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During the first half of the nineteenth century, opera theaters were primarily run by....
An impresario who produced operas as a means of profiting from the popularity of musical theater during the nineteenth century.
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By the mid-nineteenth century, the following figures became the key draw for audiences of opera productions:
Composers
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The following composer was the most popular and influential opera composer of the early nineteenth century:
Gioachino Rossini
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In Rossini's operas, the most important element is the:
Voice
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The following composer is credited with developing a scene structure that distributed the story throughout an act rather than confining the unfolding of the plot to the recitative:
Gioachino Rossini
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The overture from the following Rossini opera is unique because it consists of four sections that present a series of scenes taken from the opera:
Guillaume Tell
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The following composer is known for his long, sweeping, highly embellished, and intensely emotional melodies:
Vincenzo Bellini
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Lucia di Lammermoor, an opera based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott, was composed by:
Gaetano Donizetti
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Grand opera was designed to appeal to the desires of the:
Middle class
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A performance in Brussels of the following opera sparked a riot that ultimately led to Belgium's independence:
La muette de Portici
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The following librettist is credited with creating the mix of formality, spectacle, and historical, political, or religious themes that define grand opera:
Eugene Scribe
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The following composer, credited with being a leader in the grand opera style, utilized every available technique to dramatize the action and please the public:
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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A newly-developed style of ballet in the nineteenth century in which dancers moved with lightness, grace, and freedom was introduced by:
Marie Taglioni
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The following opera, often credited with establishing German Romantic Opera, is unique because it places ordinary people center stage singing about their concerns, fears, and loves:
Der Freischutz
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The role of the orchestra is nineteenth-century German opera is best described as:
Equal: harmony and orchestral timbre are employed for dramatic expression, which enhances the libretto.
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An association of motives and keys with particular characters or events is characteristic of whose operas?
Carl Maria von Weber
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The first Russian composer recognized both in Russia and internationally as an equal of his Western contemporaries was:
Mikhail Glinka
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The first Russian opera to be sung throughout was:
A Life for the Tsar
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Lenora, the first staged opera by an American composer, was composed by:
William Henry Fry
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The most popular form of musical theater inthe United States from the 1830s to the 1870s was:
Minstrel theater
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The first American piece to find success overseas was:
"Jump Jim Crow"
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The first full-scale minstrel show consisting of dialogue, songs, banjo and fiddle playing, and dances was performed in 1843 by the:
Virginia Minstrels
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Between 1819 and 1866, New Orleans' Theatre d'Orleans primarily performed:
French and Italian operas performed in their original languages
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The well-known minstrel song "Dixie" was written by:
Dan Emmett
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