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Maria Carbone
Maria Carbone (15 June 1908 – 28 December 2002) was an Italian operatic soprano. She created the lead female roles in two of Gian Francesco Malipiero's operas: the title role in ''Ecuba'' (11 January 1941) and Cleopatra in ''Antonio e Cleopatra'' (4 May 1938). Life and career Born in Castellammare di Stabia, Carbone studied medicine for four years. She then studied music at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella in Naples, receiving a diploma in piano and studying voice with Agostino Roche. She made her debut on the opera stage in 1930 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as Margherita in Boito's ''Mefistofele''. She also performed there as Micaëla in Bizet's ''Carmen'' and as Mimì in Puccini's ''La bohème''. In 1932 she appeared at the Teatro Regio in Turin as Liù in Puccini's ''Turandot''. She made her debut at La Scala in 1936 as Giorgetta in Puccini's ''Il tabarro''. She also sang there the title role Minnie of his ''La fanciulla del West'', and roles in contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goyescas (opera)
''Goyescas'' is an opera in one act and three tableaux, written in 1915 by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados. Granados composed the opera to a Spanish libretto by Fernando Periquet y Zuaznabar with melodies taken from his 1911 piano suite, which was also called '' Goyescas''. The opera was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 28, 1916. Performance history Prevented by World War I from being presented at the Paris Opéra, the premiere of ''Goyescas'' took place on January 28, 1916 at the Metropolitan Opera. It was the first opera to be performed there in Spanish. Paired on a double bill with Leoncavallo's '' Pagliacci'', the opera's cast included the leading artists Giovanni Martinelli and Giuseppe De Luca. The stage production was directed by Jules Speck. It featured sets by the Milanese designer Antonio Rovescalli, and costumes by G. B. Santoni that followed the paintings of Goya. The opera was well received. In his review for the ''New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucrezia (opera)
''Lucrezia'' is an opera in one act and three tableaux by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla, after Livy and William Shakespeare's ''The Rape of Lucrece'', itself based heavily on Ovid's ''Fasti''. Respighi died before finishing the work, which was therefore completed by his wife, Elsa Respighi, and by one of his pupils, Ennio Porrino. ''Lucrezia'' premiered on 24 February 1937 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in a production directed by Mario Frigerio with sets designed by . The première had a good reception. ''Lucrezia'' was much appreciated by the famous Italian musicologist Andrea Della Corte, who considered this opera as one of the best stage works of Respighi, thanks to the accomplished balance of expressivity and musical skill. One of the distinctive features of ''Lucrezia'' is the presence of the Voice, a character that sings from within the orchestra and describes what is happening on the stage and the emotions of the other characters. Roles Instr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Riemens
Leonardus Antony Marinus Riemens (3 December 1910 – 3 April 1985) was a Dutch musicologist and cultural journalist. He wrote a book about Maria Callas, and together with Karl-Josef Kutsch began a reference book about opera singers in 1962, which grew to ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', the standard reference in the field. Background and career Born in Zevenbergen, Riemens grew up in a family of physicians in Amsterdam. He studied musicology in Amsterdam and worked from 1931 as a feature editor for the newspaper '. Later he was a member of the extreme-right NSB. During the Second World War he worked for the nazified ''Nederlandsche Omroep''. From 1954 to 1976 he was an opera and television critic for the newspaper ''De Telegraaf''. Riemens published numerous articles in the professional journals ''Opera'', ', '' Gramophone'' and '' Opera News''. He wrote an opera guide and a biography about Maria Callas. At Radio Hilversum he designed the series ''Uren der Zangkunst''. Riemens ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Josef Kutsch
Karl-Josef Kutsch, also known as K. J. Kutsch, (born 11 May 1924) is a German physician and co-author with Leo Riemens of the ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', the standard reference for opera singers. Life and work Born in Gangelt, Kutsch studied medicine, was drafted and participated as a soldier in the Russia campaign of the Second World War. He then completed his studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1948. He practised as a physician from 1952 to 1989 in his hometown, together with his wife. From the 1950s, Kutsch built a collection of records and singers' biographies. Together with the Dutch musicologist Leo Riemens, he published a small biographical dictionary of singers in 1962 under the title ''Unvergängliche Stimmen'' (''Immortal Voices'').Jan David SchmitzSängerlexikon CD-ROMhsozkult.de In 1975 the work was revised as ''Unvergängliche Stimmen / Sängerlexikon'', which was again revised in 1985 with his and Riemens' cooperation and became the standard work. Under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Chiara
Maria Chiara (born 24 November 1939) is an Italian lyric soprano. Early life and education On 24 November 1939, Chiara was born in Oderzo, Italy. She studied at the Venice Conservatory and in Turin with Bass (voice type), bass Antonio Cassinelli and soprano Maria Carbone. Career Chiara made her debut in Venice in 1965, as Desdemona in ''Otello''. Chiara frequently performed roles from the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi, including ''Aida'', Violetta Valéry in ''La traviata, La traviata'', and the title roles in ''Tosca'' and ''Madama Butterfly''. At the Teatro alla Scala, Chiara appeared in ''Carmen'' (as Micaëla, conducted by Georges Prêtre, 1972) and ''Aida'' (with Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by Lorin Maazel and directed by Luca Ronconi, 1985—a performance now on DVD). With the Metropolitan Opera, she sang in four performances of ''La traviata'' (opposite John Alexander and Louis Quilico), in 1977. Although retired as a performer, Chiara remains a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turandot (Busoni)
