Word: opera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premieres, in Milan...
...Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill write The Threepenny Opera...
...SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, 1973 Architect: Joern Utzon Is it all roof or all walls? As beloved now as it was controversial during construction, the building is a blissful union of unique structure and breathtaking location. Sydneysiders fight over what buildings are worthy to go next...
Born in 1882 in Oranienbaum, Russia, a city southwest of St. Petersburg, Stravinsky was rooted in the nationalistic school that drew inspiration from Russia's beautifully expressive folk music. His father was an opera singer who performed in Kiev and St. Petersburg, but his greatest musical influence was his teacher, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The colorful, fantastic orchestration that Stravinsky brought to his folk song-inspired melodies was clearly derived from Rimsky-Korsakov. But the primitive, offbeat rhythmic drive he added was entirely his own. The result was a music never before heard in a theater or concert hall...
...markets) is nearly as naive as Truman. The show is also pretty tame. Unlike most daytime-drama characters, Truman is a faithful husband who has no evil twin and does not suffer bouts of amnesia. For 30 years the show has been a pageant of placidity, a hypoallergenic soap opera where the tension is in the subtext. Will he find out? How's it going...