"a resounding success, and the actors taking the credit for this, with the director largely forgotten. The Mozart Brothers The Mozart Brothers () is a 1986 Swedish comedy film directed by Suzanne Osten. Osten won the award for Best Director at the 22nd Guldbagge Awards. The murder of Olof Palme, the Swedish Prime Minister, took place as Palme was walking home from the cinema after watching ""The Mozart Brothers"" in 1986. The film depicts an unconventional opera director, Walter (Etienne Glaser), who is directing a production of Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"" at the Stockholm Opera. He attempts to overthrow many of"
"wind chorale of oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and trombones (with cellos and basses playing from the string section). The opera was first performed on 29 October 1787 in Prague under its full title of ""Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni"" – Dramma giocoso in due atti (""The Rake punished, or Don Giovanni"", a dramma giocoso in two acts). The work was rapturously received, as was often true of Mozart's work in Prague. The ""Prager Oberpostamtzeitung"" reported, ""Connoisseurs and musicians say that Prague has never heard the like,"" and ""the opera … is extremely difficult to perform."" The ""Provincialnachrichten"" of Vienna"
"A, K.331"". In reality, the K numbering system for Mozart's work was not introduced until 70 years after Mozart's death. Later, Salieri is compared to the three ""untalented"" Mozarts—Randy, Jermaine, and Tito from the Jackson Five. Mozart's opera ""The Musical Fruit"" is a satire of both ""The Magic Flute"", and the children's song ""Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit,"" while the opera is sung to the tune of his composition Eine kleine Nachtmusik, which also plays over the closing credits. A fragment from the movement ""Lacrimosa"" from ""Mozart's Requiem"" can be heard while Mozart is dying. When Salieri arrives at the"
"Mitridate, re di Ponto Mitridate, re di Ponto (""Mithridates, King of Pontus""), K. 87 (74a), is an early opera seria in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by , after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine's play ""Mithridate"". Mozart wrote ""Mitridate"" while touring Italy in 1770. The musicologist Daniel E. Freeman has recently demonstrated that it was composed with close reference to the opera ""La Nitteti"" by Josef Mysliveček. The latter was the opera being prepared for production in Bologna when Mozart met Mysliveček for the first time with his father in March 1770. Mysliveček visited"
"Mozart and Salieri (opera) Mozart and Salieri (, ""Motsart i Salyeri"") is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1897 to a Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 verse drama of the same name. The story follows the apocryphal legend that Antonio Salieri poisoned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out of jealousy over the latter's music. Rimsky-Korsakov incorporated quotations from Mozart's ""Requiem"" and ""Don Giovanni"" into the score. Richard Taruskin has placed this opera in the historical context of the development of the realistic tradition in Russian opera. The first performance took place at the"
"rumors? Audio Recordings (""Mainly studio recordings"") Source: www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk ""Motsart i Salyeri (Russian)"" Mozart and Salieri (opera) Mozart and Salieri (, ""Motsart i Salyeri"") is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1897 to a Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 verse drama of the same name. The story follows the apocryphal legend that Antonio Salieri poisoned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out of jealousy over the latter's music. Rimsky-Korsakov incorporated quotations from Mozart's ""Requiem"" and ""Don Giovanni"" into the score. Richard Taruskin has placed this opera in the historical context of the development of the"
"parody of one of Mozart's own operas, Emanuel Schikaneder asks Mozart to write an opera for his theater. Mozart, desperate for money, obliges, despite Constanze's insistence that he finish the Requiem Mass. The couple fight and Constanze leaves with their young son, Karl. Mozart collapses during a performance of his finished work, ""The Magic Flute"". Salieri takes him home and offers his assistance on the Requiem. Salieri transcribes Mozart's verbal commands, and they work through the night. The next morning, a gravely ill Mozart apologizes to Salieri for his previous behavior. A guilty Constanze returns home and locks the unfinished"
"these were re-constructions of three operas Mozart started, but never finished. Two were Italian comedies (""Lo sposo deluso"", and ""L'oca del Cairo""), and the third a German Singspiel (""Zaide""). They were conjoined in an original play by Maria Reva, and all founded on a concept by stage director Alan Corbishley: an impresario is sitting in a theatre, considering his next project when – to his amazement – the Gates of Limbo open. Out pour lost souls, spirits who have been waiting 200 years for Mozart to give them life. They beg for a chance to sing, but the impresario is"
