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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. It was premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by the composer and with set and costume designs by Carl Toms. Stylistically, the work is typical of Britten, with a highly individual sound-world – not strikingly dissonant or atonal, but replete with subtly atmospheric harmonies and tone painting. The role of Oberon was composed for the countertenor Alfred Deller. Atypically for Britten, the opera did not include a leading role for his partner Pears, who instead was given the comic drag role of Flute/Thisbe. Performance history ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' was first performed on 11 June 1960 at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, UK as part of the Aldeburgh Festival. Conducted by the composer, it was directed by the choreographer John Cranko. The work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Music Festival
The Beijing Music Festival (BMF) is an annual music festival held in Beijing which according to Chinaculture.org has become one of the most well-known musical events in the world, drawing international attention. According to Chinaculture.org the festival presents about 30 concerts in October every year offering a wide variety of classical and jazz music including opera, orchestral, chamber, solo, and choral concerts. BMF also gives prominence to music education and community engagement offering free children's concerts and students' concerts, as well as master classes which draw about 6,000 music students, teachers, and spectators. It prides itself in presenting both Western and Chinese music alike. According to Chinaculture.org notable performers that have appeared at the festival include Martha Argerich, Pinchas Zukerman, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Emmanuel Ax, Murray Perahia, Julian Lloyd Webber, Maxim Vengerov, Christoph Eschenbach, Tan Dun, Kathleen Battle, Du Yun, José Carrer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, (; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End theatre, West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare in 1929–31. During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway theatre, Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Sondheim Theatre, Queen's Theatre, London. He was regarded by many as the finest Prince Hamlet, Hamlet of his era, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baz Luhrmann
Mark Anthony Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962), known professionally as Baz Luhrmann, is an Australian film director, producer, writer and actor. With projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music and recording industries, he is regarded by some as a contemporary example of an auteur for his style and deep involvement in the writing, directing, design, and musical components of all his work. He is the most commercially successful Australian director, with four of his films in the top ten highest worldwide grossing Australian films The cinema of Australia had its beginnings with the 1906 production of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received internati ... of all time. On the screen he is best known for his "Red Curtain Trilogy", consisting of his romantic comedy film ''Strictly Ballroom'' (1992) and the romantic tragedies ''Romeo + Juliet, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Whelan (singer) (1888–1972), anti-semitic leader of the Anti Einstein League
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Paul Whelan may refer to: * Paul Whelan (politician) (1943–2019), New South Wales state politician * Paul F. Whelan, Irish academic * Paul Whelan (security director), US citizen and corporate security director arrested in Russia in late 2018 on accusations of being a spy See also * Paul Weyland Paul Wilhelm Gustav Weyland (20 January 1888, Berlin – 6 December 1972, Bad Pyrmont) was the antisemitic leader of the Anti Einstein League. In 1919 Weyland published the novel ''Hie Kreuz - hie Triglaff'' (The Cross against the Triglav), which g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Christy
Anna Christy is an American soprano opera singer. She studied at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and made her debut in 2000 at New York City Opera as Papagena. Christy sings a variety of lyric roles, such as Susanna, Papagena and Cleopatra, but especially coloratura roles such as Cunegonde in '' Candide'' and Oscar in ''Un ballo in maschera''. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2004/5 season, and has sung with the Santa Fe Opera in Bright Sheng's '' Madame Mao'', Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, L'Opéra National de Paris, and the Royal Opera House, London. She has also performed Bianca in Rossini’s '' Bianca e Falliero'' with the Washington Concert Opera. In February 2010 she reprised her original 2008 interpretation of the title role in Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' for English National Opera English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, resident at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iestyn Davies
Iestyn Davies (born 16 September 1979) is a British classical countertenor. Education and background Davies was born in York, England and first studied piano and recorder, mentored in his early years by his father Ioan, the founding cellist of the Fitzwilliam Quartet. From the age of eight he sang as a boy treble in the choir of St John's College, Cambridge. He began singing countertenor in his teens, at Wells Cathedral School. He returned to St John's as a choral scholar, graduating in Archaeology and Anthropology. He gained his DipRAM from, and was later appointed ARAM by, the Royal Academy of Music. In 2004 he won the Audience Prize at the London Handel Singing Competition and in 2010 was named "Young Artist of the Year" by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Davies' father Ioan was a long-standing cellist with the Fitzwilliam Quartet and a member of St. John's College. Performance Davies's opera career to date has included the role of Ottone in Monteverdi's ''L'incoronazion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Alden (director)
