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Iain Hamilton (6 June 1922) - (28 July 2000) was a Scottish composer of opera and classical music.
[edit] Principal characters
| 1945 11 scene concert performance |
1946 8 scene stage première |
1953 11 scenes Florence |
1955 11 scenes Leningrad |
1957 13 scenes NBC TV |
1957 13 scenes (cut) Moscow |
1959 13 scenes Moscow |
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| Natalya (Natasha) Rostov | soprano | M Nadion | Tatiana Lavrova | Rosanna Carteri | Tatiana Lavrova | Helena Scott | Valentina Kayevchenko | Galina Vishnevskaya |
| Count Pyotr (Pierre) Bezukhov | tenor | F Fedotov | Oles Semenovych Chishko | Franco Corelli | Glebov | David Lloyd | Vladimir Petrov | |
| Prince Andrei Bolkonsky | baritone | Andrei Ivanov | Sergei Shaposhnikov | Ettore Bastianini | Sergei Shaposhnikov | Morley Meredith | Shchabinsky | Yevgeny Kipkalo |
| Field-Marshal Prince Mikhail Kutuzov | bass | Alexander Pirogov | Butyagin | Italo Tajo | Butyagin | Kenneth Smith | Alexander Pirogov | Alexei Krivchenya |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | baritone | Modestov | Leon Lishner | Pavel Lisitsian | ||||
| Count Ilya Rostov (Natasha's father) | Bass | Italo Tajo | Chester Watson | |||||
| Hélène Bezukhova (Pierre's wife) | Mezzo-soprano | A Vassilieva | Cesy Broggini | Baskova | Gloria Lane | Irina Arkhipova | ||
| Prince Anatole Kuragin (her brother) | tenor | F Oganian | Androukovich | Mirto Picchi | Androukovich | Davis Cunningham | Alexei Maslennikov | |
| Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova | alto | Fedora Barbieri | Beatrix Krebs | Larissa Avdeieva | ||||
| Platon Karataev | tenor | Brenno Ristori | ||||||
| Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky (Andrei's father) | bass-baritone | N Pantchekhin | Jouravlenko | Fernando Corena | Arthur Newmann | Anatoly Vedernikov | ||
| Balaga | bass | Fernando Corena | Paul Ukena | |||||
| Sonya (Natasha's cousin) | mezzo-soprano | Vittoria Calma | Linda McNaughton | |||||
| Dolokhov | baritone | Renato Capecchi | Michael Kermoyan | |||||
| Colonel Vasska Denisov | baritone | Anselmo Colzani | Joshua Hecht |
[edit] Opera sub-projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Categories talk about categories
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/User and project boxes
- A list of translated English names
- Opera Work List
- Article ranking
[edit] in York cats (excl people)
*Acaster Malbis *Acomb, Yorkshire *Anglian Tower *Archbishop Holgate's School *Archbishop of York *Askham Bryan *Askham Grange (HM Prison) *Askham Richard *Baile Hill, York *Bar Convent *Battle of Fulford *Battle of Stamford Bridge *BBC Radio York *Bishopthorpe *Bishopthorpe Palace *Blue Bridge (York) *Bobo Lobo *Bootham *Bootham Park Hospital *Bootham School *Bridges of York *Clifton, City of York *Coat of arms of York *Copmanthorpe *Deighton, York *Derwenthorpe *Diocese of York *Dringhouses *Earswick *Ebor Festival *Eboracum *Ebrauc *Elvington, City of York *Fishergate *Ftr *Fulford *Grand Opera House (York) *Guildhall, York *Haxby *Haxby Hall *Henry Hindley *Heslington *Heworth, York *History of York *Huntington, City of York *Jórvík *King's Manor *KitKat Crescent *Knavesmire *Lamel Hill *Lloyds Bank turd *Mansion House, York *Medieval churches of York *Merchant Adventurers' Hall *Merchant Taylors' Hall, York *Micklegate *Middlethorpe, Yorkshire *Murton, York *Naburn *National Railway Museum *Nether Poppleton *Nether Poppleton Tithebarn *New Earswick *North Yorkshire Forum for Voluntary Organisations *Nunthorpe Grammar School *Osbaldwick *Palace of Whitehall *Peredur *Persimmon plc *Richard III Museum *Riding Lights Theatre Company *River Foss *Roses Tournament *Rowntree Park *Rowntree trusts *Rowntree's *Shed Seven *Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow, York *Siege of York *Skelton, York *Snickelways of York *South Bank, York *St George's York *St Mary's Abbey, York *St Michael le Belfrey *St Olave's Church, York *St Wilfrid's York *Stockton-on-the-Forest *Strays of York *Strensall *Suffolk House *Tang Hall *Terry's *The Golden Fleece Inn, York, UK *The Groves *The Press (York) *The Retreat *The Shambles *Towthorpe, York *Upper Poppleton *Wheldrake *Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate *YO postcode area *York *York Against Cancer *York and North Yorkshire Community Foundation *York Assembly Rooms *York Castle *York Cemetery, York *York City F.C. *York City Knights *York city walls *York Dungeon *York House, Strand *York Minster *York Museum Gardens *York Racecourse *York railway station *York sites of interest *York St John University *York Theatre Royal *Yorkshire Wheel
[edit] Dramma per musica
- João de Sousa Carvalho
- Nicola Fago
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt
- L'Orfeo
- The Puppet Designer
- Don Giovanni
- The Accacha Chronicles
- Opera seria
- Francisco Antonio de Almeida
- Giulio Sabino
- Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
- Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
- Sergei Slonimsky
- Demofonte
- Telemaco
- David Pérez (composer)
- Adelaide (opera)
- Russian opera articles
- Metastasio (Drammi)
- Collegium Musicum (dramme)
| Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, (Conductor: - ) |
|---|---|---|
[edit] Selected recordings (table style)
| Year | Cast (Radames, Aida, Amneris) |
Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra |
Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Chiara, Ghena Dimitrova |
Lorin Maazel, La Scala orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Image Entertainment ASIN: B00002NDLW |
| 1989 | Plácido Domingo, Aprile Millo, Dolora Zajick |
James Levine, Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus |
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon ASIN: B000050X2Z |
[edit] Ragnar Ulfung
Ragnar Ulfung ( born 28 February 1927) is a Norwegian tenor, originally singing principal roles before turning to character parts.
Ulfung was born in Oslo and studied there and then in Milan with Angelo Minghetti. He made his début in Oslo in 1952 as Magadoff in The Consul. He sang mostly at Gothenburg for the next few years, where his roles included Jeník in The Bartered Bride, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Duke of Mantua, Don José. Went to the Royal Opera in Stockholm and created the role of the Deaf Mute(!) in Aniara. Also in Stockholm, Canio, Hoffmann, Alfredo, Cavaradossi, Tom Rakewell, Gustavus, Otello.
He created the title-role in Maxwell Davies's Taverner (opera) at the ROH, also sang in Hamburg (Turiddu, Erik, Steva), San Francisco (Riccardo - presumably in Ballo - Valzacchi, Mime, which he also sang at the Met). Elsewhere, Fatty in Mahagonny, Loge, Aegisthus, the Captain in Wozzeck.
Herod and Mime at the ROH 2003 Glyndebourne Fledermaus Doctor Blind, 76 at the time! A friend I was with told me that he'd seen Ulfung as Don Carlos at Covent Garden in 1963. And he'd sung Tamino at Glyndebourne that same year.
The Magic Flute (1975 film) Seattle Opera Ring - directed, 1984 NOVEMBER 16th, 1979: New York, Metropolitan Opera; John Dexter, dir., James Levine, cond.; with Teresa Stratas (Jenny), Astrid Varnay (Begbick), Richard Cassilly (Jimmy), Cornell MacNeil (Moses), Ragnar Ulfung (Fatty), Paul Plishka (Joe)
Otto Wiener (13 February 1913 - 5 August 2000) was an Austrian baritone, notable for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner.
He was born in Vienna, joined the Vienna Boys' Choir at the age of six, and started his adult career as a concert singer before making his stage debut in 1953 at Graz in the title-role of Simon Boccanegra. He subsequently sang with the opera companies at Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Berlin and performed at the Vienna State Opera from 1957 onwards and at the Bavarian State Opera from 1960. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1955 and sang there in the stage première of Frank Martin's Le mystère de la Nativité.
Wiener first appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 1957, and sang there until 1963 as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Gunther in Götterdämmerung and in the title-role of Der fliegende Holländer. In 1962 he performed the role of Sachs at both the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera. In 1964, he appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the role of La Roche in Capriccio.
Wiener retired in 1976 and died in Vienna.
[edit] Source
- New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol 4, p.1154.
[edit] External links
{{opera-singer-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wiener, Otto}} [[Category:baritones]] [[Category:Austrian opera singers]] [[Category:1913 births]] [[Category:2000 deaths]]
[edit] Pierre Gaveaux
Portrait after a physionotrace by Edme Quenedey (1821).
Pierre Gaveaux (9 October 1761 - 5 February 1825) was a French operatic tenor and composer.
[edit] Early life
Gaveaux was born in Béziers and sang in the cathedral choir there from the age of seven. Although intending to enter the priesthood, he also took lessons in composition. He next became first tenor at the Basilica of Saint-Seurin in Bordeaux, studying with Franz Beck, and subsequently decided to follow a career in music, becoming a conductor at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux as well as continuing to sing.
[edit] Career as a singer
After a period in Montpellier, he moved to Paris where, on 26 January 1789, he took part in a performance of Giacomo Tritto's Le Avventure Amorose, which marked the inauguration of the Théâtre de Monsieur company in the Salle des Machines at the Tuileries Palace.
