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Anna Nicole
''Anna Nicole'' is an English opera in 2 acts and 16 scenes, with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage to an English libretto by Richard Thomas. Based on the life of American model Anna Nicole Smith, the opera received its première on 17 February 2011 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, directed by Richard Jones. A recording of the opera was broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer on 25 March 2011. The broadcast drew in 67,700 viewers. The opera received its first London revival at Covent Garden in September 2014. Premiere The opera received its European continental premiere at Theater Dortmund (Germany) in April 2013 with American soprano Emily Newton in the title role. ''Anna Nicole'' received its U.S. premiere on September 17, 2013, in a production by the New York City Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the last work staged by the City Opera before its closure that year. Roles Synopsis Act 1 * 'Scene Zero' – Overture * Scene 1 – 'America Sings' * Scene 2 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 10 June 1960) is a British composer of classical music. Biography Turnage was born in Corringham, Essex. He began composing at age nine and at fourteen began studying at the junior section of the Royal College of Music. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert (composer), John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller. He also has been strongly influenced by jazz, in particular by the work of Miles Davis, and has composed works featuring jazz performers, including John Scofield, Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, and Joe Lovano. Turnage has composed numerous orchestral and chamber music, chamber works, and three full-length operas. ''Greek (opera), Greek'', composed with the encouragement of Hans Werner Henze and first performed in 1988 at the Munich Biennale, is based on Steven Berkoff's adaptation of ''Oedipus Rex''. ''The Silver Tassie (opera), The Silver Tassie'', first perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Bickley
Susan Bickley is a British mezzo-soprano singer who performs in opera, Baroque and contemporary classical music. Personal life and education Susan Rochford Bickley was born into a Welsh family in Liverpool, England. Her father was a primary school deputy headmaster and her mother was a special needs teacher. Her younger brother Graham Bickley is an actor and singer. Bickley and her brother first began singing in church as children, accompanied by their father on the organ. She attended Quarry Bank Comprehensive School in Liverpool and then studied music at City University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She later studied singing with Audrey Langford. In 1984 she married Anthony Castro and they have two children. Voice Bickley's voice is in the mezzo-soprano range. It has been described as having considerable range and expressivity. When singing the dual roles of Juno and Ino in Handel's ''Semele'' with Concerto Köln in 2015, her performance was reviewed in ''Oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexia, Texas
Mexia ( ) is a city in Limestone County, Texas, Limestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,893 at the 2020 census. The city's motto, based on the fact that outsiders tend to mispronounce the name , is "A great place to live, no matter how you pronounce it." Named after General José Antonio MexÃa, a Mexican hero for the Republic of Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, the town was founded near his estate. Nearby attractions include Fort Parker State Park, Fort Parker Historical recreation, the Confederate Reunion grounds, and Mexia State Supported Living Center (formerly Mexia State School), which began as a prisoner of war camp for members of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps during World War II. Mexia is also home to the Mexia Public Schools Museum, one of a few museums dedicated to the historical and social significance of a Texas public school system. Late model Anna Nicole Smith attended Mexia Public Schools. Mexia hosts a large Juneteenth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry King
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American television and radio host, whose awards included 2 Peabodys The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ..., an Emmy and 10 Cable ACE Awards. Over his career, he hosted over 50,000 interviews. King was born and raised in New York City to Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States from Belarus in the 1930s. He studied at Lafayette High School (New York City), Lafayette High School, a public high school in Brooklyn. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence in 1978 as host of ''Larry King Show, The Larry King Show'', an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Wayne Smith
Daniel Wayne Smith (January 22, 1986 – September 10, 2006) was the son of the American model and actress Anna Nicole Smith, Anna Nicole and Billy Smith. He occasionally appeared in his mother's E! Network reality TV show. Smith died on September 10, 2006, at age 20, after an accidental overdose. Life Smith was born on January 22, 1986, in Mexia, Texas, to Billy Wayne Smith and Anna Nicole Smith, Vickie Lynn Hogan (alias Anna Nicole Smith). After his parents separated in 1987, Daniel was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Virgie Arthur, in Texas until he was six years old. He attended North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles. He was the stepson of J. Howard Marshall, J. Howard Marshall II, whom his mother met at a strip club and married in 1994. At age 16, Smith was featured as himself on his mother's reality television series, ''The Anna Nicole Show'', which ran on the E!, E! Entertainment Television channel from 2002 to 2004. In a second-season episode he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Finley
