Opera

2 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. The most unrealistic death in opera history involves poisoned violetsIn the world of verismo opera, realism is everything—except for one famous plot device. Adriana Lecouvreur’s tragic end by poisoned flowers is frequently cited as the genre's leas…
2. One chord in Wagner's Tristan has kept music theorists arguing ever since.The opening of Tristan und Isolde contains four notes, F, B, D sharp and G sharp, that refuse to settle into a key. Theorists still disagree about what the chord is and what it do…

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