Sentences with phrase «german opera composer»

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The drama itself is a mix of elements the composer drew from the traditions of German romantic opera and its opposing tradition of Franco «Italian opera.

The great German composer Richard Strauss was conducting his three - hour - plus Der Rosenkavalier when — or so the story goes — he turned to his concertmaster and said, «My, this is a long opera.»

The game delves in Bavarian history and folklore, featuring locations as Neuschwanstein castle, itsplot revolving around a lost opera from German composer Richard Wagner and the famed Bavarian King Ludwig II.

While the title of the work alludes to the opening meditations on memory in Proust's masterpiece, which was itself most likely in part modeled on the famous overtures of German composer Richard Wagner's operas, the piece seems to at least partly suggest the way in which technology disrupts both our experience of space and of the past.

In the 1990s she turned to choreographing classical music, creating M.O. (1995) based on the Musical Offering by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and her first opera production, L'Orfeo (1998) by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi.