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Boston Metro Opera
Boston Metro Opera was a semi-professional American opera company based in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. The company specialized in contemporary works and operated from 2008 to 2015. It also sponsored and ran the Boston-International Contempo Festival and its associated International Composers' Competition. History Boston Metro Opera was founded in 2008 by the tenor Christopher Aaron Smith who remained its General and Artistic Director throughout the company's existence. It was incorporated as a non-profit company in 2009 and gave its first performances that year, a series of concerts. Although in its early days the company performed three one-act operettas by Offenbach, it soon turned to the contemporary works that became the hallmark of its repertoire. After its first season the company received 61 new operas and over 200 song cycles and choral works from composers hoping to be performed by the company. By 2013 Boston Metro Opera had produced ninety-four new works, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor. Although musical theatre is closely related to opera, the two are considered to be distinct from one another. Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition. Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as '' Singspiel'' and '' Opéra comique''. In traditional number opera, singers employ two styles of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Mestépès
Eugène Gaston Mestépès (1818 in Pau – 15 May 1875 in Paris) was a 19th-century French librettist, playwright and theatre director.Authority control of the BNF. Biography Mestépès was essentially a librettist of operettas and opéras comiques. His plays were presented mainly at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens (''Le violoneux'', ''Le Roi Boit'', ''Dragonette'', ''Le Duel de Benjamin''), the Théâtre-Lyrique (''La Demoiselle d’honneur'', ''Maître Griffard'', ''Ondine'') and the Fantaisies-Parisiennes (''Les Deux Arlequins''). However, he worked on two great dramas: ''Christophe Colomb'' (1861) and ''Le Coup de Jarnac'' (1866). Secretary of the Bouffes-Parisiens during the installation passage Choiseul, he ended up being associated with François Varcollier for the exploitation of the theater after the departure of Jacques Offenbach. He was general dramaturge of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique when he died. Works *1855: ''Le violoneux'', one-act operetta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Groups Disestablished In 2015 , the ability to perceive music or to create music
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Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music -al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Groups Established In 2008 , the ability to perceive music or to create music
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{{Music disambiguation ...
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music-al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter K
Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English actor, comedy writer and stand-up comedian. He has written, produced and acted in several television and film projects, and has written three books. Born and brought up in Bolton, Kay studied media performance at the University of Salford. He began working part-time as a stand-up comedian, winning the North West Comedian of the Year award. In 1997 he won Channel 4's ''So You Think You're Funny'' contest and the following year was nominated for a Perrier Award for his show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. With his public profile raised, in 2000 he co-wrote and starred in '' That Peter Kay Thing'' for Channel 4. This resulted in a spin-off sitcom, '' Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights'', which ran for two series from 2001 to 2002 and in turn generated another spin-off, ''Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere'', in 2004. In 2005 he recorded a promotional video in which he mimed to Tony Christie's 1971 hit "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo", which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre McKay
Deirdre McKay (born 1972) is a composer from Northern Ireland. Biography Deirdre McKay was born in County Down. She started violin lessons at an early age and later began to compose with the encouragement of her teacher, Bob Leonard. Following music studies at Queen’s University, Belfast and at the University of Manchester, she studied privately with Kevin Volans in Dublin. Returning to Queen’s on a Department of Education of Northern Ireland scholarship in 2003, she received a doctorate under the tutelage of Piers Hellawell. Performances and commissions She has collaborated on work with the Belfast artist Jean Duncan including "A pale yellow sky" and "The Fly". Her piece "Comendo spiritum meum", which incorporates the last words of St Oliver Plunkett, was premiered by the Latvian State Choir in 2007. "Dieppe" a setting of the poem by Samuel Beckett, was selected for the 12th International Review of Composers in Belgrade and also by James MacMillan for a BBC Singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Hutchings
