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Andrzej Lampert [SEP] voice type | Andrzej Lampert
Andrzej Lampert (born October 2, 1981 in Chorzów) is a Polish singer, opera singer (tenor), composer, lyricist, arranger and music co-producer for his band PIN.
Career.
From an early age Lampert showed interest in music, taking singing and accordion lessons at a local art centre in his hometown of Chorz... | Lampert
Lampert is a surname of Western European origin, possibly from an Old Frankish name for the Lombards. It has also been used as a given name. People with the name include:
Given name.
- Lambert of Hersfeld (c. 1024–c. 1088), a German historian
- Lampert of Hungary (c. 1040–c. 1095), a Hungarian prince
Surname.
-... | 130,500 | zeroshot-train |
Angelo Bendinelli [SEP] voice type | Angelo Bendinelli
Angelo Bendinelli (1876 in Pisa – 1942 in Livorno) was an Italian tenor. Possessing a soothing, gentle voice, he debuted at the Teatro San Marco and was a student of Cortesi in Pisa and Giacchetti in Florence.
Later he performed in theaters in many Italian cities, like Bologna, Mantua and Venice, and ... | )
- Oronzo Luciano Durante (7 Jun 1922 Appointed - 5 Nov 1941)
- Francesco Orlando (4 Sep 1942 Appointed - 2 Aug 1960)
- Valentino Vailati (8 Dec 1960 Appointed -1970)
- Angelo Criscito (27 Jun 1970 Appointed - 7 Sep 1985 Retired)
- Carmelo Cassati, M.S.C. (7 Sep 1985 Appointed -1990)
- Silvio Cesare Bonicelli (2 Sep 1... | 130,501 | zeroshot-train |
Angiolina Bosio [SEP] voice type | Angiolina Bosio
Angiolina Bosio (22 August 1830 - 12 April 1859) was an Italian operatic soprano who had a major international career from 1846 until her premature death in 1859 at the age of 29. She sang at the most important opera houses in Boston, Havana, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Saint ... | Rossini's opera "Il conte Ory" with Constance Nantier-Didiée and Angiolina Bosio, an 'exquisite' combination of voices. In 1857 he participated in the second Lyceum season (while the new Covent Garden theatre was awaited). H. F. Chorley praised his performance of Auber's "Fra Diavolo", with Angiolina Bosio, Mlle Marai,... | 130,502 | zeroshot-train |
Anja Kampe [SEP] voice type | Anja Kampe
Anja Kampe is a German-Italian operatic soprano, born 1968 in the GDR. She is notable for her performances in major opera houses of the works of Richard Wagner and other German and Austrian composers.
Career.
Kampe was born in Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia, and studied in Dresden and then, having moved to Italy, i... | Kampe
Kampe may refer to:
- People with the surname
- Anja Kampe (born 1968), German opera singer
- Eva Kampe (born 1940), Australian track and field athlete
- Gordon Kampe (born 1976), German composer
- Greg Kampe (born 1955), American basketball coach
- Willi Kampe (1888–1918), German flying ace of World War I
- Othe... | 130,503 | zeroshot-train |
Anna Caterina Antonacci [SEP] voice type | Anna Caterina Antonacci
Anna Caterina Antonacci (born 5 April 1961) is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon. Antonacci studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo. ... | Malcolm
- Anna Caterina Antonacci as Dama
- Sergio Fontana as Medico
- Gianfranco Casarini as Domestico
- Gastone Sarti as Sicario (voice)
- Giuseppe Morresi as Araldo
- Natale De Carolis as Prima apparizione (voice)
- Marco Fanti as Terza apparizione (voice) | 130,504 | zeroshot-train |
Anna Kaufmann [SEP] voice type | Anna Kaufmann
Anna Kaufmann was a German operatic soprano who was a principal artist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1869 to 1872. Just prior to her appointment, the great soprano Mathilde Mallinger had left the Bavarian State Opera and Kaufmann succeeded her in the roles of Elsa in Richard Wagner's "Lohengr... | Olga (24 Sep 1897, Berlin — 2 Aug 1922, Berlin). The family was Jewish.
He studied mathematics and physics at the Berlin University, where Albert Einstein was one of his professors, and later became a friend and advisor.
In 1923, Herzberger finished his Ph.D. thesis "Ueber Systeme hyperkomplexer Grössen" under Ludwig B... | 130,505 | zeroshot-train |
Anna Maria Strada [SEP] voice type | Anna Maria Strada
Anna Maria Strada (fl. 1719–1741, in Bergamo) was an Italian soprano of the 18th century. She is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in whose operas Strada sang.
Career.
After an initial career in Italy that included performances at Venice — in Vivaldi's opera... | Handel and commentator on the operatic scene of the time, labelled her "a perfect beauty, quite a Cleopatra". Her physical excellence brought the fruitless attentions of the Prince of Wales in 1733, but her voice did not match her features. Mrs Pendarves thought little of her ability as a singer, and her roles indicate... | 130,506 | zeroshot-train |
Anna Sutter [SEP] voice type | Anna Sutter
Anna Sutter (26 November 1871 - 29 June 1910) was a Swiss operatic soprano. Born in Wil, she earned a diploma in piano performance from the Bern Conservatory before studying singing in Munich. She made her debut at the Volkstheater in Munich in 1892. From 1892 to 1895, she was committed to the Stadttheater ... | , tin & low whistle, uilleann pipes, mandola, bodhrán
- Anna Murphy – clean vocals, harsh vocals in "The Siege" and "Meet the Enemy", hurdy-gurdy
- Kay Brem – bass guitar, Caesar's voice in "Havoc"
- Ivo Henzi – rhythm guitar
- Simeon Koch – lead guitar, mandola
- Patrick "Päde" Kistler – bagpipes, whistles
- Merlin Su... | 130,507 | zeroshot-train |
Anne McKnight [SEP] voice type | Anne McKnight
Anne McKnight (24 July 1924 - 29 August 2012) was an operatic soprano.
Life and career.
A native of Aurora, Illinois, she was a 1943 graduate of Shimer College. McKnight made her official debut in 1946, as Musetta in the NBC Symphony's Concert Version of "La bohème", with Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce, co... | is the youngest of three. He has two siblings, a sister (Kathleen) and a brother (John). Covais was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age eleven and receives insulin injections, like his fellow contestant, Elliott Yamin.
Covais started singing at the age of ten and has taken voice lessons for four years. Covais has sta... | 130,508 | zeroshot-train |
Anne Sofie von Otter [SEP] voice type | Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Her repertoire encompasses lieder, operas, oratorios and also rock and pop songs.
Early life.
Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was Göran von Otter, a Swedish diplomat in Berlin during World War II. She grew up in ... | .
- Review by Lisa Hirsch in San Francisco Classical Voice
- Swedish Charts.com search on Anne Sofie von Otter
- Dutch Charts.nl search on Anne Sofie von Otter
- Norwegian Charts.com search on Anne Sofie von Otter | 130,509 | zeroshot-train |
Annice Sidwells [SEP] voice type | Annice Sidwells
Annice Sidwells (1902–2001) was a star of early wireless radio in the UK as a contralto singer. Sidwells was born in Settle, North Yorkshire, England. Her talent belied the meagre settings of an amateur operatic society in a remote Yorkshire market town, and Sidwells became a star of the early radio bro... | Annice
Annice may refer to:
- Annice (slave) (died 1828), first female slave executed in Missouri
- Annice Sidwells (1902–2001), English singer
- Annice M. Wagner (born 1937), Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals | 130,510 | zeroshot-train |
Antonio Cesti [SEP] voice type | Antonio Cesti
Pietro Marc'Antonio Cesti () (baptism 5 August 162314 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".
Biography.
He was born at Arezzo, and studied with various local m... | Works.
Perti was highly regarded for his sacred music and his operas. Of the operas, few remain of the original twenty-six. Perti maintained in his Op. 1 that he was influenced by the melodic style of Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti, and Luigi Rossi; however he shows considerable originality in instrumentation, use of... | 130,511 | zeroshot-train |
Antonio Pini-Corsi [SEP] voice type | Antonio Pini-Corsi
Antonio Pini-Corsi (June [?] 1858 or 1859 – 21 April 1918) was an Italian operatic baritone of international renown. He possessed a ripe-toned voice of great flexibility and displayed tremendous skill at patter singing. Pini-Corsi participated in numerous operatic premieres, creating such roles on st... | 1899–1919) The Emergence of Verismo.
