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Adam Flowers [SEP] voice type | Adam Flowers
Adam Flowers is an American lyric tenor who is based in San Francisco, California. Flowers sings major lyric tenor roles in opera houses across the western United States.
Flowers was in the resident company of Opera San José from 2001 until 2006 and appeared there in 22 productions, in many leading roles.
... | Satan" (from "Interzone" no. 136, Oct. 1998)
- "Adam" (from "Cemetery Dance" no. 24, Sum. 1996)
- "The Liar's Mouth" (from "Cemetery Dance" no. 16, Sum. 1993)
- "The Voice of Bel-Hemad" (from "Fantasy Book" v. 5, no. 3, Sep. 1986)
- "Bitter Chivalry" (from "Realms of Fantasy" v. 5, no. 3 | 130,900 | zeroshot-train |
Adelaide Borghi-Mamo [SEP] voice type | Adelaide Borghi-Mamo
Adelaide Borghi-Mamo (9 August 1826 – 29 September 1901) was an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career from the 1840s through the 1880s. She was married to tenor Michele Mamo and their daughter, soprano Erminia Borghi-Mamo, also had a successful singing career.
Life a... | Erminia Borghi-Mamo
Erminia Borghi-Mamo (November 18, 1855 – July 29, 1941) was an Italian opera singer.
Early life.
Erminia Borghi-Mamo was born in Paris, the daughter of Michele Mamo and Adelaide Borghi-Mamo, both Italian opera singers. She was literally born into the theatre: Adelaide Borghi-Mamo finished a performa... | 130,901 | zeroshot-train |
Adele Addison [SEP] voice type | Adele Addison
Adele Addison (born July 24, 1925 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an African-American lyric soprano who was a figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of her career performing in recital and concert. Her performances sp... | according to the album liner notes, Sammy Davis Jr. was under contract to another recording company, and his vocal tracks for the film could not be used on the album. Cab Calloway substituted his own vocals of Sportin' Life's songs. Robert McFerrin was the singing voice of Porgy, and Adele Addison the singing voice of ... | 130,902 | zeroshot-train |
Adolf Kozieradski [SEP] voice type | Adolf Kozieradski
Adolf Kozieradski (30 June 1835 - 14 November 1901) was a Polish operatic bass-baritone. He notably created the role of Miecznik in the world premiere of Stanisław Moniuszko's "The Haunted Manor" at the Great Theatre, Warsaw in 1865. | Skalpel (nu jazz)
Opera.
- Irene Abendroth (1871–1932)
- Piotr Beczała (1966–)
- Ewa Biegas (1977–)
- Grażyna Brodzińska (1951–)
- Anna Cymmerman
- Wojtek Drabowicz (1966–2007)
- Ján Koehler (–1895)
- Adolf Kozieradski (1835–1901)
- Mariusz Kwiecień (1972–)
- Bernard Ładysz (1922–)
- Maria Mitrosz (1970–)
- Aleksander ... | 130,903 | zeroshot-train |
Adolfo Bassi [SEP] voice type | Adolfo Bassi
Adolfo Bassi (Naples, 1775 – Trieste, 1855) was an Italian composer and operatic tenor. Brother of the bass Nicola Bassi and the contralto Carolina Bassi-Manna, he was also an impresario of the Teatro Nuovo in Trieste.
Operas.
- "Il Riccardo o Il finto cieco e sordo" (1809, Teatro Nuovo, Trieste)
- "L'ingi... | publication by Pohl and Kollar, entitled "Insects Injurious to Gardeners, Foresters and Farmers", published in 1837, and Taschenberg's "Praktische Insecktenkunde". During the 19th century Italian entomologists made significant progress in controlling diseases of the silkworm moth, in the control of agricultural pests a... | 130,904 | zeroshot-train |
Adolphe Nourrit [SEP] voice type | Adolphe Nourrit
Adolphe Nourrit (3 March 1802 – 8 March 1839) was a French operatic tenor, librettist, and composer. One of the most esteemed opera singers of the 1820s and 1830s, he was particularly associated with the works of Gioachino Rossini and Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Early life.
Nourrit was born on 3 March 1802 and r... | The opera was Niedermeyer's first venture in the Grand Opera vein. The leading roles were taken by two of the Opera's strongest singers, Adolphe Nourrit and Cornélie Falcon, both then at the height of their careers. However for both of them it represented some of their last appearances in Paris singing full operatic ro... | 130,905 | zeroshot-train |
Adriana Kučerová [SEP] voice type | Adriana Kučerová
Adriana Kučerová (born February 24, 1976 in Lučenec, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak soprano.
She was 22 years old and was almost finished with her university studies before she decided to go into a music career. Frank Kuznik of "The Prague Post" said "To say that Adriana Kučerová came late to singing woul... | Theatre (Archive)
- "Adriana Kučerová: V opere je každý sám za seba." žena.sme.sk. Petit Press, a.s.
- "Adriana Kučerová" (Archive). "Music Centre Slovakia" ("Hudobné centrum"). Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
- "Adriana Kučerová." () "Music Centre Slovakia". Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
- "A... | 130,906 | zeroshot-train |
Albert Lance [SEP] voice type | Albert Lance
Albert Lance (12 July 192515 May 2013) was an Australian tenor, also holding French citizenship. He was Australia's principal tenor during the 1950s and later enjoyed a highly successful career in France.
He was born in Medindie, South Australia as Lancelot Albert Ingram, but was usually known as Lance Ing... | II in 1953.
Ingram was noticed by the wife of the famed voice teacher Modesti, who invited him to France, for further study. Under Modesti's guidance, and with the help of his assistant, Simone Féjart, he acquired considerable refinement, both vocal and musical. Having changed his professional name from Lance Ingram to... | 130,907 | zeroshot-train |
Allen Doone [SEP] voice type | Allen Doone
Allen Doone (Edward Allen) b. 3 Sep 1878, Amboy, Lee, Illinois (d. 4 May 1948) was an Irish-American tenor and comic who specialised in Irish romantic dramas. His parents were James Allen (b. 27 Mar 1852 Dungarvan County Waterford, Ireland. d. 13 Oct 1890 in Idaho) and Kate (b. 1855 Ireland). James came to ... | The Rebel (1915 film)
The Rebel is a 1915 Australian silent film starring Allen Doone.
It is considered a lost film.
Plot.
Irish rebel leader Jack Blake is arrested and thrown into gaol by vindictive Englishman Captain Armstrong. Jack's girlfriend, Eileen, helps him escape and he kills Armstrong in a duel. Jack and Eil... | 130,908 | zeroshot-train |
Alois Pernerstorfer [SEP] voice type | Alois Pernerstorfer
Alois Pernerstorfer (3 June 1912 – 12 May 1978) was an Austrian bass-baritone
Born in Vienna, Pernerstorfer began his training in 1933 at the Wiener Musikhochschule with Theo Lierhammer and Josef Krips and made his opera debut in 1936 in Graz singing the role of Biterolf in "Tannhäuser". He sang for... | /Sieglinde Wagner/Gerhard Stolze/Walter Berry/Alois Pernerstorfer/Elisabeth Höngen/Wiener Philharmoniker)
- "Ruth Ballett" (1958), op. 16, after the Old Testament, first performed 1959 at the Wiener Staatsoper
- "Pavimento" (1961), op. 19, for large orchestra
- "Der Herr in Grau", opera op. 24 (1965/66)
- "Der Deserteu... | 130,909 | zeroshot-train |
Amarilli Nizza [SEP] voice type | Amarilli Nizza
Amarilli Nizza (born January 4, 1971 in Milan) is an Italian operatic soprano.
Early life and education.
Nizza is the descendant of the soprano Medea Mei Figner (Florence 1859 - Paris 1952). This one was also the poetical inspiration of Cajkovskij, who composed for her and her husband, the tenor Nikolaj ... | "Madama Butterfly" at Teatro Municipale di Piacenza and at Teatro Comunale di Modena.
Partial discography.
She recorded several CDs for different labels and recorded many DVDs. She firstly recorded a CD including all Mazurkas by Chopin with the pianist Enrica Ciccarelli, copied by Pauline Viardot,
- Puccini: Opera Ari... | 130,910 | zeroshot-train |
Andrei Bondarenko [SEP] voice type | Andrei Bondarenko
Andrei Bondarenko or Andriy Bondarenko (, born 1987) is a Ukrainian baritone opera singer.
Life.
