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is added to dried beet pulp to make animal feed. Some is also sold in bulk tankers.
Actual procedures may vary from the above description, with different recycling and crystallisation processes.
# Other uses.
- Beverages
In a number of countries, notably the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beet sugar is use... | 6,119,400 |
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by cooking shredded sugar beet for several hours, then pressing the resulting mash and concentrating the juice produced until it has a consistency similar to that of honey. No other ingredients are used. In Germany, particularly the Rhineland area, this sugar beet syrup (called "Zuckerrüben-Sirup" or "Zapp" ... | 6,119,401 |
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or anti-icing products in winter control operations. The molasses can be used directly, combined with liquid chlorides and applied to road surfaces, or used to treat the salt spread on roads. Molasses can be more advantageous than road salt alone because it reduces corrosion and lowers the freezing point of ... | 6,119,402 |
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is chiefly through chromatographic separation, using techniques such as the "simulated moving bed".
- Uridine
Uridine can be isolated from sugar beet.
- Alternative fuel
BP and Associated British Foods plan to use agricultural surpluses of sugar beet to produce biobutanol in East Anglia in the United Kin... | 6,119,403 |
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unprocessable. Strict controls are enforced in European countries to prevent the spread, but it is already present in some areas. It is also susceptible to the beet leaf curl virus, which causes crinkling and stunting of the leaves.
Continual research looks for varieties with resistance, as well as increase... | 6,119,404 |
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important members of the subfamily Chenopodioideae:
- Beetroot
- Chard
- "Mangelwurzel" or fodder beet.
## Genetic modification.
In the United States, genetically modified sugar beets, engineered for resistance to glyphosate, a herbicide marketed as Roundup, were developed by Monsanto as a genetically m... | 6,119,405 |
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in multiple countries, but commercial production of biotech beets has been approved only in the United States and Canada. Studies have concluded the sugar from glyphosate-resistant sugar beets has the same nutritional value as sugar from conventional sugar beets. After deregulation in 2005, glyphosate-resist... | 6,119,406 |
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a broad spectrum of weed species and has a low toxicity. A study from the UK suggests yields of genetically modified beet were greater than conventional, while another from the North Dakota State University extension service found lower yields. The introduction of glyphosate-resistant sugar beets may contrib... | 6,119,407 |
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in 2005. The organizations expressed concerns regarding glyphosate-resistant sugar beets' ability to potentially cross-pollinate with conventional sugar beets. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White, US District Court for the Northern District of California, revoked the deregulation of glyphosate-resistant sug... | 6,119,408 |
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completing an environmental impact assessment and a plant pest risk assessment the USDA deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beets.
# Genome and packaging into chromosomes.
The sugar beet genome has been sequenced and two reference genome sequences have already been generated. The genome size of the ... | 6,119,409 |
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itima") have been sequenced as well, allowing for identification of the resistance gene "Rz2" in the wild progenitor. "Rz2" confers resistance to rhizomania, commonly known as the sugar beet root madness disease.
# External links.
- How Beet Sugar is Made
- "Guardian (UK)" article on how sugar beet can be... | 6,119,410 |
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List of important operas
The operas listed cover all important genres, and include all operas regularly performed today, from seventeenth-century works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, and Purcell to late twentieth-century operas by Messiaen, Berio, Glass, Adams, Birtwistle, and Weir. The brief accompa... | 6,119,411 |
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lists (dating from between 1984 and 2000) of significant operas: see the Lists consulted section for full details.
# 1600–1699.
- 1607 "L'Orfeo" (Claudio Monteverdi). Widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork.
- 1640 "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" (Monteverdi). Monteverdi's first ope... | 6,119,412 |
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"Ormindo" (Francesco Cavalli). One of the first of Cavalli's operas to be revived in the 20th century, "Ormindo" is considered one of his more attractive works.
- 1649 "Giasone" (Cavalli). In "Giasone" Cavalli, for the first time, separated aria and recitative. "Giasone" was the most popular o... | 6,119,413 |
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1683.
