Madame Viardot-Garcia, finding the phrase of the cabaletta in the aria. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
She sang the cabaletta "Di tale amor" with good trills and clean runs, though at a moderate tempo. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsies, Nobles, and Nuns] Reference
Dr. Kissinger apparently doesn't appreciate the considerably rousing power of the traditional cantilena-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann. From Wordnik.com. [Categorical denials] Reference
It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Is there no cabaletta to it -- not even a full close?. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference
But that act 1 cabaletta sounded to me much flashier than the. From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
(Though I wish they'd let him repeat the cabaletta to "Parmi veder" - once was NOT enough!). From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
Dessay's first aria and cabaletta stunk big time … and the audience reaction was tepid at best. From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
At other times it seemed short on the top, such as the thin climatic note of his Act II cabaletta. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
And in the ecstatic cabaletta that follows, "Ah! non giunge" her high notes had an enviable sparkle. From Wordnik.com. [IdahoStatesman.com News Updates] Reference
He also managed an impressive high C at the end of his second-act cabaletta, a note avoided by many tenors. From Wordnik.com. [WTVM - 1- WTVM Home] Reference
That character's cabaletta at the end of act two, scene one, is included, as Muti delivers the score uncut. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
Here alone he adheres to the old tradition of cavatina and cabaletta -- the slow movement followed by the quick. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
He was probably basically right about this, too, though the second act aria and cabaletta were awfully convincing. From Wordnik.com. [My Favorite Intermissions] Reference
Soprano Isabel Rey struggled as Amalia and, perhaps wisely, did not take the high note at the end of her Act 2 cabaletta. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
It was odd that Germont's (oft-cut) cabaletta was included but not the final horrified group exhortations at Violetta's demise. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
The extended final note in this cabaletta illustrates the directorial emphasis for combining music and staging in this production. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
Verdi had become uneasy in the fetters of the cavatina-cabaletta tradition -- the slow movement followed by the quick -- which, since the day of Rossini, had ruled Italian opera with a rod of iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
In this opera, you can actually watch Verdi forcing the conventions of Italian opera that he inherited - the cavatina, the cabaletta, the banda, the toast scene - to bend to the telling of a story. From Wordnik.com. [DCist] Reference
Paynims, and mourned for the wounded, and wept for the dead, and returned in triumph to France in the joyous cabaletta, with wonderful dramatic effect, such as, no doubt, the other song would never have enabled him to produce. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
The invention of the cabaletta, or quick movement, following the cavatina or slow movement, must be ascribed to him, an innovation which has affected the form of opera, German and French, as well as Italian, throughout this century. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
The "Corsaro" excerpts consisted of Corrado's double aria - a slow cantabile section followed by a rousing martial cabaletta - Medora's Romanza exquisitely sung by Eleni Calenos, accompanied by Harp, Flute, oboe and Clarinet and finally the Medora-Corrado duet that closes Act I of the opera, complete with string pizzicatos and harp as well as heavy brass, pre-recorded canon shots and glorious high notes to close the first half of the program. From Wordnik.com. [Greek News] Reference
"distacco di pensiero" between the adagio and cabaletta movements that Verdi later reminded. From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
In his cabaletta "O tu que l'alma adora". From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
Spelling "cabaletta" as "cabbaletta" or "caballeta" or "cabaleta". From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
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