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Frédégonde
''Frédégonde'' is an 1895 French opera (''drame lyrique'') in five acts with music by Ernest Guiraud, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Paul Dukas and a libretto by Louis Gallet based on Augustin Thierry's ''Récits des temps mérovingiens'' (1840).Lesley A. Wright (1992), "Guiraud, Ernest", vol. 2, p. 576, in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. The opera was incomplete upon Guiraud's death in 1892. He had only composed the first three acts (in short score), and these were subsequently fully orchestrated by Paul Dukas. The music for the fourth and fifth acts and the ballet in the third act was composed by Saint-Saens. Performance history ''Frédégonde'' was premiered by the Opéra at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 18 December 1895. The ''mise-en-scène'' was by Alexandre Lapissida, the costumes were designed by , and the choreography was by Joseph Hansen. The set designers for Act 1 were Philippe Chaperon and his son, Émile Chaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns), Second Piano Concerto (1868), the Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns), First Cello Concerto (1872), ''Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), Danse macabre'' (1874), the opera ''Samson and Delilah (opera), Samson and Delilah'' (1877), the Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, Paris, La Madeleine, the official church of the Second French Empire, Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Chaperon
Philippe Chaperon (2 February 1823 – 21 December 1906) was a French painter and scenic designer, particularly known for his work at the Paris Opera. He produced stage designs for the premieres of numerous 19th-century operas, including Verdi's ''Don Carlos'' and ''Aida'', Massenet's ''Le Cid'', Saint-Saëns's '' Henri VIII'', part two of Berlioz's ''Les Troyens'' and the first performances in France of Verdi's ''Otello'' and ''Rigoletto'' and Wagner's ''Tannhäuser''. Life and career Chaperon came from a modest background. He was born in Paris, where his father was an employee at the Caisse d'Épargne. He attended the Lycée impérial Bonaparte and then the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied painting and architecture. He won a Prix de Rome scholarship and spent three years at the Villa Medici. He also studied architecture in the atelier of Victor Baltard and painting in the atelier of Léon Riesener where he received guidance from Riesener's cousin Eugène Delacroix. Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Gallet
Louis Gallet (14 February 1835 in Valence, Drôme – 16 October 1898) was a French writer of operatic libretti, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and innumerable articles, who is remembered above all for his adaptations of fiction —and Scripture— to provide librettos of cantatas and opera, notably by composers Georges Bizet, Camille Saint-Saëns and Jules Massenet. Life and career By day Gallet supported himself by a minor post in the Administration of Assistance to the Poor and positions, first as treasurer then as general administrator, at the Beaujon hospital, Paris, and other hospitals (ref. Saint-Saëns). In 1871, Camille du Locle, the manager of the Paris Opéra-Comique, offered to produce a one-act work of Camille Saint-Saëns. He proposed as collaborator Louis Gallet, whom Saint-Saëns did not know, and the result was the slight piece '' La princesse jaune''; it was notable as the first '' japonerie'' on the operatic stage, Japan having only very recentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Lapissida
Alexandre Lapissida (9 March 1839, Volkrange - 16 February 1907, Paris) was a French operatic tenor, producer, director and theatre manager. Life First singing at Strasbourg, he was taken on by Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1868, where he spent most of his career. There he was made a régisseur in 1871 and served as the theatre's joint head with violinist Joseph Dupont from 1886 to 1889.Robert James Stove. ''César Franck: His Life and Times''. The Scarecrow Press, inc. p. 237. They then passed that position on to Stoumon and Calabresi. After that Lapissida was taken on by the Opéra de Paris as régisseur général and producer. He produced the Opéra's main operas of the late 19th century including ''Le Mage'' by Jules Massenet (1891), '' Faust'' by Charles Gounod (1893), '' Salammbô'' by Ernest Reyer (1893), ''Otello'' by Giuseppe Verdi (1894), ''Frédégonde'' by Ernest Guiraud (1895), '' La favorite'' by Gaetano Donizetti (1896) and ''Les Huguenots'' by Giacom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fabrique Opéra
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Eugène Carpezat
Eugène Louis Carpezat (Paris, 4 November 1833 – Paris, 26 February 1912) was an acclaimed French scenographer in the Belle Époque. Career Carpezat was the son of lemonade makers Claude François Carpezat and Jacqueline Caniou. After considering a career in the fine and decorative arts (e.g., ''Sabre d'honneur'' designed with Henry Hayez, 1857; the sculpture ''Enfants sur un bouc'', Trouville, 1866), Carpezat studied with the famous scenic designer Charles-Antoine Cambon, whose speciality in architecture sets he inherited. In 1875, Carpezat set up a professional association with fellow scenographer (Joseph-)Antoine Lavastre in order to take over Cambon's workshop at the latter's death. Together, Carpezat and Lavastre would design some of the defining Parisian productions – or parts thereof, as was customary – of the late 1870s and early 1880s: the world premieres of Delibes' ''Lakmé'' (1883), Gounod's ''Polyeucte'' (1878) and ''Le tribut de Zamora'' (1881), Massenet's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Wild
Nicole Wild (20 June 1929 – 29 December 2017) was a French musicologist, chief curator at the Paris Opera Library and Museum, and a specialist in the history and iconography of opera in France in the 19th century. Early life and education Born in Reims, Wild received her musical training at the (music theory, harmony, counterpoint, music history, music teaching certificate in 1953, first organ prize in 1955), where she taught music education in schools, technical college and music school from 1953 to 1962. For the organ, she also received instruction from André Marchal and completed internships at the Saint-Maximin Organ Academy. She was organist of the Temple protestant de Reims from 1955 to 1962, then of the Palaiseau temple from 1967. From 1968 to 1973, she was also chief editor of the magazine "Musique et chant", published by the Federation of music and song of French Protestantism. She studied at the University of Paris, where she obtained a certificate in music histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saigon Opera House
The Municipal Theatre of Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon Municipal Opera House ( vi, Nhà hát Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), is an opera house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is an example of French Colonial architecture in Vietnam. Built in 1897 by French architect Eugène Ferret as the ''Opéra de Saïgon'', the 500 seat building was served as the house of the unicameral National Assembly from 1956 to 1967 and then as bicameral houses: Lower House (Hạ Nghị Viện) and a Senate or Upper House (Thượng Nghị Viện) of the National Assembly of South Vietnam after 1956. And also held the People's Assembly (Đại hội đại biểu Nhân dân) of the Republic of South Vietnam from 1975. It was not until 1976 that it was again used as a theatre, and the façade was restored in 1995. Architecture The Municipal Theatre is a smaller counterpart of the Hanoi Opera House, which was built between 1901 and 1911, and shaped like the Opéra Garnier in Paris with 800 seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint-André, jardin de ville, banks of the Isère , arrondissement = Grenoble , canton = Grenoble-1, 2, 3 and 4 , INSEE = 38185 , postal code = 38000, 38100 , mayor = Éric Piolle , term = 2020–2026 , party = EELV , image flag = Flag of Grenoble.svg , image coat of arms = Coat of Arms of Grenoble.svg , intercommunality = Grenoble-Alpes Métropole , coordinates = , elevation min m = 212 , elevation m = 398 , elevation max m = 500 , area km2 = 18.13 , population = , population date = , population footnotes = , urban pop = 451096 , urban area km2 = 358.1 , u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Guiraud
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Patrick Suouillot
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Ho Chi Minh City Orchestra
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