OPERA Work
Vocabulary Libretto (little book) Aria Recitative Dramma giocoso Opera buffa Opera seria Grand opera Libretto (little book) Aria Recitative Dramma giocoso Opera buffa Opera seria Grand opera
Atheisto Fulminato The Atheist Thunderstruck
Lorenzo da Ponte Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
da PonteMozart
Finale
Composers Purcell Gluck Haydn Liszt Tchaikovsky Mahler Strauss Purcell Gluck Haydn Liszt Tchaikovsky Mahler Strauss
Tempi (singular, Tempo) Molto allegro Presto Molto allegro Presto Andante con moto Andantino Allegretto Andante con moto Andantino Allegretto
“She talks like a novel!” Cervantes: Don Quixote Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Mille e tre One thousand and three
Lord Byron
Don Juan
I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan.
Cadiz And then, by the advice of some old ladies, She sent her son to be shipp'd off from Cadiz. And then, by the advice of some old ladies, She sent her son to be shipp'd off from Cadiz.
Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?
Molière: Dom Juan George Bernard Shaw: Don Juan in Hell David Ives: Don Juan in Chicago Molière: Dom Juan George Bernard Shaw: Don Juan in Hell David Ives: Don Juan in Chicago