"Ponto"", written at age 14. It was performed that year in Paris by Camille Fourrier. List of operas by Mozart Notes Sources Mitridate, re di Ponto Mitridate, re di Ponto (""Mithridates, King of Pontus""), K. 87 (74a), is an early opera seria in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by , after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine's play ""Mithridate"". Mozart wrote ""Mitridate"" while touring Italy in 1770. The musicologist Daniel E. Freeman has recently demonstrated that it was composed with close reference to the opera ""La Nitteti"" by Josef Mysliveček. The latter was the opera"
"The Jewel Box The Jewel Box is a pasticcio opera constructed by Paul Griffiths out of various pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Its mostly English libretto by Paul Griffiths includes new translations of most of the Italian-language texts of the musical numbers. It was premiered by Opera North at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, on 19 February 1991. The conductor was Elgar Howarth, the director was Francisco Negrin and the designer was Anthony Baker. Griffiths, realising that arias composed by Mozart for insertion in other composers' operas are seldom performed nowadays, worked up what he called ""a ""jeu d'esprit"""" which also"
"his death. She is accused of killing him by the priest and sentenced to death by stoning. The new king Solomon attempts to save her, but it is too late. The orchestral score calls for: On stage music: 4 trumpets in D, 4 trombones, timpani, triangle. The only recording of the opera is on DVD Video, with Tomasz Szreder conducting the chorus and orchestra of Wrocław Opera. Hagith (opera) Hagith, Op. 25, is an opera in one act by the Polish composer and pianist Karol Szymanowski considered one of the greatest Polish composers of the 20th century. The opera premiered"
"Gomatz as a man, not as a slave. The final surviving quartet suggests Zaide and Gomatz are sentenced to punishment or execution. This is where Mozart's manuscript breaks off. There are similarities with Voltaire's play ""Zaïre"" (""Zara"") in which Zaïre, a Christian slave who had been captured as a baby falls in love with Osman, the Sultan of Jerusalem. Osman wrongly believes Zaïre and another Christian slave Nerestan (Gomatz in Mozart's opera) are lovers and kills Zaïre in a jealous rage and then kills himself. The elderly Lusignan, a prisoner of the Sultan (paralleled in the character Allazim) recognizes Zara"
"La rondine La rondine (""The Swallow"") is a comic opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Théâtre du Casino) in Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917. In autumn 1913, the directors of Vienna's Carltheater commissioned Puccini to compose a Viennese operetta. After confirming that it could take the form of a comic opera with no spoken dialogue in the style of ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""only more entertaining and more organic,"" he"
"The Rake's Progress The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings ""A Rake's Progress"" (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition. The story concerns the decline and fall of one Tom Rakewell, who deserts Anne Trulove for the delights of London in the company of Nick Shadow, who turns out to be the Devil. After several misadventures, all initiated by the devious Shadow, Tom"
"reported that their critic had been reassured by the company that Mozart's music would remain unaltered and his ""work will not be disparaged by exchanging the glass beads of Da Ponte for a diamond of Shakespeare."" The ""revival"" had its first performance on 31 March 1863, and Marie Cabel sang the role of Rosine (Dorabella in the original, although she also sang the new words to the music of Fiordiligi's aria ""Per pietà""). Adolphe Deloffre was the conductor. Much of Mozart's music had been rearranged to fit the new plot, and the recitatives were replaced with spoken dialogue. Perhaps it"
"and Venetian women. The statue suddenly arrives and drags Don Giovanni to his death. Ottavio and the women enter. Pasquariello and Lanterna describe Giovanni's fate to them. The opera ends as all rejoice at his downfall. Gazzaniga: ""Don Giovanni"" – Orchestra e coro della RCA Italiana Gazzaniga: ""Don Giovanni"" – Kammerchor Stuttgart, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Don Giovanni Tenorio , (English: ""Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest"") also known as Don Giovanni Tenorio (""tenorio"" is a Spanish word for ""seducer""). The opera appeared the same year as Mozart's version. It is the most famous opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga."