- 'La Gloria d'Italia': Mattia Battistini, Antonio Cotogni, Giuseppe Kaschmann, Francisco D'Andrade, Antonio Magini-Coletti, Giuseppe Pacini, Mario Ancona
- Scotti, de Luca and Pini-Corsi: Antonio Scotti, Giuseppe De Luca, Antonio Pini-Corsi
- Verismo triumphant: Eugenio Giraldoni, ... | 130,512 | zeroshot-train |
April Evans [SEP] voice type | April Evans
April Evans is an American soprano who has sung with the Opera Orchestra of New York where she sang Irene in Wagner's "Rienzi" in 1983 and with the Teater Kiel in Germany where she was the soprano soloist in Beethoven's "Missa solemnis" (1986) and Rainer Kunad's "Thomas-Evangelium" (1987). She also appeared... | Oct 01, May 1998 – Aug 99
CINDERELLA, Jun – Sep 2000, Jan – Apr 1998
TYPE O NEGATIVE, Jan 2000 – April 00, Sep – Dec 1999,
COAL CHAMBER, Jan 2000 – April 00, 1996 – 97, 1994 – 95
TYPE O NEGATIVE, Dec 1999 – April 20000, Nov 1996 – Mar 97
SKID ROW, 1995
MOTLEY CRUE, 1991 – 94, Assistant Tour Manager: 1987-91 | 130,513 | zeroshot-train |
Aprile Millo [SEP] voice type | Aprile Millo
Aprile Millo (born April 14, 1958) is an American operatic soprano of Italian and Irish ancestry who is particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Giuseppe Verdi. Possessing a spinto voice of power, warmth and temperament, Millo became one of the most celebrated opera singers of the late ... | Young Toscanini
Young Toscanini (original title: Il giovane Toscanini) is a 1988 Italian-French biographical drama film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring C. Thomas Howell and Elizabeth Taylor.
Premise.
The film charts the early career and romances of the conductor Arturo Toscanini in Rio de Janeiro in 1886.
Ca... | 130,514 | zeroshot-train |
Ariel Bybee [SEP] voice type | Ariel Bybee
Ariel Bybee (January 9, 1943 – March 20, 2018) was a mezzo-soprano who has had a distinguished career as a soloist, voice teacher and university opera director. According to "Opera News" (June 2000), she was "a prominent mezzo at the Metropolitan Opera for eighteen seasons." She sang over 460 performances a... | The Most Happy Fella" won the International Trophy (Grand Prize) in competition at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera.
When she became an emerita professor at UNL, the university endowed the Ariel Bybee Chair of Opera Performance in her honor. In 2008, Bybee moved to the Salt Lake City area where she t... | 130,515 | zeroshot-train |
Arlene Saunders [SEP] voice type | Arlene Saunders
Arlene Saunders (born in Cleveland, on October 5, 1935) is an American spinto soprano opera singer. After making her operatic debut as Rosalinde von Eisenstein, in "Die Fledermaus", with the National Opera Company in 1958, she made her first appearance with the New York City Opera in 1961, as Giorgetta ... | 's Curling Championship silver medalists; team also credited as from the North Hill Curling Club).
Provincial champions Junior Women's.
- 1971: Shelby McKenzie, Marlene Pargeter, Arlene Hrdlicka, Debbie Goliss (Canadian Junior Curling Championships winners)
- 1976: Jill Silverthrone, Janice Marchand, Rita Leonard, Kath... | 130,516 | zeroshot-train |
Armenak Shahmuradyan [SEP] voice type | Armenak Shahmuradyan
Armenak Shahmuradyan (also spelled Chah-Mouradian or Shah-Mouradian, April 7, 1878, Muş, Ottoman Empire – September 14, 1939, Paris), also known as the "bard of Daron", was an Armenian operatic tenor. He is one of the outstanding representatives of Komitas's school. Shahmuradyan is well known for t... | Gegham) (1856–1918), writer, poet
- Arabo (1863–1893), "fedayi"
- Aghbiur Serob (1864–1899), "fedayi"
- Hrayr Dzhoghk (1864–1904), "fedayi"
- Kevork Chavush (1870–1907), "fedayi"
- Makhluto (1872–1956), "fedayi"
- Armenak Shahmuradyan (1878–1939), singer
- William Saroyan (1908–1981), US-born writer
- Khachik Dashtents... | 130,517 | zeroshot-train |
Arnold Matters [SEP] voice type | Arnold Matters
Arnold Hatherleigh Matters (11 April 190121 September 1990) was an Australian operatic baritone and operatic producer whose career was made mostly in England during the 1930s and 1940s. He was for many years a mainstay of the Sadler's Wells Company in London.
Born in the Adelaide suburb of Malvern and ed... | Arnold Stang
Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) was an American comic actor and voice actor, whose comic persona was a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type.
Career.
Stang once claimed he gained his break in radio by sending a postcard to a New York station requesting an auditio... | 130,518 | zeroshot-train |
Arnold Rutkowski [SEP] voice type | Arnold Rutkowski
Arnold Rutkowski is a Polish opera singer who has sung leading tenor roles both in his native country and abroad. He is best known for his performances as Don Josè in "Carmen", Rodolfo in "La bohème", Alfredo Germont in "La traviata", the Duke of Mantua in "Rigoletto", and Lt. Pinkerton in "Madama Butt... | Usvyat L, Havel P, Levin NW: Relationship between adiposity and cardiovascular risk factors in prevalent hemodialysis patients. J Ren Nutr. 2009 Sep;19(5):357-64.
3. Derose SF, Rutkowski MP, Levin NW, Liu IL, Shi JM, Jacobsen SJ, Crooks PW: Incidence of end-stage renal disease and death among insured African Americans ... | 130,519 | zeroshot-train |
Arnold van Mill [SEP] voice type | Arnold van Mill
Arnold van Mill (March 26, 1921 in Schiedam – October 5, 1996 in Hamburg) was a Dutch opera singer who specialised in bass.
Debut.
He made his debut in 1941 at the 'Circustheater' in The Hague as Wagner in the opera "Faust" of Charles Gounod. After the Second World War ended, he started to sing at the F... | (OFM), Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM) and Society of St. Columban (SSC) are also serving in the diocese.
Ordinaries.
- James Cornelius van Miltenburg, O.F.M. † (28 Apr 1958 Appointed - 10 Mar 1966 Died)
- Bonaventure Patrick Paul, O.F.M. † (13 Apr 1967 Appointed - 1 Sep 1990 Resigned)
- Joseph Coutts (1 Sep 1990 Succeede... | 130,520 | zeroshot-train |
Arthur Carron [SEP] voice type | Arthur Carron
Arthur Carron (12 December 1900 – 10 May 1967) was an English operatic tenor.
Carron was born in Swindon, United Kingdom. In his early career, he was also known as Arthur Cox.
Arthur Carron studied under Florence Easton and made his operatic debut at the Old Vic as Tannhäuser in 1929. In 1931 he became th... | Dec 1828 Resigned)
- Philippe-Marie-Thérèse-Guy Carron † (16 Apr 1829 Appointed – 27 Aug 1833 Died)
- Jean-Baptiste Bouvier † (22 Nov 1833 Appointed – 29 Dec 1854 Died)
- Jean-Jacques Nanquette † (30 Aug 1855 Appointed – 19 Nov 1861 Died)
- Charles-Jean Fillion † (14 Jan 1862 Appointed – 28 Jul 1874 Died)
- Hector-Albe... | 130,521 | zeroshot-train |
Audrey Schuh [SEP] voice type | Audrey Schuh
Audrey Schuh (born June 11, 1931) is an American operatic soprano. She studied at Loyola University of the South.
Schuh was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her first leading role with the New Orleans Opera Association (at the age of eighteen) was the page-boy Oscar in "Un ballo in maschera", opposite Jussi... | 's "Markheim" at the New Orleans Opera (opposite Norman Treigle and Audrey Schuh), later retiring to Hadlyme, CT, where the Diards made appearances and taught in their private studio. The following year he joined the voice faculty at the Hartt School where he taught until his retirement in 1988.
Marriage.
Diard met his... | 130,522 | zeroshot-train |
Auguste von Müller [SEP] voice type | Auguste von Müller
Auguste von Müller (1848-1912) was a nineteenth-century German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress. She is best remembered today for originating the role of Dalila in the world premiere of Camille Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila" in 1877.
Biography.
Müller was born in Darmstadt, the daughter of German... | ), 3rd Class (19 JUL 1913), 4th Class with Crown (17 Sep 1909); & 4th Class (11 SEP 1907)
- Gen-Lt Constantin Wilhelm Albert Müller, awarded the breast star of the Order, 2nd Class, with Oak leaves and Swords, by Kaiser Wilhelm II, 10/23/1918; Previously awarded the 3rd Class with Crown and Swords
- Vice ADM Franz von ... | 130,523 | zeroshot-train |
Aura Twarowska [SEP] voice type | Aura Twarowska
Aura Twarowska (born 21 November 1967 as Aurora Eleonora Avram in Lugoj, Romania) is a Romanian mezzo-soprano. She was soloist of the Romanian Opera in Timisoara (1997-2010) and at the Vienna State Opera (2007-2016).
