In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, operas were a popular form of large-scale, mass-market entertainment.
He wrote 15 symphonies as well as operas, ballets and film and theatre scores.
"She has written chamber music, orchestral works and operas, " it said in a statement.
His plays, like Verdi's profoundest operas, blend history and national myth, statecraft and love.
Still, there's one composer who may win the prize for operas based on wide-ranging sources.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, there was another direct connection to one of the "Ring" operas.
He went on to become music director at the operas of Aachen, Wiesbaden and Cologne.
Lulu is one of two operas to be performed as part of WNO's first themed season.
Its television station transmits the programmes of Globo, which produces Brazil's most popular soap operas.
The two operas were written side by side, and they exhibit similar strengths and weaknesses.
But, visually, movies transcend their lousy scripts as operas soar musically above their libretti.
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Assimilating Latinos craved something more than its staple of telenovela soap operas and Mexican movies, we said.
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What each of these operas shares is an unimpeachable literary source with a reputation of its own.
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In the themes, characters and moods they explore, these early operas are prophetic, to an often uncanny degree.
Sometimes, when operas show up in the movies, it's simply because their music seems to enhance the films.
She is also interested in exploring at least the orchestral songs, if not the operas, of Richard Strauss.
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But despite all this adulation for Handel's music, the operas remained untouched for 180 years after his death.
Our key players, August III (The Third) and August IV (The Fourth), have personalities suited for daytime soap operas.
That's true of any concert, but more so in the 'Ring' because of the sheer length of the operas.
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He first met Sir Peter, whose previous works include the operas Taverner and The Lighthouse, on Hoy in 1971.
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It will present more than 15 new operas, including an adaptation of Iain Banks' cult novel, The Wasp Factory.
The exception was daytime TV, which began cranking out soap operas, targeting housewives.
"I don't know how operas are supposed to be, but I do know when I'm bored, " Mr. Shanley says.
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For 53 years, RCTV has been part of Venezuela's culture, offering the public, comedies, soap operas, and game shows.
The grouping of the operas is haphazard and, as was the case this year, is sometimes far from ideal.
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