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1st Night
''1st Night'' is a 2010 opera themed comedy film directed by Christopher Menaul and starring Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Mia Maestro, and Julian Ovenden. Plot 1st Night is about a rich industrialist Adam ( Richard E. Grant), who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera (Mozart's ''Così fan tutte'')in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of Celia (Sarah Brightman), the female conductor he has been pursuing whom - it just so happens - is the first to be recruited for his showpiece. Cast * Mia Maestro as Nicoletta Lampedusa / Fiordiligi * Stanley Townsend as Paulo Prodi * Oliver Dimsdale as Philip Ford / Director * Julian Ovenden as Tom Chambers / Ferrando * Sarah Brightman a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Menaul
Christopher Menaul (born 25 July 1944) is a British film, television director and television writer. Since the late 1970s, Menaul has amassed credits in episodic television and by directing television films. Filmography Film *''Feast of July'' (1995) *''First Night'' (2010) *''Summer in February'' (2013) *''Another Mother's Son'' (2017) TV *2015 Killing Jesus (film) (TV film) *2013 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II *2011 Combat Hospital (TV series) *2011 Zen (TV mini-series) *2009 Above Suspicion (TV film) *2007 Saddam's Tribe (TV film) *2006 See No Evil: The Moors Murders (TV film) *2005 Secret Smile (TV film) *2005 Planespotting (TV film) *2004 Belonging (TV film) *2004 Wall of Silence (TV film) *2003 State of Mind (TV film) *2002 The Forsyte Saga (TV mini-series) *2000 One Kill (TV film) *1999 The Passion of Ayn Rand (TV film) *1997 Bright Hair (TV film) *1994 Fatherland (TV film) *1994 Homicide: Life on the Street (TV series) *1992 Great Performances (TV series) *1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Williams (actress)
Emma Williams (born 20 May 1983) is an English actor of stage, screen, TV and radio. She has been nominated four times for an Olivier Award. Early life Emma Louise Williams was born on 20 May 1983 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, to parents Gordon and Joan Williams and attended North Halifax Grammar School. She attended Stage 84 – The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts, Idle, Bradford. She received a languages degree from the Open University in 2012. Career Stage Williams made her professional stage debut in 2002, aged 18, playing leading lady Truly Scrumptious in the original cast of the West End production of ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' at the London Palladium, winning the Arts Correspondent Award for Best Newcomer. Williams was signed to play Maria von Trapp under a 6-month contract. However, the winner of the BBC reality TV show '' How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?'' would still get a 6-month contract and perform 4 of the shows each week. On 22 September 2006, Williams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Comedy Films
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfie Boe
Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe (born 29 September 1973) is an English tenor and actor, notably performing in musical theatre. He is best known for his performances as Jean Valjean in the musical ''Les Misérables'' at the Queen's Theatre in London, the '' 25th Anniversary Concert'', the 2014 Broadway revival and the '' All-Star Staged Concert''. He played the lead role in '' Finding Neverland'' on Broadway beginning 29 March 2016. As well, Boe shared a Tony Award with the other members of the ensemble cast of Baz Luhrmann's 2002 revival of ''La bohème'' in 2003. He has sold more than one million albums in the United Kingdom. One of his most recent performances include Together in Vegas (with Michael Ball). On October 2022 he announced that he would be doing a solo tour in 2023. Background Boe, the youngest in a family of nine children, was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, and brought up in nearby Fleetwood. He is of Irish and Norwegian descent. His mother and father named him a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susannah Fielding
Susannah Glanville-Hearson"Drama: High profile OB actors" ''The Blue'' (). 2011. p. 55. Retrieved 19 July 2014. known professionally as Susannah Fielding is an English . She won the 2014 for her portrayal of Portia in '' |
Andrew Massey (conductor)
Andrew Massey (1 May 1946 – 1 June 2018) was an English conducting, conductor and composer who was primarily active in the United States. From 1991–2002 he was principal conductor of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He had previously held the post of principal conductor with the Fresno Philharmonic, the New Orleans Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. He later served as conductor for the Middlebury College orchestra and an interim conductor for the Vermont Youth Orchestra. He died in his home in Vermont on 1 June 2018, age 72, after a long battle with cancer. References External linksOfficial Website of Andrew Massey {{DEFAULTSORT:Massey, Andrew 1946 births 2018 deaths English composers English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) English emigrants to the United States English male composers 20th-century British conductors (music) 20th-century English musicians 21st-century British conductors (music) 21st-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Ross (actor)