Biography.
Twarowska dedicated herself to music when she was 6 by studying piano, mandol... | , premiere
- Giacomo Puccini – "Madama Butterfly", Suzuki
- Georges Bizet – "Carmen", Carmen
Stage appearances Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca.
- Georges Bizet – "Carmen", Carmen
Discography.
- Richard Wagner – "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Waltraute), Deutsche Grammophon
External links.
- Aura Twarowska on compendiu... | 130,524 | zeroshot-train |
Bahrija Nuri Hadžić [SEP] voice type | Bahrija Nuri Hadžić
Bahrija Nuri Hadžić (4 March 1904 – 24 October 1993) was a Yugoslav soprano and "prima donna". Hadžić was one of four daughters of writer Osman Nuri Hadžić.
Hadžić performed in Richard Strauss's "Salome" (1931). In 1937, she performed the title role in the premiere of Alban Berg's "Lulu" (performed ... | Lovro Matačić, Ivan Brezovšek, directors Branko Gavella and were notable in the period between the two wars. Russian singers prevailed in the ensemble, but there were also Serbian singers such as , and Nikola Cvejić; as well as Bosnian singers such as Bahrija Nuri Hadžić.
After the Second World War, conductor Oskar Dan... | 130,525 | zeroshot-train |
Barbara Fris [SEP] voice type | Barbara Fris
Barbara Fris (born May 10, 1956) is a Canadian soprano and actress who performs as an opera singer, concert artist, and recitalist. She specializes in opera and classical symphonic works for voice, having performed across Canada, in Europe and the United States where she also has sung a wide range of works... | Barbara Fris has been praised by the Edmonton Journal ""…sings with a sensuous warmth, great reserves of power and emotional expressiveness."" ""Ms. Fris possesses a gorgeous vocal instrument with illuminating beauty of tone … "a songstress that marries her expressive lyricism with exemplary diction and compelling acti... | 130,526 | zeroshot-train |
Bartolo Musil [SEP] voice type | Bartolo Musil
Bartolo Musil is a young singer (baritone) and composer, born in Klagenfurt, Austria.
Trained as a composer, pianist, and singer, he has been working as a musician from his early childhood. He studied at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Detmold with teachers such as Walter Berry and Thomas Quastho... | Arts, Graz.
In 2015 he was appointed as a University Professor for Voice by the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.
Trivia.
Twentieth century writer Robert Musil and Austrian orientalist Alois Musil are relatives of Bartolo Musil.
External links.
- (official website as a singer)
- (documentation of his work as a compo... | 130,527 | zeroshot-train |
Beatrice Krebs [SEP] voice type | Beatrice Krebs
Beatrice Krebs (March 12, 1924 – February 5, 2011) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, musical theatre actress, and voice teacher.
Life and career.
Born in Cleveland, Krebs made her professional opera debut in 1952 at the New York City Opera (NYCO) as Miss Todd in Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Old Maid a... | Der Alte".
Life and career Comedian and cabaret artist.
Krebs achieved more success as a cabaret artist and comedian: in 1981, he made regular appearances on "" with Rudi Carrell, alongside Beatrice Richter and Klaus Havenstein. This poked fun at the main news programme, the "Tagesschau", and caused a good deal of upro... | 130,528 | zeroshot-train |
Beatriz Michelena [SEP] voice type | Beatriz Michelena
Beatriz Michelena (February 22, 1890 – October 10, 1942) was an American actress and singer during the silent film era, known at the time for her operatic soprano voice and appearances in musical theatre. She was one of the few Latina stars visible on the silver screen in the United States in the 1910... | film, and her role as a groundbreaking Hispanic star, rose in 2002 with a proclamation made by President George W. Bush upon the occasion of National Hispanic Heritage Month in which he listed her as one of America's influential Latino actors. In 2008, a new print of "Salomy Jane" was released for limited distribution.... | 130,529 | zeroshot-train |
Benedikt Schack [SEP] voice type | Benedikt Schack
Benedikt Emanuel Schack () (7 February 175810 December 1826) was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute".
Early life.
Benedikt Schack (also spelled as Žák, Ziak, Cziak or Schak) was born on 7 Fe... | ("The Urian Castle") Singspiel, music by Schikander, Salzburg, 1786.
- "Der dumme Gärtner aus dem Gebirge oder die zween Anton" ("The Silly Gardener from the Hills, or The Two Antons"). Comic opera, music by Benedikt Schack and Franz Xaver Gerl. Vienna, 1789.
- Five sequels to the latter work, including
- "Was macht de... | 130,530 | zeroshot-train |
Bernhard Landauer [SEP] voice type | Bernhard Landauer
Bernhard Landauer (born 20 July 1970 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian countertenor.
Early life.
Bernhard Landauer was born in Innsbruck. Following his first concert and stage experience as soprano soloist with the Wilten Boys' Choir (Innsbruck), Landauer studied voice at the University of Music and Perfor... | the Schwetzingen Festival.
Projects in 2014 include a production of George Benjamin's opera "Written On Skin" at the Landestheater Detmold, the pop-opera "You Us We All" by Shara Worden and the world premiere of a sitcom-opera series by Austrian composer Bernhard Gander for the Bregenz Festival and wien modern.
From 19... | 130,531 | zeroshot-train |
Birgit Finnilä [SEP] voice type | Birgit Finnilä
Birgit Finnilä (born 20 January 1931) is a Swedish contralto and opera singer.
Finnilä was born in Falkenberg, Sweden and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She made her operatic debut in Gothenburg in 1967. Though principally singing concert works, her operatic roles include parts in Britt... | Birgit
Birgit is a female given name, a short form of Birgitta and ultimately a Germanic form of the name Bridget. Notable people with the name include:
- Birgit Brüel, Danish singer and actress
- Birgit Collin-Langen, German politician
- Birgit Cunningham, Anglo-American activist
- Birgit Finnilä, Swedish opera singer... | 130,532 | zeroshot-train |
Biserka Cvejić [SEP] voice type | Biserka Cvejić
Biserka Cvejić (, born November 5, 1923) (mezzo-soprano) is a famous Serbian opera singer and university professor.
She sang in the Metropolitan Opera ( New York City), Covent Garden (London), Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna), La Scala (Milan), as well as in Belgrade, Zagreb, Moscow, St. Petersburg and other ... | Cvejić
Cvejić () is a Serbian language surname. People with the name include:
- Biserka Cvejić (born 1923), Serbian opera singer
- Branko Cvejić (born 1946), Serbian actor | 130,533 | zeroshot-train |
Blagoj Nacoski [SEP] voice type | Blagoj Nacoski
Blagoj Nacoski (, born 18 May 1979 in Skopje), is a Macedonian tenor opera singer.
Biography.
He began his studies in his native city and continued in Rome, Italy with Mirella Parutto, Antonio Boyer and Anna Vandi and with Raul Gimenez in Barcelona, Spain.
In February 2003 he made his operatic debut as A... | of him before, but when he first opened his mouth, I was mesmerized. His voice is so beautiful and creamy, it reminds me of whipped mascarpone. Although he sometimes was overshadowed by Drole’s energetic and passionate acting, but his gorgeous voice put him right back into the spotlight again. ("FHL, 02.02.2006")
- Le ... | 130,534 | zeroshot-train |
Blake Stern [SEP] voice type | Blake Stern
Blake Stern (June 25, 1917 – December 22, 1987) was an American tenor, best known as an oratorio singer, and a professor emeritus of music at Yale University, where he taught voice.
He was born in Logan, Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College in 1940, he was an intelligence officer in the US Navy during World... | as housekeepers at a luxury hotel in Los Angeles are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their potential benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists in a "Die Hard"-type scenario. The trio are then forced into rising to the occasion to save the lives of every hostage in the building.
Cast.
