1) Czech-language opera 2) Italian-language opera 3) Latin girl name 4) Opera by Antonín Dvořák 5) Opera by Antonio Salieri 6) Opera by Gioachino Rossini 7) Opera by Joseph Haydn 8) Opera by Judith Weir 9) Work about the Crusades
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The story of Armida, a Saracen sorceress and Rinaldo, a soldier in the First Crusade, was created by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso. In his epic Gerusalemme liberata, Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome. Armida has been sent to stop the Christians from completing their mission and is about to murder the s...
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[Dvořák] Armida is an opera by Antonín Dvořák in four acts, set to a libretto by Jaroslav Vrchlický that was originally based on Torquato Tasso`s epic La Gerusalemme liberata. Dvořák`s opera was first performed at Prague`s National Theatre on 25 March 1904; the score was published as opus 115 in 1941. In terms of genre, Armida repre...
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[Haydn] Armida, Hob. XXVIII/12, is an opera in three acts by Joseph Haydn, set to a libretto based upon Torquato Tasso`s poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). The first performance was 26 February 1784 and it went on to receive 54 performances from 1784 to 1788 at the Esterháza Court Theatre. During the composer`s lifetime it wa...
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[Mysliveček] Armida is an opera in three acts by Josef Mysliveček set to a libretto by Gianambrogio Migliavacca based on an earlier libretto by Philippe Quinault. It is one of many operas set at the time of the Crusades that is based on characters and incidents from Torquato Tasso`s epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata. This opera (and all t...
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[Rossini] Armida is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto (dramma per musica) by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. ==Performance history== Armida was written to be performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 11 November 1817 to celebrate the opening of the rebuil...
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[Sacchini] In Armida, Sacchini incorporated many elements of French opera, including frequent use of chorus, ballet, and theatrical spectacle on a grand scale. Sacchini later wrote two more operas loosely based on the same story from Tasso: the 1780 London work Rinaldo, and his first French opera, Renaud, which was dedicated to Marie Antoin...
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[Salieri] Salieri`s opera was first performed in Vienna on the 2nd June 1771, and his composition was much influenced by the aesthetics of Christoph Willibald Gluck, who attempted to reform opera seria by tying the drama more closely to the music. Salieri`s overture follows the principles set out by Gluck in the preface to Alceste. Other Gl...
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[actress] Armida, born Armida Vendrell, (29 May 1911 – 23 October 1989) was an American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian born in Aguascalientes, Mexico. ==Early life== Armida came from a theatrical family; her father Joaquin Vendrell was a well known magician `The Great Arnold` who immigrated to Mexico from Barcelona, Spain. She a...
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(from the article `Rossini, Gioachino`) Armida, a grand opera requiring a trio of tenors and a dramatic soprano (Colbran), appeared in 1817. Rossini was now finding interpreters that suited ...
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