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... game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Soap operas followed in February 1947 (DuMont TV's A Woman to Rememb... ...recast as subversively anti-Austrian and nationalistic. A series of successful operas - such as Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853) and La Tr... ...frequently clashed with censors due to the bold subject matter and librettos of his operas. But he gave rise to so much beauty that his personal foi...

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...s an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Friesian. ...

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...Representations of contemporary Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and gender through the phenomenon of modern pop culture the case of Turkish soap operas in the Western Balkans Çağdaş Pop Kültürü Aracılığı ile Çağdaş Türkiye, Osmanlı Devleti, İslam ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet ile İlgili Temsiller Batı Balkanlarda Türk Dizi Filmleri Ana Frank 43 Socio-cultural impact of Tu...

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...rs, you will be able to get a grasp on the great city that is China’s capital. On Sunday’s choral groups gather in the park to perform amateur Peking Operas, play musical instruments or to sing songs once beloved by the masses....

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...ill probably preclude your taking that trip around the world, enjoying some operas in Verona or Milan, spending a week at Club Med, or relaxing after...

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...re not. Friends told me that in Italy, for example, all the great Italian operas that had entered the public domain are no longer there. . . Same g... ...lent means; the fare served by the media now consists exclusively of soap operas and reality TV shows; Reading is on terminal decline; with few exce... ...are served by the electronic media everywhere now consists largely of soap operas, interminable sports events, and reality TV shows. True, niche cabl...

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...s I‘ve had. Seeing Aida in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The greatest voices from La Scala, camels and elephants, one of the Verdi‘s finest operas...

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...u their true face. This is precisely the level of human corruption most Soap Operas mimic. This is precisely what most literature and fiction is o... ...even more unhappy than the majority of consumers. The boring idiocy of soap operas is based upon an endless tearing away of secrets, and lies, and ... ... underneath all of this but even more secret nastiness and corruption. These operas sell the idea that people are supposed to live their lives as s... ...xcuse their nasty actions and lies. You see this endlessly portrayed in soap operas. Why? Because this sick idea is supposed to poison all tru... ...is a lie, and what is the actual truth. That is the insane moral goal of soup operas. To make the truth so muddy with lies, that nobody can find ou... ...e organizations. Most poor and working class people couldn’t care less about Operas, Symphonies or Museums. Those charities are too obviously only ... ... these rarified examples of culture. So what do the rich do now? Instead of operas and museums, which are all in need of funds, they are now fundi... ...f the poisoning of women souls leads to a common theme on TV in Japanese soap operas. Where the woman is put into an intolerable situation of being ... ...lf so nobly. Why are hundreds of millions of people addicted to watching soap operas? Because these hundreds millions of people identify with these...

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...s derelict economies and destitute people to the kitschy glamour of the tacky soap operas that flooded their television screens. Bedazzled by the a...

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...luable to a society, should we give tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schoo...

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...er to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel served as inspiration for two operas in the romantic style by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and Albert Lortzing, respectively, and two ballets: the nineteenth century Ondine and the twentieth century Undine. An edition of the book was illustrated by Arth...

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... became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Bab Ballads take their name from Gilbert's childhood nickname, and he later began to sign his illustrations Bab. (summary from wikipedia) <a href-http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/bab_ballads/html/bab_alpha.html e-te...

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... became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Bab Ballads take their name from Gilbert's childhood nickname, and he later began to sign his illustrations Bab. Nothing else quite like the Ballads has ever been produced in the English language. They contain bot...

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... She has principles, she fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very elegantly dressed; her confessor per- mits her to combine the m...

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...he is desperately poor; night and day he toils at imaginary symphonies and operas instead of try- ing to earn an honest living. His poor wife is reduc... ...man who in his music has but picked up thou- sands of phrases out of other operas, damned or forgotten, and appropriated them, while extending, modify... ...ved in the market to wrap up butter, fish, and fruit. Thus the three grand operas of which the poor man would boast, but which an old Neapolitan cook,... ...!” said he, warmly. “During your absence they sold up my instrument and my operas.” It would have been difficult to kill the fatted calf for the retur... ... the unrecognized Orpheus of Modern Music, would perform passages from his operas—pieces so remark- able that they would extract a few half-pence from... ...t a few half-pence from Parisian supineness. When some dilettante of comic operas happened to be sitting there and did not recognize from what work th... ... side: “What a pity it is that they will never give us at the Italiens any operas by Rossini but those we know. That is really fine music!” And Gambar...

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...I am not a musical critic, and did not come here to write essays about the operas and deliver judgment upon their merits. The little children of Bayre... ...der intelligence than I. I only care to bring four or five pilgrims to the operas, pilgrims able to appreciate them and enjoy them. What I write about... ...vocal parts. It may be that he was deep, and only added the singing to his operas for the sake of the contrast it would make with the music. Singing! ... ...now what a schnorkel is, but now that I know it has been left out of these operas I never have missed so much in my life. And Uhlic further says that ... ...oned speech.” That certainly de scribes it—in “Parsifal” and some of the operas; and if I understand Uhlic’s elaborate German he apologizes for the ... ...wondering why people should come from all corners of America to hear these operas, when we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with th... ...sterious feeling they are required to open out and let the public know it. Operas are given only on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with ... ...as “T ristan and Isolde.” I have seen all sorts of audiences—at theaters, operas, concerts, lectures, sermons, funerals—but none which was twin to th... ...rest of this multitude here are Wagner’s. TUESDAY.—I have seen my last two operas; my season is ended, and we cross over into Bohemia this afternoon. ...

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...hearts. This is a legiti- mate result of habit and education. Our nation will like the opera, too, by and by, no doubt. One in fifty of those who atte... ...be able to talk knowingly about it. The latter usually hum the airs while they are be- ing sung, so that their neighbors may perceive that they have b... ...ss of a train to a breach of good manners and the discomfort of being unpleasantly conspicuous during a stretch of three or four hours. CHAPTER X How ... ...CHAPTER X How Wagner Operas Bang Along THREE OR FOUR HOURS. That is a long time to sit in one place, whether one be conspicuous or not, yet some of Wa... ...o means too much. She said that this composer had made a complete revolution in music and was burying the old masters one by one. And she said that Wa... ...id I had attended one of his insurrections, and found hardly any music in it except the Wedding Chorus. She said “Lohengrin” was noisier than Wagner’s...

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...S sion. It was meant by nature for the realisation of the society of comic operas. And you can imagine, if the climate were but towardly, how all the ...

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...ris, she studied harmony and thorough- bass, and composed the music of two operas which have had great success, though the public has never been admit... ...as never been admitted to the secret of their authorship. Ostensibly these operas are by Conti, one of the most eminent musicians of our day; but this... ...is with Conti, the great musician, for whom she wrote the librettos of two operas. But she had no more illusions, and she became, at heart, unknown to... ...iumph at the Scala and the Fenice, and now at the San Carlo. Three Italian operas in two years! You cannot say that love has made him idle. We have be...

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...l languages perfectly: sings deliciously: plays every instrument: composes operas which have been 22 The Rose and the Ring acted a thousand nights ru...