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Music 271: 2/19/07II: Concerning European Opera: A: Two separate discussions to be synthesized: Bonds and Crawford: (Bonds p. 459-481) (Crawford p.• Opera was imported to America• Jenny Lynn (sp?) “Swedish Nightingale” influenced the role of women in music in America B: Three National approaches:• Italians and Germans were most influential, France as much C: Italian Opera in the 19th Century:1. Four “generations” of composers• Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)• Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) & Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)• Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901)• Giocomo Puccini (1858-1924)2. The Italian opera libretto (script of the opera) of the first half of the 19th-century: two levels of conflict• Dramas in the Early half of the 19th Century displayed the conflict• Love triangles between people• Political conflict based on the desire of Italians for a unified nation• Bellini’s Norma (1831) - Love between a Druid priestess and a Roman officer set during the Roman occupation of Gaul, mirrors the conflict in Italy under
