Der Opernball
''Der Opernball'' (''The Opera Ball'') is an operetta in three acts with music by Richard Heuberger, and libretto by Viktor Léon and Heinrich von Waldberg, based on the 1876 comedy ' by Alfred Delacour and Alfred Hennequin. The 1877 farce ''The Pink Dominos'' and the 1914 musical '' To-Night's the Night'' are other adaptations of the original play. Alexander von Zemlinsky assisted Heuberger with the orchestration. Its premiere was at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria, on 5 January 1898. The most famous number from the operetta is the waltz duet . The operetta remains in the repertoire of German-language opera companies,Laqueur, Walter, "Fin-de-siècle: Once More with Feeling" (January 1996). ''Journal of Contemporary History'', 31 (1): pp. 5–47. such as the Vienna Volksoper. Roles * Theophil Beaubuisson, ''retiree'' (bass) * Palmyra Beaubuisson, ''his wife'' (contralto) * Henri, ''naval cadet, their nephew'' (tenor or mezzo-soprano) * Paul Aubier (tenor) * Angèle, '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its shorter length, the operetta is usually of a light and amusing character. It sometimes also includes satirical commentaries. "Operetta" is the Italian diminutive of "opera" and was used originally to describe a shorter, perhaps less ambitious work than an opera. Operetta provides an alternative to operatic performances in an accessible form targeting a different audience. Operetta became a recognizable form in the mid-19th century in France, and its popularity led to the development of many national styles of operetta. Distinctive styles emerged across countries including Austria-Hungary, Germany, England, Spain, the Philippines, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. Through the transfer of operetta among different countries, cultural cosmop ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Will Dohm
Will Dohm (8 April 1897 – 28 November 1948) was a German film actor. He is the father of the actress Gaby Dohm. Selected filmography * '' Waterloo'' (1929) * ''Cruiser Emden'' (1932) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1932) * ''The Tunnel'' (1933) * ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * ''Tomfoolery'' (1936) * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1936) * ''Maria the Maid'' (1936) * ''Donogoo Tonka'' (1936) * ''Fridericus'' (1937) * '' Dangerous Game'' (1937) * ''Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''A Prussian Love Story'' (1938) * ''Dance on the Volcano'' (1938) * ''So You Don't Know Korff Yet?'' (1938) * '' Opera Ball'' (1939) * ''Kora Terry'' (1940) * ''Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940) * ''The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Her Other Self'' (1941) * '' Mein Leben für Irland'' (1941) * ''The Thing About Styx'' (1942) * ''Melody of a Great City'' (1943) * '' The Bath in the Barn'' (1943) * ''A Man for My Wife'' (1943) * '' The Song of the Nightingale'' (1944) * ''The Master Detective'' (1944) * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fita Benkhoff
Fita Benkhoff (1 November 1901 – 26 October 1967) was a German actress. Life Benkhoff was born in 1901. In the 1920s the actress Louise Dumont separated from her husband. Dumont was attached to a number of young actresses including Benkhoff, Hanni Hoessrich and Luise Rainer. It has been presumed that Dumont was bisexual.omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_and_starring_Ellen_Schwa_...''_(1948) *_''The_Time_with_You">ilm_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt">ilm.html"_;"title="omedy_[film">omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_and_starring_Ellen_Schwa_...''_(1948) *_''The_Time_with_You''_(1948) *_''Trouble_Backstairs_(1949_film).html" ;"title="The_Time_with_You.html" ;"title="ilm directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt">ilm.html" ;"title="omedy omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_and_starring_Ellen_Schwa_...''_(1948) *_''The_Time_with_You">ilm_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt">ilm.html"_;"title="omedy_[film">omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen (; 10 June 1903 – 10 November 1978), born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960. Life and career Lingen was born the son of a lawyer in the city of Hanover, and grew up there. He attended the Royal Goethe Gymnasium – the predecessor of the Goethe School – in Hanover, but left before taking the Abitur (final exams). His theatrical talent was discovered during rehearsals for a school performance at the ''Schauburg'' boulevard theatre. Beginning his professional stage career, the young actor adopted as a stage name his middle name together with that of the birthplace of his father, Lingen in the North German Emsland region. As "Theo Lingen" he performed at theatres at Hanover, Halberstadt, Münster and Frankfurt; in plays like ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' he very quickly earned a reputation as a superb character comedia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Heli Finkenzeller
