Indeed, it has the advantage of avoiding the longeurs of that better-known work. Often overshadowed by its sister singspiel, The Magic Flute, “this rescue opera” is just as delightful and as profound, full of high spirits and deep feeling. Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Seraglio) Here is the scene in which Tatiana pours out her love for Onegin in a letter.Ĩ. The opera ends with Onegin in despair over this rejection. But it is too late: Tatiana has married a prince to whom she is determined to remain faithful, despite her still-active feelings for Onegin. After many years away from Tatiana, Onegin realizes that he indeed loves her.
Onegin is a cautious man, however, and is unable to return Tatiana’s love. In the course of his interaction with Tatiana and her sister, Onegin ends up in a dispute with his friend Lensky, eventually killing him in a duel.
Based on Alexander Pushkin’s play, Eugene Onegin tells the tragic tale of the beautiful young woman, Tatiana, who falls in love with the eponymous friend of her sister’s fiancé. Here is the brilliant aria, “Siam navi all’onde algenti”:įew composers rival Tchaikvosky when it comes to plumbing the depths of the human heart. Though it has dramatic lapses, a case can be made that L’Olimpiade, a love story that takes place during the ancient Olympic games, is the Red Priest’s greatest composition in this genre. The libretti of Vivaldi’s operas are complex and usually ridiculous-though this can be said of most opera libretti-but it is the brilliance of the music that carries the day. Liberally indulging in the common practice of self-borrowing, Vivaldi sometimes cobbled together “new” works, taking arias and tunes from previous operas and instrumental works.
Indeed, Vivaldi spent much of his career as a traveling impresario, staging often-hastily-assembled operas across Europe (and traveling with two young sister-singers who starred in his productions and who became the subject of lascivious rumors about the middle-aged priest/composer). But the composer considered himself primarily a writer of opera. Vivaldi is well-known today because of The Four Seasons and a handful of other concertos. Spirited disagreement is expected and welcomed. Below is a list of the ten greatest operas ever composed, in order of greatness, from ten down to number one, in the estimation of the present author. The human voice is God’s most beautiful instrument, and the blending of voices and musical instruments within the context of a dramatic visual presentation is the zenith of human artistic achievement.
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