Bondarenko was born and brought up in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. He trained at the National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kiev and at the Kiev Conservatory. He won the "Art in the 21st Century" compet... | Bondarenko
Bondarenko () is a Ukrainian surname (from - cooper), used by the following people:
- Alona Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player, sister and tennis doubles partner of Kateryna Bondarenko
- Andrei Bondarenko, Ukrainian opera singer.
- Bohdan Bondarenko, Ukrainian high jumper.
- Dmitri Bondarenko, Russian anthr... | 130,911 | zeroshot-train |
Andrew Shore [SEP] voice type | Andrew Shore
Andrew Shore, (born 30 September 1952) is an English operatic baritone.
Life and career.
Shore was born in Oldham, Lancashire. He studied at the University of Bristol, the Royal Northern College of Music and the London Opera Centre. In 1976 he married Fiona Macdonald; they have three daughters.
Life and ca... | of Missouri Press.
- National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship.
Publications.
Publications Books.
- "Returning to Shore" (YA novel), Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group, 2014
- "Everything I Was" (YA novel), Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group, 2011
- "... | 130,912 | zeroshot-train |
Angelo Badà [SEP] voice type | Angelo Badà
Angelo Badà (Pernate, 27 May 1876 – Novara, 23 March 1941) was an Italian operatic tenor. He was on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for 30 years where he gave a total of 2,170 performance in 94 different operas in over 100 different roles from 1908 through 1938. Only two singers in the Met's history ha... | .
Sources.
- Biography of Angelo Badà at www.oknovara.it
- Metropolitan Opera Archives
- Gianfranco Capra - Angelo Badaà, 30 anni al "Metropolitan" - quaderni novaresi - ediz.ZEN Iniziatove (marzo 2007) | 130,913 | zeroshot-train |
Angelo Manzotti [SEP] voice type | Angelo Manzotti
Angelo Manzotti is an Italian countertenor or sopranist born in 1971 in Marmirolo, Italy.
He began singing in the falsetto register at the age of twelve. He studied at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro and made his debut in August 1989 at the Rossini Opera Festival there. After perfecting his technique... | Manzotti
Manzotti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Achille Manzotti (1943–2007), Italian television and film producer
- Angelo Manzotti (born 1971), Italian opera singer
- Luigi Manzotti (1835–1905), Italian mime dancer and choreographer
- Mabel Manzotti (1938–2012), Argentine actress | 130,914 | zeroshot-train |
Anne Schwanewilms [SEP] voice type | Anne Schwanewilms
Anne Schwanewilms (born 1967, in Gelsenkirchen) is a German lyric soprano. She studied gardening before training in Cologne as a singer with the German bass Hans Sotin. She is particularly associated with performing the works of Richard Wagner, Franz Schreker, Alban Berg, and Richard Strauss. She sang... | Anne Schwanewilms and Marlene Mild, and worked with fellow composers, Christoph Maria Wagner, Stefan Thomas, Oliver Trötschel and Thomas Reiner. He was artistic director of the “Tage Neuer Musik,” 2001 In Brauweiler, Germany, and was also the Artistic Director for The "Streams" Music Festival in 2010 and 2013, which fe... | 130,915 | zeroshot-train |
Annelies Burmeister [SEP] voice type | Annelies Burmeister
Annelies Burmeister (1928–1988) was a German contralto and actress.
Burmeister studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar. She was a member of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and made several guest appearances with other ensembles, including the Hamburg State Opera and the Opéra de Paris. She perform... | Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life and was the musical editor of their "de-Judaized" hymnal "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich". Since 1950 he directed the Thüringer Kirchenmusikhochschule in Eisenach.
From 1961 until 1972 he was Thomaskantor, succeeding Kurt Thomas. Together with his brother he... | 130,916 | zeroshot-train |
Annely Peebo [SEP] voice type | Annely Peebo
Annely Peebo (born 16 November 1971) is a mezzo-soprano from Estonia.
Biography.
Annely Peebo gained a diploma for choral conducting and completed vocal studies in opera. She studied at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria, where she studied singing with Professor Gerhard Kah... | Moroccan footballer and manager
- 1971 – Annely Peebo, Estonian soprano and actress
- 1971 – Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer and coach
- 1971 – Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer and coach
- 1972 – Missi Pyle, American actress and singer
- 1973 – Christian Horner, English race car driver and manager
- 1973 – Brendan La... | 130,917 | zeroshot-train |
Annemarie Kremer [SEP] voice type | Annemarie Kremer
Annemarie Kremer (Emmer-Compascuum, Netherlands) is a Dutch operatic soprano, known for her performances in the title roles of "Norma", "Tosca", and "Salome" and as Vitellia in "La clemenza di Tito". She has appeared at a variety of European opera houses including the Opernhaus Dortmund, the Staatsoper... | Kremer
Kremer is a German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname cognate to Kramer.
People.
- Amy Kremer (born 1970/71), American Tea Party political activist
- Andrea Kremer (b. 1959), American television sports journalist
- Andrzej Kremer (1961–2010), Polish lawyer and diplomat, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
-... | 130,918 | zeroshot-train |
Anthony Michaels-Moore [SEP] voice type | Anthony Michaels-Moore
Anthony Michaels-Moore (born 8 April 1957) is an English operatic baritone and the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition (Philadelphia, 1985). Anthony has since performed in many of the world's major opera houses across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. He ha... | and also affected his voice. After three years of rehabilitation, surgery, and physiotherapy, he began a new career as a voice teacher. He initially taught at in his private studio in Skaneateles and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He continues to teach at his private studio and at Colgate University.
Recordings.... | 130,919 | zeroshot-train |
Antoinette Halloran [SEP] voice type | Antoinette Halloran
Antoinette Halloran is an Australian operatic soprano.
Education.
Antoinette Halloran grew up in the Melbourne suburbs of Rosanna and Deer Park. She attended Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts where she won the Mabel Kent Scholarship and completed... | Halloran
Halloran may refer to:
People.
- Amy Halloran
- Antoinette Halloran
- Ben Halloran
- Bob Halloran
- Brenda Halloran
- Dan Halloran
- Jack Halloran
- James Halloran
- Kay Halloran
- Laurence Hynes Halloran
- Lia Halloran
- Peter Halloran
- Shawn Halloran
- Walter Halloran
People Fictional.
- Richard "Dick" Hall... | 130,920 | zeroshot-train |
Antonietta Fricci [SEP] voice type | Antonietta Fricci
Antonietta Fricci (born Antonie Frietsche) (8 January 1840 – 7 September 1912) was an Austrian-born opera singer known for her performances in leading soprano and mezzo-soprano roles in the opera houses of Europe. She was married to the Italian tenor Pietro Neri-Baraldi from 1863 until his death in 19... | Pupils.
Among her pupils were:
- Suzanne Adams
- Frances Alda
- Sigrid Arnoldson
- Blanche Arral
- Kate Bensberg
- Nadina Bulcioff
- Emma Calvé
- Ada Crossley
- Ilma de Murska
- May De Sousa
- Marie Duma
- Emma Eames
- Rose Ettinger
- Antonietta Fricci
- Marie Fillunger
- Mary Garden
- Etelka Gerster
- Louise Johnson-M... | 130,921 | zeroshot-train |
Aria Tesolin [SEP] voice type | Aria Tesolin
Aria Tesolin (born August 20, 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano, pop classical, classical crossover and contemporary pop singer, songwriter and poet known for her operatic vocals and genre defying original style of classically infused pop music.
Biography.
As a child singer, Tesolin... | 1987), American actress
- Aria Giovanni (born 1977), American pornographic actress and model
- Aria Johnson (born 1983), American singer and actress
- Aria Tesolin (born 1993), Canadian opera singer
- Aria Wallace (born 1996), American actress
- Aria Shahghasemi (born 1996), American actor
Fictional characters.
- Aria ... | 130,922 | zeroshot-train |
Armando Borgioli [SEP] voice type | Armando Borgioli
Armando Borgioli (19 March 1898 – 20 January 1945) was an Italian operatic baritone. He made his début in 1923, and appeared at Teatro alla Scala from 1927. In four seasons from 1931 he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Borgioli made studio recordings of "Aida" in 1928, where he sings Amo... | Pavoncelli, maestro Franco Ghione and 7 lyrical singers: Galliano Masini, Bruno Landi, Armando Borgioli, Filippo Romito, Giacomo Vaghi and Duiliu Baroni, who were to give a performance at the Teatro Colón. The ship managed to return to Europe in the first days of June from Buenos Aires, via Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro a... | 130,923 | zeroshot-train |
Arnold Voketaitis [SEP] voice type | Arnold Voketaitis
Arnold Voketaitis (born May 11, 1930, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American bass-baritone of Lithuanian descent who had an active singing career performing in operas, concerts, and recitals from the late 1950s through the 1990s. He enjoyed a particularly successful partnership with the New York City ... | Arnold Voketaitis as the Pirate King and Ruth Kobart as Ruth and Marcello in "La bohème" with Karol Loraine as Musetta, Dolores Mari as Mimì, and David Poleri as Rodolfo. In 1961 he took over the role of the Pirate King from Voketaitis and also appeared at the City Opera that year as Michele in Puccini's "Il tabarro" w... | 130,924 | zeroshot-train |
Artur Ruciński [SEP] voice type | Artur Ruciński
Artur Ruciński (born 1976 in Warsaw) is a Polish baritone opera singer.
