Partituras de Oberturas

Guerra y Paz de Prokofiev es una ópera épica de 13 escenas, más una obertura y un epígrafe, basada en la novela de León Tolstoi. Contrasta la "paz" de la alta sociedad rusa con la "guerra" de la invas...

Guerra y Paz de Prokofiev es una ópera épica de 13 escenas, más una obertura y un epígrafe, basada en la novela de León Tolstoi. Contrasta la "paz" de la alta sociedad rusa con la "guerra" de la invas...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Die Zauberflöte isn"t a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Verdi composed "Un Ballo in Maschera" for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples where it was to have been staged during the 1858 carnival season. The libretto told the true story of the liberal King Gustavu...

Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar (1862 - 1941) parodied the conventions of Romantic opera in his own operas and secular cantatas, his music itself is staunchly Romantic in voice, little troubled by even...

1812 Ouverture Solenelle fue escrita por Tschaikowsky en 1880 para conmemorar la defensa rusa de Moscú contra el avance de la Grande Armee napoleónica en la "Batalla de Borodino" de 1812. La obertura...

1812 Ouverture Solenelle" was written by Tschaikowsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the "Battle of Borodino" in 1812. The overture debu...

Il Pirata (The Pirate) was Bellini's third opera. "Il Pirata" is an opera in two acts to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play "Bertram", or "The Castle of...

After completing and premiering his powerful and controversial 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, in 1962, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) spent the next year in a state of physical and creative recuperation. T...

After completing and premiering his powerful and controversial 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, in 1962, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) spent the next year in a state of physical and creative recuperation. T...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

As a contribution to the opera "Armer Columbus" by German composer Erwin Dressel, Shostakovich composed two of his quirkiest and oddest early orchestral pieces. An energetic "Entr"acte" in c minor (Al...

French composer Adolphe Adam composed his opera 'si j'etais roi' (if I Were King) in 1852. Though less popular than 'Le postillon de Lonjumeau', it is often regarded as Adam's finest work. The well-de...

Verdi composed "Un Ballo in Maschera" for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples where it was to have been staged during the 1858 carnival season. The libretto told the true story of the liberal King Gustavu...

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of t...

Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (1851-1909) was a Spanish composer who wrote a large number of symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuelas and operas and is considered one of the most popu...

Since its premiere in 1892, "Werther" has ranked among Jules Massenet's most admired and beloved scores; it has also proved the most enduring. He was inspired to compose the opera about the doomed poe...

George Gershwin composed his "Cuban Overture" in July and August 1932. Originally was the work titled "Rumba" and was the result of a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana, Cuba in February 1...

Many see Wagner's Tristan und Isolde as the beginning of the move away from common practice harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) de Rossini es una de las más grandes óperas cómicas. Basada en una excelente obra de Beaumarchais, "El barbero de Sevilla" deleita al público con sus personajes agudamen...

La forza del destino es una ópera italiana de Giuseppe Verdi. El libreto fue escrito por Francesco Maria Piave basándose en un drama español, "Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino", de Ángel de Saavedra. "...

La forza del destino es una ópera italiana de Giuseppe Verdi. El libreto fue escrito por Francesco Maria Piave basándose en un drama español, "Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino", de Ángel de Saavedra. "...

The idea of a 'Hamlet overture' had first occurred to Tschaikowsky in 1876. However, by 1888 he had altered these plans when he was asked to write incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's pl...