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 | | Romilda may be the heroine of the opera (and she is charmingly sung by Rebecca Evans) but the focus of all eyes tends to be on Atalanta, her sister, who is determined to steal Arsamenes from under Romilda's nose and isn't too fussy about her methods. | | | Arsamenes - originally a female soprano - is sung by a counter-tenor (Robin Blaze, a young man with an exquisite voice, whose acting improved markedly as the evening progressed). | | | Xerxes - originally a soprano castrato role - is sung by a mezzo-soprano (Sarah Connolly in splendid voice, and looking thoroughly in control of her kingdom). |
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http://www.musicomh.com/opera/xerxes.htm
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Dmitry Shostakovich |
| | OPERAS: The Nose (Nos), Op.15 (1927-8); Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo uyezda), Op.29 (1930-2) rev. 1955-63 as Katerina Izmaylova, Op.29/114; Moskva, Cheryomushki, musical comedy (ov. | | | Malko, he wrote for the stage and films, in the next decade producing his opera The Nose, the ballets The Age of Gold and The Bolt, and several cinema scores. | | | These works, particularly The Nose, reflect the then-permitted influence of Western avant-garde music, but The Nose was regarded as a sign of ‘bourgeois decadence’ and withdrawn from the stage. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/shostakovich.html
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| | HAUNTED AMERICA GHOST BOOK CATALOG! |
| | Haunted places visited in the book include the Players Theatre, Golden Apple Dinner Theater, Sarasota Opera House, Indian Beach, haunted schools and colleges, and of course, the magnificent Ca dZan, home of John and Mable Ringling of circus fame. | | | Walk down Ghost Hollow Road, see the World's Largest Catsup Bottle, touch Lincoln's lucky nose, gawk at the miniature houses on the prairie, and gaze in puzzlement at the double-deck outhouse and the Leaning Tower of Niles. | | | Read all about the Devil Baby of Hull House, visit the grave of the Chesterville Witch, and meet, if you dare, the demon butcher of Palos Park. |
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http://www.prairieghosts.com/ghostbooks.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Dmitri Shostakovich - Encyclopedia Article |
| | The great mystery about Shostakovich's subsequent career is whether he cave in and became a dutiful Soviet citizen, as he always said in public, or whether he remained a secret rebel, pretending to serve the government while thumbing his nose at them in a way that the humorless bureaucrats couldn't guess? | | | But in 1936 Joseph Stalin heard his bold verismo opera Lady Macbeth of Mtzenk and caused an article to be published in Pravda denouncing Shostakovich for "formalism", a vague term that seems to have meant whatever Stalin didn't like. | | | His first three symphonies and the ballet The Golden Age are of this kind. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/d/dmitri-shostakovich.html
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| | Tai Chi & Qigong (chi kung) DVD, Book, FREE Lessons, Teachers Directory, Natural Health - Asian Lifestyle Products |
| | Opera facial make-up originates from totem in ancient times, develops into facial paintings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and eventually takes the shape of facial costume of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. | | | The chinese opera masks also were created to show approval or hatred toward other stage characters. | | | In the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), Chinese opera masks were used in low comedy, and artists started to dye their faces in portrayal of supernatural beings. |
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http://smartaichi.com/WTCQDOperaMasks.html
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| | Roles from Chinese Opera |
| | While many of the characters of Chinese opera are elite ministers, emperors, and generals, the clown represents the unsophisticated wit of the hayseed commoner. | | | Although many of the female roles in Chinese opera are now played by women, traditionally they were the exclusive domain of men. | | | However, Chinese opera also has its share of women warriors and evil she-demons. |
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http://www.princeton.edu/~his325/week3/Opera/roles.html
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| | Guardian The Nose |
| | In addition, as the Opera Group demonstrated, The Nose works spectacularly well as theatre. | | | There is no obvious reason for this: the opera was a success when first performed and no one questions its quality. | | | His runaway nose, ludicrously parading across the stage in cloak and hat, makes you laugh only once. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4222788-103686,00.html
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| | beijing opera |
| | It is a purely Chinese opera form which dates back to the year 1790. | | | Beijing Opera is the most popular and famous opera in | | | Opera, if you have Windows Media Player or Realplayer, you can enjoy them. |
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http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~lizc/chinese/beijingopera.htm