Ruciński studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music and made his debut as Papageno in "The Magic Flute" with in 2001. In 2002 he made his debut at Warsaw's National Theatre, taking the title role in "Eugene Onegin". He went on to sing On... | at London's St John's, Smith Square. In May 2012 he made his American debut as Marcello with LA Opera. He appears on a DVD live recording of Verdi's I masnadieri released in January 2013.
External links.
- Artur Ruciński and James Vaughan performing "Ya vas lyublyu" from Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades" in a Rosenbl... | 130,925 | zeroshot-train |
Attilio Salvaneschi [SEP] voice type | Attilio Salvaneschi
Attilio Salvaneschi (1873–1938) was an Italian operatic tenor. He had an active international singing career from the late 1890s until his retirement in 1924. He then embarked on a second career as a voice teacher, first in Italy and later in the Netherlands. Possessing a voice of remarkable beauty,... | Dario Zani; Grande Orchestra and Chorus
- 1919 Puccini: "Tosca" – Valentina Bartolomasi, Attilio Salvaneschi, Adolfo Pacini; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
- 1919 Rossini: "Il barbiere di Siviglia" – Ernesto Badini, Malvina Pereira, Edoardo Taliani; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
- 1919 Verdi: "Aida" ... | 130,926 | zeroshot-train |
Aulikki Rautawaara [SEP] voice type | Aulikki Rautawaara
Terttu Aulikki Rautawaara (May 2, 1906, Vaasa — December 29, 1990, Helsinki) was a Finnish soprano. She was famous for her interpretation of works by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius, including some of the first recordings of Sibelius made outside Scandinavia. She played the part of Countess Almaviva i... | - Mozart's "Don Giovanni", with Ezio Pinza (Don Giovanni), Virgilio Lazzari (Leporello), Elisabeth Rethberg (Donna Anna), Dino Borgioli (Don Ottavio), Luise Helletsgruber (Donna Elvira), Margit Bokor (Zerlina), Karl Ettl (Masetto), Herbert Alsen (Commendatore). Wiener Philharmoniker, conductor Bruno Walter. Live-Mitsch... | 130,927 | zeroshot-train |
Barbara Bonney [SEP] voice type | Barbara Bonney
Barbara Bonney (born April 14, 1956) is an American soprano.
Early life.
Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist. She spent two years at the Universit... | . The result was Costello's "The River in Reverse" which is a collaboration with New Orleanian, Allen Toussaint and recorded with The Crescent City Horns. Costello turned to older songs to reflect the national malaise at the time.
In a studio recording of Nieve's opera "Welcome to the Voice" (2006, Deutsche Grammophon)... | 130,928 | zeroshot-train |
Barbara Dever [SEP] voice type | Barbara Dever
Barbara Dever (born December 25, 1951) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer who has appeared with Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Nello Santi and James Levine.
Dever made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1994, as Amneris in "Aida". Other roles at the Met include Azucena in "Il Trovato... | Dever
Dever is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Barbara Dever (born 1951), opera singer, appeared with Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Zubin Mehta
- Belinda Dever (born 1977), Australian retired netball player
- Dever Orgill (born 1990), Jamaican footballer
- Edmonde Dever (born 1921), Belgian ... | 130,929 | zeroshot-train |
Bernabé Martí [SEP] voice type | Bernabé Martí
Bernabé Martí (born 14 November 1928) is a Spanish Aragonese operatic tenor and the widower of Montserrat Caballé.
Career.
He was born as Bernabé Martínez Remacha, the sixth and last child of his family, in Villarroya de la Sierra in the Province of Zaragoza, Aragon. His early musical training was in the ... | Montserrat Martí
Montserrat Martí (born 15 November 1972), also known as Montsita, is a Spanish soprano.
Early life.
Martí was born as Montserrat Martí Caballé in Barcelona on 15 November 1972 to Montserrat Caballé and Bernabé Martí. She made her first appearance as a singer in 1993, singing with her mother in London. ... | 130,930 | zeroshot-train |
Betty Allen [SEP] voice type | Betty Allen
Betty Allen (March 17, 1927 – June 22, 2009) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s. In the latter part of her career her voice acquired a contralto-like darkening, which can be heard on her recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s "Al... | Wells, Administration
Recipients 1990s Class of 1995.
- Wally Boag, Attractions
- Fulton Burley, Attractions
- Dean Jones, Film
- Angela Lansbury, Film
- Edward Meck, Attractions
- Fred Moore, Animation
- Thurl Ravenscroft, Animation—Voice
- Wathel Rogers, Imagineering
- Betty Taylor, Attractions
Recipients 1990s Class... | 130,931 | zeroshot-train |
Bryan Hymel [SEP] voice type | Bryan Hymel
Bryan Hymel (born August 8, 1979) is an American operatic tenor who was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from Jesuit High School and Loyola University New Orleans.
Early years.
Bryan Hymel came to the attention of opera houses at the age of 19, when he was a winner in the Verdi Aria C... | Hymel
Hymel is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Bryan Hymel (born 1979), American opera singer
- Gary Hymel, American baseball player
- Hymel Hunt (born 1993), Australian rugby league player
- Shelley Hymel, Canadian psychologist | 130,932 | zeroshot-train |
Carl Tanner [SEP] voice type | Carl Tanner
Carl Tanner (born 1962, Arlington, Virginia) is an American operatic tenor.
Biography and career.
Born into "very modest means," Carl Tanner's earliest exposure to music was in the form of country icons such as John Denver, Willie Nelson, and Roy Clark. He began taking violin lessons at the age of 13 and, a... | Babysitter Wanted" (2008) as Chief Dinneli
- "Repo! The Genetic Opera" (2008) as Luigi Largo
- "Alone in the Dark II" (2008) as Dexter
- "The Alphabet Killer" (2008) as Carl Tanner
- "House" (2008) as Stewart
- "The Devil's Tomb" (2009) as Prof. Duncan
- "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" (2009) as Otis Driftwood (v... | 130,933 | zeroshot-train |
Carlton Gauld [SEP] voice type | Carlton Gauld
James Carlton Gauld (November 15, 1901 – March 2, 1975) was an American operatic bass who had a prolific career during the 1930s through the 1960s.
Born and raised in Bedford, Indiana, Gustos first rose to prominence at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, making his debut with the company in the 193... | York City Opera in 1944, the first season of the company. He sang at the NYCO numerous times through 1957, notably playing Sander in the world premiere of David Tamkin's "The Dybbuk" in 1951. In the late 1950s he began working as an opera director, and was active in that area in the 1960s. Some of Gauld's other roles i... | 130,934 | zeroshot-train |
Carmen Melis [SEP] voice type | Carmen Melis
Carmen Melis (15 August 1885 – 19 December 1967) was an Italian operatic soprano who had a major international career during the first four decades of the 20th century. She was known, above all, as a verismo soprano, and was one of the most interesting singing actresses of the early 20th century. She made ... | , Turkish actress and model
Surname.
- Alberto Melis (born 1993), Italian football midfielder
- Anastasios Melis, American plant biologist
- Antal Melis (born 1946), Hungarian rower
- (born 1959), Hungarian football forward
- Bill Melis (born 1960), Greek–American basketball player
- Carmen Melis (1885–1967), Italian o... | 130,935 | zeroshot-train |
Catarina Ligendza [SEP] voice type | Catarina Ligendza
Catarina Ligendza (born 18 October 1937) is a Swedish soprano opera singer.
Originally Katarina Beyron, she was born in Stockholm, the daughter of the soprano and the tenor . She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, then from 1959 to 1963, at the Hochschule für Musik Würzbur... | - Liese, Kirsten, "Wagnerian Heroines. A Century Of Great Isoldes and Brünnhildes", English translation: Charles Scribner, Edition Karo, Berlin, 2013.
