The Early Opera Company is a British ensemble dedicated to the performance of baroque operas using period instruments.
 It was founded in 1994 by Christian Curnyn.
 Handel's operas feature prominently in its repertoire, and the Company has given notable performances of "Agrippina" in New York, "Orlando" at the South Bank Centre Early Music Festival and "Partenope" at the Buxton and Aldeburgh Festivals.
 They have also recorded "Partenope" and "Semele" for the Chaconne label on Chandos Records.
 The recording of "Semele" was awarded the Handel Prize in 2008.
 Soloists who have performed with the company include Rosemary Joshua, Hilary Summers, Richard Croft and Gail Pearson.
 They performed at the Lufthansa Baroque Music Festival in May 2009 with John Eccles's "The Judgment of Paris" in one its first ever performances.
 The ensemble also made the premiere recording of the work for Chandos Records.
The Brunel opera project is a collaboration between Matthew King (composer), Nye Parry (sound design) and Michael Irwin (libretto) to write a dramatic work based on the life and work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
 The opera was the subject of a special feature on BBC Radio 4, broadcast in October 2003, and the project has been documented in detail in the book, "The Reflective Conservatoire".
 The opera remains a work in progress and has yet to be performed in its entirety.
By The Great Horn Spoon!
 is a children's novel about the gold rush by Sid Fleischman, published in 1963.
 The story takes place in the California Gold Rush.
 A twelve-year-old boy named Jack, who has lived with his Aunt Arabella since his parents died, heads to California to search for gold after Aunt Arabella loses all her money.
 He is accompanied by Aunt Arabella's butler, Praiseworthy.
 As the novel opens, they are stowaways on a ship, "The Lady Wilma", hiding in Mr. Azariah Jones' eighteen potato barrels.
 On the second day, Jack and Praiseworthy turn themselves in to the captain, Joshua Swain.
 They are put to work in the ship's coal bunkers, but they later uncover the villain on the ship, Cut-Eye Higgins, who stole their money for tickets.
 After they become legitimate passengers, they share a cabin with people such as Dr. Buckbee, the horse doctor with the peg leg, and Mountain Jim, a huge man who helps Jack save a pig from the cook.
 When they reach San Francisco, they head for the gold mines and encounter a number of friendly miners, such as Quartz Jackson, Buffalo John, Jimmie-From-Town, and Pitch-pine Billy Pierce.
 Along the way they encounter Cut-Eye Higgins, the villain who stole their money earlier.
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.
Dramatic structure (also called Freytag's pyramid) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a play or film.
 Many scholars have analyzed dramatic structure, beginning with Aristotle in his "Poetics" (c. 335 BCE).
 This article focuses primarily on Gustav Freytag's analysis of ancient Greek and Shakespearean drama.
The term festa teatrale (Italian: ] , plural: "feste teatrali" ] ) refers to a genre of drama, and of opera in particular.
 The genre cannot be rigidly defined, and in any case "feste teatrali" tend to be split into two different sets: "feste teatrali" divided by acts are operas, while works in this genre performed without division, or merely cut into two parts, are serenatas.
 A "festa teatrale" is a dramatic work, performed on stage (unlike many serenatas, which are labelled "drammatico" but were not performed in dramatic contexts).
Semele is an opera by John Eccles.
 The libretto is by William Congreve, drawing on the Greek myth of Semele.
 The opera was written in 1707, but was never performed in Eccles's lifetime; in fact, the work was not performed until 22 April 1972 when it was given at St John's, Smith Square in London.
Kreisleriana, Op.
 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled "Phantasien für das Pianoforte ."
 It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850.
 The work was dedicated to Frédéric Chopin, but when a copy was sent to the Polish composer, "he commented favorably only on the design of the title page".
 "Kreisleriana" is a very dramatic work and is considered to be one of Schumann's finest compositions.
 In 1839, soon after publishing it, Schumann called it in a letter "my favourite work," remarking that "The title conveys nothing to any but Germans.
 Kreisler is one of E. T. A. Hoffmann's creations, an eccentric, wild, and witty conductor."
 In 1843, when he had moved from writing for solo piano to much larger works, in particular "Paradise and the Peri", he still listed it as one of his best piano works
Die Huldigung der Künste ("The Homage of the Arts") is a dramatic poem written by Friedrich Schiller.
 It was his last completed dramatic work and premiered on 12 November 1804 in Weimar.
 Its final sentence, expressing Schiller's artistic credo, is "Denn aus der Kräfte schön vereintem Streben / Erhebt sich, wirkend, erst das wahre Leben".
Semele (HWV 58) is a 'musical drama', originally presented "after the manner of an oratorio", in three parts by George Frideric Handel.
 Based on a pre-existent opera libretto by William Congreve, the work is an opera in all but name but was first presented in concert form at Covent Garden theatre on 10 February 1744.
 The story comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses and concerns Semele, mother of Bacchus.
 Handel also referred to the work as 'The Story of Semele'.

Question: What kind of dramatic work does Semele and Arabella have in common?
Answer: opera