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Camargo Volcanic Field
Camargo may refer to: Places Bolivia: * Camargo, Chuquisaca Brazil: * Camargo, Rio Grande do Sul Mexico: * Camargo, Chihuahua * Camargo, Tamaulipas Spain: * Camargo, Cantabria United States of America: * Camargo, Illinois * Camargo, Kentucky * Camargo, Mississippi * Camargo, Oklahoma People * Ángel Camargo (born 1967), Colombian road cyclist * Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993), Brazilian composer * Daniel Camargo (born 1991), Brazilian ballet dancer * Daniel Camargo Barbosa (1930–1994) prolific Colombian serial killer and rapist * Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1529–1599), Mexican historian * Fernando Camargo (born 1977), Colombian road cyclist * Hebe Camargo (1929–2012), Brazilian television presenter * Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo (1922–2006), Brazilian zoologist and lawyer * Iberê Camargo, (1914–1994), Brazilian painter * Johan Camargo (born 1993), Panamanian baseball player * Luiz Camargo (born 1987), Brazilian footballer * María Constanza Camargo, Colombian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camargo, Chuquisaca
Camargo is a small town in the Chuquisaca Department of Bolivia in the South American Andes. Location Camargo is the capital of Nor Cinti Province and is situated in ''Camargo Municipio'', embedded between north-southerly mountain ridges, at an elevation of 2,414 m, on the banks of ''Río Chico'' which later becomes Río Pilaya. Camargo is located 350 km south of the department capital Sucre, along ''Ruta 1'', one of Bolivia's major roads which is 1,215 km long and goes from the Peruvian border in the north to the Argentine border in the south. The Camargo family comes from here. Population The population of the town has increased by 50% over the past two decades, from 3,789 inhabitants (1992 census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...) to 4,502 (2001 cens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iberê Camargo
Iberê Bassani Camargo (18 November 1914, in Restinga Seca – 8 August 1994, in Porto Alegre) was a Brazilian painter, one of the greatest expressionist artists from his country. Shortly after his death, the Iberê Camargo Foundation was created by his widow, Maria Coussirat Camargo. Since 2008, the Foundation headquarters and museum is located in a building designed by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. Thousands of painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...s by Camargo are on display there. External links Iberê Camargo Foundation website 1914 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists Brazilian contemporary artists {{Brazil-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camargo (yacht)
MV ''Star of Malta'' was a passenger ferry which operated routes from Malta to Sicily in the 1950s and 1960s, notable for its sinking off Malta on 29 July 1955, resulting in the death of one crew member and one passenger. Prior to that, she had a long career under a number of different names. The vessel was built in 1928 as the luxury yacht ''Camargo'' for Julius Fleischmann, Jr. She made a world cruise in 1930–31, during which its crew spied on Japanese-held territories on behalf of the American government. In 1938, she was sold to the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo, being renamed ''Ramfis''. From 1942 to 1944, the vessel served in the United States Navy as the patrol yacht USS ''Marcasite'' (PY-28). She was subsequently sold into commercial service, being renamed ''Commando'' in 1944 and ''Westminster'' in 1947. In 1952, the vessel was acquired by Paul M. Laferla, and she was renamed ''Star of Malta'' and converted into a passenger ferry, operating routes from M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Genée
Dame Adeline Genée DBE (born Anina Kirstina Margarete Petra Jensen; 6 January 1878 – 23 April 1970) was a Danish-British ballet dancer. Early years Anina Kirstina Margarete Petra Jensen was born in Hinnerup north of Aarhus, Denmark. Her uncle, Alexandre Genée, gave her dancing lessons from the age of three. When she was eight, Alexandre and his wife, the former Antonia Zimmerman, adopted her. As well as changing her last name to Genée, she changed her first name to Adeline in honour of the Italian opera star Adelina Patti. Genée's debut was with her uncle's touring company at the age of ten in Oslo (at that time called Christiania). In 1895, she became the principal dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. Subsequently, in 1896, she danced with the Berlin Royal Opera Ballet and the Munich Opera Ballet. At the Empire In 1897, she accepted a booking for six weeks to appear in ''Monte Cristo'' at the Empire Theatre of Varieties in London. She was so adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Operas By Wolf-Ferrari
This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948). List References *Waterhouse, John C G (1992), "Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publ ... (London) {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno Lists of operas by composer Lists of compositions by composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Camargo (opera)
''La Camargo'' is a 3-act opéra comique with music by Charles Lecocq and words by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo. It is a highly fictionalised story of two historical 18th-century characters, the dancer Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, La Camargo and the bandit Louis Mandrin. The opera was first produced at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris in 1878, and ran for 98 performances. Background Lecocq had written four operas for the Théâtre de la Renaissance between 1875 and 1878. The most successful of these, ''Le petit duc'', had run for 301 performances.Noël and Stoullig (1878), p. 412 ''La Camargo'' was commissioned to succeed it. Lecocq had worked with numerous librettists since his first big success, ''Fleur-de-Thé'', ten years earlier. For the new piece his collaborators were the experienced team of Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo, with whom he had worked on the highly successful ''Giroflé-Girofla'' (1874), ''La petite mariée'' (1875) and the fairly successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
