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Nadja Stefanoff
Nadja Stefanoff (born 22 July 1976) is a German operatic soprano based at the Staatstheater Mainz. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano. She has performed leading roles there and as a guest at major opera houses in Europe, such as Marta in Weinberg's ''The Passenger (opera), Die Passagierin '' at the Oper Graz, and Giordano's Fedora (opera), Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt. Career Stefanoff was born in Chemnitz, Karl-Marx-Stadt, the daughter of Bulgarians, Bulgarian tenor Stefan Stefanoff. She studied voice at the Musikhochschule Dresden, graduating in 2010. She was successful at competitions, such as a third prize at Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin in 2002, and winner of the Orpheum Public Award for Mozart in Zürich in 2004. She became a member of the Theater Erfurt, then of the Stadttheater Pforzheim and from 2007 to 2014 at Theater Bremen. She moved to soprano roles in 2013. Stefanoff appeared as a guest at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Komische Oper Be ...
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Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. The city is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region, and lies in the middle of a string of cities sitting in the densely populated northern foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. Located in the Ore Mountain Basin, the city is surrounded by the Ore Mountains to the south and the Central Saxon Hill Country to the north. The city stands on the Chemnitz River (progression: ), which is formed through the confluence of the rivers Zwönitz and Würschnitz in the borough of Altchemnitz. The name of the city as well as the names of the rivers are of Slavic origin. Chemnitz is the third larg ...
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Oper Bonn
Theater Bonn (also known as the Stadttheater Bonn) is the municipal theatre company of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is an organization that produces operas, musicals, ballets, plays, and concerts. It operates several performance venues throughout the town: for music theatre, the and for plays, and the Choreographisches Theater for ballet and dance. History The history of theatre in Bonn dates back to the time of the electors. End of the 17th century, a court theatre was established at the Electoral Palace, where French and Italian troupes played. In the 18th century, an amateur theatre was established for German plays (''Nationaltheater''), directed by Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann from 1778 to 1784, who staged the premiere of Schiller's '' Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua'' on 20 July 1783. The new French government destroyed the court theatre in 1797. In 1826, citizens built their own play house. A new building was opened in 1848, marked by Beeth ...
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Hochschule Für Musik Carl Maria Von Weber Alumni
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People From Chemnitz
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21st-century German Women Singers
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German Operatic Sopranos
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', 16 October 2007 German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' (; ''FAS''). The paper runs its own correspondent network. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by four editors. It is the German newspaper with the widest circulation abroad, with its editors claiming the newspaper is delivered to 148 countries. History The first edition of the ''F.A.Z.'' appeared on 1 November 1949; its founding editors were Hans Baumgarten, Erich Dombrowski, Karl Korn, Paul Sethe and Erich Welter. Welter acted as editor until 1980. Some editors had worked for the moderate '' Frankfurter Zeitung'', which had been banned in ...
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Jonathan Tetelman
Jonathan Tetelman (born 1988) is an American operatic tenor who has established an international career, especially in Europe, in such roles as Verdi's La traviata, Alfredo, Massenet's Werther, Puccini's La bohème, Rodolfo, Tosca, Cavaradossi and Madama Butterfly, Pinkerton, and Giordano's Fedora (opera), Loris Ipanov. Career Tetelman was born in Castro, Chile. He was adopted as a baby and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York as a baritone before further study at the Mannes School of Music where he made the transition to tenor. He appeared as Rodolfo at the Komische Oper Berlin, the English National Opera and the Royal Opera House, and Cavaradossi at the Teatro Regio (Turin), Teatro Regio in Turin, the Opéra de Lille, the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, the Semperoper in Dresden and Deutsche Oper Berlin. He also appeared as Alfredo at the Royal Opera House, as Pinkerton at the Opéra Comédie in Montpellier, and as Werth ...
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Lorenzo Passerini
Lorenzo Passerini (born 1991) is an Italian conductor who began as a trombonist. He has worked at major opera houses in Europe and Australia, such as Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera'' at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Gounod's ''Faust'' at the Sydney Opera House, and a new production of Giordano's ''Fedora'' at the Oper Frankfurt in 2022. Career Passerini was born in Morbegno, Sondrio. He studied trombone at the Como Conservatory, graduating in 2009. He studied further at the Aosta Conservatory, achieving a master's degree in 2014. He played in orchestras, touring internationally, with conductors including John Axelrod, Andrey Boreyko, Fabio Luisi and Riccardo Muti. At the same time, he turned to conducting, first studying with Ennio Nicotra in 2010. He also received tuition from Oleg Caetani, , and Gilberto Serembe. He founded the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra in 2011, and made his debut concert with them. Composers such as Piergiorgio Ratti, Antonio Eros Negri and composed music for ...
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Christof Loy
Christof Loy (born 5 December 1962) is a German stage director especially for opera, whose work received several awards. A freelance director, he has staged operas from Baroque to premieres of new works at major European opera houses and festivals. He is known for directing works by Mozart. Career Born in Essen, the son of architect and a translator, Loy began studies of opera directing at the Folkwangschule with Dieter Bülter-Marell at the age of 14. He received the Folkwang-Preis award for his first staged work, '' Pimpinone''. He studied in Essen until 1982 and continued his studies at the Munich University, including science of the theatre, art history, and Italian studies. In 1984, Loy began work as an assistant at the Musiktheater im Revier, where he collaborated with and , among others. In 1986, he moved to the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, and since 1990 he has worked as a freelance director. He made his debut at the Royal Opera House in 2002 with Ariadne auf Naxos, cond ...
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Dialogues Des Carmélites
' (''Dialogues of the Carmelites''), FP 159, is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-kno ..., completed in 1956. The composer's second opera, Poulenc wrote the libretto after the work of the same name by Georges Bernanos. The opera tells a fictionalised version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelites, Carmelite nuns who, in 1794 during the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation. The world première of the opera occurred (in Italian language, Italian translation) on 26 January 1957 at La Scala in Milan. The première of the French-language v ...
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Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, ''La Tosca'', is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's Campaigns of 1800 in the French Revolutionary Wars#Italy, invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. ''Tosca'' premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed ...
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