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Clara (opera)
''Clara'' is an opera in two acts and 18 tableaux by Hans Gefors based on a French-language libretto by Jean-Claude Carrière. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris on 7 December 1998. This was Gefors fifth opera; he had previously composed full-length stage works for the Swedish Royal Opera (''Christina'', 1986) and for Wiesbaden Opera (''Der Park'', 1992). Background The work was commissioned from Gefors in 1995 and the composer and librettist met in Paris that year. Having received the first drafts of the text the following year, Gefors began composition in April 1997. The opera is written for traditional acoustic orchestral forces plus some electronic instruments.Programme book for Opéra-Comique production of ''Clara'', 1998–1999 season, Entretien avec Hans Gefors, page 15-19. For the premiere production, the director was Günter Krämer with sets and costumes by Gottfried Pilz; lighting was designed by Fabrice Kebour. The opera was late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Gefors
Hans Gefors (born 8 December 1952 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer. He has lived in Lund since the mid-1990s. Selected works * ''La boîte chinoise'', for guitar (1975) * ''Poeten och glasmästaren'', chamber opera (1979, libretto: Lars Forssell after Baudelaire) * ''Slits'' for orchestra (1981) * ''Christina'', opera in two acts (1982–86, libretto: Lars Forssell och Hans Gefors) * ''Whales weep not!'', a cappella chorus (1987, D. H. Lawrence) * ''Twine'' (Music no 3) for orchestra (1988) * ''En obol'', song-cycle (1989, Lars Forssell) * ''Der Park'', opera in three acts (1986–91, libretto: Botho Strauss och Hans Gefors) * ''Vargen kommer'', opera in three acts (1994–96, libretto: Kerstin Perski * ''Lydias sånger'', song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1995-96 from the poem of Hjalmar Söderberg ''Den allvarsamma leken'') * ''Clara'', opera in two acts (1997–98, libretto: Jean-Claude Carrière) * ''Kabaretsånger'' (2001, Jonas Gardell) * ''Njutningen (La Jouissa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano. Etymology The word "soprano" comes from the Italian word '' sopra'' (above, over, on top of),"Soprano" '' |
French-language Operas
French opera is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen. Many foreign-born composers have played a part in the French tradition as well, including Lully, Gluck, Salieri, Cherubini, Spontini, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi and Offenbach. French opera began at the court of Louis XIV of France with Jean-Baptiste Lully's ''Cadmus et Hermione'' (1673), although there had been various experiments with the form before that, most notably '' Pomone'' by Robert Cambert. Lully and his librettist Quinault created ''tragédie en musique'', a form in which dance music and choral writing were particularly prominent. Lully's most important successor was Rameau. After Rameau's death, the German Gluck was persuaded to produce six operas for the Paris, Parisian stage in the 1770s. They show the influence of Rameau, but simplified and with greater foc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Operas
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Compositions By Hans Gefors
Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography * Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space * Composition (music), an original piece of music and its creation *Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work * ''Composition'' (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters *Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction * ''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker *Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a video Computer science *Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones * Object composition, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions History *Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Côte D'Azur
The French Riviera (known in French as the ; oc, Còsta d'Azur ; literal translation " Azure Coast") is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend from Toulon, Le Lavandou or Saint-Tropez in the west to Menton at the France–Italy border in the east."Côte d'Azur, côte méditerranéenne française entre Cassis et Menton" ("Côte d'Azur, French Mediterranean coast between Cassis and Toulon") in ''Dictionnaire Hachette encyclopédique'' (2000), p. 448."Côte d'Azur, Partie orientale du littoral français, sur la Méditerranée, de Cassis à Menton" ("Côte d'Azur, Eastern part of the French coast, on the Mediterranean, from Cassis to Menton"), in ''Le Petit Larousse illustré'' (2005), p. 1297. The coast is entirely within the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. The Principality of Monaco is a semi-enclave within the region, surrounded on three sides by France and fronting the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gadd
Stephen Gadd (born 1964 in Berkshire, South East England) is an English operatic baritone. He graduated in Engineering from St. John's College, Cambridge and then studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, under Patrick McGuigan. He was a finalist in Operalia, (Plácido Domingo's international singing competition), and among other numerous awards he won the 1990 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship. He has performed the title role in ''Macbeth'' at the Glyndebourne Festival, and Conte Almaviva in ''Le nozze di Figaro'' for the Salzburger Festspiele. In 1998 he sang in the premiere of ''Clara'' by Hans Gefors at the Opéra-Comique in Paris (Lucio).Programme book for Opéra-Comique production of ''Clara'', 1998-1999 season, cast-list, page 9. Selected discography *Mozart: ''Messe C-dur KV 317 » Krönungsmesse«; Exsultate, jubilate KV 165; Vesperae solennes de confessore'' -The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor). ARCHIV Produktion. *Vaughan Williams: ''Hodie; Fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C (i.e. F2–F4) in choral music, and from the second A below middle C to the A above middle C (A2 to A4) in operatic music, but the range can extend at either end. Subtypes of baritone include the baryton-Martin baritone (light baritone), lyric baritone, ''Kavalierbariton'', Verdi baritone, dramatic baritone, ''baryton-noble'' baritone, and the bass-baritone. History The first use of the term "baritone" emerged as ''baritonans'', late in the 15th century, usually in French sacred polyphonic music. At this early stage it was frequently used as the lowest of the voices (including the bass), but in 17th-century Italy the term was all-encompassing and used to describe the averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Schukoff
Nikolai Andrej Schukoff (born 1969) is an Austrian operatic tenor. Life Born in Graz, Schukoff completed his vocal studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with a diploma in "music-dramatic performance", for which he was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal in 1996. (retrieved on 24 March 2019) He made his debut the same year as Alfredo in Verdi's '''' at the in Gelsenkirchen. Afterwards he worked some years at the |
Raphaëlle Farman
Raphaëlle Farman (born Paris) is a French operatic soprano. Farman completed a master's degree in law, and later studied singing at the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris and at the Lyric School of the Opéra Bastille. She graduated in 1992. Since then, she has undertaken various roles on stage or in the concert hall, developing her vocal and artistic personality in such roles as: Michaëla (''Carmen''), Esclarmonde ('' Esclarmonde''), Violetta (''La traviata''), Mimi ('' La bohème''), and also in Mozart operas (as Donna Anna, Fiordiligi, and the Countess). She has also sung Viennese Operetta (Rosalinde, The Merry Widow) and performed in many orchestral concerts and given recitals. In 1998 she sang in the premiere of '' Clara'' by Hans Gefors at the Opéra-Comique in Paris (Irène).Programme book for Opéra-Comique production of ''Clara'', 1998-1999 season, cast-list, page 9. More recently she is a co-creator of a comedy show ("Fantasie lyrique") titled: ''La diva et le Torre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Ange Todorovitch
Marie-Ange Todorovitch is a contemporary French mezzo-soprano born in Montpellier. Roles * 2000: ''La Belle Hélène'': Oreste, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris * 2000: ''The Tales of Hoffmann'': Giulietta, Grand Théâtre de Genève on Opera de Genève and (2010) * 2006: '' Carmen'', , |
Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière (; 17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing '' Heureux Anniversaire'' (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972), ''That Obscure Object of Desire'' (1977), and ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in ''The Return of Martin Guerre'' (1983). Carrière was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school that he helped establish. He was noted as a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of the latter's late French films. Early life Carrière was born in Colombières-sur-Orb in southwestern France on 17 September 1931. His family worked as vintners, and his parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