- 1692 "The Fairy-Queen" (Purcell). A semi-opera rather than a genuine opera, this is often thought to be Purcell's finest dramatic work.
# 1700–1749.
- 1710 "Agrippina" (Handel). Handel's last opera that he composed in Italy was a great success, and established his reputation as a com... | 6,119,414 |
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is often praised for the fullness of the melodic writing among Handel's output.
- 1728 "The Beggar's Opera" (Johann Christoph Pepusch). A satire of Italian "opera seria" based on a play by John Gay, the ballad opera format of "The Beggar's Opera" has proved popular even up to the current time.... | 6,119,415 |
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et Aricie" (Jean-Philippe Rameau). Rameau's first opera caused great controversy at its premiere.
- 1735 "Ariodante" (Handel). Both this opera and "Alcina" enjoy high critical reputations today.
- 1735 "Alcina" (Handel). Both this work and "Ariodante" were part of Handel's first opera season ... | 6,119,416 |
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contains many comic elements rare in Handel's other works.
- 1744 "Semele" (Handel). Originally performed as an oratorio, Semele's dramatic qualities have often led to the work being performed on the opera stage in modern times.
- 1745 "Platée" (Rameau). Rameau's most famous comic opera. Orig... | 6,119,417 |
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most popular opera. The first work in which the composer tried to reform the excesses of Italian "opera seria".
- 1767 "Alceste" (Gluck). Gluck's second "reform" opera, nowadays usually given in its French revision of 1776.
- 1768 "Bastien und Bastienne" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Mozart's on... | 6,119,418 |
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1775 "La finta giardiniera" (Mozart). Generally recognised as Mozart's first "opera buffa" of significance.
- 1775 "Il re pastore" (Mozart). Mozart's last opera of his adolescence was set to a libretto by Metastasio.
- 1777 "Il mondo della luna" (Joseph Haydn). Last of three that Haydn set to... | 6,119,419 |
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aus dem Serail" (Mozart). Often thought of as the first of Mozart's comic masterpieces, this work is frequently performed today.
- 1782 "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (Giovanni Paisiello). Paisiello's most famous comic opera, later eclipsed by Rossini's work of the same name.
- 1786 "Der Schauspie... | 6,119,420 |
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Da Ponte is now Mozart's most popular opera.
- 1787 "Don Giovanni" (Mozart). Second of the operas that Mozart set to Da Ponte's libretti, Don Giovanni has provided a puzzle for writers and philosophers ever since its composition.
- 1790 "Così fan tutte" (Mozart). Third and last of the operas ... | 6,119,421 |
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World War.
- 1791 "Die Zauberflöte" (Mozart). Has been described as "the apotheosis of the "Singspiel"", "Die Zauberflöte" was denigrated during the 19th century as confused and lacking in definition.
- 1792 "Il matrimonio segreto" (Domenico Cimarosa). Usually regarded as Cimarosa's best oper... | 6,119,422 |
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by the composer's passion for political liberty.
- 1807 "La vestale" (Gaspare Spontini). Spontini's opera about a vestal virgin in love was a great influence on Berlioz and a forerunner of French grand opera.
- 1812 "La scala di seta" (Gioachino Rossini). An early Rossini work, this opera is ... | 6,119,423 |
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rare cantilena".
- 1814 "Il turco in Italia" (Rossini). This opera stands out among Rossini's output for its frequent ensembles and absence of aria.
- 1816 "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (Rossini). This work has become Rossini's most popular "opera buffa".
- 1816 "Otello" (Rossini). The composer ... | 6,119,424 |
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conceived of as a sacred drama suitable for performance during Lent.
- 1819 "La donna del lago" (Rossini). Another Romantic-era opera inspired by the works of Sir Walter Scott.
- 1821 "Der Freischütz" (Carl Maria von Weber). Weber's masterpiece was the first great German Romantic opera.
