This tag: Opera
From being the ruler of an obscure German electorate George I suddenly became king of on the most powerful nations in the world in his fifties. He was never popular in his new kingdom but established a constitutional monarchy which has survived to today. This course was run at the City Lit on Saturday 16th… Read more »
- Posted on: March 17, 2020
- Featured in History, Kings and Queens
- Also tagged Art History, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, Choral Music, English Composer, Enlightenment, European History, German composers, Greenwich, Handel, Italian composers, London History, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, National Maritime Museum, The Hanoverians
This tag: Opera
Orpheus – Life after Death Unlike other Greek Heroes Orpheus was basically peaceful. He braved the Underworld and was one of the Argonauts. Ever since he has been a major influence for artists and composers. This course was run at the City Lit on Saturday 3rd March 2018. We studied the Greek Myths surrounding Orpheus… Read more »
- Posted on: March 25, 2018
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Music features
- Also tagged Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art History, British Museum, European History, French composers, German composers, Gluck, Greek Myths, Italian composers, Monteverdi, Offenbach, Orpheus
This tag: Opera
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 3: Midsummer Dreams Some of Shakespeare’s fantasies especially Midsummer Night’s Dream but other supernatural phenomena such as ghosts as well. Music – Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Incidental Music. That music is so familiar that we often forget why it was written. Mendelssohn composed an Overture… Read more »
- Posted on: July 27, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged Ancient Greece, Britten, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Mendelssohn, Modern history, Purcell, Shakespeare's Fairies, Shakespeare's Ghosts, Shakespeare400, Shostakovich