Introduction to Romantic Opera

Authored by: Elliott Jones. Provided by : Santa Ana College. Located at : http://www.sac.edu . License : <a target="_blank" rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY: Attribution
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This section contains information on major trends and composers in Romantic opera. We will be focusing our study on developments in the Italian and German operatic traditions. There was also a good deal of innovation taking place in Paris in the 19th century, but Verdi (Italian) and Wagner (German) were the most influential composers of the era so we’ll limiting our reading to those two national styles.

This section includes the following pages:

Slide Show: Romantic Opera
Early Romantic Opera
Later Romantic Opera
Trends in German and Italian Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto
La donna e mobile
Verdi’s Requiem
Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde
Liebestod
Verismo
Giacomo Pucinni
La Boheme
Che gelida manina
Si, mi chiamano Mimi