- 18... | 6,119,425 |
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1826 "Le siège de Corinthe" (Rossini). For this work Rossini heavily revised his earlier "Maometto II", placing the action in a different setting.
- 1826 "Oberon" (von Weber). Weber's last opera before his early death.
- 1827 "Il pirata" (Vincenzo Bellini). Bellini's second professional produ... | 6,119,426 |
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Osborne, writing in Grove Music Online, calls details that the work is one of the "wittiest, most stylish and most urbane of all comic operas".
- 1829 "La straniera" (Bellini). "La straniera" is rare among "bel canto" operas in that it offers remarkably few opportunities for vocal ostentation.... | 6,119,427 |
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of the 19th century, Auber's tale loosely based on an important Neapolitan rebel leader even inspired a film by Laurel and Hardy.
- 1830 "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" (Bellini). Bellini's version of "Romeo and Juliet".
- 1831 "La sonnambula" (Bellini). The concertato "D'un pensiero e d'un accent... | 6,119,428 |
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1832 "L'elisir d'amore" (Donizetti). This work was the most often performed opera in Italy between 1838 and 1848.
# 1833–1849.
- 1833 "Beatrice di Tenda" (Vincenzo Bellini). Bellini's tragedy is notable for its extensive use of the chorus.
- 1833 "Hans Heiling" (Heinrich Marschner). Another ... | 6,119,429 |
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for Measure". The composer later disowned it.
- 1835 "I puritani" (Bellini). Bellini's drama, set during the English Civil War, is one of his finest achievements.
- 1835 "La Juive" (Fromental Halévy). This grand opera rivalled the works of Meyerbeer in popularity. The tenor aria "Rachel quand... | 6,119,430 |
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widely regarded as Meyerbeer's masterpiece.
- 1837 "Roberto Devereux" (Donizetti). Donizetti wrote this work as a distraction from the grief he felt at the death of his wife.
- 1838 "Benvenuto Cellini" (Hector Berlioz). Berlioz's first opera is a virtuoso score which is still highly difficult... | 6,119,431 |
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the story of Ines de Castro in "Camões"' "Os Lusiadas", the Portuguese national epic.
- 1840 "Un giorno di regno" (Verdi). Verdi's only comedy apart from his last opera, "Falstaff".
- 1842 "Der Wildschütz" (Albert Lortzing). Lortzing's "comic masterpiece", intended to show a German work could... | 6,119,432 |
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"Der fliegende Holländer" (Wagner). Wagner regarded this German Romantic opera as the true beginning of his career.
- 1843 "Don Pasquale" (Donizetti). Donizetti's "comic masterpiece" is one of the last great "opera buffas".
- 1843 "I Lombardi alla prima crociata" (Verdi). Verdi's follow-up to... | 6,119,433 |
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Opera".
- 1844 "Ernani" (Verdi). One of the most dramatically effective of Verdi's early works.
- 1845 "Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg" (Wagner). Wagner's "most medieval work" depicts the conflict between pagan love and Christian virtue.
- 1846 "Attila" (Verdi). Verdi was troubl... | 6,119,434 |
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first venture into Shakespeare.
- 1847 "Martha" (Friedrich von Flotow). Flotow unashamedly aimed at satisfying popular taste in this comic and sentimental work set in the England of Queen Anne.
- 1849 "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" (Otto Nicolai). Nicolai's only German opera has been his m... | 6,119,435 |
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Franz Liszt to Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
- 1850 "Lohengrin" (Richard Wagner). The last of Wagner's "middle period" works.
- 1850 "Stiffelio" (Giuseppe Verdi). Verdi's tale of adultery among members of a German Protestant sect fell foul of the censors.
- 1851 "Rigoletto" (Verdi). The first – and ... | 6,119,436 |
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strong influence of Meyerbeer.
- 1858 "Der Barbier von Bagdad" (Peter Cornelius). An oriental comedy drawing on the tradition of German Romantic opera.
