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Love, death and terror. Everything is in this opera. Puccini created three great role portraits which, with gripping duets and famous arias, made “Tosca” one of the most frequently performed operas.
Love, death and terror. Everything is in this opera. Puccini created three great role portraits which, with gripping duets and famous arias, made “Tosca” one of the most frequently performed operas.
Umberto Giordano achieved a sensational success with this opera even before his thirtieth birthday. He became immortal and, together with Mascagni, Leoncavallo and Puccini, one of the four brightest stars in the “Verismo sky”.
Hardly any other work occupied Beethoven so persistently as his only opera. Only with the third version did it reach its definitive version. Beethoven created scenes that went down in the history of opera and still touch us today with their power and truthfulness.
“Carmen” belongs to the imperishable masterpieces of opera history. The role of Carmen is one of the most attractive roles ever written for female voices, and the work became the most performed opera in the entire repertoire.
The Barber is rightly one of the most popular operas in the entire repertoire and is perhaps the opera comedy par excellence. An intoxicating music and the hilarious situation comedy unite to form a great masterpiece.
With “Aida” Verdi created one of the absolute highlights of opera history and offers the music lover everything opera can do. The popularity of the work is unbroken: Mass scenes like the Triumphal March thrill the general public, intimate scenes like the farewell of Aida and Radames touch the lover and opera fan.
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