music-drama

Its success is down to the score, which fuses the immediacy of folk tunes with the highfalutin strains of Wagnerian music-drama.

Hänsel und Gretel: Fatten kid. Cook. Then eat 2011

Sfmike wrote: ... and "music-drama" is a German concept, a.c., the Italian version is simply Opera even though Monteverdi definitely wrote "music-drama".

Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008

You all but convince that this opera is a genuine music-drama; something most Italian opera is not noted for being.

Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Verdi was god and so was Rossini (and "music-drama" is a German concept, a.c., the Italian version is simply Opera even though Monteverdi definitely wrote "music-drama").

Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008

But the hero and heroine of the music-drama were husband and wife; therefore the phrases are intertwined sufficiently for propriety, but not too closely for pleasure.

An imbalance of humors Matthew Guerrieri 2007

What are the two principal personages in the music-drama to be to each other?

Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Wiggin is trying to satirize three things at once: "modern," Ibsen-like views on love and marriage; explications of Wagnerian music-drama for the benefit of wealthy dilettantes; and Wagnerian opera itself.

An imbalance of humors Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Wiggin is trying to satirize three things at once: "modern," Ibsen-like views on love and marriage; explications of Wagnerian music-drama for the benefit of wealthy dilettantes; and Wagnerian opera itself.

Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

What but that Bluebeard is not to be the sole personage in this music-drama; and we judge the stranger to be a female on account of the overwhelming circumstantial evidence just given.

An imbalance of humors Matthew Guerrieri 2007

What are the two principal personages in the music-drama to be to each other?

An imbalance of humors Matthew Guerrieri 2007