OPERA
Work
Vocabulary
 Libretto (little book)
 Aria
 Recitative
 Dramma giocoso
 Opera buffa
 Opera seria
 Grand opera
Atheisto Fulminato
The Atheist
Thunderstruck
Lorenzo da Ponte
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Don Giovanni
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da Ponte
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Mozart
Finale
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Composers
 Purcell
 Gluck
 Haydn
 Liszt
 Tchaikovsky
 Mahler
 Strauss
Tempi
(singular, Tempo)
 Molto allegro  Andante con
moto
 Presto
 Andantino
 Allegretto
“She talks like a novel!”
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Mille e tre
One thousand and three
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Lord Byron
Don Juan
I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends
forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with
cant,
The age discovers he is not the true
one;
Of such as these I should not care
to vaunt,
I'll therefore take our ancient friend
Don Juan.
Cadiz
And then, by the advice of some
old ladies,
She sent her son to be shipp'd off
from Cadiz.
Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual,
Inform us truly, have they not
hen-peck'd you all?
 Molière:
Dom Juan
 George Bernard Shaw:
Don Juan in Hell
 David Ives:
Don Juan in Chicago