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| | Sunday Morning - 19/10/2003: Kill Bill |
| | It's called Pistol Opera and what unfolds onscreen is opera and ballet too: a swirling and delirious collage of duels between an ambitious young hit woman called Stray Cat (played by Makiko Esumi) and her colleagues in the mysterious organisation of assassins known as The Guild. | | | Branded to Kill and I would say Pistol Opera are clearly the main models for Kill Bill
or at least, Kill Bill Volume One. | | | Suzuki clearly is thumbing his nose at the absurd conventions of the yakuza flicks he made forty years earlier for Japans blood-soaked Nikkatsu Studios, by whom he was fired in the late sixties after turning in two films Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill - the studio heads found incomprehensible. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/stories/s969198.htm
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| | Articles - Dmitri Shostakovich |
| | Other works include the operas Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Nose and the unfinished The Gamblers; six concertos (two each for piano, violin and cello); and a large quantity of film music. | | | While writing the symphony, he also began his satirical opera The Nose, based on the story by Gogol. | | | Among Russian composers, he particularly admired Modest Mussorgsky, whose operas Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina he re-orchestrated; Mussorgsky's influence is most prominent in the wintry scenes of Lady Macbeth and the 12th symphony, as well as in his satirical works such as Rayok. |
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http://www.alistic.com/articles/Dmitri_Shostakovich
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| | The facial makeup skills were greatly developed after the formation of Peking Opera in the early 19th century. | | | The facial makeup of Beijing Opera is an unique art. | | | It is generally believed that it was evolved from "Daimian" mask in the Tang Music Dance, and the face-painting skills in Canjun Opera. |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Dmitry Shostakovich |
| | Malko, he wrote for the stage and films, in the next decade producing his opera The Nose, the ballets The Age of Gold and The Bolt, and several cinema scores. | | | These works, particularly The Nose, reflect the then-permitted influence of Western avant-garde music, but The Nose was regarded as a sign of ‘bourgeois decadence’ and withdrawn from the stage. | | | He made an official recantation, but his published works from 1948 to 1953 (when Stalin died) were chiefly film music and patriotic cantatas, exceptions being the 24 Preludes and Fugues for pf. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/shostakovich.html
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| | The Cenci Newman 3 |
| | The manner of the drama and the nature of the music reflect the ideas and practise of Gebrauchsmusik and may even owe something to Shostakovich, for Goldschmidt had heard and been impressed by a suite extracted from the Russians satirical opera The nose [37]. | | | The subject appealed to Goldschmidt and, having written his own impressive libretto, he set to work writing the music in 1929, completing the opera in the following year. | | | By 24 April 1950, the full score had been completed and in a letter dated 23 May Goldschmidt was informed that his opera was one of four to be commissioned, though it was made clear that no production could be guaranteed [55]. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/brian/thecenci_newman3.htm
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| | Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975) |
| | Katerina Ismailova remains the principal opera of Shostakovich, with the early opera The Nose, based on Gogol, and the ballet The Golden Age. | | | The initial success of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, based on Leskov, and later revised as Katerina Ismailova, was followed by official condemnation, emanating apparently from Stalin himself. | | | He occupies a significant position in the 20th century as a symphonist and as a composer of chamber music, writing in a style that is sometimes spare in texture but always accessible, couched as it is in an extension of traditional tonal musical language. |
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http://www.hnh.com/composer/shostako.htm
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| | Baltimore Opera - Study Guide |
| | In the late 1920s he became involved in dramatic music, composing for film (New Babylon), ballet (The Golden Age) and theater (The Flea), and his first opera, The Nose. | | | He began to compose Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1930, and the opera premiered in 1934 in Leningrad and Moscow, and was perceived as a triumph of Marxist art. | | | It was not until Stalin's infamous night at the opera in 1936 and the vicious attack on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Pravda that an abrupt change in Soviet policy was revealed. |
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http://www.baltimoreopera.com/studyguide/synopsis_macbeth.asp
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| | Baltimore Opera - Study Guide |
