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Theater Aachen
Theater Aachen is a theatre in Aachen, Germany. It is the principal venue in that city for operas, musical theatre and plays. It is the home of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra. The original project was by Johann Peter Cremer, later altered by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Construction on the original theatre began in 1822 and it opened on 15 May 1825. A bomb attack on 14 July 1943 destroyed the first theatre, and the current structure was inaugurated on 23 December 1951 with a performance of Richard Wagner's ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''. Conductors The conductors of the theatre have also been Generalmusikdirektor of Aachen: *1920–1935 Peter Raabe *1935–1942 Herbert von Karajan *1942–1944 Paul van Kempen *1946–1953 Felix Raabe *1953–1958 Wolfgang Sawallisch *1958–1962 Hans Walter Kämpfel *1962–1974 Wolfgang Trommer *1974–1983 Gabriel Chmura *1984–1990 Yoram David *1990–1992 Bruce Ferden *1993–1996 Yukio Kitahara *1997–2002 Elio Boncompagni *2002–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aachen Theatre
Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th-largest city of Germany. It is the westernmost city in Germany, and borders Belgium and the Netherlands to the west, the triborder area. It is located between Maastricht (NL) and Liège (BE) in the west, and Bonn and Cologne in the east. The Wurm River flows through the city, and together with Mönchengladbach, Aachen is the only larger German city in the drainage basin of the Meuse. Aachen is the seat of the City Region Aachen (german: link=yes, Städteregion Aachen). Aachen developed from a Roman settlement and (bath complex), subsequently becoming the preferred medieval Imperial residence of Emperor Charlemagne of the Frankish Empire, and, from 936 to 1531, the place where 31 Holy Roman Emperors were crowned Kings of the Germans. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Walter Kämpfel
Hans Walter Kämpfel (22 June 1924 – 22 April 2016) was a German conductor, composer and Generalmusikdirektor in Aachen and Bremen. Life and career Kämpfel was born in near Ingolstadt. After passing his Abitur in 1942 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium München, Kämpfel studied at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Munich, now the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, with Hans Rosbaud, Joseph Haas and Rosl Schmid, among others. He then began his musical career in 1947 as répétiteur at the Bavarian State Opera. At the same time, he worked for Karl Amadeus Hartmann in the concert series ''Musica Viva'' of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, which aimed at the performance and dissemination of Neue Musik in Germany. He then spent several years as Kapellmeister at the Stadtischen Bühnen Gelsenkirchen and Augsburg and as head of opera at the Zürich Opera House before he was called to Aachen in 1958, where he took up the post of General Music Director at the Theater Aachen there, suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres Completed In 1825
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its theme (arts), themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres In North Rhine-Westphalia
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera Houses In Germany
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor. Although musical theatre is closely related to opera, the two are considered to be distinct from one another. Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition. Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as ''Singspiel'' and ''Opéra comique''. In traditional number opera, singers employ two styles of singing: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Ward (conductor)
Christopher Ward (born 18 March 1980) is a British conductor. In August 2018 he became the Music Director of Theater Aachen. Career Christopher Ward studied at Oxford University (Musicology) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (Conducting and Piano). During this time, he worked with Oxford University Philharmonia and Chorus, Oxford Bach Choir, New Chamber Opera and The Arcadian Singers. In 2003, Ward was awarded the position of Répétiteur Fellow at Scottish Opera and the RSAMD, Glasgow, working with Sir Richard Armstrong, Richard Farnes, and Timothy Dean. In 2004, Ward spent a period working at the Internationales Opernstudio at Zürich Opera. Christopher Ward moved to Germany in 2005 to work as Kapellmeister at Staatstheater Kassel. Working as music staff on a range of repertoire, he led productions of Donizetti's ''L'Elisir d'Amore'', Porpora's ''Il Gedeone'', Loewe's ''My Fair Lady'', Weill's ''Die Sieben Todsünden'', Ullmann's ''Der Kaiser von Atl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justus Thorau
Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first Bishop of Rochester in 604, and attended a church council in Paris in 614. Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul, but was reinstated in his diocese the following year. In 624 Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury, overseeing the despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. After his death he was revered as a saint, and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Arrival in Britain Justus was a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England by Pope Gregory I. Almost everything known about Justus and his career is derived from the early 8th-century ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' of Bede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazem Abdullah
Kazem (also spelled Kadhem, Kadhim, Kazim, Qazim or Cathum; written in ar, كاظم, in Persian: کاظِم) means "tolerant", "forgiving", and "having patience" is an Arabic male given name. Although the pronunciation of the Arabic letter Ẓāʾ is often closer to a strong "d" sound, given the prevalence of the name in Greater Iran, and subsequent cultural exchanges between Persia and Indian Subcontinent, Central Asia and Anatolia, the letter is commonly pronounced as Z. Thus the name's pronunciation differs based on location and consequently in its transcription. The most notable person to be awarded with this epithet was Musa-Al-Kadhim, the seventh Shia Imam, who is revered by both Sunnis and Sufis too. Given name * Kazim al-Samawi (1925 – 2010) Iraqi poet and journalist * Kadim Al Sahir (born 1957), Iraqi Singer * Kazem Akhavan, Iranian diplomat * Kazim Ali (born 1971), American poet * Kazım Ayvaz (1938–2020), Turkish sport wrestler * Kazem Borjlou (born 1980), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Bosch
Marcus Bosch (born 28 October 1969) is a German conductor. He was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) in Aachen, held the position at the Staatstheater Nürnberg from 2011, and with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock from 2020. He is the artistic director of an opera festival in his home town. Conducting internationally, he was appointed professor at the Musikhochschule München in 2016. He was acclaimed for his recording of Bruckner's complete symphonies, among others. Career Born in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Bosch studied in Heidelberg and Mannheim. He took the Kapellmeister career, working in Osnabrück, at theatres in Wiesbaden and Saarbrücken, and with the Staatsorchester Halle, to learn a large repertory in opera and concert. He conducted as a guest orchestras such as Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Orchestra Nazionale della RAI Torino, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elio Boncompagni
Elio is an Italian male given name. Origin A name of dual origin, Elio is primarily a revival of it, Elio, label=none (Helios), the Greek god of the Sun. it, Elio, label=none derives, through the Latin ''Helius'', from the Ancient Greek Ἥλιος (''Hélios''), which is taken from the noun of the same and means "Sun". It shares the same meaning as the Italian feminine name it, Sole, label=none, the Romanian masculine name ro, Sorin, label=none and the Lithuanian feminine name lt, Saulė, label=none. Elio is also believed to originate from the Roman ''cognomen'' ''Aelius'' (feminine ''Aelia''), which was held by the emperor Hadrian and thus dates back to the 2nd century. The origin is uncertain, perhaps Etruscan or perhaps from the Latin ''alius'', " nother". Some sources trace its origin to the Greek Ἥλιος (''Hélios''), a connection categorically rejected by others. The patronymic name Eliano is similarly derived from the Roman ''cognomen''. Elio may also be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukio Kitahara
Yukio is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yukio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *幸夫, "happiness, man" *幸生, "happiness, live" *幸男, "happiness, man" *幸雄, "happiness, male" *行夫, "to go, man" *行男, "to go, man" *行雄, "to go, male" *之夫, "of, man" *之男, "of, man" *之雄, "of, male" *由起夫, "reason, to rise, man" *由紀夫, "reason, chronicle, man" *由記雄, "reason, scribe, male" *悠紀夫, "long time, chronicle, man" *雪雄, "snow, male" The name can also be written in hiragana ゆきお or katakana ユキオ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese pocket billiards player *, pseudonym of Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如), Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and politician *, Japanese politician who was Governor of Tokyo *, Japanese baseball player *, youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II *, Japanese politician *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Ferden
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name. The variant ''Lebrix'' and ''Le Brix'' are French variations of the surname. Actors * Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete * Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor * Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author * Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor and director * Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor * Bruce Gray (1936–2017), American-Canadian actor * Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian actor and musician * Bruce Herbelin-Earle (born 1998), English-French actor and model * Bruce Jones (born 1953), English actor * Bruce Kirby (1925–2021), American actor * Bruce Lee (1940–1973), martial art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
