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A World of Music. Ears on:vocabulary

Listen and choose the correct ending for the words.

BARO
ORCHES
Sing


ATONA
COSTU
ROMANTI


PERFOR
DISSO
IMPRESSIO

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A World of Music. Ears on: understanding sentences

Listen to the sentences and complete with the right word.

Teresa Berganza
Jmhullot. Teresa Berganza Wikimedia Commons. (CC BY)


1. An opera is a work where operatic voices sing a libretto (the lyrics to opera music) while accompanied by a classical orchestra. They also include , costumes and sometimes .


2. The stories in the period focused on Greek and represented love, death, and duty confronted to feelings.


3.  opera developed in a period of history where the power of was questioned and the Enlightening thinking arose. Operas became more theatrical, the and structure became more important than the music, which also turned to simpler melodies and lyrics.


4. The Romantic operas included florid complex which required singers' high control.

Teresa Berganza (1933-2022) was a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is famous for her performance of coloratura roles and her technique. She performed a really outstanding Bizet's Carmen. In 2008, she stoppped singing, but kept giving master classess around the world and teaching singing at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.

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A World of Music. Opera authors

Who wrote these operas? Choose the correct name.

The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro -

Pélleas and Mélisande -

Rigoletto, Nabucco -

Orfeo and Eurydice -

Norma -

The Barber of Seville -

Carmen -

The Ring of the Nibelung -

Cecilia Bartoli is an Italian mezzo-soprano famous for her great vocals and work on stage. Apart from famous composers, Mozart, Rossini, etc. she has paid attention to forgotten composers, the work of castrati and female singers. She has won many international awards and her albums have been really successful.

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