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Spanish opera, the Glossary

Spanish opera is both the art of opera in Spain and opera in the Spanish language.^[1]

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Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentine composer of classical music.

Amadeu Vives i Roig

Amadeu Vives i Roig (18 November 1871 – 2 December 1932) was a Spanish musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works.

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Antoni de Literes (18 June 1673 Majorca – 18 January 1747 Madrid), also known as Antonio de Literes or Antoni Literes Carrión) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas. As with other national forms of baroque opera, Literes's stage works employ a wide variety of musical forms – arias, ariettas and recitative (accompanied and unaccompanied) as well as dance movements and choruses, though here mingled with spoken verse dialogue.

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Ballad opera

The ballad opera is a genre of English comic opera stage play that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later.

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Bomarzo (opera)

Bomarzo is an opera in two acts by the Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera, his Opus 34.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Castanets

Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music.

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Clementina (zarzuela)

Clementina, although wrongly and popularly known as La Clementina, is a zarzuela in two acts by Luigi Boccherini.

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Comic opera

Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue.

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Daniel Catán

Daniel Catán Porteny (April 3, 1949 – April 9, 2011) was a Mexican composer, writer and professor known particularly for his operas and his contribution of the Spanish language to the international repertory.

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Emilio Arrieta

Juan Pascual Antonio Arrieta Corera (20 October 1821 – 11 February 1894), also known as Emilio Arrieta, was a Spanish composer.

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Enrique Granados

Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enrique Granados in Spanish or Enric Granados in Catalan, was a Spanish composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain.

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Farce

Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.

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Federico Chueca

Pío Estanislao Federico Chueca y Robres (5 May 1846 – 20 June 1908) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and author of La gran vía along with Joaquín Valverde Durán in 1886.

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Florencia en el Amazonas

Florencia en el Amazonas (English title: Florencia in the Amazon) is an opera in two acts composed by Daniel Catán.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Francisco Alonso

Francisco Alonso López (9 May 1887 – 18 May 1948) was a Spanish composer of popular theatre music and zarzuelas.

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Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 19 February 1894) was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, zarzuela. His works include: El barberillo de Lavapiés, Jugar con fuego, Pan y toros, Don Quijote, Los diamantes de la corona, and El Diablo en el poder.

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Género chico

Género chico (literally, "little genre") is a Spanish genre of short, light plays with music.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Goyescas (opera)

Goyescas is an opera in one act and three tableaux, written in 1915 by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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History of opera

The history of opera has a relatively short duration within the context of the history of music in general: it appeared in 1597, when the first opera, Dafne, by Jacopo Peri, was created. Spanish opera and history of opera are opera history.

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Isaac Albéniz

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor.

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Italian opera

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Spanish opera and Italian opera are opera by country and opera history.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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José María Usandizaga

José María Usandizaga (31 March 1887–5 October 1915) was a Spanish Basque composer.

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José Serrano (composer)

José Serrano Simeón (14 October 18738 March 1941) was a Spanish composer, known for producing zarzuelas.

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Juan del Encina

Juan del Encina (12 July 1468 – 1529/1530) was a composer, poet, priest, and playwright, often credited as the joint-father (even "founder" or "patriarch") of Spanish drama, alongside Gil Vicente.

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Juan Hidalgo de Polanco

Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (28 September 1614 – 31 March 1685) was a Spanish composer and harpist who became the most influential composer of his time in the Hispanic world writing the music for the first two operas created in Spanish.

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La Dolores

La Dolores is a Spanish opera (ópera Española) in 3 acts by Tomás Bretón.

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La dolorosa

La Dolorosa (The Holy Virgin of the Sorrows) is a zarzuela by the Spanish composer José Serrano.

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La vida breve (opera)

La vida breve (Spanish Life is Short or The Brief Life) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Liceu

The Gran Teatre del Liceu ("Great Theater of the Lyceum"), usually known as El Liceu, is an opera house in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Lope de Vega

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature.

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Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (also,; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.

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Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist.

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Margarita la tornera

Margarita la tornera (Margarita the Gatekeeper) is an opera in three acts composed by Ruperto Chapí to a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, based on a dramatic poem by José Zorrilla.

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Merlin (Albéniz)

Merlin is the last of the operas of Isaac Albéniz.

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Opéra comique

Opéra comique (plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias.

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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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Pablo Luna

Pablo Luna Carné (May 21, 1879 Alhama de Aragón – January 28, 1942 Madrid) was a Spanish composer.

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Pablo Sorozábal

Pablo Sorozábal Mariezcurrena (18 September 1897 – 26 December 1988) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas, operas, symphonic works, and the popular romanza, "No puede ser".

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 160025 May 1681) (full name: Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer.

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Pepita Jiménez

Pepita Jiménez is a lyric comedy or comic opera with music written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz.

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Ruperto Chapí

Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (27 March 1851 – 25 March 1909) was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers.

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Sebastián Durón

Sebastián Durón (19 April (baptized) 1660 – 3 August 1716) was a Spanish composer.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills".

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Teatro de la Zarzuela

The Teatro de la Zarzuela is a theatre in Madrid, Spain.

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Teatro Real

The Teatro Real (Royal Opera of Madrid) is an opera house in Madrid, Spain.

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Tomás Bretón

Tomás Bretón y Hernández (29 December 1850 – 2 December 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer.

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Tonadilla

Tonadilla was a Spanish musical song form of theatrical origin; not danced.

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Verismo

In opera, realism, from vero, meaning 'true', was a post-Romantic operatic tradition associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Francesco Cilea and Giacomo Puccini.

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Zarzuela

Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. Spanish opera and Zarzuela are music of Spain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_opera

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Opera by country

Opera history

Opera in Spain

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