Opera

D. Rossini opera The Barber of Seville The Barber of Seville is a bright comedy opera by Rossini, based on the eponymous play by the famous playwright Beaumarchais. The work captivates with wit, virtuoso vocal parts and unexpected plot twists, inherent in the traditional opera style of Italy.

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M.I. Glinka opera "Ivan Susanin" (Life for the Tsar) "Life for the Tsar" or, as it is also called, "Ivan Susanin" deserves recognition of the first Russian national opera. It became the property of Russian art on a global scale, it is the first Russian opera that has received recognition all over the world. Despite the fact that several operas were written before "Ivan Susanin", they did not gain popularity.

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V.A. Mozart opera "The Mercy of Titus" Paradoxically, the great Mozart has an essay that still causes many controversial judgments - this is the opera "The Charity of Titus." Some believe that only a brilliant composer is able to write such a work in 18 days, others, on the contrary, assume that because of the haste of the composition of this work "The Grace of Titus" is not a masterpiece worthy of the great maestro.

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V. Bellini opera "Puritans" With his last opera Vincenzo Bellini laid the cornerstone for the future development of opera art, but he did not have time to build a fundamentally new church. "Puritans" - a window to the future. The Italian composer created it with a jeweler's precision, showing not only musical talent, but also the genius of foresight, peculiar exclusively to extraordinary creators, not alien to experiments.

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G. Verdi opera "Nabucco" The opera "Nabucco" himself Giuseppe Verdi estimated as the beginning of his creative takeoff. After the failure of the first two works ("Oberto" and "King for an hour") to the 28-year-old composer came a huge success. Enthusiastic audience and critics perceived the production as a revolutionary event in the music world.

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J. Offenbach opera "Tales of Hoffmann" 100 operettas for 41 years - that's what Jacques Offenbach is called one of the most prolific composers in history. However, in the genre of opera, the master seemed more selective, having written only two of them. Moreover, the second, ready to argue on popularity with any of his most famous operettas, he did not have time to complete.

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I. Kalman Operetta "Princess of the Circus" (Mr. X) "Princess of the Circus" is the pinnacle of the work of Kalman. The festivity and elegance of the operetta can not leave indifferent. The confusion of the plot, intrigue, a fabulous circus atmosphere, great music by Imre Kalman, and, of course, true love that overcomes all difficulties.

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R. Wagner opera "Tristan and Isolde" The opera "Tristan and Isolda" is considered to be the greatest work of the German composer Richard Wagner - it is easy to understand, but it also has an incredible artistic integrity. The basis for the work was an ancient legend, which the composer fit into several scenes.

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V.A. Mozart opera "The Marriage of Figaro" A brilliant comedy based on the play by French playwright Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais "Crazy Day, or Figaro's Wedding". The libretto for opera significantly reworked the Italian poet and translator Lorenzo da Ponte. One of the most beautiful pearls of the opera art, meeting the constant applause and delight of the public everywhere.

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Mn Mussorgsky opera "Khovanshchina" "Khovanshchina" is an inexhaustible palette of violent colors, violently bringing down all its power to the viewer and leaving no chance to resist, to stand on his feet - so that all attention is riveted on the stage from the beginning to the very end of the opera. Taking the ambiguous events of the first Streltsy revolt of 1682 as a basis, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky put all his originality into music, with confident strokes of composer's talent reflecting both the raging crowd and calm islets of mind in the middle of raging passions.

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R. Wagner "The Ring of the Nibelung" Based on the ancient German epos of Richard Wagner's tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung" includes 4 operas: "The Gold of the Rhine", "The Valkyrie", "Siegfried", "The Death of the Gods". This is more than 15 hours is not the easiest for the perception of music, which becomes for the listener or torment, or mystical revelation.

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D. Shostakovich opera "Katerina Izmaylova" (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District) "Katerina Izmaylova" is an opera, which, like her heroine, was more than a tragic fate. Called anti-people, reworked several times, twice banned and gone from the scenes of the Soviet theaters for thirty years, she was revived like a phoenix bird.

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