- Adam DeVin... | 130,535 | zeroshot-train |
Brenda Miller Cooper [SEP] voice type | Brenda Miller Cooper
Brenda Miller Cooper (28 February 1916, Cleveland, Ohio — 3 April 2008, Baltimore, Maryland) was an American operatic soprano. She studied voice at Case Western Reserve University earning a bachelor's degree in music, after which she pursued graduate studies at the Juilliard School where she earned... | – 1:05
11. (11)[11] "Jet Airliner" (Paul Pena) – 3:33
12. (7)[12] "Dance, Dance, Dance" (Brenda Cooper, Jason Cooper, Miller) – 2:16
13. (13)[13] "Winter Time" (Miller) – 3:10
14. (14)[14] "Wild Mountain Honey" (Steve McCarty) – 4:50
All selections published by Sailor Music, except "The Joker" by Sailor Music/Unichappe... | 130,536 | zeroshot-train |
Brett Polegato [SEP] voice type | Brett Polegato
Brett Polegato (born 1968 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) is an operatic baritone. In 1999 he made his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Peter Niles in Levy's "Mourning Becomes Electra" followed by his La Scala debut in 2000 as Ned Keene in Britten's "Peter Grimes". He is particularly known for his inte... | 1980, Kern was appointed adjunct professor of voice at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, where she taught for more than 20 years. Her pupils included James Westman, Russell Braun, Brett Polegato, Jean Stilwell, and Kimberly Barber.
Death.
She died at a palliative care facility in Toronto on 19 October 2015 ... | 130,537 | zeroshot-train |
Buddug Verona James [SEP] voice type | Buddug Verona James
Buddug Verona James is a Welsh mezzo-soprano opera singer who studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the National Opera Studio and in Rome. She was born in Cardigan, Wales.
Career.
Among her operatic roles James has performed Gluck's "Orfeo" in America and Canada, Dardano in Handel’s "A... | , "Acis and Galatea", "Dido and Aeneas", "Orpheus in the Underworld" and "Hercules" for RWCMD.
In 2001 James and her siblings performed in the Millennium Stadium as pre-match entertainment before a Wales/Ireland rugby union match.
Discography.
- Buddug Verona James - "Castradïva"
- Buddug Verona James - "Songs of the P... | 130,538 | zeroshot-train |
Camille Zamora [SEP] voice type | Camille Zamora
Camille Zamora is an American soprano recognized for her performance of opera, zarzuela, oratorio, art song and American songbook. She performs repertoire ranging from the early Baroque to 21st century premieres by composers including Grammy Award winners Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein as well as P... | AIDS.
Zamora has performed at the United Nations and The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. Zamora received a World Harmony Run Torch-Bearer Award in 2010, and has been recognized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. In 2016, Zamora was named a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist.
External links.
- Official website
- Sing ... | 130,539 | zeroshot-train |
Carl David Stegmann [SEP] voice type | Carl David Stegmann
Carl David Stegmann (1751 – 27 May 1826) was a German tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, and composer.
Biography.
He was born in Staucha near Meissen, the son of Johann Ehrenfried Stegmann and Anna Christiana Bretzner, and married Karoline Johanna Eleanore Linz producing two sons and four daughters. ... | - May 27 – Carl David Stegmann, singer, harpsichordist, conductor and composer (b. 1751)
- June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, composer (b. 1786)
- July 7 – Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist and composer (b. 1768)
- July 11 – Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
- August 30 – Theodor Zwetler, composer
- September 28 – Dietrich Ni... | 130,540 | zeroshot-train |
Carl Heinrich Graun [SEP] voice type | Carl Heinrich Graun
Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.
Biography.
Graun was born in Wahrenbrück in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. In 1714, he fol... | contained works by Johann Friedrich Agricola, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Christian Bach, Franz Benda, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Carl Heinrich Graun, Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Christian Gottfried Krause, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Christoph Nichelmann and Johann Joachim Quantz.
Publi... | 130,541 | zeroshot-train |
Carlo Galeffi [SEP] voice type | Carlo Galeffi
Carlo Galeffi (4 June 1884 – 22 September 1961) was a leading Italian baritone, particularly associated with the operatic works of Giuseppe Verdi and the various verismo composers.
Life and career.
Galeffi was born in Malamocco (Venice). As a youth, he studied with Di Como and Sbriscia, later with Antonio... | Giuseppe Pacini, Antonio Scotti, Eugenio Giraldoni, Riccardo Stracciari, Titta Ruffo, Domenico Viglione Borghese, Pasquale Amato and Carlo Galeffi.
He taught singing after retiring from the stage and died in Milan.
Recordings.
Sammarco possessed a strong voice with a powerful upper register; but of all the celebrated s... | 130,542 | zeroshot-train |
Carol Brice [SEP] voice type | Carol Brice
Carol Brice (April 16, 1918 - February 15, 1985) was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute and later at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she received a Bachelor of Music in 1939. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Mus... | - Family name
- Alfred "Bobby" Brice (1871–1938), Welsh international rugby union player
- Anastacia Brice, American entrepreneur, business coach
- Andrew Brice (1690-1773), English printer and writer
- Antoine Brice (1752-1817), Belgian painter
- Benjamin Brice (1809–1892), lawyer and soldier who served in the United ... | 130,543 | zeroshot-train |
Caroline Gardner Bartlett [SEP] voice type | Caroline Gardner Bartlett
Caroline Gardner Bartlett (1868–1938) was an American soprano, a music educator, and (as "Sister Beatrice") a relief worker during World War I.
Early life.
Caroline Gardner (or Gott) was born in Ohio, and raised by adoptive parents named Clark in Rochester, New York. She studied voice in the U... | . James Bartlett died in 1909, and left Caroline with a comfortable inheritance and a British passport. She did not remarry.
Sources.
- Felice Belman, "Caroline Gardner Bartlett," "The New Hampshire Century: "Concord Monitor" Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It", Felice Belman and Mike Pride, eds. (University ... | 130,544 | zeroshot-train |
Cecil Arden [SEP] voice type | Cecil Arden
Cecil Arden (December 15, 1894 – September 4, 1989) was an American mezzo-soprano and contralto opera singer active over the early decades of the twentieth century.
Life and career.
Cecile Alexia Hart was born in New York City to Benjamin and Mildred Hart. Her father was real estate broker originally from C... | Emblem" series of games
Surname.
- Alice Arden
- Annabel Arden (born 1959), British actress, theatre and opera director
- Bruce Arden, American computer scientist
- Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer
- Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, British colonial administrator
- Dale Arden, fictional character
- David M. Ar... | 130,545 | zeroshot-train |
Cecilia Bartoli [SEP] voice type | Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli, (; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Bellini, Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and Classical music. She is known for having the versat... | Press.
- Bartoli, Cecilia (2007), "Genius, Scandal and Death: Maria — Singer and Diva", in "Maria". Decca Music Group, with accompanying CD and DVD.
- Merlin, Countess de, (1840) "Memoirs and letters of madame Malibran, Vol 2". Philadelphia: Carey and Hart.
- Riggs, Geoffrey S. (2009), "The Assoluta Voice in Opera, 179... | 130,546 | zeroshot-train |
Cecilia Davies [SEP] voice type | Cecilia Davies
Cecilia Davies (c. 1756 – 3 July 1836) was an English classical soprano who had an active international career in concerts and operas during the second half of the 18th century. In Italy she was known as "l'Inglesina". She was the sister of Marianne Davies who was the first professional glass harmonica m... | - Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton – author
- Lindy Davies – actor; Dean of the Victorian College of Arts
- Cherie Ditcham – actress, model
- Laurie Duggan – poet
- Hazel Edwards – children's author
- Jon Faine – Melbourne radio personality
- Phillip Frazer –... | 130,547 | zeroshot-train |
Celestina Boninsegna [SEP] voice type | Celestina Boninsegna
Celestina Boninsegna (26 February 1877 – 14 February 1947) was an Italian operatic soprano, known for her interpretations of the heroines in Verdi's operas. Although particularly eminent in Verdi's works, she sang a wide repertoire during her 25-year career, including Rosaura in the world premiere ... | Metropolitan Opera Archives: Celestina Boninsegna". Metropolitan Opera, New York. Accessed 13 October 2008.
External links.
Audio files
- Celestina Boninsegna – from Bellini's "Norma". Recorded 1904.
- Celestina Boninsegna – "Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa" from Verdi's" Un ballo in maschera". Recorded 1905.
- Celestina B... | 130,548 | zeroshot-train |
Charles Dalmorès [SEP] voice type | Charles Dalmorès
Charles Dalmorès (January 1, 1871 – December 6, 1939) was a French tenor. He enjoyed an international operatic career, singing to public and critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Biography.
He was born on January 1, 1871 as Henri Alphonse Brin ... | the cast were Conchita Supervia, Charles Dalmorès, and Marcel Journet. She also performed with the Boston Opera.
Life Last Years.
The sort of elaborate ornamentation in which she excelled having fallen out of fashion, Verlet retired from performing in 1920. Thereafter, she taught voice until her death in Paris in 1934.... | 130,549 | zeroshot-train |
Charlotte Margiono [SEP] voice type | Charlotte Margiono
Charlotte Margiono (born March 24, 1955) is a Dutch operatic soprano.