Sarah Hutchings ''née'' Reneer (born September 27, 1984) is an American composer of contemporary opera, art song, and choral works. Life and career Sarah Hutchings was born Sarah Reneer in Lexington, Kentucky on September 27, 1984 and raised in Durham, North Carolina where she had her first music lessons at the age of four. Hutchings received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2007 from Western Carolina University, her Master of Music degree from Florida State University in 2010, and her Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2013. She has studied under Ladislav Kubík, Clifton Callendar, Michael Fiday, Joel Hoffman, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Hutchings is married to operatic baritone Mitchell Hutchings and lives in Boca Raton, Florida. Works Hutchings's compositions include four short operas, art songs, and a choral work. Operas *''Remember Me'', an operatic scene for soprano and baritone with piano accompaniment, received a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Ho
Alice Ping Yee Ho (born 1960) is a Canadian pianist and composer, considered to be "among the most important composers writing in this country". She was born in Hong Kong and earned a BMus in composition from Indiana University and a MMus in composition from the University of Toronto. She has studied with John Beckwith, Brian Ferneyhough and John Eaton. Ho performed a solo piano recital for CBC Radio 2. Her works have been featured at music festivals including the ISCM World Music Days, Ottawa Chamberfest, the CRUSH New Music Festival in Denmark and Asian Music Week in Japan. Her work has been performed by ensembles and solo performers including the China National Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Choir, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Penderecki String Quartet, violist Rivka Golan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Grundman
Jorge Grundman Isla (born 1961) is a Spanish classical composer, musicologist, musician and professor who has helped to recover the music of Robert Kahn and Adalbert Gyrowetz among others through the non-profit music foundation created by him. Musical development Grundman began in the world of music when he was 12 years old and completed his first composition at the age of 14 while still at school. He started his studies in solfeggio, piano and choir at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Carmen Ledesma at the department of Professor Joaquín Soriano. At the beginning of his career, Grundman took part in pop groups where he was the singer, keyboard player, composer and arranger. His song "Yo lo intentaría una vez más" appeared in 1983 on Spanish FM radio charts. He left the musical scene until 1999 when he released "The Sons Of The Cold", a tune that topped the New Age charts on the old MP3.com site. From this moment on and due to the popularity of the ''Payback for Playback'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Anderson
Nathalie F. Anderson (born 1948) is an American poet and librettist. She is a 1993 Pew Fellow, and author of several books of poetry: ''Following Fred Astaire'', ''Crawlers'', ''Quiver'', ''Held and Firmly Bound'' (a chapbook), and ''Stain''. In collaboration with composer Thomas Whitman, she authored four libretti: ''The Black Swan'', ''Sukey in the Dark'', ''Babylon'' and ''A Scandal in Bohemia''. Life Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Anderson earned her bachelor's degree from Agnes Scott College in 1970, her master's degree from Georgia State University, and her Ph.D. degree from Emory University. She has been teaching at Swarthmore College since 1982 and is currently a Professor in their Department of English Literature. She is also Director of their Program in Creative Writing as well as a Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum & Library. Anderson runs Philadelphia's literary event listserv, Lit-Philly. Some of Anderson's work has been featured in various print and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Abbott
Katy Abbott (born 1971) is an Australian composer. Abbott writes music for orchestra, chamber ensemble and voice. Her work reflects her interests in contemporary Australian cultures and often explores notions of home, place, humour and connection. Biography Abbott's compositions have been broadcast and performed in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US and featured in Australian and International music festivals including the International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM) conference in Beijing the International Rostrum of Composers in Wroclaw, Poland, and the Melbourne, Perth and Canberra International Festivals. Abbott studied with Stuart Greenbaum, Brenton Broadstock and Linda Kouvaras at University of Melbourne, where she completed her PhD in 2008. Several of Abbott's compositions have appeared on the AMEB and ANZCA syllabi. Her compositions are published by Reed Music, Promethean Editions (NZ), the Australian Music Centre and Morton Music. Abbott is currently based in Melb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Moinaux
Jules Moinaux, real name Joseph-Désiré Moineaux or Moineau"Moinaux or Moineau? The surname appears never to have been finally determined. Joseph-Désiré's father enrolled his son as Moineau but himself signed Moinaux. An uncle, born in 1826, is registered under the name of Morinaux and opted later for Moineaux... Later generations used indifferently Moinaux or Moineau, without the choice being ever meaningful. " Emmanuel Haymann, '' Courteline'', Flammarion, 1990 (24 October 1815 – 4 December 1895) was a 19th-century French writer, playwright, and librettist. Georges Courteline, whose civil status name was Georges Moinaux (or Moineau), was his son. Biography The son of Joseph-Jacques Moineau, a cabinetmaker in Tours, Jules Moinaux began with learning the trade from his father. But soon, he preferred to live by his pen, and became a journalist and a writer-reporter at Palais de Justice, Paris. By the late 1840s, he began writing, very often in collaboration, comic pieces tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