External links.
- Biography: Catarina Ligendza on the official web site of the "Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition"
- Catarina Ligendza in the Internet M... | 130,936 | zeroshot-train |
Catherine Dubosc [SEP] voice type | Catherine Dubosc
Catherine Dubosc (born 12 March 1959) is a French soprano. Born in Lille, she studied with Eric Tappy at the Opéra National de Lyon, before joining that company in 1985. She is well known for her Mozart roles, but she has also sung operas written significantly earlier ("Giasone") and later ("Dialogues ... | Dubosc
Dubosc may refer to:
- Catherine Dubosc
- Claude Dubosc | 130,937 | zeroshot-train |
Cecilia Hjortsberg [SEP] voice type | Cecilia Hjortsberg
Cecilia Hjortsberg is a Swedish opera singer (soprano), born 1973.
She has been employed at The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen since 2005. Previous employment was at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre, where she has contributed in "Miss Saigon", "Otello", "Turandot", "La Bohème" and "Faust" and played Donna An... | Hjortsberg
Hjortsberg is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cecilia Hjortsberg (born 1973), Swedish opera singer
- Hedda Hjortsberg (1777–1867), Swedish ballerina
- Lars Hjortsberg (1772–1843), Swedish actor
- William Hjortsberg (1941–2017), American writer
- An area in the Swedish town Falke... | 130,938 | zeroshot-train |
Celena Shafer [SEP] voice type | Celena Shafer
Celena Shafer is an American soprano, born c. 1975 in Centerville, Utah.
Career.
At age 17, Shafer won a vocal competition at the Utah State Fair, and was selected to sing with the Utah Symphony orchestra in their "Salute to Youth" concert. After graduating from Viewmont High School, she enrolled in the U... | , Nanetta in "Falstaff", Hero in Berlioz's "Beatrice and Benedict", Zerbinetta in a concert performance of "Ariadne auf Naxos", Blonde in "The Abduction from the Seraglio", Adele in "Die Fledermaus", and "Show Boat" for a gala benefit for Carnegie Hall.
References.
- Biography on Celena Shafer at "Colbert Artists Manag... | 130,939 | zeroshot-train |
Cesare Formichi [SEP] voice type | Cesare Formichi
Cesare Formichi (April 15, 1883, Rome - July 21, 1949, Rome) was a prominent Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.
Formichi studied in Rome with Pio Di Pietro and in Firenze with Vincenzo Lombardi, and made his debut in December 1907 at the Teatro Olimpia in Bolo... | Andrea Chénier" – Luigi Lupato, Valentina Bartolomasi, Adolfo Pacini; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
1920 - 1930
- 1920 Bizet: "Carmen" - Fanny Anitùa, Luigi Bolis, Ines Maria Ferraris, Cesare Formichi; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
- 1920 Gounoud: "Faust" – Giuliano Romagnoli, Fernando Autori, Gemma... | 130,940 | zeroshot-train |
Cesare Valletti [SEP] voice type | Cesare Valletti
Cesare Valletti (December 18, 1922 - May 13, 2000) was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. He was much admired for his polished vocal technique, his musical refinement and elegance, and beauty of tone.
Valletti was born in Rome, where he studied music. He a... | hours notice.
She can be heard in a few Cetra recordings; "Don Giovanni", opposite Giuseppe Taddei, Italo Tajo, Cesare Valletti, "Un ballo in maschera", opposite Ferruccio Tagliavini and Giuseppe Valdengo, "Aida", opposite Franco Corelli, Miriam Pirazzini and Giangiacomo Guelfi.
When the old Metropolitan Opera House cl... | 130,941 | zeroshot-train |
Christopher S. Pedersen [SEP] voice type | Christopher S. Pedersen
Christopher S. Pedersen (born 28 December 1986) is a Norwegian baritone.
He was born in the town of Skjeberg, Norway.
Education.
Pedersen started his musical education early, by singing in a church choir, and taking piano lessons from the age of eight. Pedersen has his bachelor's degree in perfo... | directed by Ivan Woodhouse
Jan 1989: "Action" + "Icarus's Mother" by Sam Shepard, directed by Boomie Pedersen (studio production)
Feb 1989: "Beyond Therapy" by Christopher Durang, directed by Don Dillon
Mar 1989: "A Kind of Alaska" by Harold Pinter, directed by Margaret Grogan (studio production)
Apr 1989: "Passion... | 130,942 | zeroshot-train |
Clive Wearing [SEP] voice type | Clive Wearing
Clive Wearing (born 11 May 1938) is a British former musicologist, conductor, tenor and keyboardist who suffers from chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia. He lacks the ability to form new memories, and also cannot recall aspects of his past memories, frequently believing that he has only recently aw... | . Jason Wingreen originally provided Fett's voice, but in 2004, Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in "Attack of the Clones", replaced Wingreen as Fett's voice.
- Multiple actors have portrayed the Emperor, the evil ruler of the Galactic Empire and Vader's powerful Sith Master, who appears via hologram. Clive Revi... | 130,943 | zeroshot-train |
Cyndia Sieden [SEP] voice type | Cyndia Sieden
Cyndia Sieden (born September 10, 1961) is an American coloratura soprano on the opera and concert stages.
Biography.
Cyndia Sieden was born in 1961 in California, USA, and received her first vocal instruction there. A significant early milestone in her studies was work with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in maste... | (Munich, Japan, Vienna), Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier" (Paris Châtelet) and Aminta in "Die schweigsame Frau" (Palermo).
On the concert platform Cyndia Sieden has appeared with most major European and North American orchestras; Sieden often sings Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana", the oratorios of Handel, Mozart, and Haydn, ... | 130,944 | zeroshot-train |
Cynthia Haymon [SEP] voice type | Cynthia Haymon
Cynthia Haymon-Coleman is an American soprano, born September 6, 1958 in Jacksonville, Florida. She is known for the beauty of her voice and seeming ease with which she uses it, and more recently as a voice teacher. She received a Bachelor's degree of Music in Vocal Performance from Northwestern Universi... | Copland: "Old American Songs", opera arias by Mozart and Gounod, Bizet's "Pearl Fishers' Duet", and Broadway numbers including "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Ol' Man River". With Bonaventura Bottone, tenor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, cond. Carl Davis, conductor. RLCD 204
- "Porg... | 130,945 | zeroshot-train |
Darina Takova [SEP] voice type | Darina Takova
Darina Takova (; Sofia, 27 December 1963) is a Bulgarian soprano and teacher. She is one of the leading sopranos of her generation.
Education and first steps.
Darina Takova was born in Sofia, where she finished her studies at National Academy Pancho Vladigerov in the class of Prof. Mati Pinkas and Prof. M... | Darina (given name)
Darina is feminine given name and in Persian, it means precious and valuable. It is also found in Slovak, Czech, and Bulgarian cultures and comes from the Slavic element "dar" which means gift.
People with the surname.
- Darina, Mexican singer
- Darina Al Joundi, Lebanese-born French stage actor
- ... | 130,946 | zeroshot-train |
Darren Keith Woods [SEP] voice type | Darren Keith Woods
Darren Keith Woods (born 1958, Texas) is an American opera director and operatic tenor. A graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, he began his career as an opera singer in 1982, making his professional debut at the Santa Fe Opera (SFO) as Don Curzio in Wolfgang Amadeus Mo... | W.
- Gerard Walker
- Ryan Walker†
- Diego Walsh
- Darren Warham *
- Jamie Watson†
- Mark Watson
- Pablo Webster
- Shane Weems
- Keith Wiggans
- Chris Williams
- Rob Williams
- Romario Williams
- John Wilson
- Mark Wiltse
- Stephen Winters
- O'Brian Woodbine
- Alex Woods
Y.
- Tsuyoshi Yoshitake
- Velko Yotov
- Paul Youn... | 130,947 | zeroshot-train |
David Erler [SEP] voice type | David Erler
David Erler (born 1981) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.
Career.
Erler was born in Auerbach. He attended the musical gymnasium "Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium" in Zwickau, and studied at the Musikhochschule Leipzig with Maria Jonas and Marek Rz... | vocal part in the recitative; excessive homophony in the choruses; two obbligato instruments and over-frequent instrumental episodes in the arias, with the solo voice dominating and the instruments consigned to an imitative decorative role), as well as the absence of characteristic elements (such as permutation fugues ... | 130,948 | zeroshot-train |
David Pomeroy [SEP] voice type | David Pomeroy
David Pomeroy (born 11 September 1973) is a Canadian operatic tenor.