Christopher Alden (born 1949 in New York) is an American theater and opera director. He is the twin brother of David Alden, also an opera director. Both brothers belong to a generation of modernist directors that includes Robert Wilson and Peter Sellars. and are known for staging revisionist productions of opera. Early life Alden and his identical twin David came from a show business family. Their father was the playwright Jerome Alden, and their mother was the Broadway dancer Barbara Gaye. As such, the brothers were drawn to musical theater from an early age. As eight-year-olds, they listened to recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, and as teenagers in the mid-'60s, they frequently bought standing room tickets at the Metropolitan Opera. By age 13, both had decided they wanted to be directors of opera. Christopher studied theater at the University of Pennsylvania and began his stage career as an actor, appearing in Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English National Opera
English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane. It is one of the two principal opera companies in London, along with The Royal Opera. ENO's productions are sung in English. The company's origins were in the late 19th century, when the philanthropist Emma Cons, later assisted by her niece Lilian Baylis, presented theatrical and operatic performances at the Old Vic, for the benefit of local people. Baylis subsequently built up both the opera and the theatre companies, and later added a ballet company; these evolved into the ENO, the Royal National Theatre and The Royal Ballet, respectively. Baylis acquired and rebuilt the Sadler's Wells theatre in north London, a larger house, better suited to opera than the Old Vic. The opera company grew there into a permanent ensemble in the 1930s. During the Second World War, the theatre was closed and the company toured British towns and cities. After the war, the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Keith
Gillian Keith (born 3 April 1972 in Toronto) is a Canadian/British operatic soprano, originally from Toronto, Canada, and living in London, UK. Keith was educated at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Schulich School of Music of McGill University, Montreal, and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Opera Keith's roles include: *Zerbinetta in Strauss's ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' at the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera and Opera de Oviedo *Tytania in Britten's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at the Royal Opera House and English National Opera * Lubanara in ''The Philosopher's Stone'' (Der Stein der Weisen) by Mozart, Henneberg, Schack, Gerl and Schikaneder, Bampton Classical Opera *Poppea in Monteverdi's ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' in Theater Basel and Boston Early Music Festival *Jeptha in Handel's '' Jeptha'', Buxton Festival *Philine in Ambroise Thomas's ''Mignon'', Buxton Festival *Sylvie in Gounod's '' La colombe'', Buxton Festival *Iole in Handel's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Towers (countertenor)
William Towers is an English countertenor. Towers was a choral scholar at Cambridge University, where he read English. He subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2000 he was a soloist in the Monteverdi Choir's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, performances which have been released on CD (some on Archiv and others on SDG The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked objectives designed to serve as a "shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future".United Nations (2017) R ...). He has since appeared in concerts and in operatic productions. His repertoire in opera includes Baroque works and more modern operas such as those of Britten.Littler, WilliamCanadian Opera Company.(Opera review) Opera Canada. Opera Canada Publications. 2010. 2 November 2012. References Operatic countertenors 21st-century British male opera singers Living people Year of birth missing (living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Fuchs
Olivia Fuchs (born 1963) is a British-German stage director. Career Olivia Fuchs was born in 1963 in London and holds dual citizenship (British and German). She was first educated in West Germany and went on to study at Westfield College at the University of London and at Berkley University in California. She also completed a Postgraduate Acting course at the Drama Studio in London. She has mainly worked at Opera Holland Park in London, Theater Magdeburg in Germany and at the Den Jyske Opera, the Danish National Opera, where she directed three Verdi operas: ''Rigoletto'', ''La traviata'', ''Il trovatore''. Notable productions include ''Der Rosenkavalier'' at Welsh National Opera and ''The Marriage of Figaro'' at the English National Opera, Britten's ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'' at the Royal Opera House in London, and Dvořák's ''Rusalka'' at Opera Australia and at Opera North. She was invited by Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires for Debussy's '' Pelléas et Mélisande'' and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Renshaw
Christopher Renshaw (born 18 March 1952 in Reading) is a British opera and theatre director. He has directed in multiple countries, including musical theatre in London's West End. Biography In 2001, Renshaw directed ''Taboo'', a musical with the book by Mark Markham, lyrics by Boy George, and music by Boy George, Kevan Frost, Richie Stevens and John Themis, in London. He work-shopped ''Zorro'', a new musical with the book by Helen Edmundson, lyrics by Stephen Clark and music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron, in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. In 2008, the production went on a UK national tour before opening in the West End. Renshaw later directed ''Zorro'' in Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, Amsterdam and Atlanta. In 2016 he directed the world premier of Carmen La Cubana, billed as "The First Cuban Musical", at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet. Carmen La Cubana narrates a gripping love story set against the backdrop of 1950s Cuba, at the dawn of the revolution. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
