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Recruit, Pianissimo
Recommend me opera music!
Hi!
I'm really a metal fan. But I've heard some amazing operas, really strong and even dark. Unfortunatelly I don't know the names/authors. Could you please recommend me good operas, I'm a newbie looking (to start) for operas written ONLY for female singers and ONLY for piano and/or violin.
Also I'm looking for "dark operas", you know, something that resemble an Edgar Allan Poe horror story.
Thank you.
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Civilian
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Re: Recommend me opera music!
I'm curious... why should the opera only use female singers and only piano and/or violin? - it's really an absurd request, sorry... no offence intended... - I don't know if there ever has been written any operas with that constellation - none that I know of anyway...
I'm all for spreading out the knowledge of classical music but it's requests like these I find hard to take serious... it's like if I wrote in a metal-forum and wanted to them to recommend me some metal music written only for electric guitar and/or a drum set and only sung by a child (male/boy)?!
As to recommendable operas there's a whole world out there with different styles not only from different timeperiods from the baroque opera of Purcell or Händel over the classical ones of Mozart through the Italian-romantics by Puccini, Verdi, Rossini to the musicdramas of Wagner and beyond. - It's hard to recommend anything specific other than I would go for the latter composers if wanting an opera in a "dark/solmn" mood... generally the operas of Wagner have a dark-"ring" (no pun intended
) to them...
As to Paul's recommendation of Offenbach... well, I would say that Offenbach, like another composer named Gluck, writes in a more humoures style - the operetta... - I haven't heard the whole of "Orpheus..."... the story is indeed one of the classic tradegies... but the music might at times appear too "light"?!?
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Civilian
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Civilian
Re: Recommend me opera music!
Well.!!!!! I have told Jamie "it's NOT what he is on about......It may be what He's ON."
Still has Not come back to explain to us all....and hope he............(well)....I have to be Nice Today.
Pamadu/Paul.
BUT....Like Corno....I am Very Curious about this FEMALE & Piano/Violin ONLY Thing.....More than the Deep & Dark
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Recruit, Pianissimo
Re: Recommend me opera music!
Hi!
Sorry, I'm here again, I couldn't remember my password until now. Thanks everyone for answering/waiting.
I didn't think it will be so hard to find this kind of music. But I'm sure it exists 'cos I've heard it in radio (at least piano-female). Maybe there are only 3 o 4 pieces and I'm thinking that I cand find entire operas written this way.
I'm asking for this kind of music because I really like female opera voice and my favorite instrument is the piano and in second place the violin but I dont like the sound of wind instruments (with a few exceptions) that you normally find in a full orchestra.
My favorite classical piece (since I was 7) is Winter from the 4 seasons (maybe that could help you to understand what kind of music do I like). But in opera I know only a few.
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Civilian
Re: Recommend me opera music!
Hi Again javier_colin.....Glad you have returned to help us ALL to understand & hopefully answer Your Original Question....My comments were made,not to offend YOU...But could not follow what you really mean't etc....After Easter will have a Good Look for You...I am sure the Other Members will NOW have a "starting point" to give you some constructive answer.....It just seemed a far "too broad & very odd" Question at first,but we now have something to go on.
Cheers.
Pamadu/Paul.
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