List of Mexican operas
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 117 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5149-9125-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of operas by Mexican composers. Many, but not all, of them premiered in Mexico. Amongst the operas which had their first performances abroad are Melesio Morales' Ildegonda (Italy, 1868), Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas (USA, 1996), and Julio Estrada's Murmullos del paramo (Spain, 2006). Many of the operas listed have librettos in Spanish, the official language of Mexico. However, the practice of using French or Italian librettos was common in 19th and early 20th century Mexico when much of the opera in that country was performed by visiting troupes largely composed of European singers unaccustomed to singing in Spanish. Both Gustavo Campa's Le roi poete and Ricardo Castro Herrera's La legende de Rudel had French librettos, while Catalina de Guisa by Cenobio Paniagua and several other notable operas of this period had Italian librettos. Although the vast majority of later Mexican operas have Spanish librettos, there...
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