Gerald Hunter Finley, (born January 30, 1960) is a Canadian baritone opera singer. Early life Finley was born in Montreal and studied music at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Ottawa, the University of Ottawa, King's College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London, securing a place at the National Opera Studio. His great-uncle and former organist of Westminster Abbey, Sir William McKie, who lived during his last years in Ottawa, encouraged him in his early musical activities. Career In 1985 Finley appeared in the Royal College of Music production of '' Le Testament de la tante Caroline'' as the notary Maître Corbeau, and in ''La vera costanza'' the following year, where his "rounded bass and an aptness for conventionalised comedy made a vivid character of the rich fop, Villotto". Finley is particularly renowned for his interpretations of Mozart roles such as Guglielmo, Papageno, Figaro, Count Almaviva and Don Giovanni. He made his Salzburger Festspiele debut in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the title role in ''Der fliegende Holländer'', Wotan/Der Wanderer in the ''Ring Cycle'' and Hans Sachs in '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''. Wagner labelled these roles as ''Hoher Bass'' ("high bass")—see fach for more details. The bass-baritone voice is distinguished by two attributes. First, it must be capable of singing comfortably in a baritonal tessitura. Secondly, however, it needs to have the ripely resonant lower range typically associated with the bass voice. For example, the role of Wotan in ''Die Walküre'' covers the range from F2 (the F at the bottom of the bass clef) to F4 (the F above middle C), but only infrequently descends beyond C3 (the C below middle C). Bass-baritones are typically divide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard K
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probably in some cases a confusion with the Old Norse cognate ''Haward'' (''Hávarðr''), which means "high guard" and as a surname also with the unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases it is from the Old English ''eowu hierde'' "ewe herd". In Anglo-Norman the French digram ''-ou-'' was often rendered as ''-ow-'' such as ''tour'' → ''tower'', ''flour'' (western variant form of ''fleur'') → ''flower'', etc. (with svarabakhti). A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900 and 1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960 and 1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990 and 2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600. People with the given name Howard or its variants include: Given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca De Pont Davies
Rebecca de Pont Davies is a British mezzo-soprano who has performed with English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, and at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, among others. Davies was born and educated in Blackheath, and is the sister of the screenwriter William Davies and the television producer Michael Davies. She has been diagnosed with Graves' disease. Davies went straight from school to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she completed the four year Associate of the Guildhall School of Music (AGSM) course and the two year Opera Course for which she was awarded a full scholarship before becoming a Company Artist for English National Opera. Here her roles included Ottavia in '' The Coronation of Poppea'', Ulrica in ''A Masked Ball'', Mistress Quickly in ''Falstaff'', Annina in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', Theatre Dresser/Schoolboy/Groom/Girl’s Mother in ''Lulu'', Mrs Sedley and Auntie in ''Peter Grimes'', Bronka in '' The Passen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Oke
Alan Oke is a British tenor. Born in London and raised in Scotland, he studied both at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and with Hans Hotter in Munich. Career Following a successful career as a baritone he made his debut as a tenor in 1992 singing Brighella in ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' for Garsington Opera. Since then he has sung a wide variety of roles with Scottish Opera, Opera North, the Royal Opera, English National Opera and Opera New Zealand as well as appearances at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Bregenz and Ravenna Festivals. He portrayed Marlow in Tarik O'Regan's '' Heart of Darkness'' at the Royal Opera House and Gandhi in Philip Glass's '' Satyagraha'' for the English National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. In 2016 he premiered the role of The Major in Elena Langer's opera ''Figaro Gets a Divorce'', at the Welsh National Opera. He played Peter Grimes in the performance of Britten's opera on Aldeburgh Beach 2013, filmed as ''Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is widely defined to be B2, though some roles include an A2 (two As below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to the second F above middle C (F5). The tenor voice type is generally divided into the ''leggero'' tenor, lyric tenor, spinto tenor, dramatic tenor, heldentenor, and tenor buffo or . History The name "tenor" derives from the Latin word ''wikt:teneo#Latin, tenere'', which means "to hold". As Fallows, Jander, Forbes, Steane, Harris and Waldman note in the "Tenor" article at ''Grove Music Online'': In polyphony between about 1250 and 1500, the [tenor was the] structurally fundamental (or 'holding') voice, vocal or instrumental; by the 15th century it came to signify the male voice that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Doyle (baritone)
Grant Doyle (born 1971) is an Australian/British operatic baritone. Biography Born in Adelaide, Doyle studied voice at the Elder Conservatorium and then the Opera School at the Royal College of Music in London, subsequently winning a place on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His roles for the ROH include Ping ''Turandot'', Small Prisoner/Čekunov ''From The House of the Dead'', El Dancairo '' Carmen'', Apprentice ''Wozzeck'', Tarquinius ''The Rape of Lucretia'', Harlequin ''Ariadne auf Naxos'', Schaunard ''La boheme'', Demetrius '' A Midsummers Night's Dream'', Marullo ''Rigoletto'' and Billy Wayne Smith in the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's ''Anna Nicole''. Opera credits include Zurga Les pêcheurs de perles, Yeletsky Queen of Spades, Marcello La bohème and Fantastic Mr Fox for Opera Holland Park; Forester ''Cunning Little Vixen'', the title role in Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro and Enric in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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