Life and career.
Margiono (real name Charlotte Marie-Louise Heijdemann) was born in Amsterdam and studied at the Arnhem conservatoire with Aafje Heynis. She was originally a Mozart specialist, but gradually added a handful of heavi... | , and on her concert work.
Margiono is famous for her interpretation of the "Four Last Songs" by Richard Strauss, which she recorded in 1993 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Edo de Waart (Brilliant Classics).
Her beautiful voice is used intelligently, and with great artistry. She is a fine actres... | 130,550 | zeroshot-train |
Christa Mayer [SEP] voice type | Christa Mayer
Christa Mayer is a German operatic mezzo-soprano. She is particularly known for her portrayal of Erda in Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle"; a role which she has performed several times at the Bayreuth Festival and recorded on the BBC Legends Record Label.
Life and career.
Christa Mayer was born in Sulzbach-Ro... | , Ukraine
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Stefanie Krahnenfeld, Germany; Christa Mayer, Germany
"Voice (male)"
- 1st Prize: Konrad Jarnot, Great Britain
- 2nd Prize: Nathaniel Webster, USA
- 3rd Prize: Friedemann Röhlig, Germany
"Viola"
- 2nd Prize: Danuta Waskiewicz, Germany
"Flute"
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Rozàlia Szabó, Hungar... | 130,551 | zeroshot-train |
Christian Van Horn [SEP] voice type | Christian Van Horn
Christian Van Horn (born 1978 in Rockville Centre, New York) is an American operatic bass-baritone and has appeared with many of the world's most prestigious opera companies, including The Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Canad... | ". Lana Barnes from "The Horn Book Guide" gave the book a four out of six rating, feeling the author's tween voice is genuine, but the separate plot lines in the novel "lack a solid connection."
See also.
- 2013 in literature
- Children's Literature
Further references.
- Bernstein, Allison and Shelley Glantz. Review. "... | 130,552 | zeroshot-train |
Christiane Eda-Pierre [SEP] voice type | Christiane Eda-Pierre
Christiane Eda-Pierre (born March 24, 1932) is a French lyric coloratura soprano of Martiniquan origin, who sang in a wide variety of roles, from baroque to contemporary works.
Life and career.
Eda-Pierre was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and came to France to study at the Paris Conservatory... | , Eliane Manchet, Robert Massard, Christiane Eda-Pierre, Andrea Guiot, Jules Bastin, Jean-Louis Soumagnas, Christiane Issastel, chamber Orchestra of the ORTF, Choirs of the O.R.T.F., dir. Bruno Amaducci, recorded on 14 November 1974, Open Reel Tape-mr. tape 3746
- Bizet's "Carmen" (Georges Prêtre, Maria Callas, Nicolaï... | 130,553 | zeroshot-train |
Christoph Genz [SEP] voice type | Christoph Genz
Christoph Genz (born 1 March 1971 in Erfurt) is a German tenor in opera and concert.
Career.
Christoph Genz was a member of the Thomanerchor. He studied music at King’s College, Cambridge where he was a member of the King’s College Choir. He studied voice with Hans-Joachim Beyer at the Hochschule für Mus... | Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12", written in Weimar in 1714, recorded in 2009 together with Gerlinde Sämann, Christoph Genz and Jan van der Crabben. She appeared in a concert of Bach cantatas at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eibingen Abbey in 2005. She recorded with La Petite Bande also Bach's "St Matthew Pa... | 130,554 | zeroshot-train |
Christopher Temporelli [SEP] voice type | Christopher Temporelli
Christopher Temporelli is an American operatic bass and concert singer based in New York.
He made his professional opera debut in 2005 with the Fort Worth Opera in Bass Performance Hall. He won the Norman Carlberg Award from the LiederKranz Society in 2006 with award recital in Weill Hall, Carneg... | . Odhecaton, Ensemble für alte Musik, Köln. FSM 97 208.
- 1993 – [GOT] The Voice in the Garden. Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480–1550. Gothic Voices. Christopher Page. Hyperion 66653.
- 1994 – [SEP] Sephardic Songs in the hispano-arabic tradition of medieval Spain. (Canciones Sefardies de la tradición hispanoárabe en l... | 130,555 | zeroshot-train |
Claire Rutter [SEP] voice type | Claire Rutter
Claire Rutter (born 1972 in South Shields) is an English operatic soprano.
Biography.
Claire Rutter studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the National Opera Studio. Her title role performances have included those in "Norma" and "Tosca" at Grange Park Opera, and in "Lucrezia Borgia", "L... | - Arthur Sullivan: The Contrabandista / The Foresters - New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor). Hyperion CDA 67486
References.
- Changing tracks: Claire Rutter (interview), "Scotland on Sunday", November 16, 2008. Accessed 10 January 2009.
- "Claire Rutter: McDonald's, KFC? Or a nice glass of wine?" (interview),... | 130,556 | zeroshot-train |
Clarissa Ocampo [SEP] voice type | Clarissa Ocampo
Clarissa Ocampo is a Filipino-American mezzo-soprano. She is best known for her album "Cradle Songs" and sings professionally in the United States and Asia.
Birth to young adulthood.
Clarissa Ocampo was born in the Philippines to a concert pianist mother and an obstetrician father who sang opera as a ho... | Stauffenberg (born 28.Apr.1964)
- Clarissa Grafin von Stauffenberg (born 30.Jun.1965) married Friedrich-Christian Frhr von Elverfeldt-Ulm (born 27.Dec.1960)
- Irma Grafin von Stauffenberg (13.Apr.1898 – 28.Sep.1932) married Otto Frhr Groß von Trockau (*Würzburg 10.11.1890, +Trockau 21.2.1957)
- Alfred Graf Stauffenberg... | 130,557 | zeroshot-train |
Conal Coad [SEP] voice type | Conal Coad
Conal Coad is an Australian opera singer known for his dramatic interpretations of the bass repertoire. He was born in Feilding, New Zealand, and resides in Australia (Gold Coast, Queensland) and Belgium (Mechelen).
Career.
Coad has performed in many major cities and opera houses around the world including:
... | at "Prima la Musica"
- Review of "Arabella" at "Australian Stage". Quote: "As Zdenka and Arabella's dreadful parents, Conal Coad and Milijana Nikolic take on the roles of Count and Countess Waldner. Conal Coad is renowned for his great character roles such as Don Pasquale, Leporello and Bartolo to name but a few."
Exte... | 130,558 | zeroshot-train |
Conchita Supervía [SEP] voice type | Conchita Supervía
Conchita Supervía (8–9 December 1895 – 30 March 1936) was a highly popular Spanish mezzo-soprano singer who appeared in opera in Europe and America and also gave recitals.
Early life.
Supervía was born in Barcelona to an old Andalusian family and given the baptismal name of María de la Concepción Supe... | EDA. pp. 414–419.
- Steane, J. B. (1983), "The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record". Amadeus Press. .
- Steane, J.B., (2003), "Singers of the Century" Vol II".
External links.
- Conchita Supervía at Basso Cantante
- Conchita Supervía - includes a digitally restored vinyl copy of her recording of "Il Éta... | 130,559 | zeroshot-train |
Conrad Thibault [SEP] voice type | Conrad Thibault
Conrad Thibault (November 13, 1903 – August 1, 1987) was an American baritone vocalist who frequently appeared on radio, recordings, and concert tours.
Early years.
Thibault was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he was involved with the church choir. Local resident Calvin Coolidge too... | - BroadwayWorld.com "Conrad Thibault". Retrieved June 10, 2010.
- Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle (2007). "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present". Ballantine, New York. .
- Curtis Institute of Music," Overtones", 1929, volume 2, page 44.
- Internet Movie Database, "Conrad Thibault".... | 130,560 | zeroshot-train |
Cristina Iordachescu [SEP] voice type | Cristina Iordachescu
Cristina Iordachescu is a Romanian mezzo-soprano and pianist. She was born October 8, 1966, in Bucharest.
Biography.
Cristina Iordachescu was born into a family of artists. Her father, Dan Iordachescu, was a baritone who sang professionally in opera houses throughout Europe. Her mother, Irina Bora ... | Dan Iordăchescu
Dan Iordăchescu (; 2 June 1930 – 30 August 2015) was a Romanian baritone. A native of Vânju Mare, he was the father of opera singers Cristina Iordachescu, Irina Iordachescu and Raluca Iordachescu. He was active in various countries for a number of years and has received awards.
External links.
- Iordach... | 130,561 | zeroshot-train |
Cyrena van Gordon [SEP] voice type | Cyrena van Gordon
Cyrena van Gordon was the stage name of an American operatic contralto born Cyrena Sue Pocock on September 4, 1892 in Camden, Ohio; she died on April 4, 1964 in New York City. In 1912 she married Dr. Shirley B. Munns, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Chicago.