- 1858 "Orphée aux Enfers" (Jacques Offenbach). The world's first operetta, this cynical and satirical piece is still immensely popular today... | 6,119,437 |
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to have to work for a living. This opera ran into trouble with the censors because it originally dealt with the assassination of a monarch.
- 1861 "Bánk bán" (Erkel). Erkel's third opera is considered the Hungarian "National opera".
- 1862 "Béatrice et Bénédict" (Berlioz). The last opera Berl... | 6,119,438 |
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today and is particularly famous for its tenor/baritone duet.
- 1864 "La belle Hélène" (Offenbach). Another operetta by Offenbach which pokes fun at Greek mythology.
- 1864 "Mireille" (Gounod). Gounod's work is based on the epic poem by Frédéric Mistral and makes use of Provençal folk tunes.
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Meister's Apprenticeship", this was Thomas's most successful opera along with "Hamlet".
- 1866 "The Bartered Bride" (Bedřich Smetana). Smetana's folk comedy is the most widely performed of all his operas.
- 1867 "Don Carlos" (Verdi). Verdi's take on French grand opera is now one of his most h... | 6,119,440 |
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Wagner's only comedy among his mature operas concerns the clash between artistic tradition and innovation.
- 1868 "Hamlet" (Thomas). Thomas's opera takes many liberties with its Shakespearean source.
- 1868 "La Périchole" (Offenbach). Set in Peru, this operetta mixes comedy and sentimentality... | 6,119,441 |
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story of the mortals Siegmund and Sieglinde and of how the valkyrie Brünnhilde disobeys her father Wotan, king of the gods.
- 1871 "Aida" (Verdi). Features one of the greatest tenor arias of all time, "Celeste Aida".
- 1874 "Boris Godunov" (Modest Mussorgsky). Mussorgsky's great historical dr... | 6,119,442 |
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and realism.
# 1876–1899.
- 1876 "Siegfried" (Richard Wagner). The third part of the "Ring" sees the hero Siegfried slay the dragon Fafner, win the ring and free Brunhilde from her enchantment.
- 1876 "Götterdämmerung" (Wagner). In the final part of the "Ring", the curse takes effect leading... | 6,119,443 |
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1877 "Samson et Dalila" (Camille Saint-Saëns). An opera with that was heavily influenced by those of Wagner.
- 1879 "Eugene Onegin" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky). Tchaikovsky's most popular opera, based on the verse novel by Alexander Pushkin. The composer strongly identified with the heroine Tat... | 6,119,444 |
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Verdi). Verdi heavily revised this opera over twenty years after it was first performed.
- 1882 "Parsifal" (Wagner). Wagner's last opera is a "festival play" about the legend of the Holy Grail.
- 1882 "The Snow Maiden" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). One of Rimsky-Korsakov's most lyrical works.
-... | 6,119,445 |
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soothe tensions between Austrians and Hungarians in the Habsburg empire.
- 1886 "Khovanshchina" (Modest Mussorgsky). Mussorgsky's second great epic of Russian history was left unfinished at his death.
- 1887 "Le roi malgré lui" (Chabrier). Ravel claimed he would rather have written this comic... | 6,119,446 |
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is usually performed alongside Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci".
- 1890 "Prince Igor" (Alexander Borodin). Borodin spent 17 years working on this opera off and on, yet never managed to finish it. Most famous for its "Polovtsian dances".
- 1890 "The Queen of Spades" (Tchaikovsky). In a letter to his ... | 6,119,447 |
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One of the most famous verismo operas, usually paired with Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana".
- 1892 "Werther" (Massenet). Along with "Manon", this is Massenet's most popular opera.
- 1893 "Falstaff" (Verdi). Verdi's final opera was set to another of Boito's libretti.
- 1893 "Hänsel und Gret... | 6,119,448 |
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Set to a libretto by Luigi Illica, this "verismo" drama is Giordano's most popular opera.