"from 15 November 1797, six years after Mozart's death. Mozart's widow, Constanze, arranged for the overture and opening quartet to be performed at the Estates Theatre in Prague during a concert highlighting the musical debut of their youngest son, Franz Xavier Mozart. In 1991, the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death, Opera North premièred ""The Jewel Box"", a pasticcio opera devised by Paul Griffiths. This used the existing pieces from ""Lo sposo deluso"" and ""L'oca del Cairo"" as well as arias written by Mozart for insertion into operas by Anfossi, Piccini and Cimarosa, among others. (The programme was an imagined reconstruction"
"arias written by Mozart for insertion into other composers' operas, together with some of his concert arias were brought together by Paul Griffiths as an opera entitled as ""The Jewel Box"". Tchaikovsky's one-act ""Iolanta"" was reunited with his ballet ""The Nutcracker"" (performed by Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures) and first performed by Opera North on the 100th anniversary of their first performances in Saint Petersburg. Paul Dukas's ""Ariane et Barbe-bleue"" had its first British performance in over 50 years, and other unusual repertoire included Tippett's ""King Priam"", Chabrier's ""L'étoile"" and Rossini's ""The Thieving Magpie"", as well as the world"
"Sources La rondine La rondine (""The Swallow"") is a comic opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Théâtre du Casino) in Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917. In autumn 1913, the directors of Vienna's Carltheater commissioned Puccini to compose a Viennese operetta. After confirming that it could take the form of a comic opera with no spoken dialogue in the style of ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""only more entertaining and more organic,"""
"refused the honor. However, the opera became one of the most popular of its day and brought him both wealth and fame. The opera was also performed at the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. An English translation by Charles Burney, ""The Cunning Man"", was performed in London in 1762. Rousseau's work was the object of a parody in the Singspiel ""Bastien und Bastienne"" by the twelve-year-old Mozart. Colin and Colette love one another, yet they suspect each other of being unfaithful — in Colin's case, with the lady of the manor, and in Colette's with a"
"contained music from the composer's unfinished operas ""Lo sposo deluso"" and ""L'oca del Cairo"" and some of the arias which he had written for concert performances. This came to the attention of Nicholas Payne, General Director of Opera North, who scheduled its première for 1991, the year of the bicentenary of Mozart's death. After the Nottingham premiere and subsequent performances in Opera North's territory of northern England, the opera was performed in the United States by Skylight Opera Theatre (1993), Wolf Trap Opera (1994), Chicago Opera Theater (1996), and New Jersey State Opera (1996). In England, it was revived by"
"score, including his own completion of it, in the 1830s. André's father Johann André had set the same text to music, before Mozart commenced his singspiel. Modern companion pieces to"" Zaide"" have been written by both Luciano Berio and Chaya Czernowin. In modern performances, Mozart's Symphony No. 32, K. 318, which was composed around the same time as ""Zaide"" and later used as an overture to Francesco Bianchi's ""La villanella rapita"" (1784), is often given as an overture to ""Zaide"". Completions of the opera may use a pastiche of Mozart's concert arias or, more popularly, music from ""Thamos, King of"
"Musick A Little Nightmare Music A Little Nightmare Music is an opera in ""one irrevocable act"" by Peter Schickele under the pseudonym he uses for parodies and comical works P. D. Q. Bach. The title of the work refers to the English translation of Mozart's famous ""Eine kleine Nachtmusik"" (""A Little Night Music""). The opera is described as being ""based on a dream he had December 4, 1791, the night that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died and Antonio Salieri didn't."" The opera was ""newly exhumed"" (a.k.a. premiered) at Carnegie Hall on December 27, 1982. It was later recorded with the premiere"
"Marinka (operetta) Marinka is an operetta by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán with book by George Marion, Jr. and Karl Farkas, and lyrics by George Marion, Jr. The operetta is a retelling of the story of the Mayerling Incident, but with a happy ending replacing the infamous 1889 double suicide of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress, Maria Vetsera. The best-known songs include ""Only One Touch of Vienna,"" ""Sigh by Night,"" ""The Cab Song,"" and ""When I Auditioned for the Harem of the Shah"". It was first produced on Broadway by Jules J. Leventhal and Harry Howard with financial backing"
"The Magic Flute The Magic Flute (German: ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ""Singspiel"", a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work was premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, just two months before the composer's premature death. In this opera, the Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, he learns the high"