After studies with Louise Dotti... | 26, 1918 at the Lexington Opera House. The composer conducted, and the cast included Anna Fitziu as Azora, Forrest Lamont as Xalca, Cyrena van Gordon as Papantzin, Arthur Middleton as Ramatzin, Frank Preisch as Canek, and James Goddard as Montezuma. Although all members of the cast were promoted as young American singe... | 130,562 | zeroshot-train |
Daniel Hůlka [SEP] voice type | Daniel Hůlka
Daniel Hůlka (born 1 June 1968) is a Czech actor and baritone who is known for his performances in musicals, films, and operas. He won a Český slavík in 1998 and won an Anděl Award (the Czech equivalent to the Grammy Awards) for best singer in 1997. He has released several recordings on the EMI label.
Biog... | performed in a new production at the Hybernia Theater in Prague between 5 February 2009 and 28 May 2011. The director of both the original and the new production is Jozef Bednárik.
The musical is also featured on several recordings. The first CD was released in 1995 with Daniel Landa in the role of Dracula, but he resi... | 130,563 | zeroshot-train |
Daniel Rorke [SEP] voice type | Daniel Rorke
Daniel Rorke is a tenor and soprano saxophonist from Australia who now resides in Norway. He grew up on Billen Cliffs commune outside of the town of Nimbin, in northern New South Wales.
Rorke holds a Bachelor of Jazz Studies with first class honour from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and a Masters de... | Rorke
Rorke is a surname that may refer to:
- Daniel Rorke, Australian saxophonist who resides in Norway
- Gordon Rorke (born 1938), Australian cricketer
- Hayden Rorke (1910–1987), American actor
- John Rorke (1807–1896), Irish-born Canadian merchant and political figure in Newfoundland
- Joseph Rorke (1832–1907), Can... | 130,564 | zeroshot-train |
David Bižić [SEP] voice type | David Bižić
David Bižić (; born 25 November 1975) is an operatic baritone. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia.
Education and early career.
Bizic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He studied archaeology but at the same time he pursued vocal singing education and in 2000 he started studying voice at the Jerusalem Academy of Mus... | Srđan Bižić
Srđan Bižić (; born 24 October 1990) is a Serbian football forward, playing for Proleter Pečenog.
Club career.
Born in Kraljevo, Bižić started his career with local club Sloga, where he appeared until the end of his youth categories and also performed for the first team as a bonus player between 2007 and 20... | 130,565 | zeroshot-train |
David Gamrekeli [SEP] voice type | David Gamrekeli
David Gamrekeli (, 27 July 1911 – 29 November 1977) was a Georgian baritone opera singer.
Biography.
Gamrekeli was born in Chiatura, Western Georgia. In 1935, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, studying under Professor Vronsky. That year, the young baritone sang at the Tbilisi Opera and B... | and Byzantine art throughout antiquity. It has further grown within the framework of Christian ecclesiastical and middle-eastern art of the Middle Ages, and ultimately it has evolved in the context of European and Russian art from the 19th century onwards.
Notable Georgian artists.
- Levan Songulashvili
- David Alexidz... | 130,566 | zeroshot-train |
Deborah Polaski [SEP] voice type | Deborah Polaski
Deborah Polaski (born May 26, 1949, in Richland Center, Wisconsin) is an American opera and concert singer (soprano). She has specialized in dramatic soprano roles and also sings mezzo-soprano roles occasionally.
Biography.
After being educated in the USA, Polaski moved to Europe. Her debut was in 1976 ... | "
- Wagner: "Die Walküre", "Siegfried", "Götterdämmerung" and "Tristan und Isolde"
- Gala Concert - Vienna State Opera 2005
- VHS
- Covent Garden Re-Opening Gala
References.
- J. Warrack and E. West, "Polaski, Deborah", "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera", Oxford University Press, 1996. (accessed 1 November 2007)
... | 130,567 | zeroshot-train |
Denis Griffiths [SEP] voice type | Denis Griffiths
Denis Griffiths (1922–2001), Welsh lyric tenor who regularly performed on BBC radio from the late 1940s onwards and who later featured among the soloists in the Independent Television series "Gwlad y Gan" which - as "Land of Song" - was networked to a wide audience throughout the country between 1958 an... | Pope, Sep 2005 - Dec 2007
- Brigadier Andy Bristow, Dec 2007 - Jul 2008
- Brigadier Ivan Hooper, Jul 2008 - Nov 2010
- Brigadier David Robson, Nov 2010 - Sep 2012
- Brigadier Tim Carmichael, Sep 2012 - Aug 2014
- Brigadier Sharon Nesmith, Aug 2014–2016
- Brigadier Paul R. Griffiths 2016-present
See also.
- Units of the... | 130,568 | zeroshot-train |
Denyce Graves [SEP] voice type | Denyce Graves
Denyce Graves (born March 7, 1964) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano.
Early life.
Graves was born on March 7, 1964, in Washington, D.C., to Charles Graves and Dorothy (Middleton) Graves-Kenner. She is the middle of three children and was raised by her mother on Galveston Street, S.W., in the Bellevue ... | Prayer" at the Washington National Cathedral during a memorial service for the victims of 9/11 on September 14, 2001, attended by President Bush, members of Congress, other politicians and representatives of foreign governments.
In 2003, Graves performed in front of a live audience at the Mann Center for the Performing... | 130,569 | zeroshot-train |
Desirée Rancatore [SEP] voice type | Desirée Rancatore
Desirée Rancatore (born 1977 in Palermo, Sicily) is an Italian dramatic coloratura soprano with an active career on the opera and concert stages of Europe.
Biography.
Rancatore studied violin and piano before studying singing with her mother at the age of 16 and later in Rome, with Margaret Baker Geno... | DVD, Hardy 2011
Honours and awards.
- 1995: Ibla de Ragusa Award
- 1995: Vincenzo Bellini de Caltanissetta Prize
- 1996: Maria Caniglia de Sulmona Award
- 2004: Medaglia d'Oro Città di Milano Award
- 2008: Mimosa d'Oro Award
- 2008: Kaleidos Award
- 2008: Ester Mazzoleni Special Prize
- 2009: Zenatello Award
- 2010: Os... | 130,570 | zeroshot-train |
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [SEP] voice type | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, particularly ""Winterreise"" of which his recordings ... | times. Bach used the music for the of his Missa in G minor.
Movements 3 and 5 are used in the "Missa in F major". The bass voice in movement 4, marked "arioso" by Bach himself, is treated similarly to the , the voice of Jesus in Bach's Passions and cantatas. The bass part has been recorded by singers who do not special... | 130,571 | zeroshot-train |
Dina Barberini [SEP] voice type | Dina Barberini
Dina Barberini (17 March 1862 - 26 December 1932) was an Italian operatic soprano who had an active international career from the 1880s into the early part of the 20th century. She later embarked on a second career as a voice teacher.
Career.
Barberini was advised by Giuseppe Verdi to pursue an opera car... | .
- Cardinal Alfonso Visconti, C.O. (1601–1608)
- Maffeo Barberini (27 Oct 1608 – 17 Jul 1617 Resigned)
- Lorenzo Castrucci (17 Jul 1617 – 1655 Died)
- Cesare Facchinetti (2 Aug 1655 –1672)
- Ludovicus Sciamanna (9 Apr 1685 – 1689 Died)
- Opizio Pallavicini (28 Nov 1689 – 1691)
- Cardinal Marcello Durazzo (1691–1695 Re... | 130,572 | zeroshot-train |
Domenico Donzelli [SEP] voice type | Domenico Donzelli
Domenico Donzelli (February 2, 1790 – March 31, 1873) was an Italian tenor with a robust voice who enjoyed an important career in Paris, London and his native country during the 1808-1841 period.
Biography.
Donzelli can be regarded as an offshoot of the so-called Bergamo tenor school which had origina... | , Domenico Donzelli and the two great French rivals Adolphe Nourrit and Gilbert Duprez—the inventor of the C from the chest.
After the composition of "Zelmira", Rossini left Naples with Colbran who had previously been the lover of Domenico Barbaia. The couple were married shortly thereafter.