- 1896 "La bohème" (Puccini). Debussy is alleged to have said that no one had detailed Paris at that time better than had Puccini in "La Boheme".
- 1897 "Königskinder" (Humperdinck). Originally a melodra... | 6,119,449 |
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1899 alone.
- 1899 "The Devil and Kate" (Antonín Dvořák). The lack of a love interest makes the plot of this work almost unique among Czech comic operas.
# 1900–1920.
- 1900 "Louise" (Gustave Charpentier). An attempt to provide a French equivalent for Italian verismo, "Louise" is set in a wo... | 6,119,450 |
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repertory up to the present time.
- 1902 "Pelléas et Mélisande" (Claude Debussy). Debussy's elusive Symbolist drama is one of the most significant operas of the 20th century.
- 1902 "Saul og David" (Carl Nielsen). This Biblical tragedy was the first of Nielsen's two operas.
- 1904 "Jenůfa" (... | 6,119,451 |
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"decadent" opera set to Oscar Wilde's play is still immensely popular with today's audiences.
- 1906 "Maskarade" (Nielsen). Nielsen's high-spirited comedy looks back to the world of "The Marriage of Figaro" and has become a classic in the composer's native Denmark.
- 1907 "A Village Romeo and... | 6,119,452 |
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retelling of an old national legend. Sometimes called the Russian "Parsifal".
- 1907 "Destiny" (Janáček). An important transitional work in Janáček's career as the composer began to look beyond the traditional themes of Czech opera.
- 1909 "Elektra" (Strauss). This dark tragedy took Strauss's... | 6,119,453 |
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with the censors after Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1910 "Don Quichotte" (Jules Massenet). Massenet's last great success is a gentle comedy inspired by Cervantes's "Don Quixote".
- 1910 "La fanciulla del West" (Puccini). Described by Puccini as his best work.
- 1911 "Der Rose... | 6,119,454 |
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as an opera composer.
- 1913 "La vida breve" (Manuel de Falla). A passionate Spanish drama influenced by verismo.
- 1914 "The Immortal Hour" (Rutland Boughton). Boughton's Celtic fairy tale opera enjoyed great popularity in Britain between the world wars.
- 1914 "The Nightingale" (Igor Strav... | 6,119,455 |
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dell'arte" for this one-act piece.
- 1917 "Eine florentinische Tragödie" (Alexander von Zemlinsky). Zemlinsky's "decadent" one-acter is based on a short play by Oscar Wilde.
- 1917 "La rondine" (Puccini). Not an initial success, Puccini heavily revised the opera twice.
- 1917 "Palestrina" (H... | 6,119,456 |
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that make up "Il trittico" – along with "Gianni Schicchi" and "Suor Angelica"
- 1918 "Suor Angelica" (Puccini). Described by the composer as his favourite among the three operas that comprise "Il trittico".
- 1919 "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (Strauss). The third full collaboration between Straus... | 6,119,457 |
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Kabanová" (Leoš Janáček). The first of the great operas of Janáček's late maturity, based on an Ostrovsky play about religious fanaticism and forbidden love in provincial Russia.
- 1921 "The Love for Three Oranges" (Sergei Prokofiev). A comic opera based on a fairy tale by Carlo Gozzi.
- 1922... | 6,119,458 |
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work based on an incident from the composer's own marriage.
- 1924 "The Cunning Little Vixen" (Janáček). One of the composer's most popular works, the story is based on a cartoon strip about animals in the Czech countryside.
- 1925 "Doktor Faust" (Ferruccio Busoni). Busoni intended this opera... | 6,119,459 |
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ones.
- 1926 "Cardillac" (Paul Hindemith). An opera in Hindemith's neo-classical style about a psychopathic jeweller.
- 1926 "Háry János" (Zoltán Kodály). Kodálys "singspiel" incorporated many Hungarian folksongs and dances.
- 1926 "King Roger" (Karol Szymanowski). One of the most important ... | 6,119,460 |
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piece fuses opera and oratorio.
