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Les Trois Souhaits
''Les trois souhaits, ou Les vicissitudes de la vie'', H. 175, ''The three wishes, or life's tribulations'', Czech ''Tři přání'', is a film opera by Bohuslav Martinů to a libretto by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes.Smaczny, Jan. Bohuslav Martinů. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997. Composed mainly in Paris between autumn 1928 and May 1929, it was not premiered until June 1971 at the State Theatre, Brno.Smaczny, Jan. Les trois souhaits. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997. Grove describes the work as "one of the composer's most experimental works, blending film with stage action", and as "a mature drama" it is "comparable in theatrical impact to many of Martinů's later operas." Background As an artist, poet and playwright Ribemont-Dessaignes was part of the Surrealist movement in Paris. As a composer, some of his piano works, written using a roulette wheel, had been heard at a Dadaist performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and briefly studied under Czech composer and violinist Josef Suk. After leaving Czechoslovakia in 1923 for Paris, Martinů deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. During the 1920s he experimented with modern French stylistic developments, exemplified by his orchestral works ''Half-time'' and ''La Bagarre''. He also adopted jazz idioms, for instance in his '' Kitchen Revue'' (''Kuchyňská revue''). In the early 1930s he found his main fount for compositional style: neoclassicism, creating textures far denser than those found in composers treating Stravinsky as a model. He was prolific, quickly composing chamber, orchestral, choral and instrumental w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evald Schorm
Evald Schorm (15 December 1931 – 14 December 1988) was a Czech film and stage director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 26 films between 1959 and 1988. Schorm was a notable exponent of the Czech Film New Wave. Biography Schorm was born into a farmer family, and spent his childhood at the family farm in Elbančice near Mladá Vožice. After communists confiscated the family property, he was expelled from school and moved to Zličín near Prague, together with his parents. Schorm had to become a construction worker, but in 1956 he was finally accepted at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He graduated in Film direction in 1963, together with other future members of the Czech New Wave.Český film. Herci a herečky III. díl (S-Ž) (2008), p. 94 He began his career at the ''Studio dokumentárního filmu'' (Studio of the Documentary Film) together with cameraman Jan Špáta. Together they created many short films and documentaries of stron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Nosek
Václav Nosek (26 September 1892 in Velká Dobrá – 22 July 1955 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak Communist The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Cominter ... politician who served as Minister of the Interior from 4 April 1945 to 14 September 1953. Despite the fact that Nosek never hid his Communist views, he had spent World War II in exile in the United Kingdom, unlike most Czechoslovak Communists who were in the Soviet Union at the time. Czechoslovak non-Communist politicians considered Nosek one of the "good" Communists. As Interior Minister, Nosek was a central figure in the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'etat. When a majority of the cabinet voted to order Nosek to stop packing the police with Communists, Nosek ignored the order with the full backing of Prime Minister and Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkstheater Rostock
The Volkstheater Rostock ( en, Rostock People's Theatre, link=no) is the municipal theatre of the Hanseatic city of Rostock. It has three venues: the ''Großes Haus'', the ''Theater im Stadthafen'' and the ''Kleine Komödie'' and puts on plays, musical theatre/opera, ballet and orchestral concerts. Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock is the orchestra for musical theatre and concerts. There is a children's theatre and a theatre youth club. History Prior to World War II, the Stadttheater Rostock was the major municipal theatre in the city of Rostock from its opening in 1895 until its destruction in an air raid in 1942. The Volkstheater Rostock was established in 1951 as a means of restarting a municipal theatre company in the city. To this end the Philharmonie, the concert hall of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock The Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, based in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, is the state's largest symphony orchestra and also the orchestra of the Volk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Moravian-Silesian Theatre
The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre ( cs, Národní divadlo moravskoslezské; NDM) is a professional theatre company based in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is one of ten opera houses in the country, and the largest theatre company in the Moravian-Silesian Region. The NDM has two permanent theatres, the Antonín Dvořák Theatre and the Jiří Myron Theatre. The company was registered in 1918, and the theatre was first opened to the public on 19 August 1919. Artistic output The theatre consists of four artistic companies: drama, opera, operetta/musical, and ballet. Each year the theatre stages 16–19 premieres and just under 500 performances. The current director of the theatre is Jiří Nekvasil, and the artistic directors of the four companies are Jakub Klecker (opera), Vojtěch Štěpánek (drama), Lenka Dřímalová (ballet), and Gabriela Petráková (operetta/musical). Names * 1919: National Moravian-Silesian Theatre ( cs, Národní divadlo moravsko-slezské; N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Štych
Jan Štych (born 27 December 1935 in Trutnov Trutnov (; german: Trautenau) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 29,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administrative parts Trutnov is ...) is a Czech conductor. He is best known for his conducting of the operas of Janáček. References 1935 births Living people Musicians from Hradec Králové Czech conductors (music) Czech male conductors (music) 21st-century conductors (music) 21st-century Czech male musicians {{CzechRepublic-conductor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béatrice Uria-Monzon
