The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 24Grolier Incorporated, 1999 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries A thirty-volume encyclopedia covering important world events while providing major new treatments of selected topics in various academic fields. |
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... opera and ballet in St. Petersburg during the second half of the 18th century . They acted as choirmasters , teachers , concert players , and composers . The first opera with a Russian text , Cephalus and Procris , was composed by Araja ...
... opera and ballet in St. Petersburg during the second half of the 18th century . They acted as choirmasters , teachers , concert players , and composers . The first opera with a Russian text , Cephalus and Procris , was composed by Araja ...
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... operas to two fairy tales by Pushkin - The Tale of Czar Saltan ( 1900 ) and Le Coq d'or ( 1906 ) . Rimsky - Korsakov's religious opera The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh ( 1907 ) shows the influence of Wagner's Parsifal . His ...
... operas to two fairy tales by Pushkin - The Tale of Czar Saltan ( 1900 ) and Le Coq d'or ( 1906 ) . Rimsky - Korsakov's religious opera The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh ( 1907 ) shows the influence of Wagner's Parsifal . His ...
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... opera composer . He wrote some 115 operas , of which about 50 survive . Not all of these , however , are in full score . He conducted the earliest known of them , Gli equivoci nel sembiante ( also known L'errore innocente ) , in Rome ...
... opera composer . He wrote some 115 operas , of which about 50 survive . Not all of these , however , are in full score . He conducted the earliest known of them , Gli equivoci nel sembiante ( also known L'errore innocente ) , in Rome ...
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