- 1927 "Jonny spielt auf" (Ernst Krenek). A "jazz opera" which enjoyed tremendous success in its day.
- 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" (Kurt Weill). A modern adaptation of Gay and Pepusch's "The Beggar's Opera".
- 1929 "The Nose" (Dmitri Shostakovich). Gogol's st... | 6,119,461 |
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Left unfinished at his death, Schoenberg's opera frequently employs serialist techniques.
- 1933 "Arabella" (Strauss). This opera was the last that Strauss set to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
- 1934 "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" (Shostakovich). An attack on the music and subj... | 6,119,462 |
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second opera was unfinished at his death, but a completion by Friedrich Cerha was successfully performed in 1979.
- 1937 "Riders to the Sea" (Vaughan Williams). Often rated as Vaughan Williams's finest opera, this short, fatalistic tragedy is set on the Aran Isles in the west of Ireland.
- 19... | 6,119,463 |
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the Nazis.
- 1941 "Paul Bunyan" (Benjamin Britten). Britten's first venture into opera was a light piece about an American folk hero with a libretto by W. H. Auden.
- 1942 "Capriccio" (Strauss). Strauss's final opera is a conversation piece about the genre itself.
- 1943 "Der Kaiser von Atla... | 6,119,464 |
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to the tradition of Russian historical opera for this epic work based on Leo Tolstoy's novel.
- 1946 "Betrothal in a Monastery" (Prokofiev). A romantic comedy with music drawing on the "opera buffa" style of Rossini.
- 1946 "The Medium" (Gian Carlo Menotti). Considered by many to be Menotti's... | 6,119,465 |
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Poulenc's first opera is a short surrealist comedy based on the play by Guillaume Apollinaire.
- 1947 "The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois" (Menotti). An "opera buffa" just 22 minutes in length.
- 1949 "Il prigioniero" (Luigi Dallapiccola). Much of the music for this opera is based on three 12-... | 6,119,466 |
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by Herman Melville.
- 1951 "The Pilgrim's Progress" (Ralph Vaughan Williams). Set to his own libretto, Vaughan Williams's work was inspired by John Bunyan's famous allegory of the same name.
- 1951 "The Rake's Progress" (Igor Stravinsky). Stravinsky's most important operatic work looks back t... | 6,119,467 |
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between her namesake Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex.
- 1954 "The Fiery Angel" (Prokofiev). Prokofiev never saw what is often regarded as his most "avant-garde" composition performed on the operatic stage.
- 1954 "The Turn of the Screw" (Britten). A chamber opera based on the ghost story by... | 6,119,468 |
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and Be Gay" is a parody of Romantic-era jewel songs.
- 1957 "Dialogues des Carmélites" (Poulenc). Poulenc's major opera is set in a convent during the French Revolution.
- 1958 "Vanessa" (Samuel Barber). "Vanessa" won its composer a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.
- 1959 "La voix humaine" (Poulenc).... | 6,119,469 |
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Auden and Chester Kallman, for a scenario that would inspire him to compose "tender, beautiful noises".
- 1962 "King Priam" (Tippett). Tippett's second opera, set to another of his own "recondite" libretti, was inspired by Homer's "Iliad".
- 1964 "Curlew River" (Britten). A modern liturgical ... | 6,119,470 |
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the orchestral forces required and to cut some of the technical demands previously required.
- 1966 "Antony and Cleopatra" (Barber). The first version of the opera was set to a libretto consisting entirely of the words of Shakespeare and deemed a failure. Later it was revised by Gian Carlo Men... | 6,119,471 |
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Opera Group.
- 1968 "The Prodigal Son" (Britten). The third of Britten's parables for church performance.
- 1969 "The Devils of Loudun" (Krzysztof Penderecki). Penderecki's first opera is also his most popular.
- 1970 "The Knot Garden" (Tippett). Tippett created his own modern scenario for t... | 6,119,472 |
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opera was first performed three years before his death.
