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Imperial Violets (operetta)
''Imperial Violets'' (French:''Violettes impériales'') is a 1948 French operetta which premiered at the Theatre Mogador in Paris.Lamb p.233-34 Its plot follows the screenplay written by Henry Roussel for the 1924 silent film '' Imperial Violets'' and its 1932 sound remake, both of which had been popular hits. The operetta was set to music composed by Jacques Météhen with lyrics written by Paul Achard, René Jeanne and Henri Varna. It is set in the mid-nineteenth century when a young flower girl in Seville falls in love with a man only to find he is involved with another woman, the aristocrat Eugénie de Montijo. Several years later Eugénie gives up the man so that she can herself marry the French Emperor Napoleon III, allowing the heroine to be reunited with her true love. Film adaptation In 1952 the operetta itself served as the basis for a film '' Imperial Violets'' directed by Richard Pottier and starring Luis Mariano and Carmen Sevilla María del Carmen Garcí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French-language Operettas
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Carmen Sevilla
María del Carmen García Galisteo (born 16 October 1930), in Seville, Spain, known professionally as Carmen Sevilla, is a retired Spanish actress, singer and dancer. She began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s. In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began her career as a television presenter working for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010. As an actress, she had leading roles in numerous films, including ''Imperial Violets (1952 film), Imperial Violets'' (1952), Academy Award nominee ''Vengeance (1958 film), Vengeance'' (1958), ''Don Juan (1956 film), Don Juan'' (1956) and ''Searching for Monica'' (1962). She also had supporting roles in English-language epic films including ''King of Kings (1961 film), King of Kings'' (1961) and ''Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film), Antony and Cleopatra'' (1972). She began her career in 1942 as a dancer thanks to Estrellita Castro. In the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Mariano
Luis Mariano Eusebio González García (13 August 1914 – 14 July 1970), also known as Luis Mariano, was a popular tenor of Spanish origin who achieved celebrity in 1946 with "La belle de Cadix" ("The Beautiful Lady of Cadix") an operetta by Francis Lopez. He appeared in the 1954 film '' Adventures of the Barber of Seville'' and ''Le Chanteur de Mexico'' (1957) and became popular in France as well as his native Spain. Biography Luis Mariano was born in Irun, Spain on 13 August 1914, the son of a garagiste and taxi-driver and showed interest in singing as a child. His family moved to France at the start of the Spanish Civil War and settled in Bordeaux where he studied at the Conservatoire, and also sang in cabarets.Gänzl K. ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre.'' Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. Jeanne Lagiscarde, who was in charge of the classical department of a record store in Bordeaux, took Mariano under her wing, and gave up her job to nurture his talent in Paris. To earn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pottier
Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, Graz – 2 November 1994, Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director. He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch. Selected filmography * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * ''Fanfare of Love'' (1935) * ''Guilty Melody'' (1936) * '' 27 Rue de la Paix'' (1936) * ''The Secrets of the Red Sea'' (1937) * ''Lights of Paris'' (1938) * ''Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) * '' Picpus'' (1943) * ''Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * ''Song of the Clouds'' (1946) * '' The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic'' (1946) * '' The White Night'' (1948) * ''Barry'' (1949) * '' Two Loves'' (1949) * '' Meutres?'' (1950) * ''Casimir'' (1950) * '' Darling Caroline'' (1951) * ''Rendezvous in Grenada'' (1951) * '' Imperial Violets'' (1952) * ''The Beautiful Otero'' (1954) * ''The Lebanese Mission'' (1956) *'' The Singer from Mexico'' (1957) * ' (1958) * ''Tabarin'' (1958) * ''David and Goliath Goliath ( ) ''Goləyāṯ''; ar, جُليات ''Ǧulyāt'' (Christian te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Violets (1952 Film)
''Imperial Violets'' (French: ''Violettes impériales'', Spanish: ''Violetas imperiales'') is a 1952 French-Spanish historical musical film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Luis Mariano, Carmen Sevilla and Simone Valère. It is an operetta film, based on the 1948 stage work of the same title. The film's sets were designed by Léon Barsacq and the costumes by Marcel Escoffier and Jean Zay. It was second most popular film released in France in 1952, attracting an audience of more than eight million.Hayward p.463 Cast * Luis Mariano as Juan de Ayala * Carmen Sevilla as Violetta * Simone Valère as Eugénie de Montijo * Marie Sabouret as Mme. de Pierrefeu * Colette Régis as Mme de Montijo * Louis Arbessier as Napoleon III * Micheline Francey as Clotilde * María Riquelme as Anaïs * Véra Norman as Mirette * Raymond Girard as Prosper Mérimée * Lucien Blondeau as Le grand chambellan * Paul Faivre as L'aubergiste * Camille Guérini as Le docteu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. Elected to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1848, he seized power by force in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be reelected; he later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. He founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870. Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French overseas empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and engaged in the Second Italian War of Independence as well as the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Montijo
''Doña'' María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marchioness of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo (), was Empress of the French from her marriage to Emperor Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870. Born to prominent Spanish nobility, Eugénie was educated in France, Spain, and England. As Empress, she used her influence to champion "authoritarian and clerical policies"; her involvement in politics earned her much criticism from contemporaries.McQueen, 2011; p. 3 Napoléon and Eugénie had one child together, Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856–79). After the fall of the Empire, the three lived in exile in England; Eugénie outlived both her husband and son and spent the remainder of her life working to commemorate their memories and the memory of the Second Empire. Youth The woman who became the last Empress of the French was born in Granada, Spain, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville has a municipal population of about 685,000 , and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the largest city in Andalusia, the fourth-largest city in Spain and the 26th most populous municipality in the European Union. Its old town, with an area of , contains three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Alcázar palace complex, the Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies. The Seville harbour, located about from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain. The capital of Andalusia features hot temperatures in the summer, with daily maximums routinely above in July and August. Seville was founded as the Roman city of . Known as ''Ishbiliyah'' after the Islamic conquest in 711, Seville became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Varna
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * Henri I, Duke of Nemours (1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este * Henri II, Duke of Nemours (1625–1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours * Henri, Count of Harcourt (1601–1666), French nobleman * Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (1296–1349), bishop of Metz * Henri de Gondi (other) * Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne * Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857–1923), French mountain climber * Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg * Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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