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BAROQUE ERA
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Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo Genre: opera “favola in musica” First fully developed opera as a drama:
prologue + 5 acts Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Librettist: Alessandro Striggio -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Baroque Era (France) Composed: Armide
Librettist: Philippe Quinault Established opera in the French Court. Operas were called “Tragedies set to Music.” He was a terrible conductor -
Henry Purcell
Baroque Era (England) Composed: Dido and Aeneas (Women had roles!)
Librettist: Nahum Tate At 20 he was the organist of Westminster Abbey. Court Composer for William and Mary. -
George Handel
Baroque Era (England) Composed: Giulio Cesare (Julius Caeser)
Librettist: Nicola Francesco Haym Born in Germany, worked in Italy, and England. Master of the Orchestra at the Royal Academy of Music, the first Italian opera company in London. -
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CLASSICAL ERA
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Baroque Era to Classical Era OPERA REFORM!!! Wanted to make opera about human drama and passions. Words are equal to music. Recitative Secco replaced with Recitative Accompagnato. Orfeo ed Euridice was the first to incorporate reforms. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical Era Mastered Gluck's reformation of opera. Combined opera seria and opera buffa with his work, Don Giovanni. -
Gioachino Rossini
Classical Era Bel Canto Singing Composed: The Barber of Seville
Librettist: Cesare Sterbini -
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ROMANTIC ERA
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Giuseppe Verdi
Romantic Era Post Bel Canto Era Composed: Rigoletto
Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave Based on Victor Hugo’s play The King Is Amused (1832) Setting: Renassiance-era ducal court at Mantua