- 1978 "Le Grand Macabre" (György Ligeti). First performed at Stockholm in 1978, Ligeti heavily revised the opera in 1996.
- 1978 "Lear" (Aribert Reimann). An Expressionist opera based on Shakespeare's tragedy. The title role was specifi... | 6,119,473 |
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different texts by three different authors: Friedrich Einsiedel, W. H. Auden and Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter.
- 1984 "Akhnaten" (Philip Glass). Unlike his first opera "Einstein on the Beach", the writing and style are more conventional and lyrical and much of the music of "Akhnaten" is some of th... | 6,119,474 |
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with Mao Zedong.
- 1991 "Gawain" (Birtwistle). Birtwistle's opera is based on the medieval English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".
- 1995 "A Streetcar Named Desire" (André Previn). The opera is based on the play by Tennessee Williams.
# Significant firsts in opera history.
Operas no... | 6,119,475 |
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"La púrpura de la rosa" (Juan Hidalgo). First Spanish opera. Music now lost.
- 1671 "Pomone" (Robert Cambert). Often regarded as the first French opera.
- 1683 "Venus and Adonis" (John Blow). Often considered the first opera in English.
- 1701 "La púrpura de la rosa" (Tomás de Torrejón y Vel... | 6,119,476 |
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March; Robert Layton (ed.), "The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs 2005–2006: The Key Classical Recordings on CD, DVD and SACD".
- "Encyclopædia Britannica: Macropedia Volume 24, 15th edition." "Opera" in "Musical forms and genres".
- Grout, Donald Jay and Claude V. Palisca (1996). "A H... | 6,119,477 |
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to the critical edition of the score and libretto), Ediciones Iberautor Promociones culturales S.R.L. / Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 1999, (reprinted with permission of the publisher on Mundoclasico.com). Accessed 5 September 2008.
- "The Viking Opera Guide" (1993). Contributio... | 6,119,478 |
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Norman Davies's "Europe: a History" (OUP, 1996; paperback edition Pimlico, 1997). .
- 2. Operas appearing in the chronology by Mary Ann Smart in "The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera" (OUP, 1994). .
- 3. Operas with entries in "The New Kobbe's Opera Book", ed. Lord Harewood (Putnam, 9th ed... | 6,119,479 |
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in
- 8. Entries for individual operas in "Who's Who in Opera: a guide to opera characters" by Joyce Bourne (Oxford University Press, 1998).
## Operas included in all 9 lists.
- The 93 operas included in all nine lists cited are: "Adriana Lecouvreur", "Aida", "Arabella", "Ariadne auf Naxos", ... | 6,119,480 |
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et les sortilèges", "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", "Eugene Onegin", "Falstaff", "Faust", "Fidelio", "The Flying Dutchman", "La forza del destino", "Der Freischütz", "Giulio Cesare", "The Golden Cockerel", "Götterdämmerung", "L'heure espagnole", "Les Huguenots", "Idomeneo", "L'incoronazione di... | 6,119,481 |
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te", "Manon", "The Marriage of Figaro", "Il matrimonio segreto", "Médée", "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", "Mignon", "Moses und Aron", "Nabucco", "Norma", "L'Orfeo", "Orfeo ed Euridice", "Otello", "Pagliacci", "Parsifal", "Les pêcheurs de perles", "Pelléas et Mélisande", "Peter Grimes", "Princ... | 6,119,482 |
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List of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
"" is an American science fiction television series which aired in syndication from September 1987 through May 1994. It is the second live action series of the "Star Trek" franchise, and comprises a total of 178 episodes ov... | 6,119,483 |
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Jonathan Frakes as his second-in-command William Riker, Brent Spiner as chief of operations Data, LeVar Burton as chief engineer Geordi La Forge, Marina Sirtis as counselor Deanna Troi, Michael Dorn as chief of security Worf, and Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher. McF... | 6,119,484 |
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of Evil".
The "Next Generation" cast also appears in four feature films: "Generations", "", "", and "Nemesis".