To replace Rossini, Barbaja... | 130,573 | zeroshot-train |
Dorothea Wendling [SEP] voice type | Dorothea Wendling
(Maria) Dorothea Wendling, née Spurni (21 March 1736 – 20 August 1811) was a German soprano. Born in Stuttgart, she is remembered for being the singer for whom Mozart wrote the role of Ilia in "Idomeneo, re di Creta". She sang the role of Sabina in the 1768 premiere of Ignaz Hofbauer's opera "Adriano ... | - Jean Wendling (born 1934), French footballer
- Johann Baptist Wendling (1723–1797), German flutist and composer, husband of Dorothea
- John Wendling (born 1983), American football player
- Karl Wendling (1875–1962), German violinist
- (1857–1918), German pianist
- Pete Wendling (1888–1974), American composer and pian... | 130,574 | zeroshot-train |
Dorothee Mields [SEP] voice type | Dorothee Mields
Dorothee Mields (born 15 April 1971) is a German soprano concert singer of Baroque and contemporary music.
Career.
Mields was born in Gelsenkirchen. She studied at the University of the Arts Bremen with Elke Holzmann, Harry van der Kamp and Gabriele Schreckenbach. After graduation she continued studying... | Bach as "small" voices, voice types with certain characteristics: he names Peter Kooij and Dorothee Mields as examples of that voice type.
By contrast, a number of 21st-century Bach conductors have instead accepted Joshua Rifkin's arguments that most of Johann Sebastian Bach's choral music was performed with only one ... | 130,575 | zeroshot-train |
Dwayne Croft [SEP] voice type | Dwayne Croft
Dwayne Croft is an American baritone who has sung in more than 500 performances in 38 roles at the Metropolitan Opera.
He won the Richard Tucker Award in 1996.
He created the role of Nick Carraway in John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby" in 1999, that of Jaufré Rudel in Kaija Saariaho's "L'amour de loin" in 2... | director of both that program and the Met's National Council Auditions for almost fifteen years. In 1999 she became a professor of voice at the University of Kentucky and held the position until she died. Several of her students have gone on to have successful opera careers including Stephanie Blythe, Dwayne Croft, Chr... | 130,576 | zeroshot-train |
Dénes Gulyás [SEP] voice type | Dénes Gulyás
Dénes Gulyás (born March 31, 1954) is a Hungarian tenor. A native of Budapest, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in that city. He had an international career in the 1970s, and sang at the Metropolitan Opera, among other houses; one of his performances there, a "Manon" in which he replaced Neil... | - Zsolt Trill - Young Doctor
- Tamás Kóbor - Young Doctor's Voice
- Dénes Gulyás - Professor
- József Hormai - 1st Doctor
- Sándor Kecskés - 2nd Doctor
- Viktória Mester - 1st Nurse
- Hermina Fátyol - 2nd Nurse
- Andrea Meláth - 3rd Nurse
- Kálmán Somody - Cleaning Man
- János Klézli - Fireman
- Géza Gábor - Patient
- ... | 130,577 | zeroshot-train |
Désirée Artôt [SEP] voice type | Désirée Artôt
Désirée Artôt (; 11 June 1835 – 3 April 1907) was a Belgian soprano (initially a mezzo-soprano), who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany. In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who may have coded her name into works such as his First Piano Concerto and ... | earlier stars such as Betty Hennings (1850–1939).
With financial support from the theatre's director Edvard Fallesen, she spent several periods in Paris where she received voice training from Mathilde Marchesi, who succeeded in training her to reach the higher notes usually sung by sopranos. Her stage performance also ... | 130,578 | zeroshot-train |
Eduard Devrient [SEP] voice type | Eduard Devrient
(Philipp) Eduard Devrient (11 August 18014 October 1877) was a German baritone, librettist, playwright, actor, theatre director, and theatre reformer and historian.
Devrient came from a theatrical family. His uncle was Ludwig Devrient and his brother Karl was the first husband of Wilhelmine Schröder-Dev... | Devrient
Devrient is a surname.
It may refer to:
- Family of actors
- Ludwig Devrient (1784–1832), uncle to Karl August, Eduard, Emil
- Karl August Devrient (1797–1872), nephew of Ludwig, brother of Eduard and Emil, married to Wilhelmine
- Eduard Devrient (1801–1877), nephew of Ludwig, brother of Karl August and Emil,... | 130,579 | zeroshot-train |
Eduardo Ciannelli [SEP] voice type | Eduardo Ciannelli
Eduardo Ciannelli, sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli, (30 August 1888 – 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals.
Early life.
Ciannelli was born on the island of Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples, the son... | The English-language version was written by John Davis Hart and Lewis E. Ciannelli (the son of Eduardo Ciannelli) and recorded at Via Margutta Studios in Rome under Ciannelli's direction. Among the voice actors for the English version were Carolyn De Fonseca, Edward Mannix, Ted Rusoff and Mel Welles.
Although Hart and ... | 130,580 | zeroshot-train |
Eileen Küpper [SEP] voice type | Eileen Küpper
Eileen Küpper is a South Africa-born soprano singer, known for her work with metal bands Therion and The Kovenant.
Discography.
Discography Solo.
- "Shapes" (2003)
Discography With Therion.
- "Vovin" (1998)
- "Crowning of Atlantis" (1999)
- "Deggial" (2000)
Discography With The Kovenant.
- "Animatronic" (... | - Audun Stengel (Angel) - guitar (2000–present)
- Former members
- Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer/von Blomberg) - drums (1998–2003)
- Jamie Stinson (Astennu) − guitar (1998−1999)
- Sarah Jezebel Deva − female vocals (1998)
- Eileen Küpper – female vocals (1999–2003)
- Kent "Küth" Frydenlund − drums (2003−2009)
- Geir Br... | 130,581 | zeroshot-train |
Eilene Hannan [SEP] voice type | Eilene Hannan
Eilene Hannan AM (24 July 194611 July 2014) was an Australian operatic soprano with an international reputation. She was particularly associated with opera sung in English, although she also sang in other languages. She was as well known as an actress as she was a singer. Her repertoire included Mozart's ... | than a month after Eilene. She also had two older brothers, Peter and Michael.
Eilene Hannan was the partner of the cellist Nathan Waks for a period in the 1970s. In England in 1980 she married Phillip Thomas, a Welsh pianist with ENO. They later divorced. | 130,582 | zeroshot-train |
Eleanor Greenwood [SEP] voice type | Eleanor Greenwood
Eleanor Jean Greenwood is an Australian soprano best known as an opera singer. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.
Career.
Her debut with Wexford Festival Opera was as Pachole in "Maria" Polish Opera by Roman Statkowski. She has performed roles including Hänsel in "Häns... | written for 16 instruments, was inspired by modern classical composer Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima". Greenwood said, "I got very excited at the prospect of doing string parts that didn't sound like 'Eleanor Rigby', which is what all string parts have sounded like for the past 30 years." ... | 130,583 | zeroshot-train |
Elisabeth Hermans [SEP] voice type | Elisabeth Hermans
Elisabeth Hermans is a Belgian soprano. A graduate of Lemmensinstituut in Leuven and the Antwerp Conservatory, she began performing with ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent, La Chapelle Royale, La Petite Bande, the Huelgas Ensemble, and the Netherlands Bach Society, but in more recent years has ga... | Hermans
Hermans is a Dutch patronymic surname, cognate with German Hermann and and the Scandinavian Hermansen. It is the 14th most common name in Belgium, with 12,794 people named Hermans in 2008. In the Netherlands, 10,641 people carried the name in 2007.
People.
- Alex Hermans, Belgian Paralympian shot putter
- Ben H... | 130,584 | zeroshot-train |
Elisabeth Rethberg [SEP] voice type | Elisabeth Rethberg
The German soprano Elisabeth Rethberg (22 September 1894 – 6 June 1976) was an opera singer of international repute active from the period of the First World War through to the early 1940s.
Early years.
Rethberg was born Lisbeth Sättler in Schwarzenberg. She studied at the conservatory in Dresden wit... | , Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Amelita Galli-Curci, Elisabeth Rethberg, Rosa Ponselle and Ezio Pinza. CD reissues of his recordings are widely available today. Film clips of him performing also exist.
De Luca was renowned as a master of lyric, smooth-toned legato singing and his recordings confirm his excellen... | 130,585 | zeroshot-train |
Elisabeth Röckel [SEP] voice type | Elisabeth Röckel
Elisabeth Röckel (15 March 1793, baptised "Maria Eva", Neunburg vorm Wald – 3 March 1883 in Weimar) was a German soprano opera singer and the wife of the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Life.
She was a sister of the opera singer Joseph August Röckel (1783-1870) who played Florestan in the second versio... | World", Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press 2007,
- Klaus Martin Kopitz: "Beethoven, Elisabeth Röckel und das Albumblatt "Für Elise"", Cologne: Dohr, 2010,
- Michael Lorenz: "'Die enttarnte Elise'. Die kurze Karriere der Elisabeth Röckel als Beethovens 'Elise'", "Bonner Beethoven-Studien" vol. 9, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 20... | 130,586 | zeroshot-train |
Elisabeth Schärtel [SEP] voice type | Elisabeth Schärtel
Elisabeth Schärtel (6 October 1919 – 24 August 2012) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto. A member of the Cologne Opera from 1959 to 1967, she performed leading parts at major European opera houses and regularly at the Bayreuth Festival.