Early life and musical training.
David Pomeroy was born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Pomeroy credits his grandfather, Dr. Ignatius Rumboldt (a 1975 Order of Canada recipient), Master of Choral Music, Head Organist and ... | Christmas tree, the dog must use every trick it knows to stop them.
Cast.
- David DeLuise as Dad
- Kim Little as Mom
- Davis Cleveland as Dillon Mateo Rojas
- Gerald Webb as Columbus (voice)
- Natalie Jane as KC
- Kevin Sorbo as Quentin
- Jeremy Mascia as Jake Marcos Olea
- Jonathan Nation as Anthony Leandro Cejas
- Ju... | 130,949 | zeroshot-train |
Denise Scharley [SEP] voice type | Denise Scharley
Denise Scharley (born Neuilly-en-Thelle, 15 February 1917 – died Versailles, 26 July 2011) was a French contralto who made her debut in 1942, singing "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Opéra-Comique.
Long associated with French opera, she starred as Madame de Croissy in the Paris première of Poulenc's "Dialo... | , Blanche appears, to Constance's joy, to join her condemned sisters. Having seen all the other nuns executed, as she mounts the scaffold, Blanche sings the final stanza of the "Veni Creator Spiritus," ""Deo Patri sit gloria..."", the Catholic hymn traditionally used when taking vows in a religious community and offeri... | 130,950 | zeroshot-train |
Diamante Maria Scarabelli [SEP] voice type | Diamante Maria Scarabelli
Diamante Maria Scarabelli was an Italian soprano singer of the later 17th century and the early 18th century. She is best remembered for having sung the part of Poppea in George Frederic Handel's opera "Agrippina", a role that requires a wide vocal range, a fairly high tessitura, and a highly ... | Winton Dean: "Scarabelli, Diamante Maria", "Grove Music Online" ed L. Macy (Accessed 16 January 2007), grovemusic.com, subscription access. | 130,951 | zeroshot-train |
Domenico Cosselli [SEP] voice type | Domenico Cosselli
Domenico Cosselli (27 May 1801 in Parma – 9 November 1855 in Parma) was an Italian operatic bass-baritone, particularly associated with Rossini operas.
He began his vocal studies in his native city in 1814 and made his stage debut there in 1821. He quickly made a specialty of Rossini roles, singing in... | performance was dispatched to London's "The Harmonicon", which mentions his "character of Iago, a part for a bass which was greatly improved by Rossini, during his engagement at your Italian opera." Domenico Cosselli sang the role at Turin's Teatro d'Angennes in 1828, as did the Italian "primo basso" Federico Crespi (1... | 130,952 | zeroshot-train |
Domenico Mustafà [SEP] voice type | Domenico Mustafà
Domenico Mustafà (16 April 1829 – 17 March 1912) was an Italian castrato singer, composer and choir director.
Life.
Domenico Mustafà was born in the comune of Sellano, province of Perugia and had been castrated due to a bite from a pig.
He became a famous soprano castrato with the Cappella Sistina in t... | of Alessandro Moreschi, together they often used to visit their contemporary Domenico Mustafà in his retirement. Salvatori died in Rome. He is buried in the Monumental Cimitero di Campo Verano in Alessandro Moreschi's tomb. He recorded, along with Giovanni Cesari and Vincenzo Sebastianelli, a few phonograph recordings ... | 130,953 | zeroshot-train |
Dominic Cossa [SEP] voice type | Dominic Cossa
Dominic Cossa (born May 13, 1935) is an American operatic lyric baritone particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoire.
Biography.
Born in Jessup, Pennsylvania, Cossa studied with Anthony Marlowe in Detroit, Michigan, Robert Weede in Concord, California, and Armen Boyajian in New York Cit... | : Souvenir Opera", "Time" (June 14, 1976)
- Central Opera Service Bulletin. "Winners of Vocal Competitions" (May–June 1966)
- Hamilton, David (ed.) "Cossa, Dominic", "The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia". Simon and Schuster (1987)
- "The New York Times", "4 American Opera Singers Have Debut in Milan" (September 21, 196... | 130,954 | zeroshot-train |
Dominique Visse [SEP] voice type | Dominique Visse
Dominique Visse (born 30 August 1955) is a French countertenor and founder of the Ensemble Clément Janequin.
Life and career.
Dominique Visse was a chorister in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and studied organ and flute at the Versailles Conservatory. As a musician, he developed an interest in Med... | Antoine Sicot
Antoine Sicot is a contemporary French soloist singer specialising in the baroque repertoire for bass voice.
Biography.
Born in Saint-Ouen-de-Sécherouvre in Orne, Sicot worked a lot during the 1980s with the Baroque music ensemble Les Arts Florissants, spearhead of the "baroqueux" movement directed by Wil... | 130,955 | zeroshot-train |
Don Seabolt [SEP] voice type | Don Seabolt
Don Seabolt (born July 30, 1944) is an American singer and songwriter best known for singing tenor with the famed Blue Ridge Quartet from Spartanburg, South Carolina from 1971-1978. Prior to his tenure with the Blue Ridge Quartet he served as the lead singer for the Prophets Quartet from Nashville, Tennesse... | 1968, he was replaced by Laverne Tripp. The 1970s saw the beginning of several years of unprecedented chart success and group popularity. Don Seabolt replaced Fred Daniel in 1972 and Jim Wood also filled the lead slot later in the decade.
The Blue Ridge Quartet shared a number one song on the Singing News chart with th... | 130,956 | zeroshot-train |
Donald Bell [SEP] voice type | Donald Bell
Donald Bell (born 19 June 1934) is a Canadian bass-baritone and vocal pedagogue. For over four decades he actively performed in concerts and operas internationally. He retired from performance in 1994. As a vocal pedagogue he has researched and published studies on vocal acoustics and laryngeal function. He... | , "The Voice of Authority" – DAW (2002)
- Familiars Fantastic, "And So, Ad Infinitum" – DAW (2002)
- The Repentant, "The Salem Trial" – DAW (Oct 2003)
- Low Port, "Bottom of the Food Chain" – Meisha Merlin (2003)
- The Sorcerer’s Academy, "Field Trip" – DAW (Sep 2003)
- The Magic Shop, "For Whom the Bell Tolled" – DAW ... | 130,957 | zeroshot-train |
Donnie Ray Albert [SEP] voice type | Donnie Ray Albert
Donnie Ray Albert (born January 10, 1950) is an American operatic baritone who has had an active international career since 1976.
Life and career.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Albert graduated from McKinley Senior High School in 1968. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State Univer... | and legacy.
In 1964, Hayward left New York for Dallas, Texas, where he became Artist-in-Residence and Chairman of the Voice and Opera Departments of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He was further honored by being named the Meadows Distinguished Professor of Voice in 1990, and soon after... | 130,958 | zeroshot-train |
Edith Mason [SEP] voice type | Edith Mason
Edith Mason (March 22, 1892 – November 26, 1973) was an American soprano.
Biography.
She was born Edith Barnes on March 22, 1892, in St. Louis, Missouri and studied in Boston, Philadelphia, and Paris. She made her singing début on January 27, 1912, as Nedda in "Pagliacci" with the Boston Opera Company. Duri... | fight song.
He went on tour with the singer Lillian Russell as her pianist. He spent several years in Germany conducting at provincial opera houses. He later served as a voice coach and headed the voice department at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. During his career, he served as director of the Tri-City Symphon... | 130,959 | zeroshot-train |
Edith Wiens [SEP] voice type | Edith Wiens
Edith Wiens (born June 9, 1950, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian opera, recital and concert singer with a soprano voice.
Early life and education.
Wiens, daughter of a Mennonite pastor, grew up in Vancouver where she finished high school at the age of 16. She studied theology and church music at Co... | High School in 2007. He continued his education at The Juilliard School where he completed his Bachelor of Music (studying voice with Cynthia Hoffmann) and a Graduate Diploma under the voice tutelage of Edith Wiens, who he continues to study with.
Career.
During the 2012/13 season, Brancy made his professional operatic... | 130,960 | zeroshot-train |
Edson Cordeiro [SEP] voice type | Edson Cordeiro
Edson Cordeiro (born February 9, 1967) is a Brazilian sopranist countertenor and pop and jazz singer.
Life and career.
Cordeiro was born in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil. He began singing at 6 years old when he joined a church choir called "Cordeirinhos do Senhor". He went on to become famous as a stree... | in her heyday also had a four-octave voice. Indeed, Cordeiro covered one of Sumac's songs: "Babalú". Today, Cordeiro performs mainly in South America, with a recent brief stint in Germany.
