Classical and Romantic Operas W. A. Mozart - "Zauberflote" and C. M. von Weber - "Der Freisschuetz" W. A. Mozart - "Zauberflote" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg (Austria), and died in 1791 in Vienna (Austria). He was one of the first compose...

COPPELIA Some ballets get better with age. The romantic ballet Coppelia has an inbuilt scope for innovation. It remains fresh because of the wonderful music, clever, sometimes sublime choreography, the strong narrative, and the infinite variety of dolls that can be introduced into doctor Coppelius'...

Top of the Class Looking back through the ages has been an enlightening experience. I have found that the intellectuals of the time delved for a deeper meaning in all that is life. With the advances in science, the philosophers were at once able to substantiate their claims. We can call the eighteen...

What were Claude's contributions to an ideal landscape? Claude, was born Claude Gellée who was also known by his fictitious name Le Lorraine or as Claude Lorrain, in the duchy of Lorraine (from which he derived his name) in 1604 (1). He was a French artist in the seventeenth century, who spent m...

The Enlightment was the movement that spread and caused and influence in it's society. Romanticism, was wide spread in many different areas. Since the middle ages, had there been in artistic movement that made a big change. That changed was quickly traveled on to Germany and England and quickly...

The Romantic era produced a plethora of great writing. It was a period of change and emancipation. While the Classical era had strict laws of balance and restraint, the Romantic era moved away from that by allowing artistic freedom, experimentation, and creativity. Romantic ideas centered around ar...

Romanticism is a current that manifested itself in the late 1700s and quickly swept through Europe. One of its characteristics is its universality; its field of manifestation was widespread and went form painting, art, music to literature. The Romantic current generally has some common features th...