Stagione
Stagione (Italian for "season") is an organizational system for presenting opera, often used by large houses. Typically each production is cast separately and has a brief but intensive run of performances. By contrast, companies that use a repertory system maintain a permanent company and rotate productions over many months or even years. Historically the stagione system has been preferred in Britain, the United States, and most large international operahouses.
Sources
- The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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Opera terms by origin
- Breeches role
- Chest voice
- Concert performance
- Duodrama
- Head voice
- Insertion aria
- Mad scene
- Melodrama
- Monodrama
- Number
- Opera house
- Patter song
- Prompter
- Sung-through
- Surtitles
- Claque
- Coup de glotte
- Divertissement
- Encore
- Entr'acte
- Haute-contre
- Intermède
- Overture
- Répétiteur
- Roulade
- Timbre
- Tragédie en musique
- Travesti
- Aria
- Aria di sorbetto
- Arioso
- Banda
- Bel canto
- Bravura
- Brindisi
- Burletta
- Cabaletta
- Cadenza
- Cantabile
- Castrato
- Cavatina
- Chiaroscuro
- Coloratura
- Comprimario
- Contralto
- Convenienze
- Da capo aria
- Diva
- Falsetto
- Falsettone
- Fioritura
- Impresario
- Intermezzo
- Legato
- Libretto
- Licenza
- Maestro
- Melodramma
- Messa di voce
- Mezzo-soprano
- Musico
- Opera seria
- Ossia
- Passaggio
- Pasticcio
- Portamento
- Prima donna
- Recitative
- Ritornello
- Sinfonia
- Solita forma
- Soprano
- Soprano sfogato
- Spinto
- Squillo
- Stagione
- Stile rappresentativo
- Tenore contraltino
- Tenore di grazia
- Tessitura
- Verismo
- Vibrato
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