Listen "Late 19th Century Opera"
Episode Synopsis
Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we’re discussing the changes happening in the late 19th century. This was the era of French lyricism, Italian verismo, and the beginnings of Russian opera. By the 1870s and 1880s, audiences wanted something new. The grandeur of earlier Romantic opera was there, but people yearned for realism and emotional immediacy. The result was an operatic world more intimate, visceral, and recognizably human than ever before.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlinesOperas mentioned in this episode:Gounod - FaustBizet - CarmenMassenet - ManonMassenet - WertherSaint-Saëns - Samson et DalilaDelibes - LakméMascagni - Cavalleria rusticanaLeoncavallo - PagliacciTchaikovsky - Eugene OneginTchaikovsky - The Queen of SpadesMussorgsky - Boris Godunov
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