He has lived in Germany for over a decade due, he says, to the homophobic harassment he suffered in Brazil. He is married to German... | 130,961 | zeroshot-train |
Eduard Haken [SEP] voice type | Eduard Haken
Eduard Haken (22 March 1910 – 12 January 1996, Prague) was a Czech operatic bass who had a lengthy career at the National Theatre in Prague during the 20th century. Although he mostly performed within his own nation, Haken did appear at a number of important international music festivals and opera houses i... | Peter Grünberg
- Eduard Grüneisen
- Otto von Guericke
- Peter Gumbsch
- Sibylle Günter
H.
- Rudolf Haag
- Heinz Haber
- Rolf Hagedorn
- Gotthilf Hagen
- Hermann Haken
- Wilhelm Hallwachs
- Thomas Hamacher
- Hilda Hänchen
- Wilhelm Hanle
- Theodor W. Hänsch
- Hauke Harder
- Johannes Franz Hartmann
- Werner Hartmann
- Ch... | 130,962 | zeroshot-train |
Eileen Strempel [SEP] voice type | Eileen Strempel
Eileen Strempel is an operatic soprano and academic from Syracuse, New York.
Background.
In 1984, Strempel began her undergraduate education at the Eastman School of Music and received her bachelor's degree in 1984. In 1991, she studied on full scholarship at Indiana University for her master's degree. ... | Burns. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Randall, Annie Janeiro. "Zaimont, Judith Lang." In "Grove Music Online". Oxford University Press, 2001. accessed October 24, 2012..
- Reel, James. "A Conversation with Judith Lang Zaimont." "Fanfare-The Magazing for Serious Record Collectors" 19 no. 5 (May 1996): 3... | 130,963 | zeroshot-train |
Elena Zoubareva [SEP] voice type | Elena Zoubareva
Elena Zoubareva is a Russian American soprano specializing in opera and classical crossover. Zoubareva is also a voice expert and a creator of the FitVoice program
Born in Russia and educated at Moscow State University and Berklee College of Music, Elena has performed in concert halls in Europe and the ... | classical singing and at Moscow State University to study journalism. After the untimely death of her father, as a result of a psychological trauma Elena developed functional dysphonia. The lack of a comprehensive treatment in Russia resulted in ultimate loss of her voice which forced Zoubareva to quit Music College an... | 130,964 | zeroshot-train |
Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani [SEP] voice type | Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani
Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani (2 June 1780 – after 1828) was an Italian opera singer best known for having created the leading soprano roles in four of Rossini's operas, roles which he wrote specifically for her voice. She was born Antonia Elisabetta Manfredini in Bologna and was the dau... | )
References.
- Notes
- Sources
- Caprioli, Leonella Grasso (2007). "Manfredini (Manfredini Guarmani), Elisabetta (Elisa)", "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani", Volume 68. Treccani
- Forbes, Elisabeth (1992/2008). "Manfredini-Guarmani, Elisabetta" in Laura Williams Macy (ed.) "The Grove Book of Opera Singers", p. 30... | 130,965 | zeroshot-train |
Elizabeth Amsden [SEP] voice type | Elizabeth Amsden
Elizabeth Amsden (March 27, 1881, Boston – July 20, 1966, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire) was an American operatic soprano and actress. She had an active international opera career during the early 20th century. She also appeared in several small to mid-sized roles in Hollywood films between 1923 and 1946; ... | Amsden
Amsden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alice Amsden (1943–2012), American political economist
- C. S. Amsden (1856–1943), American politician
- Elizabeth Amsden (1881–1966), American opera singer and actress
- Frederick J. Amsden, 19th-century American architect
- Janet Amsden, British a... | 130,966 | zeroshot-train |
Elizabeth Llewellyn [SEP] voice type | "The Marriage of Figaro" at the English National Opera. Writing in "Opera News", George Hall commented: "Best of all was the Countess, Elizabeth Llewellyn, whose rich-toned, agile soprano offered a level of vocal quality too often missing elsewhere; her performance was the more remarkable given that she was a late repl... | Beach Provincial Park. Reconnaissance trips by government representatives, one of them being Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, found insufficient rationale to establishing a park there at that time due to its remote and inaccessible location, outstanding forestry encumbrances and with respect to its development as a health r... | 130,967 | zeroshot-train |
Elizabeth Mannion [SEP] voice type | Elizabeth Mannion
Elizabeth Mannion is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who has performed at opera houses throughout the world. A celebrated voice teacher, Mannion has served on the music faculties of the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Florida State University, Bowling Green State University, the Univers... | became a founding member of the Delta Nu chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota. In 1966 she won the National Society of Arts and Letters singing competition. After graduating in 1967 with a degree in music, she began graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and later at the University of Michigan School of Music... | 130,968 | zeroshot-train |
Emelie Hooke [SEP] voice type | Emelie Hooke
Emelie Hooke (24 September 19129 April 1974) was an Australian soprano who was notable in opera, oratorio and concert, and sang in Australia, England, Europe and South Africa.
Early life.
Emelie Victoria Georgina Hooke was born in 1912 in Melbourne, where she was schooled. Her advanced musical training was... | opera under Sir Thomas Beecham and the BBC Symphony Orchestra also exists.
Humphrey Searle wrote three settings of poems by Jocelyn Brooke, which Emelie Hooke performed at the Festival of Twentieth Century Music in Rome in April 1954.
On 17 June 1954, she created a role in the world premiere of Lennox Berkeley's opera ... | 130,969 | zeroshot-train |
Emil Burian [SEP] voice type | Emil Burian
Emil Burian (12 December 1876, in Rakovník – 9 October 1926, in Prague) was a Czech operatic baritone. He was the father of composer Emil František Burian and the grandfather of Czech songwriter and poet Jan Burian.
Born in Rakovník, he was the younger brother of the famous Czech tenor Karel Burian, and, li... | Emil František Burian
Emil František Burian (11 June 1904 – 9 August 1959) was a Czech poet, journalist, singer, actor, musician, composer, dramatic adviser, playwright and director. He was also active in Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politics.
Life.
Burian was born in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia, where he came from a mu... | 130,970 | zeroshot-train |
Emilia Goggi [SEP] voice type | Emilia Goggi
Emilia Goggi, also known as Emilia Goggi-Marcovaldi, (10 October 1817 – 29 August 1857) was an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano who sang in the leading opera houses of Italy as well as in Spain. In 1853 she created the role of Azucena in the world premiere of Verdi's In "Il trovatore".
Life and career.
Emili... | the role later that year in Florence and then in Turin and Naples in 1854 and in Pisa in 1856.
In addition to Azucena, Goggi also created the roles of Diomira in Fabio Campana's "Giulio d'Este" (Teatro degli Avvalorati, Livorno, 28 August 1841) and Erminia in Josep Piqué i Cerveró's "Ernesto, duca di Sicilia" (Teatro P... | 130,971 | zeroshot-train |
Emma Eames [SEP] voice type | Emma Eames
Emma Eames ( ; August 13, 1865 – June 13, 1952) was an American soprano renowned for the beauty of her voice. She sang major lyric and lyric-dramatic roles in opera and had an important career in New York, London and Paris during the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century.
E... | its type in the United States.
A group of singing teachers incorporated it in the state of New York on 27 November 1906 as the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
The first annual meeting of the new organization was held on 7 January 1908, at Steinway Hall in New York City.
The English music critic and voice t... | 130,972 | zeroshot-train |
Emma Juch [SEP] voice type | Emma Juch
Emma Johanna Antonia Juch (July 4, 1861 – March 6, 1939) was a popular soprano opera singer of the 1880s and 1890s from Vienna, Austria. She sang with several companies and later formed her own company.
Early years and education.
Emma Johanna Antonia Juch was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1863 during a ... | East 80th Street, in New York City, in 1939. She was 78 and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while at a movie theater. Juch had not performed in public for nearly forty-four years before her death.
External links.
- Emma Juch New York Public Library Digital Gallery photo
- Emma Juch Biographical paper on Juch family and ... | 130,973 | zeroshot-train |
Emma Seehofer [SEP] voice type | Emma Seehofer
Emma Seehofer (before 1854 – 1912) was a German operatic contralto who was a principal artist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1854 to 1887. She created the roles of Erda in Richard Wagner's "Das Rheingold" on 22 September 1869 and Schwertleite (one of the Valkyries) in Wagner's "Die Walküre" on... | its type in the United States.
