Partituras de Ópera medio

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) stammte aus einer traditionsreichen Musikerfamilie. Als fünftes von sieben Kindern des Organisten, Musikpädagogen und Komponisten Michele Puccini sollte er den Beruf des Ki...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) stammte aus einer traditionsreichen Musikerfamilie. Als fünftes von sieben Kindern des Organisten, Musikpädagogen und Komponisten Michele Puccini sollte er den Beruf des Ki...

The aria 'Ah prigioniero io sono' ('I am a prisoner') in Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Nabucco' is sung in the fourth and last act: Nabucco turns to the God of the Hebrews and promises to convert himself an...

Until nowadays, La Traviata is still one of the most successful opera's in the music-literature. Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed this opera in 1853 and it belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middl...

Carmen' is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment. The Toreadorsong is sung in the second act of the opera: the famous b...

Giacomo Puccini's opera 'Tosca' might be described as a thriller with political overtones. Set in Rome in 1800 at a time when the Police Chief Scarpia is conducting a reign of terror, it shows its her...

Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" might be described as a thriller with political overtones. Set in Rome in 1800 at a time when the Police Chief Scarpia is conducting a reign of terror, it shows its her...

El Rey Arturo es una semi-ópera en cinco actos con música de Henry Purcell y libreto de John Dryden. El argumento se basa en las batallas entre los britanos del Rey Arturo y los sajones, más que en la...

'Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente' es una zarzuela en un acto con libreto de Miguel Ramos Carrión y música de Frederico Chueca. Se estrenó en el teatro Apolo de Madrid el 23 de junio de 1897 y se convi...

'Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente' es una zarzuela en un acto con libreto de Miguel Ramos Carrión y música de Frederico Chueca. Se estrenó en el teatro Apolo de Madrid el 23 de junio de 1897 y se convi...

Iolanthe was the seventh collaboration between librettist William Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Both men were "at the top of their game" for this venture and this operetta is well known fo...

La fanciulla del West es, de hecho, una ópera del Oeste. Basada en la obra "The Girl of the Golden West" de David Belasco, se estrenó en Nueva York en 1910 y cuenta cómo el amor de una buena mujer (la...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. Due to his dramatic qualities the piece was also fitful for...

Karl Millöcker (1842-1899) was one of Johann Strauss II's greatest rivals in his lifetime, but his music is almost unknown in England. Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three ac...

José Serrano's zarzuela La Canción del olvido was first performed in 1916 in Valencia and until now it belongs to one of the most succesful zarzueala's in history.La Canción del olvido has a Napoleoni...

Paganini was the first Lehár operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Paganini tells of the legenda...

Puccini's Opera Manon Lescaut is based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. He used some musical elements in Manon Lescaut from earlier works h...

The famous Meditation from Jules Massenet opera Thaïs is the entr"acte for violin and orchestra played between the scenes of the second act and nowadays often performed as a separate concert piece.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Carmen es probablemente la ópera más famosa de todo el repertorio operístico, aunque su estreno en 1875 fue una gran decepción. El estribillo "¡Vivat! Vivat le Torero!" se canta en el segundo acto de...

La Bohème was first performed in 1886 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. It soon became a staple of the operatic repertoire and has remained so ever since. Puccini had begun for the first time to speak wit...

Le Nozze di Figaro es una de las tres óperas que Mozart compuso sobre libretos de Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), famoso director de teatro y poeta vienés. El aria "Dove sono i bei momenti" se canta en...

Juana de Arco es una ópera en cuatro actos de Piotr Ilich Tschaikovski. Fue compuesta sobre un libreto ruso del compositor, basado en varias fuentes: 'La doncella de Orleans' de Friedrich Schiller, 'J...

Roméo et Juliette is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto based on "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. The opera is notable for the series of four duets f...