The document summarizes vocal music of the Romantic period from 1820-1910 and profiles famous opera composers from that era. It notes that romantic vocal forms like art songs and operas featured fantasy, the supernatural, romance, and using nature as a reflection of the human heart. It then provides brief biographies and lists of famous works for five major opera composers from this period: Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, and Georges Bizet. Their operas helped establish new forms of expression and pushed the boundaries of vocal performance.

1. How do you
express your
feelings?

2. WRITING
ACTING
SINGING
DANCING
PAINTING

3. Vocal Music o f the
Romantic Period
1820-1910

4. VOCAL MUSIC
•Is one of the best tool for
expressing one’s feelings.

5. Characteristics
•Romantic Vocal Forms like art song and
operas were about fantasy, supernatural,
romance and the nature as mirror of the
human heart.

6. Characteristics
•In this period singers are require to
perform a greater range of tone color,
dynamics, and pitch.
•The birth of opera housescame.

7. Music o f the
Romantic Period
Famous Opera
Composers

8. Franz Peter Schubert
• born on January 31, 1828,
Austria and died at the
age of 31.
• Lieder, proper name for his
songs.
• He was considered as the last
classical composers and one
of the first romantic ones.

9. Franz Peter Schubert
Maria)
•FAMOUS WORKS
•Gretchen am Spinnrade
•Erlkonig
•Ellens Gesang III (Ave
•Swan Song
•Unfinished Symphony

10. GIUSEPPE VERDI
• born on October 9, 1813, I taly
and died on January 27 ,
1901 .
• His characters are mostly
ordinary people and insisted a
good libretto with political
overtones and for middle-class
audience.
• Most of his works are serious
love story with unhappy ending.
• Expressive vocal melody is
the soul of a Verdi Opera.

11. GIUSEPPE VERDI
•FAMOUS WORKS
•Oberto (1st opera)
•All the worlds a joke
•La Traviata
•Rigoletto
•Falstaff
•Otello
•Aida

12. GIACOMO PUCCINI
•He was born in a
poor family on
December 22, 1858,
•Italy.
He studied at the
Milan Conservatory
and belonged to a
group of composers
who stressed
realism.

13. •FAMOUS WORKS
•La Boheme
•Tosca
•Madame Butterfly
•Turandot
GIACOMO PUCCINI

14. RICHARD WAGNER
•He was born in Leipzig,
Germany on May 22,
1813.
•He attended Leipzig
University.
•Very much inspired by
Ludwig Van Beethoven.
•He introduced new ideas in
harmony and in form,
chromaticism.

15. RICHARD WAGNER
•He was an advocate of a
new form of opera which
is called “music drama”
where musical
dramatic
and
elements were
fused together.
•The expressiveness is aided
by the use of leitmotifs or
musical sequences standing
for a particular character/plot
element.

16. •FAMOUS WORKS
•Tristan and Isolde
•Die Walkyrie
•Die Meistersinger
•Tannhauser
•Parsifal
Great influence with the
movie HARRY POTTER
and LORD OF THE RINGS
RICHARD WAGNER

17. GEORGES BIZET
•Alexandre-Cesar-
Leopold Bizet,
registered name.
•He was born
25, 1838 in
October
Paris,
France.
•He entered the Paris
Conservatory of music
at a very young age.
•Died at the age of 36

18. •FAMOUS WORKS
•Carmen
GEORGE BIZET

19. Assigment
1. What is Romantic Opera?
2. What are the Components of
an Opera?