"Mozart (comédie musicale) Mozart is a comédie musicale in three acts with music by Reynaldo Hahn and words by Sacha Guitry, a pastiche of the composer's early works to fit beside arias written for Yvonne Printemps (playing the title role as a breeches role). The story concerns the fictional adventures of Mozart on a visit to the French capital. After the success of ""L'amour masqué"", Sacha Guitry wanted to collaborate again with Messager, but the older composer declined. Guitry wrote to Hahn, on holiday in Cannes, who seized the opportunity with great joy, and the collaboration was excellent. It was"
"Mozart, l'opéra rock Mozart, l'opéra rock (""Mozart, the rock opera"") is a French musical with music by Dove Attia, Jean-Pierre Pilot, Olivier Schultheis, William Rousseau, Nicolas Luciani, Rodrigue Janois and François Castello, lyrics by Vincent Baguian and Patrice Guirao and a book by Attia and François Chouquet. The show is a dramatization of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart beginning from the age of 17 and culminating with his death in 1791 at the age of 35. It uses both original pop-rock compositions as well as pre-existing music composed by Mozart. The musical premiered on 22 September 2009 at the"
"with Mozart's posthumous brother-in-law Jakob Haibel, and a ""Magic Flute"" sequel called ""Das Labyrinth"", with Peter von Winter. A big box office draw during this time was a rhymed-verse comedy, ""Der travestierte Aeneas"" (""The Travesty of Aeneas""), a contribution of Giesecke. During this period, Schikaneder would several times a year devote the theater to an ""Academie"", or in modern terms, a classical music concert. Symphonies of Mozart and Haydn were performed, and a young Beethoven appeared as a piano soloist. Schikaneder maintained in the repertory six Mozart operas: ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"", ""Le nozze di Figaro"", ""Der Schauspieldirektor"", ""Don"
"Times"" said that the work ""gets right to the heart of the opera's humanist message"". The Magic Flute (musical) The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo) is a musical theatre work adapted from the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera of the same title by Mark Dornford-May, with words and music by Mandisi Dyantyis, Mbali Kgosidintsi, Pauline Malefane and Nolufefe Mtshabe. Mozart's score is transposed for an orchestra of marimbas, drums and township percussion. The musical, set in contemporary South Africa, re-interprets the story from a South African perspective, telling of Prince Tamino's quest to rescue Pamina (both of them are Xhosa-speaking teenagers), daughter"
"La secchia rapita La secchia rapita (""The stolen bucket"") is a mock-heroic epic poem by Alessandro Tassoni based on the real life event, the War of the Bucket which was first published in 1622 (see 1622 in poetry); it tells of a war between the Italian cities of Modena and Bologna over the possession of a wooden bucket that later influenced Alexander Pope's ""The Rape of the Lock"". """"La secchia rapita"""" is also the name of a comic opera by Salieri, first performed in Vienna in 1772; one of the arias from the work was recorded by Cecilia Bartoli on"
"in Vienna and head of the music establishment at the imperial court. But Salieri was too busy, and he declined the commission, although he did attend the coronation. The libretto was edited into a more useful state by the court poet Caterino Mazzolà. Unusually, in Mozart's personal catalogue of compositions, Mazzolà is credited for his revision with the note that the libretto had been ""reworked into a true opera"". Mazzolà conflated the original three act libretto into two acts, and none of the original Metastasio arias are from the original middle act. Mazzolà replaced a lot of the dialogue with"
"the Mozarts frequently in Bologna during the summer of 1770 while Wolfgang was working on ""Mitridate"". Mozart gained expertise in composition from his older friend and also incorporated some of his musical motives into his own operatic setting. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan, on 26 December 1770 (at the Milan Carnival). It was a success, having been performed twenty-one times despite doubts because of Mozart's extreme youth – he was 14 at the time. No revival took place until the 20th century. This opera features virtuoso arias for the principal roles, but only two"
"an austere personage who was already offended by the lack of dignity in the Mozarts' European journeys. During the Mozarts' Vienna visit, she may have developed an even more hostile view of the Mozart family. The failure in 1768 cost young Mozart his chance of establishing his reputation as a first-class opera composer in Vienna, which would have been a jumping board for obtaining a permanent position in another European court. Later, Mozart was, at first, very successful in Milan with his well-received performances of ""Mitridate"" (Carnival of December 1770 to January 1771), and especially ""Ascanio in Alba"", a pastoral"