MUSI 3480 Lecture Notes - Luigi Cherubini, Georges Bizet, Wrongfully Accused
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Affected beethoven"s rescue opera: 1817: rossini"s influence on opera comique: rossini"s opera takes europe by storm, light, funny -> influence on opera comique: very light, bouncy, happy, frivolous operas. Fra diavolo: set in an inn in italy, bandit. This kind of opera is meant to keep the people happy, distract them from the war and turmoil. Zerline: wants to marry lorenzo (the hero), but she will be married to a rich peasant. Lorenzo finds fra diavolo"s loot and suddenly has enough money to marry zerline. Fra diavolo hides under her bed and steals the money that lorenzo had given to her to marry her. Ends with lorenzo finding fra diavolo and captures the bandit: opera bouffe: satirical commentary, bizet"s carmen. Spoken dialogue, lower class characters, recitatives were eventually written for it, bizet was dying and died during the production. Mendelssohn because they were more successful (wrote a horrible pamphlet)) and.