Béatrice Uria Monzon (born 28 December 1963 in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne)) is a French mezzo-soprano. Biography Daughter of the Spanish painter Antonio Uria-Monzon, Béatrice Uria Monzon studied at the secondary school Joseph Chaumié, at the Bernard Palissy d'Agen High School and at the Catholic High School St Jean de Lectoure (Gers) where she was introduced to singing in the choir of the high school led by Roland Fornerod. She then went to the University of Bordeaux. She entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, then joined the of Marseille, and the École d'art lyrique of the Paris Opera. She began her career as a lyric singer in 1987, as a mezzo-soprano. In 1989, she was Chérubin in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro'' at the Opéra national de Lorraine. She is known for her numerous performances of the title role of Bizet's ''Carmen'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Bastin
Jules Bastin (18 August 1933 – 2 December 1996, in Waterloo) was a Belgian operatic bass. Born in , he made his debut in 1960 at La Monnaie, singing Charon in ''L'Orfeo''. He appeared at major opera houses throughout Europe, including the Royal Opera House, La Scala, and the Palais Garnier; he also sang at opera houses in North and South America. He was known for playing roles from a variety of operatic traditions, from Monteverdi to Berg, but he was perhaps most famous for singing the comic role of Ochs in Richard Strauss's ''Der Rosenkavalier''. ''The New York Times'' reported: " Mr. Bastin sang the starring bass roles in Verdi's ''Don Carlo'' and in operas by Mozart, Wagner and other composers. Although best known for his sensitive interpretation of works in French and Italian, his favorite role was that of Baron Ochs in ''Der Rosenkavalier'' ". He began his career as a teacher of German, French and history before turning to professional singing. After becoming successful in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyne Taillon
Jocelyne Taillon (19 May 1941 in Doudeville – 10 June 2004 in Rouen) was a French lyrical singer. Life and career Taillon won the first prize at the 1966 Monte Carlo Singing Competition and embarked on a career as a concert artist.Alain Pâris. ''Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interpretation musicale au XX siècle.'' Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995 (p918). She made her stage debut in '' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue'' by Dukas in Bordeaux in 1968, and in Geneva she appeared in ''Macbeth'' by Bloch. She was then seen at the houses in Nantes, Marseille and at the Paris Opéra. In 1970 she took part in the Holland Festival, and at Glyndebourne in 1971 (Geneviève). Taillon made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1979 (Cieca in ''La Gioconda'') and sang there for several seasons including Anna (''Les Troyens''), Quickly ('' Falstaff'') and Erda ('' Der Ring des Nibelungen''). In Nantes she took part in rare revivals of French works such as ''Le Roi l'a dit'' by Delibes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Cachemaille
The Gilles are the oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium. They go out on Shrove Tuesday from 4 am until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as La Louvière and Nivelles, have a tradition of Gilles at carnival, but the Carnival of Binche is by far the most famous. In 2003, the Carnival of Binche was proclaimed one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.Logan p.223 Costume Around 1000 Gilles, all male, some as young as three years old, wear the traditional costume of the Gille on Shrove Tuesday. The outfit features a linen suit with red, yellow, and black heraldic designs (the colours of the Belgian flag), trimmed with large white-lace cuffs and collars. The suit is stuffed with straw, giving the Gille a hunched back. Gilles also wear wooden clogs and have bells attached to their belts. In the morning, they wear a wax mask of a particular design. After reaching the town hall, they r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Maratrat
Alain Maratrat (born 1950) is French actor, theater and opera director known for his innovative interpretations and staging. He has shared his longtime exploration of the body as an instrument of theatrical expression through workshops and classes for actors, dancers, and singers, throughout the world. He was a winner of a Golden Mask award in 2006, as director of the opera ''Il Viaggio a Reims''. Biography Early life Alain Maratrat was born in Paris into a family far from the world of art; his father was a train conductor and his mother had stopped working as a dressmaker to raise her children. He attended the Institute National des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels, Belgium from 1969 to 1973 and, thirty years later, joined 3 fellow students from the class of ‘73 to play their younger selves in ''Trente Ans a Peine'', a play by Jean-Claude Carrière, which was based on their acting aspirations and experiences at INSAS. Career In 1974 Maratrat was invited to join Peter Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Nagano
Kent George Nagano GOQ, MSM (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator. Since 2015, he has been Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2020. Early life and education Nagano was born in Berkeley, California, while his parents were in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a ''sansei'' (third-generation) Japanese-American. He grew up in Morro Bay, a city located on the Central Coast of California in San Luis Obispo County. He studied sociology and music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After graduation, he moved to San Francisco State University to study music. While there, he took composition courses from Grosvenor Cooper and Roger Nixon. He also studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Career Nagano's first conducting job was with the Opera Company of Boston, where he was assistant conductor to Sarah Caldwell. In 1978, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