# Series overview.
# Episodes.
Both the series' premiere ("Encounter at Farpoint") and finale ("") originally aired as single two-hour presentations, but hav... | 6,119,485 |
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is a graph of when the main cast made appearances.
# Cross-overs with "DS9".
There are a number of "TNG" episodes that have direct or indirect ties to "Deep Space Nine" including "" (Enterprise visits DS9 station), "" (Fills in many details of the Federation-Cardassian ... | 6,119,486 |
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Sito Jaxa (played by Shannon Fill)
- "The First Duty" (S5 E19)
- "Lower Decks" (S7 E15)
- Ro Laren (played by Michelle Forbes and Megan Parlen)
- "" (S5 E3)
- "" (S5 E5)
- "" (S5 E14)
- "The Next Phase" (S5 E24) (Geordi focused episode also)
- "" (S6 E7)
- "" (S7... | 6,119,487 |
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episodes of the series have also been released on eight "best of" collections.
The four "Next Generation" movies were released together on a Blu-ray set in 2009. They have subsequently been re-released individually.
Three episodes were released on region-free Blu-ray Di... | 6,119,488 |
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distribution of the remastered series has been through services such as iTunes and Amazon Video. Seasons 1 and 2 were released on the US, Canadian and UK iTunes stores in early 2013, in both high and standard definition. Seasons 3 and 4 were released on the US and Canadia... | 6,119,489 |
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ere added to the Australian iTunes Store in both high and standard definition. Both high and standard definition versions of Season 5 were released digitally in the US via Amazon Video and iTunes in early May 2014, and later in the UK, Canadian and Australian iTunes store... | 6,119,490 |
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World's fair
A world's fair or world fair is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specific site for a period of time, ranging usually from three to six months.
Generally speakin... | 6,119,491 |
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Expoziție universală / Spanish: Exposición Universal).
The short word Expo or expo has been applied to both type of Expos in various locations, since 1967.
Since the 1928 "Convention Relating to International Exhibitions" came into force, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE; ) has served as an ... | 6,119,492 |
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Kazakhstan held the most recent Specialised Expo, Expo 2017. Dubai, United Arab Emirates has been selected to host World Expo 2020. Buenos Aires, Argentina has been selected to host Specialised Expo 2023. Osaka, Japan has been selected to host World Expo 2025.
# History.
International Exhibitions origina... | 6,119,493 |
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Works of Industry of All Nations". The Great Exhibition, as it is often called, was an idea of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, and is usually considered to be the first international exhibition of manufactured products. It influenced the development of several aspects of society, including art-and... | 6,119,494 |
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and the era of nation branding.
## Industrialization (1851–1938).
The first era, the era of "industrialization", roughtly covered the years from 1800 to 1938. In these days, world expositions were largely focused on trade and displayed technological advances and inventions. World expositions were platfor... | 6,119,495 |
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basic character of the world fair.
## Cultural exchange (1939–1987).
The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, and those that followed, took a different approach, one less focused on technology and aimed more at cultural themes and social progress. For instance, the theme of the 1939 fair was "Building the Worl... | 6,119,496 |
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Event organizers retired the term "world's fair" in favor of "Expo". (The Montreal Expos, a former Major League Baseball team, was named for the 1967 fair.)
## Nation branding (1988–present).
From World Expo 88 in Brisbane onwards, countries started to use expositions as a platform to improve their natio... | 6,119,497 |
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expert Wally Olins, Spain used Expo '92 and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the same year to underscore its new position as a modern and democratic country and to show itself as a prominent member of the European Union and the global community.
At Expo 2000 Hanover, countries created their own ar... | 6,119,498 |
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revenues for the Dutch economy. It also identified several key success factors for world-exposition pavilions in general.
# Types.
Presently, there are two types of international exhibition: World Expos (formally known as International Registered Exhibitions) and Specialised Expos (formally known as Inte... | 6,119,499 |
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