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12 ore fa · Wikipedia will explain that The Beggar’s Opera is a 1728 work by John Gay, with Johann Christoph Pepusch arranging the music. It was wildly successful and is actually now the only example of satirical ballad opera which is still popular. The idea was to poke fun at Italian opera, and its wealthy and powerful patrons, through subversion.
5 giorni fa · Michael Nyman's 1991 opera Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs was first performed as an opera-ballet by Karine Saporta. This opera is unique in that the three vocalists, a soprano , contralto , and tenor , are voices rather than individual characters, with the tenor just as likely as the soprano to sing Miranda, or all three sing as one ...
- England
5 giorni fa · Described as a loose concept album and rock opera, Ziggy Stardust focuses on Bowie's titular alter ego Ziggy Stardust, a fictional androgynous and bisexual rock star who is sent to Earth as a saviour before an impending apocalyptic disaster.
- 9 July, November 1971 – February 1972
- Ken Scott, David Bowie
- 16 June 1972
3 giorni fa · Il Grammy Award alla miglior canzone scritta per i media visivi ( Best Song Written for Visual Media) è un premio Grammy istituito nel 1988, con l'intento di premiare il miglior brano composto appositamente per la colonna sonora di un prodotto audio-visivo (film, serie TV, ecc.). Il premio viene dato agli autori della canzone.
5 giorni fa · Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor noted for his unique blend of opera and pop music. His breakthrough came in the early 1990s and was followed with such albums as Bocelli (1995) and Romanza (1997) as well as PBS airings of his live shows.
5 giorni fa · The Battle of the Frogs [a] was a frog-related incident in the Connecticut Colony town of Windham in 1754. [b] On a summer night in June or July, the people of Windham were awakened by a mysterious loud noise whose source they could not identify. The French and Indian War had recently broken out and, fearing an attack, a scouting party was sent ...
3 giorni fa · Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.