Career.
Born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, she stu... | sound, and a few video recordings of her late career preserve evidence of her acting ability. Varnay died in Munich on 4 September 2006 at age 88.
Selected recordings.
Wagner: "Der Fliegende Holländer" – Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival
- Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
- Principal singers: Hermann Uhde (Dutch... | 130,587 | zeroshot-train |
Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti [SEP] voice type | Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti
Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti ( – 5 May 1742) was an Italian operatic soprano who was associated with the House of Hanover. She was one of the leading prima donnas at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket (it later became the "King's Theatre" after King George I's accession in 1714) fro... | Pilotti
Pilotti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Eva-Lena Pilotti (born 1961), Swedish model
- Massimo Pilotti (1879–1962), Italian jurist and judge
See also.
- Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti (c. 1680 – 1742), Italian opera singer | 130,588 | zeroshot-train |
Elizabeth Fretwell [SEP] voice type | Elizabeth Fretwell
Elizabeth Fretwell (13 August 1920 – 5 June 2006) was an Australian soprano. She was the prima donna at London's Sadler's Wells Opera (English National Opera) through much of the 1950s and 1960s.
Early life and career.
She was born Betty Drina Fretwell in Murrumbeena, a suburb of Melbourne. As a chil... | Scarpia.
On 21 January 1973 Smith was the first voice to sing in the Sydney Opera House, when he appeared in the first test concert in the Opera Theatre, along with Elizabeth Fretwell and members of the ABC National Training Orchestra, conducted by Robert Miller.
While Italian opera (and particularly where sung in Engl... | 130,589 | zeroshot-train |
Elizabeth Masson [SEP] voice type | Elizabeth Masson
Elizabeth Masson (1806 – 9 January 1865) was an English mezzo-soprano singer and composer. She was born in Scotland and studied singing with Mrs. Henry Smart and Giuditta Pasta in Italy. She made her debut at Ella's Second Subscription concert in 1831, and sang regularly at Philharmonic Society Concert... | led by Dr Elizabeth Errington, and aims to publish Masson's collection. Publications so far include:
Two major catalogues
- "Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832-1835", by Elizabeth Errington, British Museum Research Publication 215 (2017).
- "The Charles Mas... | 130,590 | zeroshot-train |
Elsa Stralia [SEP] voice type | Elsa Stralia
Elsa Stralia (1 March 1881 – 31 August 1945) was an Australian soprano with an international reputation in Europe and America. She was born Elsie Mary Fischer.
Biography.
After appearing in Sydney, she studied in Milan and London. She made her Covent Garden, London debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart's "Don Gi... | Elise Wiedermann, who also taught Elsa Stralia, Florence Austral and others. She was first noticed by Nellie Melba, while singing at a reception for Lord Kitchener in Melbourne. Melba sent her to Paris to study with her own teacher Mathilde Marchesi. She later studied with Paolo Tosti in London. There she was heard by ... | 130,591 | zeroshot-train |
Emma Trentini [SEP] voice type | Emma Trentini
Emma Trentini (1878-March 23, 1959) was an Italian soprano opera singer who came to the United States in December 1906.
Early life.
She was from Mantova, Italy (Mantua). Her parents were poor and could not afford to give her money to attain an operatic career. At the age of 12 she was welcomed into the ch... | him in 1911. A portion of
their courtship occurred in Rimini. Later, Trentini was named as a co-respondent in Friml's divorce from his first wife in 1915, and evidence was introduced that they were having an affair.
Emma Trentini died in 1959.
External links.
- Emma Trentini News Service photo from 1900 | 130,592 | zeroshot-train |
Enkhbatyn Amartüvshin [SEP] voice type | Enkhbatyn Amartüvshin
Enkhbatyn Amartuvshin, (; born 23 March 1986), is a Mongolian operatic baritone and Honoured Artist of Mongolia. Also known as Amartuvshin Enkhbat, he has been a soloist in the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Mongolia since 2008.
Education.
Amartüvshin was born on 23 March 1986 in Sukhb... | Dashdavaagiin Amartüvshin
Dashdavaagiin Amartüvshin (Mongolian: Дашдаваагийн Амартүвшин) is a male Mongolian judoka. He won the silver medal in the extra-lightweight (60 kg) division at the 2013 World Judo Championships.
External links.
- The Sports profile. | 130,593 | zeroshot-train |
Eric Cutler [SEP] voice type | Eric Cutler
Eric Cutler is an American tenor notable for his performances of bel canto repertoire and Mozart operas in particular. He is a native of Adel, Iowa, and a graduate of Luther College. Cutler is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and was a winner of the Metropolita... | During the 1950s, Leonard provided the voice of lazy fat cat Dodsworth in two Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoons directed by Robert McKimson.
In the adventure movie "The Iroquois Trail" (1950), Leonard played against type in the significant role of Chief Ogane, a Native American warrior, who pursues and fights the f... | 130,594 | zeroshot-train |
Erika Miklósa [SEP] voice type | Erika Miklósa
Erika Miklósa (born June 9, 1970), is a Hungarian coloratura soprano.
Career.
Born in the southern Hungarian town of Kiskunhalas, she spent her youth as an athlete training for the heptathlon. Miklósa was Hungarian Junior Champion in the high jump. However, an accident forced her to switch career paths. B... | , hard-rock guitarist, was born here.
- Erika Miklósa
Sports.
The town is the birthplace of the highest ranked Hungarian tennis player Ágnes Szávay (at one time ranked 13th in the world), who has won five WTA titles.
International relations.
International relations Twin towns – Sister cities.
Kiskunhalas is twinned wit... | 130,595 | zeroshot-train |
Ernest Carbonne [SEP] voice type | Ernest Carbonne
Raymond Jean-Baptiste Ernest Carbonne (30 July 1860 in Toulouse – 1924) was a French tenor and stage director who had a long association with the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
Life and career.
Carbonne studied at the , gaining first prizes in opéra comique and acting in 1887. He was a pupil of Achard and Bax ... | in 1891 and 1904. It was played on tour for five months in 1878 by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a curtain raiser to "The Sorcerer" by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Opéra-Comique in Paris staged the work in 1901 with Jeanne Tiphaine as Reinette, Lucien Fugère as Père Mathieu and Ernest Carbonne as Pierre.
Synopsis.
The... | 130,596 | zeroshot-train |
Ernest van Dyck [SEP] voice type | Ernest van Dyck
Ernest van Dyck (2 April 1861 – 31 August 1923) was a Belgian dramatic tenor who was closely identified with the Wagnerian repertoire.
Biography.
A native of Antwerp, where he was educated in a Jesuit school, van Dyck studied both law and philosophy in Leuven before deciding to become an opera singer. T... | Ernest Van Dyck and Cyprien Godebski.
In Den Ast it is located at the former establishment of the malt house Van Roye. The ground floor pays attention to eight hundred years of history of the city, among which the pilgrimage. The first floor is focused on the music culture in the city and carnival. There is also an exp... | 130,597 | zeroshot-train |
Erwin Schrott [SEP] voice type | Erwin Schrott
Erwin Schrott (born 21 December 1972 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an operatic bass-baritone, particularly known for his interpretation of the title role in Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Career.
Schrott studied singing with Franca Mattiucci. He made his professional debut in Montevideo at the age of 22, singing R... | Schrott
Schrott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andreas Schrott (born 1981), Austrian footballer and manager
- Beate Schrott (born 1988), Austrian hurdler
- Erwin Schrott (born 1972), Uruguayan opera singer
- Karl Schrott (born 1953), Austrian luger
- Raoul Schrott, Austrian poet
- Tyler Schrot... | 130,598 | zeroshot-train |
Eteri Lamoris [SEP] voice type | Eteri Lamoris
Eteri Lamoris (born 23 May 1971) is an operatic soprano and voice teacher. Of Georgian descent and now a Spanish citizen, she initially studied with her mother Lamara Chkonia in Tbilisi and later in Madrid. Lamoris made her operatic debut as Desdemona in "Otello" at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre wh... | and went on to perform leading roles in both European and North American opera houses.
Eteri Lamoris teaches voice at the Academy of Belcanto in Graz (Austria). In 2012 she received the Stockholm Culture Foundation's award for Cultural Personality of the Year. The event was at the "Royal Palace". Princess of Sweden Chr... | 130,599 | zeroshot-train |
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