| | In the late 1920s he became involved in dramatic music, composing for film (New Babylon), ballet (The Golden Age) and theater (The Flea), and his first opera, The Nose. | | | He began to compose Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1930, and the opera premiered in 1934 in Leningrad and Moscow, and was perceived as a triumph of Marxist art. | | | It was not until Stalin's infamous night at the opera in 1936 and the vicious attack on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Pravda that an abrupt change in Soviet policy was revealed. |
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http://www.baltimoreopera.com/studyguide/synopsis_macbeth.asp
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| | Mask Arts Co - Stanley Allan Sherman Leather Theatre Masks, for Theatre, Dance, Wrestling, Commedia, Clowns, Opera. Custom made masks, Clown Noses, specializes in molding leather & odd projects. |
| | Masks for road company's of Phantom of the Opera, Big Apple Circus, foot long nose Doctors masks for Patch Adam's, Top Hat for Phillip Petit, clown noses for clown's working in hospital's, theatre's and outside. | | | Stanley Allan Sherman specializes in designing, creating and crafting leather theatre masks and custom fitted clown noses for Theatre, Opera, Dance, Teaching, Clowns and Wrestling. | | | Having worked with Opera singers I know how to make the singer comfortable in the mask so they have good air flow and sight while performing in the mask. |
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| | Dmitry Shostakovich Memorial |
| | Shostakovich's first opera, The Nose (1929), modeled on the expressionistic and atonal techniques of such Western composers as the German Paul Hindemith and the Austrian Alban Berg, was well received by the critics and public but was censored by Communist Party officials as bourgeois and decadent. | | | His next opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934; revised as Katerina Izmailova, 1963), again received both popular and critical acclaim, but party publications condemned the opera as counterrevolutionary. | | | Such attacks led him to promise to reformulate his artistic ideas. |
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http://www.sangha.net/messengers/Shostakovich.htm
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| | Baltimore Opera - Study Guide |
| | In the late 1920s he became involved in dramatic music, composing for film (New Babylon), ballet (The Golden Age) and theater (The Flea), and his first opera, The Nose. | | | He began to compose Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1930, and the opera premiered in 1934 in Leningrad and Moscow, and was perceived as a triumph of Marxist art. | | | It was not until Stalin's infamous night at the opera in 1936 and the vicious attack on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Pravda that an abrupt change in Soviet policy was revealed. |
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http://www.baltimoreopera.com/studyguide/synopsis_macbeth.asp
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Dmitry Shostakovich |
| | Malko, he wrote for the stage and films, in the next decade producing his opera The Nose, the ballets The Age of Gold and The Bolt, and several cinema scores. | | | These works, particularly The Nose, reflect the then-permitted influence of Western avant-garde music, but The Nose was regarded as a sign of ‘bourgeois decadence’ and withdrawn from the stage. | | | He made an official recantation, but his published works from 1948 to 1953 (when Stalin died) were chiefly film music and patriotic cantatas, exceptions being the 24 Preludes and Fugues for pf. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/shostakovich.html
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| | classical music - andante - santa fe opera aims high |
| | This production was in many ways built around her slight figure, lightweight voice and penetrating mind, showing the opera through the eyes of her character Amina, a sickly child who spends much of her day in her nightgown with her nose in a book. | | | The answer: A precursor to The Manchurian Candidate, the opera's anti-heroine being a Roman version of the Angela Lansbury/Meryl Streep character, catapulting her son Nero to the imperial throne. | | | But here she let her accuracy slip, and despite her theatrical savvy she missed, amid all of her stage business, the humanity that can make the opera a deeper experience. |
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http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=24365
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| | Peking Opera Blues (NR) |
| | "Peking Opera Blues" makes you feel as if you're seated on the nose of a bullet. | | | Watching "Peking Opera Blues" is like flipping through the most explosive, most exhilarating comic book ever made. | | | There's a lot of role-playing in "Peking Opera Blues," and a good deal of it takes place either onstage or backstage at the theater. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/pekingoperabluesnrhinson_a0c8c2.htm
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| | Combustible Celluloid - The Phantom of the Opera (1925) |