Hugh Ross (born 28 April 1945) is a Scottish actor, with a wide variety of British TV, film and theatre credits. He is known for his supporting roles in the films ''Trainspotting'' and '' Bronson''; and for his performances as Major Mungo Munro in the '' Sharpe'', and as Narcisse in Clive Barker’s ''Nightbreed''. Biography Career Ross was born in Glasgow, where his parents were both doctors. He was educated at ''The Glasgow Academy'', an independent school, followed by the ''University of St Andrews''. He then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Ross began his career in repertory all over England. He played ''Romeo'' (1971) at the Open-air Theatre in Regent’s Park; Jaques in ''As You Like It'' (1990) for the ''Royal Shakespeare Company''; and Dr Brooks in ''Lady in the Dark'' (1997) at the '' National Theatre''. In 1997, he was nominated for an ''Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical'' for his performance in Step ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Power
Laura may refer to: People * Laura (given name) * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia * Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula ** Laura Bay, South Australia, a locality **Laura Bay Conservation Park, a protected area * Laura River (Queensland) * Laura River (Western Australia) Canada * Laura, Saskatchewan Italy * Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania * Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany Marshall Islands * Laura, Marshall Islands, an island town in the Majuro Atoll of the Marshall Islands Poland * Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Toszek, within Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland United States * Laura, Illinois * Laura, Indiana * Laura, Kentucky, a city * Laura, Missouri * Laura, Ohio, a small village Arts, media, and entertainment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Lindsay
Nigel Lindsay (born 17 January 1969) is an English actor. He is best known on television for his roles as Sir Robert Peel in the first two seasons of ''Victoria'', Jo Jo Marshall in the Netflix series '' Safe'' and as Barry in the BAFTA-winning Chris Morris film ''Four Lions'' for which he was nominated for Best British Comedy Performance in Film at the 2011 British Comedy Awards. In 2012 he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in the title role in the original West End run of ''Shrek the Musical'' at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and won the Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 2011 production of Arthur Miller's '' Broken Glass'' at the Tricycle Theatre. Early life and education Lindsay was born in St John's Wood and grew up in North West London. He attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, an independent private day school for boys before going on to the University of Birmingham, where he studied English and French. After university, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Walker
Jack Walker (19 May 1929 – 17 August 2000) was a British industrialist and businessman. Walker built his fortune in the steel industry, amassing a personal fortune of £600 million. He then went on to become the owner and benefactor of Blackburn Rovers Football Club, winning the 1994–95 FA Premier League under his guidance. Business Walkersteel The youngest of three children, Walker was born in Blackburn and left school at 13. Walker worked as a sheet metal worker and a conscript craftsman in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. In 1951, following the death of his father Charles, Walker took over the family sheet metal business. Walkersteel was built from a back-street scrap metal business to a major force in the steel industry. By 1990 Walker had built up the business so successfully that it had become the largest steel stockholder in Britain, employing 3,400 people at 50 sites. In 1988 the business was making an annual profit of £48m. Walkersteel completed a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLAUS
Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus * Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseball player * Chris Klaus (born 1973), American entrepreneur *Frank Klaus (1887–1948), German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion *Fred Klaus (born 1967), German footballer * Josef Klaus (1910–2001), Chancellor of Austria 1966–1970 *Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), Russian chemist *Václav Klaus (born 1941), Czech politician, former President of the Czech Republic *Walter K. Klaus (1912–2012), American politician and farmer Notable persons whose given name is Klaus *Brother Klaus, Swiss patron saint *Klaus Augenthaler (born 1957), German football player and manager *Klaus Badelt (born 1967), German composer *Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), German SS-Hauptsturmführer and Holocaust Perpetrator *Klaus Bargsten (1911–2000), Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard E
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick (nickname), Dick", "Dickon", "Dickie (name), Dickie", "Rich (given name), Rich", "Rick (given name), Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", "Ricky (given name), Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
