Women in Romantic Opera
Louise Bertin, Jenny Lind, Maria Malibran, Pauline Viardot
Romantic Opera
Bel Canto, Exotic Plots
Giusseppe Verde
28 operas, Otello, Aida, Falstaff, Nabucco “Va Pensiero”, Rigoletto “La Donna e Mobile”
Richard Wagner
1813-1883, Revolutionized opera, Music Dramas, chromatic dissonance, The ring of the Nibelung (4 opera Cycle), Die Walkure “Ride of the Valkyries, Athiest
Giacomo Puccini
Verismo (Realism), Was a big flirt, Died of Cancer, Had car wreck
Giacomo Puccini Famous Pieces
Madame Butterfly “un bel di vedremo”, Tosca, La Boheme, Gianni Schicchi “o mio babbino caro”, Turandot “Nessun dorma”
Post-Romanticism
Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler
Impressionism
Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel
Impressionist Painters
Claude MOnet, Edourd Manet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir
Claude Debusy
1862-1918,