| | Sporting his trademark ghoulish face, achieved through mysterious eye drops and a gizmo to pull his nose back, Chaney haunts the opera hall and chases after the lovely Mary Philbin. | | | Plus, it's time to sit down with piles and piles of horror and suspense movies on DVD, beginning with the wondrous two-disc set of The Phantom of The Opera: The Ultimate Edition (1925, Image Entertainment, $24.99) starring the indefatigable Lon Chaney in his most famous role. | | | Combustible Celluloid - The Phantom of the Opera (1925) |
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http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/phantom25.shtml
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| | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) |
| | Carlotta, the prima donna of the opera, is furious because she receives many notes threatening her if she does not yield her role to the young ingenue, Christine Daae. | | | Joseph Buquet, a stagehand, has seen the Phantom, and describes him as a faceless man with no nose. | | | "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is an ultra fantastic melodrama, an ambitious production in which there is much to marvel at in the scenic effects...Lon Chaney impersonates the Phantom. |
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http://members.aol.com/ChaneyFan/141.htm
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| | New Canonical Klingon Words |
| | (n) beginning (of an opera, play, story, speech) [This refers to the opening section of such a performance (last act, scene, sentence, etc.)] [HolQeD v12n2p8] | | | (v) end prematurely (an event, voyage, battle, play, opera, story, song, etc.) [The subject of this verb is the person causing an event to prematurely end. | | | (n) "House (family, ancestral unit) of Fire" name of an opera [KCD] |
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| | Dorothy Kirsten in Opera and Song |
| | Sections for Dorothy Kirsten in Opera and Song | | | Home > VideoDVD > Dorothy Kirsten in Opera and Song | | | My Friends' Reviews of Dorothy Kirsten in Opera and Song |
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| | Alexandra Lee - Upcoming Performances |
| | Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University, Sudbury ON Sudbury Symphony Orchestra: Soprano Natalie Choquette, returns to Sudbury with a medley of songs from Broadway to opera favorites, delightfully thumbing her nose at the stuffy conventions and clichés that abound in the world of opera. | | | Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University, Sudbury ON Sudbury Symphony Orchestra: The 2004 recipient of the International Composer’s competition award in Belgium, Robert Lemay premieres his new composition “Oiseau de givre” for internationally known guest pianist Yoko Hirota and the Sudbury Symphony. | | | Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University, Sudbury ON Sudbury Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Consecration of the House, and Strauss' Horn Concerto with Diane Doig, french horn. |
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http://www.alexandralee.ca/performances.htm
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| | This week's events in Paris - Time Out Paris |
| | After 'The Nose' at the Paris opera, St-Petersburg's prestigious Marinsky theatre (called the Kirov under Soviet rule) moves to Châtelet for a mixed season of ballet and opera. | | | AmEx, MC, V. Paris has gained its first ice bar in the funky new Hôtel Kube, which opened on November 16, courtesy of the same team as the Murano Urban Resort. | | | Elsewhere music is at the fore with three concerts by star violinist Gidon Kremer and his chamber ensemble Kremerata Baltica (Nov 11, 21, 24), as well as less-known Latvian musicians, including pianist Vestards Shimkus, organist Vita Kalnciema and the Riga Cathedral boys choir. |
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http://www.timeout.com/paris/thisweek.php
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| | Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975) |
| | Katerina Ismailova remains the principal opera of Shostakovich, with the early opera The Nose, based on Gogol, and the ballet The Golden Age. | | | He occupies a significant position in the 20th century as a symphonist and as a composer of chamber music, writing in a style that is sometimes spare in texture but always accessible, couched as it is in an extension of traditional tonal musical language. | | | Outwardly and inevitably conforming to official policy, posthumous information suggests that Shostakovich remained very critical of Stalinist dictates, particularly with regard to music and the arts. |
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| | Shostakovich, Dmitri on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The early success of his First Symphony (1925) was confirmed by positive public reaction to two satirical works of 1930—an opera, The Nose (Leningrad; from a tale by Gogol), and a ballet, The Golden Age. | | | The opera and the dictator: the peculiar martyrdom of Dmitri Shostakovich. | | | Influenced by Mahler in his monumental symphonies, many of which include choral portions, Shostakovich was basically a Russian nationalist composer whose work represented traditional classical forms and generally remained accessibly tonal. |
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