''Turandot'' is a 1917 opera with spoken dialogue and in two acts by Ferruccio Busoni. Busoni prepared his own libretto, in German, based on the play by Count Carlo Gozzi. The music for Busoni's opera is based on the incidental music, and the associated '' Turandot Suite'' ( BV 248), which Busoni had written in 1905 for a production of Gozzi's play. The opera is often performed as part of a double bill with Busoni's earlier one-act opera ''Arlecchino''. Composition of the music for ''Turandot'' Source and previous versions Carlo Gozzi's play ''Turandot'' first appeared in 1762. It was originally written to be performed in the small theatre of San Samuele in Venice, and was deliberately written in the '' Commedia dell'arte'' style as a reaction to the more modern, realistic plays of Goldoni and others. Schiller made an adapted translation of ''Turandot'' which was published in 1802. Weber wrote his ''Incidental music for Turandot'', Op. 37, for a production of this play. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'amore Dei Tre Re
(''The Love of the Three Kings'') is an opera in three acts by Italo Montemezzi. Its Italian-language libretto was written by playwright Sem Benelli who based it on his play of the same title. Performance history ''L'amore de tre re'' premiered at La Scala in Milan on 10 April 1913. It received mixed reviews, but quickly became an international success, especially in the United States, where it became a staple of the repertory for several decades. The opera was given its American premiere in New York at the Metropolitan Opera on 14 March 1918 with Enrico Caruso, Claudia Muzio and Pasquale Amato. After the Second World War, the frequency of performances declined dramatically, and it was not performed in the US for nearly 30 years. It is still performed only rarely. Roles Synopsis :Time: The Dark Ages :Place: Italy Archibaldo, the blind king, conquered the kingdom of Altura forty years before the opera begins. After forty years, the Alturan people openly object to the reign o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EIAR
Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche (EIAR, "Italian Body for Radio Broadcasting") was the public service broadcaster in Fascist Italy and the only entity permitted to broadcast by the government. History The company was established in 1927, after the partial takeover of the private radio broadcaster Unione Radiofonica Italiana (URI), which since 1924 had been the only organisation authorized to establish radio transmitters and run radio broadcasts in Italy. Between 1929 and 1939, the EIAR presented the first television broadcasting tests in Italy. An early signing to the TV station in 1939 was the Italian singer Lia Origoni and a film was made to record her performance. For most of its existence it was run by Giancarlo Vallauri, although he was replaced as president by Ezio Maria Gray during the Italian Social Republic period. In October 1944, towards the end of World War II, the entity was replaced with Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI). See also *Radio Bari The Radio B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektra (opera)
''Elektra'', Opus number, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama ''Elektra''. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Semperoper, Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 25 January 1909. It was dedicated to his friends Natalie and Willy Levin. History While based on ancient Greek mythology and Sophocles' tragedy ''Electra (Sophocles play), Electra'', the opera is highly Modernism, modernist and Expressionist music, expressionist in style. Hofmannsthal's and Strauss's adaptation of the story focuses tightly on Electra, Elektra, thoroughly developing her character by single-mindedly expressing her emotions and psychology as she meets with other characters, mostly one at a time. (The order of these conversations closely follows Sophocles' play.) The other characters are Clytemnestra, Klytaemnestra, her mother and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome (opera)
''Salome'', Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the 1891 French play '' Salomé'' by Oscar Wilde, edited by the composer. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer. The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its " Dance of the Seven Veils". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos. Composition history Oscar Wilde originally wrote his ''Salomé'' in French. Strauss saw the Lachmann version of the play in Max Reinhardt's production at the Kleines Theater in Berlin on 15 November 1902, and immediately set to work on an opera. The play's formal structure was well-suited to musical adaptation. Wilde himself described ''Salomé'' as containing "refrains whose recurring ''motifs'' make it so like a piece of music and bind it together as a ballad". Strauss pared down Lachmann's German text to what he saw as its essentials, and in the process r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrano De Bergerac (Alfano)
''Cyrano de Bergerac'' is a four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Caïn, based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 drama ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. History The opera received its first performance at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on 22 January 1936, conducted by Tullio Serafin, with Maria Caniglia and José Luccioni. The first performance in Paris was on 29 May 1936 at the Opéra-Comique. Although Alfano originally set the text in French, the premiere was sung in Italian, as were many early Italian productions. In recent years, most productions have returned to the original French text, which was used in the Paris premiere. Contemporary commentary on the opera by Guido M. Gatti criticised the composer as fearing "to seem too melodramatic", and the opera for being "overdecorated and labored" and containing "difficult and tortuous vocal writing". However, the same analysis also mentioned that "the opera has moments of definite effectiveness and exquisite poetry". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo Straniero
''The Stranger'' ( it, Lo straniero) is a 1967 film by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, based on Albert Camus's 1942 novel '' The Stranger'', with Marcello Mastroianni. Plot Arthur Mersault's friend Raymond beats his girlfriend and is sued by her. In court, Mersault testifies to his friend's advantage. Raymond is off the hook, but now his girlfriend's male relatives stalk Mersault. He shoots one of them and ends up in prison. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni as Arthur Meursault * Anna Karina as Marie Cardona * Bernard Blier as the Defense counsel * Georges Wilson as the Examining magistrate * Bruno Cremer as Priest * Pierre Bertin as the judge * Jacques Herlin as the Director of the rest home * Marc Laurent as Emmanuel * Georges Géret as Raymond * Brahim Haggiag as the Arab * Alfred Adam as the prosecutor * Jean-Pierre Zola as the employer * Mimmo Palmara as Monsieur Masson * Angela Luce as Madame Masson * Larry J. McDonald as the bearded man at the port Production Alain Del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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