Opera and Classical Flashcards

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Giuseppe Verdi* 5

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Italian

  • -Aida (Opera)
  • -La Traviata (Opera) – based on Dumas’ (La dame aux Camélias)
  • -Rigoletto (Opera)
  • -Il Travatore (Opera)
  • -The Anvil Chorus
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Puccini (*4)

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Italian

Madam Butterfly (Opera)
Tosca (Opera)
La Boheme
Turandot (Unfinished Opera)

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Wagner *7

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German

Tannhauser (Opera)
Parsifal (Opera)
Tristan and Isolde (Opera)
Lohengrin (Opera)
The Ring of Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle Opera)
The Flying Dutchman
Ride of the Valkyries
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Mozart*8

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Austrian - Wife Constanze Weber

The Magic Flute (Opera)
Symphony #40 in G Minor
Jupiter Symphony #41
Elvira Madigan
The Marriage of Figaro (Opera)
Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera)
Don Giovanni (Opera)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A little night music)
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Ring Cycle Operas

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Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

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Rossini *2

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Italian

Barber of Seville, William Tell

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Bizet

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French

Carmen

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Berlioz

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French

Les Troyens

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Gounod

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French

Faust

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Smetana

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Czech

The Bartered Bride

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Richard Strauss

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German
German

Salome, Der rosenkavalier, Elektra

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Beethoven

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German

Fidelio

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Engelbert Humperdink

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German

Hansel and Gretel

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Norway

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Edvard Grieg

Peer Gynt

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Finland

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Jean “Finlandia” Sibelius

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Poland

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Frederic “Lover of George Sand” Chopin

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Czechoslovakia

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Antonin “new world Symphony” Dvorak

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Hungary (19th Century)

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Franze “Wagner’s Father In Law” Liszt

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Hungary (20th Century)

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Bela “Magya Folk Music” Bartok

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Armenia

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Aram Khachaturian

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German Baroque Master

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Bach

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Austrian Child Prodigy

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Mozart

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Deaf Romantic Master

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Beethoven

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3rd “eroica” symphony

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Beethoven

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6th "Pastoral Symphony"
Beethoven
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9th "Choral Symphony"
Beethoven -- Ode to Joy
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Lullaby
Brahms - German
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Wedding March
Felix Mendelssohn - German
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Messiah
Handel (German/English)
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Water Music
Handel (German/English)
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Richard Strauss - German
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Carmina Burana
Carl Orff - German
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Canon in D
Johann Pachelbel - German
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Waltzes in general and Blue Danube Waltz in Particular
Johann Strauss 2 (Austrian)
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Lieder Composer and Unfinished symphony
Schubert (Austrian)
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The planets
Gustave Holst (UK)
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Pomp and Circumstance
Edward Elgar (UK)
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Ave Maria
Gounod (france -- also Opera Faust)
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Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz (france)
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The carnival of animals and danse macabre
Camille Saint-Saens (French)
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Bolero
Maurice Ravel (French)
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Prelude to the afternoon of a faun, La Mer, and Clair de Lune
Claude Debussy (French)
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The concept of Atonalism
Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian)
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Symphony of a Thousand, Husband of Alma Shindler
Gustav Mahler (Austrian)
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Nickname "Papa" - "Surprise Symphony"
Joseph Haydn (Austrian)
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Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris
George Gershwin (USA)
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The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi (Italian)
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References to the notion of piano virtuosity
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian)
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Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, and Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copeland (USA)
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Grand Canyon Suite
Ferde Grofe (USA)
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4'33" of Silence | American Avant-Garde
John Cage (USA)
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1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky (Russian)
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Flight of the Bumblebee
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian)
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Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky (Russian)
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Peter and the Wolf
Sergie Prokofiev (Russian)
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Leningrad Symphony
Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian)
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References to the Notion of Violin Virtuosity
Niccolo Paganini
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Russian Ballet Composers
Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty) Stravinsky (Firebird, Rite of Spring, Petrushka) Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade)
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The Dying Swan
Anna Pavlova (Russian) (1881-1931)
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Baryshnikov
Defected to Canada in 1974, "The Turning Point" "Sex and the City"
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Accidental Automotive scarf-related death
Isadora Duncan
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Modern Dance American Ballet Choreographer
Martha Graham
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"Fancy Free" Choreographer and "West Side Story"
Jerome Robbins
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"Osage (Oklahoma) Heritage and Married ot George Balanchine and Sister Marjorie
Maria Tallchief
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"All That Jazz" and "Cabaret"
Bob Fosse
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"Rodeo" Choreographer and Niece of Cecil B. De Mille
Agnes de Mille
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Operetta
Librettist -- William S Gilbert Composer - Arthur Sullivan Savoy Theater -- HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, the Mikado, The Yeoman of the Guard, the Gondoliers, and Thespis (First Collaboration)
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Operetta from Waltz King
De Fledermaus (the bat) -- Johann Strauss