Personal Experience: A Live Opera

Concubine (1993) is a Chinese drama film that succeeds in mixing and blending two different, but equally powerful, historical and personal stories that parallel and complement each other in historically significant ways. The film focuses on 50 years of modern Chinese history, while at the same time organizes an intriguing personal drama set within the context of Peking Opera. The interwoven ways in which the stories complement each other along is at the center of Farewell My Concubine’s power to influence

of his opera with the Utah Symphony for numerous

movement! Verismo was a movement or new school of thought embodied in the operas of composers like Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordani, Giacomo Puccini. Verismo is virtually synonymous with ‘realism.’ It was an attempt made by composers to inject into opera, the real-life pains and experiences that so easily worked their way into drama, poetry and the spoken arts, but seemed to fall short when it came to opera. In 1827 was birthed that which we know and recognize as the

The enriching experience of listening to live music has been a pleasurable pastime for many individuals since the creation of music itself. The ability for musicians to provoke profound emotions in others is a form of social communication that is unmatched by any other type of human connection which allowed music to retain its popularity throughout history. Without an artistic mode of expression for humans to communicate what can’t be directly spoken, life becomes dull and devoid of emotion where

a fictional novel published in 1911, by Gaston Leroux, puts the reader right in the catacombs of the Paris Opera House in the late 1800s (Cox: Oxford Reference). An adventure, involving tragic love and gothic elements, surrounds a detective’s search to reveal the mystery of the “Phantom of the Opera”. The detective acts as the narrator who reflects on his investigations of the Paris Opera House through allusions and the tragedies that occur throughout the novel’s entirety. Leroux especially highlights

just as popular back in the Renaissance as it is today. Much like the definition of opera, musical theater has a definition of a stage performance combining spoken dialogue, acting, dancing and songs written to fit the dialogue being recited. Musicals were a form of entertainment in the late 1600’s when opera began to take popularity in Italy and Germany and England. The use of an orchestra and conductor for opera to accentuate the feeling or the emotion of the piece is something that musical theater

Do soap operas have the potentials to empower women audience? Apply relevant feminist media theories to the analysis of one particular show. Introduction People nowadays live in a media society and they use different kinds of media products everyday. The public enjoy the benefits brought by technology as people not only can watch the programmes on television but also be able to watch them online. In Indonesia, nine out of ten people watch television every single day and a growing amount of middle

into the creation of the art. In the case of other forms of art, visual arts specifically, the artists often invest in the art, first absorbing the costs of material then selling the art for a profit. This is harder in theatre and fine arts where personal budgets are often overwhelmed by the cost of materials, technical instruments, and other costly measures necessary for the show to go on, this, not including the money to keep the lights on and the space open. Regional theatres outnumber what most

Realism in British Soap Opera Using a media text as a key example, evaluate selected techniques of fictional production which contribute to a sense of realism consistent with genre or format used. Many have defined the term realism but these definitions by Watt and Williams can be easily applied to my choice of media text, which is the British soap opera. Fiske writes that Watt and Williams “….tend to define it by its content. Watt traces its origins to the rise of the novel in

Nonprofits organizations like The American Kidney depend on donations and grants from individuals, government supplements, and corporations. For profit organizations like The Dallas Opera depends on revenue from sales and contributions to meet the needs of their mission. While both The American Kidney Fund and The Dallas Opera have different corporate cultures that require support from outside sources, they each must display ethical values to support the financial needs of the institution; and to the