A group of singing teachers incorporated it in the state of New York on 27 November 1906 as the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
The first annual meeting of the new organization was held on 7 January 1908, at Steinway Hall in New York City.
The English music critic and voice t... | 130,974 | zeroshot-train |
Enzo Mascherini [SEP] voice type | Enzo Mascherini
Enzo Mascherini (6 August 1910, Florence - 29 July 1981, Livorno) was an Italian operatic baritone, one of the leading baritones of his generation.
He studied in Florence with Titta Ruffo and Riccardo Stracciari and made his debut there in 1937, as Giorgio Germont in "La traviata", and also sang at the ... | "Rigoletto" (with Warren, then Enzo Mascherini), "Die Zauberflöte", and "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (with Giuseppe Valdengo). She also sang Woglinde and the Waldvogel in "Der Ring des Nibelungen", with Kirsten Flagstad and Helen Traubel alternating as Brünnhilde.
She sang the role of Zerlina in the 1954 Salzburg Festival... | 130,975 | zeroshot-train |
Enzo Stuarti [SEP] voice type | Enzo Stuarti
Enzo Stuarti (born Lorenzo Scapone; March 3, 1919 – December 16, 2005) was an Italian American tenor and musical theater performer. After performing on Broadway under the stage names Larry Laurence and Larry Stuart, he changed his name again and began a recording career in which he released several success... | "A Night in Venice" by Johann Strauss II (produced by film producer Mike Todd, complete with floating gondolas and starring Enzo Stuarti and Nola Fairbanks at the newly constructed Jones Beach Theater/), the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera
Radio and television.
For many years he was t... | 130,976 | zeroshot-train |
Enzo de Muro Lomanto [SEP] voice type | Enzo de Muro Lomanto
Enzo de Muro Lomanto (11 April 1902 in Canosa di Puglia – 15 February 1952 in Naples) was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric repertory.
Biography.
Born Vincenzo De Muro, he studied in Naples, adding "Lomanto" to his name to avoid confusion with another tenor, Bernardo... | - Jimmy Logan – James Allan Short
- Johnny Logan – Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard
- Herbert Lom – Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru
- Enzo de Muro Lomanto – Vincenzo De Muro
- Carole Lombard – Jane Alice Peters
- Louise Lombard – Louise Maria Perkins
- Shawty Lo – Carlos Walker
- Alice Lon – Alice Lo... | 130,977 | zeroshot-train |
Erich Kunz [SEP] voice type | Erich Kunz
Erich Kunz (20 May 1909 in Vienna – 8 September 1995 in Vienna) was an Austrian operatic bass baritone, particularly associated with the roles of Papageno and Beckmesser.
He studied in Vienna with Lierhammer and Duhan, and made his stage debut in Opava, as Osmin, in 1933. He then sang in Plauen (1936–37), Br... | The Count of Luxemburg (1972 film)
The Count of Luxemburg (German: Der Graf von Luxemburg) is a 1972 German musical comedy film directed by Wolfgang Glück and starring Eberhard Wächter, Lilian Sukis and Erich Kunz. It is an adaptation of the operetta "Der Graf von Luxemburg" by Franz Lehár.
Cast.
- Eberhard Wächter as ... | 130,978 | zeroshot-train |
Ermonela Jaho [SEP] voice type | Ermonela Jaho
Ermonela Jaho is an Albanian operatic soprano. She was described in "The Economist" as "the world’s most acclaimed soprano". The "Financial Times" said "Ermonela Jaho throws heart and soul into her singing... Don't even try to resist".
"The Guardian" has described her as "one of the great verismo interpre... | Young conducted the performance with Krassimira Stoyanova as Anna and José Cura as Roberto.
The UK Premiere of the original version and the first performance anywhere since the first performance on 31 May 1884, took place in London's Royal Festival Hall on 21 November 2018. It was given by the London Philharmonic Orche... | 130,979 | zeroshot-train |
Erna Spoorenberg [SEP] voice type | Erna Spoorenberg
Erna Spoorenberg (11 April 192518 March 2004) was a Dutch soprano.
She was born in Yogyakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). As a child, she studied the violin and singing. At the age of 14, she studied under Isa Neuhaus, a singer with the Düsseldorf Opera (who was later transported and kill... | town of Vught, where she died in 2004, aged 78.
Recordings.
Her more than 20 recordings include:
- "The Art of Erna Spoorenberg in Opera" Gala GL 100.570
- "Erna Spoorenberg: Legendary Voices" Decca 466 985-2
- "Leona Mitchell and Erna Spoorenberg - Italian Arias and Sacred Songs" Works by Giacomo Puccini; Pietro Masca... | 130,980 | zeroshot-train |
Esther Heideman [SEP] voice type | Esther Heideman
Esther Heideman is an American operatic soprano. She has performed with several orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the Chicago Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, th... | Heideman
Heideman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Esther Heideman, American opera singer
- Jan Maarten Heideman (born 1973), Dutch speed skater
- Mike Heideman (1948-2018), American basketball coach
See also.
- Heidemann | 130,981 | zeroshot-train |
Etta Moten Barnett [SEP] voice type | Etta Moten Barnett
Etta Moten Barnett (November 5, 1901 – January 2, 2004) was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of "Bess" in "Porgy and Bess". She created new roles for African-American women on stage and screen. After her performing career, Barnett was active in Ch... | , that all young people who had any type of musical ambition decided to go to Western University at Quindaro.
The music school's most famous alumni were women who became influential pioneers of the 20th century in composition and music performance, including choral conducting. They included Nora Douglas Holt, Eva Jessy... | 130,982 | zeroshot-train |
Eugenia Ratti [SEP] voice type | Eugenia Ratti
Eugenia Ratti (born April 5, 1933) is an Italian soprano, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. A lyric coloratura soprano of considerable charm, she excelled in soubrette roles in works by Cimarosa and Mozart such as Susanna, Zerlina, Despina, and in light Donizetti such as Adina, Norina, a... | but the Count and Elisetta advise them to forgive the newlyweds, adding that they themselves will marry after all.
Recordings.
- 1951: Alda Noni, Ornella Rovere, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Valletti, Sesto Bruscantini, Antonio Cassinelli – Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Manno Wolf-Ferrari – (Warner Fonit)
- ... | 130,983 | zeroshot-train |
Eugenio Giraldoni [SEP] voice type | Eugenio Giraldoni
Eugenio Giraldoni (20 May 1871, Marseille – 23 June 1924, Helsinki) was an Italian operatic baritone who enjoyed a substantial international career. In 1900, he created the role of Baron Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca".
He was the son of another leading baritone, Leone Giraldoni, and the soprano ... | 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... | 130,984 | zeroshot-train |
Eva Mylott [SEP] voice type | Eva Mylott
Eva Theresa Mylott (1875 – 20 March 1920) was an Australian contralto opera singer.
Eva Mylott was born in Tuross Head, New South Wales, Australia. Her parents, Patrick Mylott, an importer of wine and spirits and Mary Heffernan (the daughter of Edmund and Honora Heffernan), were Roman Catholic immigrants fro... | Mylott
Mylott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Eva Mylott (1875–1920), American opera singer
- Patrick Mylott (1820–1878), Irish British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient | 130,985 | zeroshot-train |
Evgueniy Alexiev [SEP] voice type | Evgueniy Alexiev
Evgueniy Alexiev (born May 5, 1967 in Bulgaria) is a French operatic baritone. He has lived in Bordeaux since 1992.
Career.
In February 1993, Alexiev was invited to the Opera of Marseille, for a concert with the Association Del Monaco, and to the Opera of Avignon by Raymond Duffaut, for an event showca... | , CD, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Christophe Rousset, played by Talents Lyriques, edited by Ambroisie.
- "Zoroastre", DVD, Pierre Audi, Opus Arte.
- "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame", CD, composed by Jules Massenet, Roberto Alagna, Evgueniy Alexiev
- "Les Grandes Eaux Musicales De Versailles", CD, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Gluck, Rameau... | 130,986 | zeroshot-train |
Ewa Podleś [SEP] voice type | Ewa Podleś
Ewa Podleś (; born April 26, 1952) is a Polish coloratura contralto singer who has had an active international career both on the opera stage and in recital. She is known for the agility of her voice and a vocal range which spans more than three octaves.
Life and career.
Podleś was born in Warsaw, Poland, an... | Ewa Podleś, or Plácido Domingo have voices that allow them to sing roles from a wide variety of types; some singers such as Shirley Verrett or Grace Bumbry change type and even voice part over their careers; and some singers such as Leonie Rysanek have voices that lower with age, causing them to cycle through types ove... | 130,987 | zeroshot-train |
Faith Esham [SEP] voice type | Faith Esham
Faith Esham (born August 6, 1948) is an American soprano and college professor of voice.
Life and career.
Faith Lou Esham was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and grew up in Vanceburg, Kentucky. She graduated in psychology from Columbia Union College in Maryland. She completed study for a master's degree in clinic... | City and Philadelphia.
Notable people.
Notable people Past and present faculty.
- Robert L. Annis, Dean of Westminster Choir College of Rider University 1992-2014
- Dalton Baldwin, Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Piano and Voice, since 1948
- Diane Meredith Belcher, Assistant Professor of Organ, 2003–2006
- Ken Cowan, Co... | 130,988 | zeroshot-train |
Felicia Weathers [SEP] voice type | Felicia Weathers
Felicia Weathers (born 13 August 1937) is an African-American opera and concert singer (soprano).
Weathers was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She entered Washington University in St. Louis with a medical career in mind, but after one year she transferred to Lincoln University (Missouri) to study music. I... | Carlos" (Verdi), and many others. She is also a recitalist and concert singer.
Weathers is recipient of many international awards. For instance for her outstanding achievements in Italy, she was awarded with the Il Sagittario d'oro. From the hands of the Norwegian King Harald she received a national award for her dedic... | 130,989 | zeroshot-train |
Fernando del Valle [SEP] voice type | Fernando del Valle
Fernando del Valle (né Brian Stephen Skinner; February 28, 1964) is an American operatic tenor. He is the son of Edward King Skinner II, a Korean War veteran and Concha Marina Meléndez del Valle. The grandson of Aranka Bischitz great great granddaughter of Baroness Johanna Bischitz von Heves and cous... | and legacy.
In 1964, Hayward left New York for Dallas, Texas, where he became Artist-in-Residence and Chairman of the Voice and Opera Departments of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He was further honored by being named the Meadows Distinguished Professor of Voice in 1990, and soon after... | 130,990 | zeroshot-train |
Fiorenza Cedolins [SEP] voice type | Fiorenza Cedolins
Fiorenza Cedolins (born 18 March 1966) is an Italian soprano.
Biography.
Cedolins made her operatic debut in 1992 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana". She then became an artist-in-residence at the Split Summer Festival, and appeared in various roles, with a reperto... | , BBC Opus Arte. Director David McVicar at the Royal Opera House with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sondra Radvanovsky, Paolo Gavanelli and Christine Schäfer
- "Luisa Miller - Verdi", 2012, Unitel Classica. Teatro Regio di Parma with Fiorenza Cedolins and Leo Nucci
Awards.
- 1995 – Winner, regional voice competition in Pavia, I... | 130,991 | zeroshot-train |
Francesca Cuzzoni [SEP] voice type | Francesca Cuzzoni
Francesca Cuzzoni (2 April 1696 – 19 June 1778) was an Italian operatic soprano of the Baroque era.
Early career.
Cuzzoni was born in Parma. Her father, Angelo, was a professional violinist, and her singing teacher was Francesco Lanzi. She made her debut in her home city in 1714, singing in "La virtù ... | Faustina Bordoni, to join established London favourites Francesca Cuzzoni and the star castrato Senesino in the company's performances. Many opera companies in Italy featured two leading ladies in one opera and Faustina (as she was known) and Cuzzoni had appeared together in opera performances in various European citie... | 130,992 | zeroshot-train |
Francesco Demuro [SEP] voice type | Francesco Demuro
Francesco Demuro (born 6 January 1978), is an Italian operatic tenor. He was born in Porto Torres, Sardinia. By the age of ten, Demuro made his first stage appearance, and by the age of twelve, he had joined the Minicantadores, a group of young singers of traditional Sardinian songs in the genre known ... | best known performers are:
- Gavino De Lunas, (Padria, 1895 - Rome, 1944)
- Maria Carta, (Siligo, 1934 - Rome, 1994)
- Francesco Demuro, (Porto Torres, 1978)
Bibliography.
- Gavino Gabriel, "Canti di Sardegna", Milano, 1923
- Bernard Lortat-Jacob, "Improvisation et modèle: le chant a guitare sarde" , in «L'Homme», XXIV... | 130,993 | zeroshot-train |
Francesco Maria Bonini [SEP] voice type | Francesco Maria Bonini
Francesco Maria Bonini (1865 – 11 January 1930) was an Italian baritone who had a major international opera career from 1896 through 1927. He was one of the first wave of musicians to be recorded, having made a number of recordings with Fonotipia Records in Milan in 1905–1906.
Born in Naples, Bon... | Bonini (surname)
Bonini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Bonini (c. 1270 – 1314), Italian Franciscan philosopher
- Antonio Bonini (born 1954), Italian volleyball player
- Colin Bonini (born 1965), American politician
- Francesco Maria Bonini (1865–1930), Italian opera singer
-... | 130,994 | zeroshot-train |
Franco Calabrese [SEP] voice type | Franco Calabrese
Franco Calabrese (Palermo, 1923 – Lucca, 1992) was an Italian bass singer. | Franco IV e Franco I
Franco IV e Franco I were an Italian pop musical and vocal duo, active between the 1960s and the early 1970s.
Career.
The duo consisted of Francesco "Franco" Romano (born in Naples on 26 July 1946) and Francesco "Franco" Calabrese (born in Naples on 10 March 1943). They started performing under the... | 130,995 | zeroshot-train |
Frank Lopardo [SEP] voice type | Frank Lopardo
Frank Lopardo (born December 23, 1957) is an American operatic tenor who was born in Brentwood, New York. He specialized in the repertoire of Mozart and Rossini early in his career and has since transitioned to the works of Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, and Bellini.
Early years.
Lopardo began his musical tra... | and general manager of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers
- Frank Lopardo, opera singer
- James Kyrle MacCurdy (1875 - 1923) was a theater actor and playwright
- Craig Mack (1971–2018), hip-hop musician
- Dave Martinez (1964-), manager of Washington Nationals and former outfielder for Chicago Cubs
- Buddy McGirt (1964–), box... | 130,996 | zeroshot-train |
Franklyn Baur [SEP] voice type | Franklyn Baur
Franklyn Baur (April 5, 1903–February 24, 1950) was a popular tenor vocal recording artist.
Baur was born in New York and educated at Amherst. At 19, he was selected from over 50 candidates as principal tenor in the Park Avenue Baptist Church known as the John D. Rockefeller Church. His grandfather on the... | Dancing Tambourine" by Paul Whiteman
- "The Desert Song" by Nat Shilkret, from the musical of the same name
- "Diane (I'm in Heaven when I See You Smile)" by Nat Shilkret as the Troubadours, vocal Franklyn Baur, Lewis James and Elliot Shaw
- "Diane (I'm in Heaven when I See You Smile)" by Franklyn Baur, accompanied Nat... | 130,997 | zeroshot-train |
Franz Betz [SEP] voice type | Franz Betz
Franz Betz (19 March 1835 – 11 August 1900) was a German bass-baritone opera singer who sang at the Berlin State Opera from 1859 to 1897. He was particularly known for his performances in operas by Richard Wagner and created the role of Hans Sachs in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".
Biography.
Franz Betz wa... | 19 Aug – Viacheslav Molotov
- 26 Aug – Jerusalem
- 2 Sep – Pauline Betz
- 9 Sep – Jo Davidson
- 16 Sep – Josip Broz Tito
- 23 Sep – James Bryant Conant
- 30 Sep – Henry A. Wallace
- 7 Oct – Victor Emanuel
- 14 Oct – Frank Leahy
- 21 Oct – Eugene O'Neill
- 28 Oct – Edward Martin
- 4 Nov – Charles Francis Adams III
- 11 ... | 130,998 | zeroshot-train |
Franz Ferenczy [SEP] voice type | Franz Ferenczy
Franz Ferenczy (also Franz Friedemann) (1835 – 27 February 1881, Weimar) was a nineteenth-century German tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe between 1859-1880. Possessing a powerful voice with a wide vocal range, Ferenczy particularly excelled in the operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Richard Wa... | Bispham, Italo Campanini, Virgilio Collini, Samuel Silas Curry, Franz Ferenczy, Friederike Grün, Teresa Stolz, Marie van Zandt, Maria Waldmann, Herbert Witherspoon, Tecla Vigna, and Lizzie Graham. His methods were very similar to older Italian methods, and he wrote a number of treatises on the subject.
Award.
Lamperti ... | 130,999 | zeroshot-train |
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