Heli Finkenzeller (17 November 1914Friedemann, Beyer (1992)''Die Gesichter der UFA: Starportraits einer Epoche'' München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag. Page 46. . – 14 January 1991) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1935 and 1991. Filmography * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * '' Weiberregiment'' (1936) * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) * ''Dangerous Crossing'' (1937) * '' The Model Husband'' (1937) * '' Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau'' (1937) * '' Spiel auf der Tenne'' (1937) * ''My Son the Minister'' (1937) * '' Wie der Hase läuft'' (1937) * '' Konzert in Tirol'' (1938) * '' Diskretion - Ehrensache'' (1938) * '' Scheidungsreise'' (1938) * '' Eine kleine Nachtmusik'' (1939) * '' Opera Ball'' (1939) * '' Hochzeitsnacht'' (1941) * '' Der siebente Junge'' (1941) * '' Ehe man Ehemann wird'' (1941) * '' Alarmstufe V'' (1941) * ''Front Theatre'' (1942) * '' Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hans Moser (actor)
Hans Moser (6 August 1880 – 19 June 1964) was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the ''Wiener Film''. Moser appeared in over 150 films. Biography Born Johann Julier in Vienna, Moser very often portrayed the man in the street, typically someone else's subordinate – servant, waiter, porter, shopkeeper, coachman, petty bureaucrat, etc. Also always he played honest, moral and well-intentioned people who, unable to keep cool and think clearly in crucial situations, get themselves and everyone around them into trouble. As the father of a beautiful daughter – often widowed – he was the stubborn one who realizes only at the end of the movie, when all cases of mistaken identity have been cleared up and all secrets are revealed, that he has been terribly wrong all the time. Moser was particularly known for mumbling indistinctly for comic effect ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marte Harell
Marte Harell (3 January 1907 – 12 March 1996) was an Austrian film actress.Goble p.519 She was married to Karl Hartl Karl Hartl (10 May 1899 – 29 August 1978) was an Austrian film director. Life Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexande .... Filmography References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1907 births 1996 deaths Austrian film actresses Austrian television actresses 20th-century Austrian actresses Actresses from Vienna {{Austria-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor. Life and work Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ''Welteislehre'' cosmological concept, and elder brother of actor Attila Hörbiger. In 1902, the family returned to Vienna, while Paul attended the '' gymnasium'' (high school) at St. Paul's Abbey in Carinthia. Having obtained his ''Matura'' degree, he served in a mountain artillery regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, discharged in 1918 with the rank of an ''Oberleutnant''. After the war, Hörbiger took drama lessons and began his acting career in 1919 at the city theatre of Reichenberg (Liberec). From 1920, he performed at the New German Theatre in Prague. His fame grew when in 1926 he was employed by director Max Reinhardt at the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, reaching a high point with his appointmen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Géza Von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry (born Géza Gyula Mária Bolváry Zahn, german: Géza Maria von Bolváry-Zahn; 26 December 1897 – 10 August 1961) was a Hungarians, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria. Biography Géza von Bolváry was born in Budapest. He attended the Imperial Military Academy in Budapest and subsequently served in the Hungarian army (Honved Hussars). After World War I he left military service with the rank of Royal Hungarian ''Rittmeister''. He then earned his living in the new Hungarian film industry. He began his career in about 1920 as an actor in various silent films, but soon changed to the Star-Film company, where he was first active as a director and made his debut as director and screenwriter with ''A Kétarcú asszony''. In 1922 the film concern Emelka in Munich hired him as a director for four years. Between 1926 and 1928 he worked for the firm Felsom Film in Berlin, after which he went to London for a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Opera Ball (1939 Film)
''Opera Ball'' (german: Opernball) is a 1939 German musical comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Heli Finkenzeller, Fita Benkhoff, and Marte Harell. An operetta film, it is based on the 1898 work of the same name composed by Richard Heuberger. In 1956 it was remade as '' Opera Ball'' in Austria with some of the same personnel. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. Erna Berger provided a singing voice. production details, filmportal.de
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Palais Garnier
The Palais Garnier (, Garnier Palace), also known as Opéra Garnier (, Garnier Opera), is a 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102. opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. Initially referred to as ''le nouvel Opéra de Paris'' (the new Paris Opera), it soon became known as the Palais Garnier, "in acknowledgment of its extraordinary opulence" and the architect Charles Garnier's plans and designs, which are representative of the Napoleon III style. It was the primary theatre of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when a new opera house, the Opéra Bastille, opened at the Place de la Bastille. The company now uses the Palais Garnier mainly for ballet. The theatre has been a ''monument historique'' of France since 1923. The Palais Garnier has been called "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like No ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |