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| | Elektra (Richard Strauss) - Synopsis |
 | | As in "Salome," so in "Elektra" there is a weft and woof of leading motifs which, lacking the compactness, firmness, and unmistakable raisons d’être of the leading motives in the Wagner music-dramas, crawl, twist, and wind themselves in spineless convolutions about the characters and the action of the piece. | | | But at the production of the work in the Manhattan Opera House, it seemed to me not only one of Strauss’s most spontaneous lyrical outgivings, but also one of the most beautiful I had ever heard. | | | Opera 1 • Opera 2 • Opera 3 • Opera 4 • Opera 5 • Opera 6 • Opera 7 |
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http://www.music-with-ease.com/strauss-elektra-synopsis.html
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| | May 20 & 23 |
| | Elektra is, in a way, the flipside of Salome: whereas Oscar Wilde's heroine is consumed with erotic passion, Elektra is disgusted with everything sexual and feels only scorn for her sister's femininity. | | | The part of Elektra was sung by Annie Krull; the first Klytemnestra was the great Ernestine Schumann-Heink who, however, resigned after the first performance because she found the music "vocally uncongenial." Elektra received its American premiere at the Manhattan Opera Company, produced by Oscar Hammerstein Sr., on February 1, 1910 (in French). | | | This is Elektra's most lyrical (perhaps her only lyrical) moment. |
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| | Marjorie Lawrence Centennial Celebration Commission Memorializes 100th Anniversary of Metropolitan Opera Star in 2007 |
| | She recorded the role of Salome in French, the language in which Oscar Wilde wrote his play, and later relearned it in German for the Metropolitan Opera. | | | Her truly powerful and beautiful voice was a rare combination and one of the finest voices of the 20th century." explained James K. McCully, general director of Opera Music Theater International. | | | Information will be available on the Opera Music Theater International website at www.OMTI.org |
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prwebxml173754.php
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| | Frau Young takes Hamburg - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au |
| | Hamburg, a city with a rich and illustrious Hanseatic heritage and musical tradition, has appointed Young as its first woman generalmusikdirektor, a title that covers opera and concerts (the same orchestra plays for both) as well as intendant (boss) of the Staatsoper. | | | While I like working with challenging directors, we are dealing with opera, and music simply can't be an adjunct. | | | Hamburg, where the composer and conductor was the opera's music director from 1891 to 1897, was his "tryout" for Vienna. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/young-in-hamburg/2005/09/04/1125772405206.html
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| | Eurovision Song Contest |
| | The 2002 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Tallinn, Estonia on Saturday 26 June, 2002, hosted by Annely Peebo, an opera singer, and Marko Matvere, an actor. | | | Many pop singers and groups have begun the path to fame with a win at the contest. | | | However ABBA and Celine Dion are the only contest winners to have had significant international success. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/e/eu/eurovision_song_contest.html
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| | Eilana Lappalainen: The Elegance of Opera |
| | She recorded a live broadcast in 2004 of Salome with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. | | | On the concert stage, Eilana Lappalainen has sung opera Galas with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (one of which was televised throughout Finland featuring scenes from Fidelio and Otello) and also toured Finland in Recital. | | | In 2005, Eilana sang a Verdi Gala in Japan, an Opera Gala at the Piccolo La Scala in Syro's Greece and a recital for the Summer Festival Urkuyö ja Aaria in Espoo Finland. |
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http://eilana.com/bio.htm
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| | The Guide -- Washington Operas Norma Opens |
| | She, the Oracle, is Hasmik Papian, the world-renowned soprano famed for her mastery of the seminal roles in modern opera: Tosca, Salome, Aida and Norma. | | | The angelic procession of the white-robed chorus parts to the all-seeing Norma, and so begins The Washington Operas debut performance of Norma. | | | Editors Note: The Washington Opera will perform Norma through Oct. 20 at the DAR Constitutional Hall, located at 1776 D St., NW. |
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http://www.thehoya.com/guide/101703/guide9.cfm
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: HOUSTON GRAND OPERA |
| | Houston Grand Opera's Show Boat was performed in Cairo, Egypt, at the Cairo National Culture Centre in 1989, and the new 1995-96 production of Porgy and Bess will tour Japan. | | | The first performances of the new Houston company, in January 1956, were productions of Richard Strauss's Salome (1943) and Puccini's Madame Butterfly, staged in the Music Hall. | | | Gradually, however, the Houston opera's financial stability improved; these improvements coincided with the work of David Gockley, who was hired in 1970 as business manager and promoted in 1972 to the general director of the company. |
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http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/xgh2.html
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| | Egoyan, Girard, Levine and Albery Lead Canada's First Ring Cycle |
| | Atom Egoyan’s Salome, revived in the 2001/02 season by the COC, premiered in Toronto in 1996, and has also been produced by Houston Grand Opera and Vancouver Opera. | | | Canadian film and theatre directors, Atom Egoyan and François Girard, Canadian designer Michael Levine, and Toronto resident, esteemed theatre and opera director Tim Albery, each direct one of the four operas that comprise the Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy (Der Ring des Nibelungen). | | | Although the four directors will be directing one opera each, their unique collaboration on the full cycle will draw from their shared experiences and inspirations as well as Michael Levine’s overall design. |
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http://www.scena.org/columns/reviews/020731-WKC-COCRingteam.html
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| | Philadelphia Performs |
| | Recently: Salome, Tosca, Cinderella and The Marriage of Figaro, Opera Company of Philadelphia; The Merry Widow, The Great Gatsby and Tristan and Isolde, The Metropolitan Opera; Wig and Make-up Design for Santa Fe Opera and Opera Theatre of St. Louis Summer 2000 Festival Seasons; Director of The Metropolitan Opera's Wig Department. | | | Recently: Set design for Alcina, Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy; A Little Night Music and Wit, Cincinnati Playhouse; Il viaggio a Reims and The Royal Palace, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. | | | Opera Company debut: Baba the Turk, The Rake's Progress, 1997. |
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http://www.whyy.org/philaperforms/opera/people.html
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| | Opera Magazine Online |
| | Susan Bullock as Salome in concert with Opera North | | | Place your order for this month's issue of OPERA via our online payment system (please note that this is not secure) | | | Kaija Saariaho talks to Stephen Pettitt about her new opera, Adriana Mater |
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http://www.opera.co.uk/magazine/home.htm
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: HOUSTON GRAND OPERA |
| | Houston Grand Opera's Show Boat was performed in Cairo, Egypt, at the Cairo National Culture Centre in 1989, and the new 1995-96 production of Porgy and Bess will tour Japan. | | | The first performances of the new Houston company, in January 1956, were productions of Richard Strauss's Salome (1943) and Puccini's Madame Butterfly, staged in the Music Hall. | | | He has aimed to present different kinds of opera to a diversified audience, in his own words combating, "the image of opera as a medium for only the wealthy and elite." Under Gockley's direction the company has expanded its repertory to include the less familiar works ranging from the Baroque era to the twentieth century. |
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http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/xgh2.html
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| | FanFaire Celebrates Hildegard Behrens: Dramatic Soprano |
| | Photo credits: Misako Uryu (Fidelio and Senta - Metropolitan Opera 1992-93); Ken Friedman* (Marie - San Francisco Opera, 1999); Winnie Klotz* (Elektra - Metropolitan Opera 1994); Winnie Klotz* (Brunnhilde - Metropolitan Opera 1997); Ken Howard* (Salome- Los Angeles Opera 1998); C. McKinnon (Isolde - Prinzregententheater, Munich 1999); FC ("R" - Salzburg Festival 1999). | | | * Note: "She makes music worth seeing" is borrowed from the San Diego Opera motto "We make music worth seeing" originated by General Director Ian Campbell. | | | as he did of the German soprano who sang Elektra in his time. |
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http://www.hildegardbehrens.com
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| | Wegner_Long_Biog |
| | John’s 1999 commitments were Scarpia (Tosca) and Escamillo(Carmen) for Opera Australia, Jochanaan (Salome) for Opera Ireland, Wotan (Walküre) in Toulouse and Bonn, Holländer in Krefeld and Scarpia (Tosca) in Saarbrücken. | | | 1997 Green Room Award for Best Male Performer in Opera | | | He also made a welcome return to Australia to make his role debut as Scarpia in Tosca for The Australian Opera and subsequently with the Victoria State Opera and in The Puccini Spectacular, Escamillo for Lyric Opera of Queensland and Cadmus in a concert performance of Semele for VSO. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/wegnerwotan/en/biography/Wegner_Long_Biog.html
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| | Stiles Scenic |
| | Orlando Opera Comany on tour,,,Salome, as produced by Orlando Opera Company,,,Repair of | | | A minor, but no less valid effort is this oven flat, created for the "Orlando Opera on Tour" group. | | | Currently with the Orlando Opera Company, I am the Properties Master. |
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| | The Wholenote Magazine |
| | Like many of the COC staff, he still performs from time to time, most recently as understudy for the role of Head of John the Baptist in the COC's production of Richard Strauss' Salome, under the direction of Atom Egoyan. | | | His big break came in 1996 when the Utah Festival Opera Company rented the same sets and costumes for their Don Pasquale. | | | Skunk simply was not working out and as opening night loomed the director called Toronto in a panic. |
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http://www.thewholenote.com/wholenote_feb_02/behind.html
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| | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, RPO, London, UK, classical music concerts and recordings, Music Director Daniele Gatti |
| | Wynne Evans was born in Carmarthen, South Wales and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio and is now taught by Dennis ONeill. | | | Wynne was recently appointed a principal house tenor for Welsh National Opera where roles will include Jaquino (Leonore) Rodolfo (La bohème), 1st Jew (Salomé), School Master (Cunning Little Vixen) and Duke (Rigoletto). | | | Future concert work includes a performance of Handels Messiah in Leipzig conducted by Sir David Wilcox. |
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| | Inge Borkh |
| | But it was as Strauss' Salome and Elektra that she clinched her claim to fame. | | | Inge Borkh retired from opera in 1973 after seven performances of Elektra in Italy, and briefly went back to the theater as an actress of the spoken word. | | | It was her key to international stardom, leading to engagements in the world's great opera houses: Vienna, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, and San Francisco where she sang almost all the roles that she could do. |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Richard Strauss |
| | Operas Salome (1905) and Elektra (1909) caused sensations through their supposedly ‘obscene’ treatment of biblical and classical subjects. | | | which was Strauss's lifelong preoccupation in his operas and which even forms part of the subject-matter of Capriccio. | | | In Elektra he approached the atonal and neuro-psychological world of Schoenberg and Berg, but turned aside to what Stravinsky called the ‘time-travelling’ of Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos, the latter being one of several operas in which Strauss treated subjects from classical mythology, investing them with 20th-cent. |
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| | William Hellermann - List of Compositions |
| | SALOME (theatre music for Lindsay Kemp Mime Company production of the play adapted from Oscar Wilde) | | | First Performance: William Hellermann and Sounds Out of Silent Spaces Group, New York City, January 13, 1976 | | | YOU CAN'T EAT A STILL LIFE pre-recorded sound and sculpture installation |
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| | ::Pinnacle Arts Management:: |
| | Engagements for the 2004-2005 season included a return to Orlando Opera as Pooh-Bah in The Mikado and 1st Soldier/5th Jew in Salome, a debut with Michigan Opera Theatre as Sacristan/Jailer in Tosca, and Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Lyric Opera of Cleveland. | | | He has also appeared with Augusta Opera, Opera Birmingham, Piedmont Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland and Opera Carolina in such roles as Sacristan in Tosca, Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love, Zuniga in Carmen, and Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro. | | | Residing in Orlando, he has performed with Orlando Opera in such roles as, the title role in Gianni Schicchi, Crespel/Luther in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Benoit/Alcindoro in La Boheme, Sir Joseph in HMS Pinafore, Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Melchoir in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Speaker/First Priest in The Magic Flute. |
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| | Salome -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Salome is also the name of a (A native of inhabitant of Mexico) Mexican (additional info and facts about Spanish soap opera) Spanish soap opera, starting actress Edith Gonzalez. | | | (additional info and facts about Salome (opera)) Salome (opera), an (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) opera by (German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949)) Richard Strauss, first performed in 1905 | | | Salomé is also the stage name of a (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish singer, a co-winner of the 1969 (additional info and facts about Eurovision Song Contest) Eurovision Song Contest. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/S/Sa/Salome.htm
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| | Matthew Lau |
| | Lau made his debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago as the Fifth Jew in SALOME and as Pinellino in GIANNI SCHICCHI. | | | Lau's 2002-2003 season took him to Providence and Lake George for Don Magnifico in LA CENERENTOLA; to Nashville Opera for Don Basilio in IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA; to Hawaii Opera Theater for EUGENE ONEGIN; and to Atlanta Opera for SALOME. | | | Lau as Wurm in LUISA MILLER for Washington Concert Opera, and Zuniga in CARMEN with the Dallas Symphony offset by the humor and playfulness of PooBah in THE MIKADO for Lake George Opera, and Don Magnifico in LA CENERENTOLA for The Sugar Creek Festival. |
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| | Salome found Swiftly |
| | Find salome opera and more at Lycos Search. | | | At eBay you can find practically anything, even salome opera. | | | Find salome opera at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! |
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| | San Diego Opera Stages Salome |
| | "Salome" is famously a "conductor's opera," and it doesn't hurt to have a thoroughly polished orchestra either. | | | American mezzo-soprano Kristine Ciesinski, star of this month's SDO Salome, let out a brief, discreet gasp when I told her (via telephone to Berlin) that famed soprano Hildegard Behrens would be stealing her thunder in the LA Opera's Salome, four weeks before Ciesinski's West Coast debut in the part. | | | Not one of these operas is anything less than a masterpiece, but to experience all five with completely un-jaded sensibilities, it helps to stay at home and rarely go anywhere else. |
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http://www.sandiego-online.com/opera/kristine.stm
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| | David Walsh: School of Music: University of Minnesota |
| | Walsh has scored success with Don Giovanni and La Boheme for the Scottish Opera, Madame Butterfly for Opera Lyra (Ottawa), Salome for Calgary Opera, a stunning production of The Turn of the Screw for the Vancouver Opera and with an outstandingly intelligent and witty production of La Belle Helene for L'Opera Francais de New York. | | | In addition, he created an Opera Department at the Vancouver Academy of Music in relation to the Bachelor of Music Programme. | | | Following a career as production stage manager with the Canadian Opera Company, Stratford Festival and Scottish Opera, he left the technical sphere to become assistant stage director with English Music Theatre. |
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http://www.music.umn.edu/directory/facProfiles/WalshDavid.php
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| | Richard Strauss and Salome |
| | It is fitting that Strauss was the man who transformed Wilde's Salome -- the text of which features the attempted seduction of John the Baptist (Iokanaan) followed by Salome's unprecedented passionate post-mortem kiss for the prophet -- into opera; both Wilde and Strauss were criticized widely for unconventionality in their works. | | | Salome, first performed by the Dresden Opera in 1905. | | | If many, including Lord Alfred Douglas (Wilde's lover and the translator of the English edition, the original having been authored in French), were surprised to see Wilde's version of Salome performed on stage, Strauss's opera must have seemed appropriate given the lyricism of the text. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/strauss.html
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| | Matthew Lau |
| | Lau made his debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago as the Fifth Jew in SALOME and as Pinellino in GIANNI SCHICCHI. | | | Lau as Wurm in LUISA MILLER for Washington Concert Opera, and Zuniga in CARMEN with the Dallas Symphony offset by the humor and playfulness of PooBah in THE MIKADO for Lake George Opera, and Don Magnifico in LA CENERENTOLA for The Sugar Creek Festival. | | | Lau is nevertheless best known for his charismatic portrayals of a remarkably wide range of operatic roles. |
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http://www.matthewlau.com
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| | Salome |
| | Salome (opera), an opera by Richard Strauss based on Wilde's play first performed in 1905 | | | Salome (artist), a Swiss solo artist who won MusicStar 2005. | | | The Mexican soap opera is not related to the biblical story. |
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| | Amazon.com: Richard Strauss - Salome / Dohnanyi, Malfitano, Terfel, Royal Opera House Covent Garden: DVD |
| | Amazon.com: Richard Strauss - Salome / Dohnanyi, Malfitano, Terfel, Royal Opera House Covent Garden: DVD | | | Richard Strauss - Salome / Dohnanyi, Malfitano, Terfel, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (2000) | | | Gorgeous soprano Cathy Malfitano delivers a tour de force performance of Salome which graphically depicts the Hebrew princess's journey from curiosity, through infatuation, and culminating in insanity in her amorous pursuit of the ultimate party pooper John the Baptist. |
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