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Orpheus And Eurydice (rock Opera)
''Orpheus and Eurydice'' (russian: Орфей и Эвридика, Orfey i Evridika}, ) is a 1975 rock opera album by Russian composer Alexander Zhurbin with a libretto by Yuri Dimitrin. In 2003, the Opera was included in the Guinness book records as the musical, the maximum number of times played in one team (at the time of registration of the record the play was performed 2350 times). Cast The album was recorded by soviet rock band Pojuschie Gitary, and features the following performers: * Albert Asadullin as Orpheus * Irina Ponarovskaya as Eurydice Eurydice (; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη 'wide justice') was a character in Greek mythology and the Auloniad wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music. Etymology Several meanings for the name ... *Bogdan Wiwczaroski as Charon *Olga Levitskaya as Fortune Track listing Part 1: # Overture (1:37) # Orpheus fell in love with Eurydice... (1:09) # The first duet of Orpheus and Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Opera
A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story. Rock operas are typically released as concept albums and are not scripted for acting, which distinguishes them from operas, although several have been adapted as rock musicals. The use of various character roles within the song lyrics is a common storytelling device. The success of the rock opera genre has inspired similar works in other musical styles, such as rap opera. History A number of rock artists became interested in the idea of creating a rock opera in the 1960s. In an early use of the term, the July 4, 1966, edition of ''RPM Magazine'' (published in Toronto) reported that "Bruce Cockburn and Mr illiamHawkins are working on a Rock Opera, operating on the premise that to write you need only 'something to say'." Mark Wirtz explored the idea in a project ''A Teenage Opera'', from which an early song " Excerpt from A Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)" recorded by Keith West was release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zhurbin
Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin (Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Журби́н; born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 7 August 1945) is a Russian composer. Biography Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin was born in Tashkent. In 1963, he graduated from Special Music School and in 1969, he graduated from Tashkent Conservatory and Gnessin Music College as a cellist and a composer respectively. He subsequently undertook his postgraduate studies as a musicologist in Leningrad, where he completed his PhD dissertation (1973) on Gustav Mahler's Symphonies. His first big success came in 1975, with his rock-opera "Orpheus and Eurydice". This work was the first of its kind in the Soviet Union and achieved great popularity. It was performed more than two thousand times in a row, and more than two million copies of the record were sold. For this opera, Mr. Zhurbin won many international awards, including "Star of the Year", in Great Britain. He has scored more than 50 feature movies, some o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Dimitrin
Yuri may refer to: People and fictional characters Given name *Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc. *Yuri (Japanese name), also Yūri, feminine Japanese given names, including a list of people and fictional characters *Yu-ri (Korean name) Yu-ri, also spelled Yoo-ri or You-ri, is a Korean given name, in modern times used as a feminine name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 62 hanja with the reading "yu" and 26 hanja with the ..., Korean unisex given name, including a list of people and fictional characters Singers *Yuri (Japanese singer), vocalist of the band Move *Yuri (Korean singer), member of Girl Friends *Yuri (Mexican singer) *Kwon Yu-ri, member of Girls' Generation Footballers *Yuri (footballer, born 1982), full name Yuri de Souza Fonseca, Brazilian football forward *Yuri (footballer, born 1984), full name Yuri Adria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheus
Orpheus (; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation: ; french: Orphée) is a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet in ancient Greek religion. He was also a renowned poet and, according to the legend, travelled with Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, and even descended into the Underworld of Hades, to recover his lost wife Eurydice. Ancient Greek authors as Strabo and Plutarch note Orpheus's Thracian origins. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music (the usual scene in Orpheus mosaics), his attempt to retrieve his wife Eurydice from the underworld, and his death at the hands of the maenads of Dionysus, who tired of his mourning for his late wife Eurydice. As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Composers
This is an alphabetical list of significant composers who were born or raised in Russia or the Russian Empire. A * Els Aarne (1917–1995), born in present-day Estonia * Evald Aav (1900–1939), born in present-day Estonia * Juhan Aavik (1884–1982), born in present-day Estonia * Arkady Abaza (1843–1915) * Alexander Abramsky (1898–1985), born in present-day Ukraine * Joseph Achron (1886–1943), born in present-day Lithuania * Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926) * Nikolay Afanasyev (1820/1–1898) * Vasily Agapkin (1884–1964) * Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946) * Anatoly Alexandrov (composer), Anatoly Alexandrov (1888–1982) * Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, Boris Alexandrov (1905–1994), son of Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Alexander * Achilles Alferaki (1846–1919) * Alexander Alyabyev (1787–1851) * Anatoliy Andreyev (1941–2004) * Iosif Andriasov (1933–2000) * Boris Arapov (1905–1992) * Anton Arensky (1861–1906) * Sasha Argov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guinness Book
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris McWhirter, Norris and Ross McWhirter in Fleet Street, London, in August 1955. The first edition topped the best-seller list in the United Kingdom by Christmas 1955. The following year the book was launched internationally, and as of the 2022 edition, it is now in its 67th year of publication, published in 100 countries and 23 languages, and maintains over 53,000 records in its database. The international Franchising, franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums. The popularity of the franchise has resulted in ''Guinness World Records'' becoming the prim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pojuschie Gitary
Pojuschie Gitary (russian: Поющие гитары , ''The Singing Guitars'') were the Soviet Union's first rock band to reach a phenomenal rate of success and popularity in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and in other countries. For that reason, they are often nicknamed "the Soviet Beatles" in a manner not that different from Hungary's Illés and Poland's Czerwone Gitary Czerwone Gitary (literal translation, lit. The Red Guitars) is one of the most popular rock bands in the history of Polish popular music. The band formed in 1965 and achieved its Golden Age (metaphor), greatest success from 1965 to 1970. Often ..., whose name means "Red Guitars". Drummer Arkadiy Aladyin died in March 2019. References External linksThe bands Discography on russiandvd.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Asadullin
Albert Nurullovich Asadullin ( tt-Cyrl, Альберт Нурулла улы Әсәдуллин, russian: link=no, Альберт Нуруллович Асадуллин; born September 1, 1948, Kazan) is a Soviet and Russian TatarАльберт Асадуллин: «Когда я понял, что Суконной слободы не стало, испытал чувство потери» Бизнес Online singer, tenor altino. Honored Artist of the RSFSR
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Irina Ponarovskaya
Irina Vitalyevna Ponarovskaya (russian: link=no, Ирина Витальевна Понаровская; born 12 March 1953 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian singer and film actress, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s. Biography Ponarovskaya was born on 12 March 1953 in Leningrad, to Vitaliy Borisovich Ponarovsky and Nina Nikolayevna (née Arnoldi), the latter of German descent. At the age of six, she started playing the piano. She graduated from music school at the Leningrad Conservatory, where she studied harp and piano. At fifteen she started studying vocals with the well known teacher Lina Arkhangelskaya. In September 1971 she enrolled in the Conservatory and, while still a student, in 1971-1976 performed as a singer with the pop band Poyushchiye Gitary (The Singing Guitars). In 1974 she starred as Eurydice in the first Soviet rock opera film ''Orpheus and Eurydice''. In 1976 she moved to Moscow, where for two years she sang with Oleg Lundstrem's jazz orchestra. Since 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurydice
Eurydice (; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη 'wide justice') was a character in Greek mythology and the Auloniad wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music. Etymology Several meanings for the name ''Eurydice'' have been proposed such as "true judgement" or "profound judgement" from the Greek: ''eur dike''. Fulgentius, a mythographer of the late 5th to early 6th century AD, gave the latter etymological meaning. Adriana Cavarero, in the book ''Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood'', wrote that "the etymology of Eurydice seems rather to indicate, in the term ''eurus'', a vastness of space or power, which, joining to ''dike'' nd thus ''deiknumi'', to show designates her as 'the one who judges with breadth' or, perhaps, 'she who shows herself amply'". In some accounts, she was instead called Agriope, which means "savage face". Mythology Marriage to Orpheus, death and afterlife Eurydice was the Auloniad wife of musicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charon (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; grc, Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of Hades, the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead. Archaeology confirms that, in some burials, low-value coins were placed in, on, or near the mouth of the deceased, or next to the cremation urn containing their ashes. This has been taken to confirm that at least some aspects of Charon's mytheme are reflected in some Greek and Roman funeral practices, or else the coins function as a viaticum for the soul's journey. In Virgil's epic poem, ''Aeneid'', the dead who could not pay the fee, and those who had received no funeral rites, had to wander the near shores of the Styx for one hundred years before they were allowed to cross the river. Some mortals, heroes, and demigods were said to have descended to the underworld and returned from it as living beings. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Albums
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