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Médée (Milhaud)
Below is a list of compositions by Darius Milhaud sorted by category. Operas * ''La brebis égarée'', Op. 4 (1910–1914); 3 acts, 20 scenes; libretto by Francis Jammes; premiere 1923 * ''Les euménides'', Op. 41 (1917–1923); ''L'Orestie d'Eschyle'' (Orestiean Trilogy No. 3); 3 acts; libretto by Paul Claudel after Aeschylus * ''Les malheurs d'Orphée'', Op. 85 (1924); chamber opera in 3 acts; libretto by Armand Lunel; premiere 1926 * ''Esther de Carpentras'', Op. 89 (1925–1926); opera buffa in 2 acts; libretto by Armand Lunel; premiere 1937 * ''Le pauvre matelot'', Op. 92 (1926); 'complainte' in 3 acts; libretto by Jean Cocteau; premiere 1927 * 3 Opéras-minutes *# '' L'enlèvement d'Europe'', Op. 94 (1927); 1 act, 8 scenes; libretto by Henri Hoppenot *# '' L'abandon d'Ariane'', Op. 98 (1927); 1 act, 5 scenes; libretto by Henri Hoppenot *# '' La délivrance de Thésée'', Op. 99 (1927); 1 act, 6 scenes; libretto by Henri Hoppenot * ''Christophe Colomb'', Op. 102 (1928, revis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Milhaud B Meurisse 1923
Darius may refer to: Persian royalty ;Kings of the Achaemenid Empire * Darius I (the Great, 550 to 487 BC) * Darius II (423 to 404 BC) * Darius III (Codomannus, 380 to 330 BC) ;Crown princes * Darius (son of Xerxes I), crown prince of Persia, may have ruled briefly in 465 BC *Darius, son of Artaxerxes II, crown prince and junior king of his father, father of Arbupales Kings, princes, and politicians * Darius (praetorian prefect), Praetorian prefect of the East in 436 to 437 AD * Darius I of Media Atropatene * Darius II of Persis * Darius the Mede * Darius of Pontus * Dara Shikoh, known as Darius the Magnificent * Darius, one of the sons of King Mithridates VI Eupator Other * ''Darius'' (album), by Graham Collier * Darius (given name), including a list of people with the given name *Darius (surname) * Darius (horse), a racehorse * Darius Films * ''Darius (video game)'', a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up by Taito, originally released for the arcades in 1987 See also * Dharius, Mexi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beggar's Opera
''The Beggar's Opera'' is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time. ''The Beggar's Opera'' premiered at the Lisle's Tennis Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre on 29 January 1728 and ran for 62 consecutive performances, the second-longest run in theatre history up to that time (after 146 performances of Robert Cambert's ''Pomone (opera), Pomone'' in Paris in 1671). The work became Gay's greatest success and has been played ever since; it has been called "the most popular play of the eighteenth century". In 1920, ''The Beggar's Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
