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Júlia Várady, the Glossary

Júlia Várady (Várady Júlia; born 1 September 1941) is a Hungarian-born German soprano who started out as a mezzo-soprano.^[1]

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20th-century Hungarian women opera singers
Hungarian operatic sopranos

Aida

Aida (or Aïda) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.

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Alceste (Gluck)

Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767.

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Alexander Borodin

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (access-date Alexander Porphirii filius Borodin|p.

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Arabella

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.

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Ariadne auf Naxos

(Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Aribert Reimann

Aribert Reimann (4 March 1936 – 13 March 2024) was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas.

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Ariodante

Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.

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Bavarian State Opera

The Bavarian State Opera is a German opera company based in Munich.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist.

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Duke Bluebeard's Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára, literally The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle) is a one-act Symbolist opera by composer Béla Bartók to a Hungarian libretto by his friend and poet Béla Balázs.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.

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Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.

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Charles Gounod

Charles-François Gounod (17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Così fan tutte

(Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung).

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Der fliegende Holländer

(The Flying Dutchman), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner.

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Deutsche Oper Berlin

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin.

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Die Frau ohne Schatten

(The Woman without a Shadow), Op.

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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

("The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner.

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Die Walküre

(The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung).

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music.

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Don Carlos

Don Carlos is an 1867 five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos, Infante of Spain) by Friedrich Schiller.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Edgar

Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Edgar (composed of ead "rich, prosperous" and gar "spear").

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Eugene Onegin (opera)

Eugene Onegin (Ru-Evgeny_Onegin.ogg), Op.

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Faust (opera)

Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One.

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Fidelio

Fidelio, originally titled (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.

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Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy

Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy is an educational institution located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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Harold Rosenthal

Harold David Rosenthal OBE (30 September 1917 – 19 March 1987) was an English music critic, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster about opera.

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Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin

The in Berlin, Germany, is one of the leading universities of music in Europe.

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Idomeneo

(Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Il tabarro

Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on 's play La houppelande.

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Il trovatore

Il trovatore ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

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Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.

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Johann Strauss II

Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (Johann Strauß Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist.

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John Warrack

John Hamilton Warrack (born 9 February 1928) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist.

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La Cenerentola

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo ("Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant") is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini.

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La clemenza di Tito

La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio.

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La forza del destino

(The Power of Fate, often translated The Force of Destiny) is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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La traviata

La traviata (The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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Le comte Ory

Le comte Ory (Count Ory) is a comic opera written by Gioachino Rossini in 1828.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Moses und Aron

Moses und Aron (English: Moses and Aaron) is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the music to the third act unfinished.

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Nabucco

Nabucco (short for Nabucodonosor; Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera.

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National University of Music Bucharest

The National University of Music Bucharest (Universitatea Națională de Muzică București, UNMB) is a university-level school of music located in Bucharest, Romania.

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Opéra Bastille

The Opéra Bastille ("Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Oper Frankfurt

The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Oradea

Oradea (Großwardein; Nagyvárad) is a city in Romania, located in the Crișana region.

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Orfeo ed Euridice

(French:; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.

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Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello.

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Pietro Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas.

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Prince Igor

Prince Igor (Knyaz Igor) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rienzi

(Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an 1842 opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835).

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Teatro Colón

The Teatro Colón (Columbus Theatre) is a historic opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Gypsy Baron

The Gypsy Baron is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II which premiered at the Theater an der Wien on 24 October 1885.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute, K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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