpera:
• Opera Semiseria
• %his type of opera has a serious story but has a happyending. %his is why some loosely define it as acombination of the elements of both comic and serious
opera.
• #ample is 0a ga11a ladra $%he %hie'ing agpie& byGioachino -ossini
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Diferent singing styles orOpera:
• Grand Opera
• -efers to the type of Opera which emerged in )aris duringthe 23th century. It4s an opera of a larger scale, from theflamboyant costumes to the choruses5 it also include ballet.
An e#ample of this type is Robert le Diable by Giacomoeyerbeer.
• irst known grand opera was 0a fa'ola d4Orfeo $%he ableof Orpheus that was premiered on 2678.
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Diferent singing styles orOpera:
• Opera Verisimo
• 9realism4 in Italian
• merged during the late 23th :entury
• :haracter are based on e'eryday people you may meet inreal life and the plot is often melodramatic.
• #ample is Pagliacci by -uggero 0eonca'allo.
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Other acts or Italian Opera
• ost operas are written in rench, German and Italian.
• uridice by ;acopo )eri is known as the earliest operathat4s been preser'ed.
• -ossini, (ellini and "oni1etti were the leading composerof the bel canto opera style during the first half of thenineteenth century.
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Famous Composers o theItalian Opera
• Gioachino Antonio Rossini $283< = 2>6>&
• <3 ebruary 283<
• %he Italian o1art
• ?rote @3 operas as well as sacred music, chambermusic, songs and some instrumental and piano pieces
• /e had been the most popular opera composer inhistory.
• (estknown opera include the Italian comedies II barbiere di Si'iglia and 0a :enerentola, the renchlanguage epics oise et )haraon and Guillaume %ell.
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Famous Composers o theItalian Opera
• Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo FrancescoBellini(181 ! 18"#$
• known for his long = flowing melodic lines
•
*amed as 9the Swan of :atania4• II pirata recei'ed much early recognition than that to
"oni1etti4s thirty opera.
• I Capuleti edi Montecchi, La Connambula and his
last masterpiece, I puritani gained (ellini hissignificant career.
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Famous Composers o theItalian Opera
• %omenico Gaetano &aria %onizetti(1'' ! 18)8$
• *o'ember <3, 2838
• 0eading composer of the bel canto opera style
• (orn in (ergamo in 0ombardy
• ?rote 87 operas
• *otable successB Coraida di Granata and Anna (olena
•
:omedies such as 04elisir d4amore and "on )asDuale• "ied April 2>E>
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Giuseppe Verdi (!" # $%&
• October 27th 2>2@
• Italian -omantic composer and the greatestcomposer of Italian opera
•Italy4s shining star
• :arlo Giuseppe Verdi and 0uigia Fttini
• After he died, he was mourned as a national
hero• Verdi dominated the Italian opera scene after
the eras of (ellini, "oni1etti and -ossini.
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'ourney • %he contract was the start to his illustrious
career in opera.
• /is second opera, Fn giorno di regno, wasconsidered as a comedy. )remiered on Sept. ,
2>E7.• *abucco, on arch 2>E<, made Verdi famous.
• -emarried to Giuseppina Strepponi
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Well)no*n Verdi Opera(!+, # !,%&
• acbeth $2>E8& = a re'ised 'ersion ofShakespeare4s acbeth
• -igoletto $2>2& = first performed at 0a
enice %heatre in Venice• 0a %ra'iata $2>@& = %he ?oman who Strayed
• Aida %he irst $2>82& = :hristmas 'e, 2>82at the Hhedi'al Opera /ouse in :airo, gypt.
• /is work Aida, is considered as a grand opera because it was sung.
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Well)no*n Verdi Opera(!+, # !,%&
• -eDuiem $2>8E& first performed in thechurch of San arco in ilan on << ay2>8E
•
Otello $2>>8& = inspiration was Shakespeare• alstoff $2>3@& = final work5 hailed as a work
of genius
• Verdi worked on re'ising a couple of hisearlier scores , which became new 'ersions of0a fro1a del destino, "on :arlos and Simon(occanegra.
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Contri-utions
• (y 2><3=@7, Verdi had established himself as a leader ofthe )hilharmonic
• Verdi began in 2>3 to take an acti'e interest in Italian
politics• 2>3E = published a song for earthDuake 'ictims in Sicily
• 2>3 = planning, building and endowing a resthome forretired musicians in ilan, and also built a hospital
• his librettos, penetrate the soul and profoundly affect thehuman psyche. Operas were not written to be mar'eled fortheir technical prowess or how well they stuck to the rules$though it certainly helps if the opera possesses suchDualities&.
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Contri-utions
• SPREZZATURA
• The Italians have a word for the sense ofdazzling beauty produced by eortless
mastery: "sprezzatura." Perhaps no culturalform associated with Italy is as steeped in thelove of sprezzatura as opera a genre theItalians invented. !nd no artist woring inopera has embodied the ideal of sprezzatura as
magni#cently as that gru self$described"farmer" from the Po %alley and composer of&' operas (iuseppe %erdi )*'*+,*-*/.
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“In music, like in lo'e, we must besincere+ = Giuseppe Verdi