He subsequently performed with the company in operas such as Paisiello's L’Infante de Zamora (in 1789), and on 18 July 1791 he sang the role of Floresky in the première of Cherubini's Lodoïska. When the company moved to the Théâtre Feydeau, he was involved in a "folly in verse" called Le club des bonnes gens which was banned by the censor for being unpatriotic.
He was active during the revolutionary period, composing in 1792 a hymn to the Supreme Being. On 19 January 1795, his famous Jacobin song Le Réveil du peuple (The People's Dream), to words by Jean-Marie Souriguière de Saint-Marc, was first performed. Notwithstanding the banning of the song on 8 January 1796 by the Directoire, he continued his career in opera, appearing in François Devienne's Les visitandines, and creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée on 13 March 1797.
[edit] Operas
Gavreau's first opera, L'amour filial (1792), was a success in Paris and was performed throughout Europe: Brussels, Cologne and Rotterdam in 1795, Berne and Moscow in 1809, Berlin and Hamburg (in a German translation) in 1796.
His most famous opera, Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal, premièred in 1798, with Gavreau himself in the role of Florestan and Julie-Angélique Scio as Léonore. It is best-known today because the libretto (by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly) served as the basis for Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio.
Other operas by Gavreau that were popular in their day include Sophie et Moncars, Le bouffe et le tailleur and Monsieur Des Chalumeaux, and in 1808 he composed L'échelle de soie to a translation of the libretto which Giuseppe Maria Foppa had written for Rossini's La scala di seta.
[edit] Chronological list of operas
- L'amour filial, 1792
- Le paria ou La chaumière indienne, 1792
- Les deux ermites, 1793
- La partie carrée, 1793
- La famille indigente, 1794
- Sophronime ou La reconnaissance, 1795
- Delmon et Nadine, 1795
- La gasconnade, 1795
- Le petit matelot ou Le mariage impromptu, 1796
- Lise et Colin ou La surveillance inutile, 1796
- Tout par hasard , 1796
- Céliane, 1796
- Le mannequin vivant ou Le mari de bois, 1796
- Le traité nul, 1797
- Sophie et Moncars ou L'intrigue portugaise, 1797
- Léonore ou L'amour conjugal, 1798
- Le diable couleur de rose ou Le bonhomme misère, 1798
- Les noms supposés ou Les deux jockeys, 1798
- Le locataire, 1800
- Le trompeur trompé, 1800
- Ovinska ou Les exilés de Sibérie, 1801
- Le retour inattendu, 1802
- Un quart d'heure de silence, 1804
- Le bouffe et le tailleur, 1804
- Avis aux femmes ou Le mari colère, 1804
- Trop tôt ou Le projet manqué, 1804
- Le mariage inattendu, 1804
- Le diable en vacances ou La suite du diable couleur de rose, 1805
- L'amour à Cythère, 1805
- Monsieur Des Chalumeaux, 1806
- L'échelle de soie, 1808
- La rose blanche et la rose rouge, 1809
- L'enfant prodigue, 1811
- Pygmalion, 1816
- Une nuit au bois ou Le muet de circonstance, 1818
[edit] Later life
Gavreau continued to sing until 1812, although after the company of the Théâtre Feydeau merged with that of the Théâtre Favart in 1801, his voice was in decline and he only performed secondary roles. In 1819 he entered the asylum at Charenton on the outskirts of Paris, where he died. His wife, Émilie Gavaudan (also a singer), died in 1840.
[edit] References
- This article is based on a translation from Wikipedia français
- Other information is derived from the article on Gaveaux by Paulette Letailleur in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Catégorie:1761 births Catégorie:1825 deaths Catégorie:French composers Categorie:Opera composers Catégorie:French opera singers Catégorie:French tenors Categorie:People from Languedoc-Rousillon
[edit] Oranges
The opera features an array of whimsical characters, including:
- The Prince (tenor): the hero. In the first act he is dying of incurable hypochondria. After being cursed by Fata Morgana, he must go on a quest to rescue the three oranges from the evil chef Creonte, with the help of Truffaldino.
- King of Clubs (bass): the father of the Prince. Comparable with the Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- Truffaldino (tenor): the Prince's somewhat unreliable sidekick. Based on the Commedia dell'Arte character Arlecchino.
- Tchelio (bass): a bumbling wizard and protector of the Prince.
- Fata Morgana (soprano): the evil, somewhat bumbling witch who curses the Prince. Named after the optical phenomenon of the same name, which ultimately derives from King Arthur's half sister Morgan le Fay.
- Leandre (bass-baritone), Clarissa (mezzo), and Smeraldina (mezzo): plotters against the King and Prince, allies of Fata Morgana.
- Farfarello (baritone): antagonizing wind demon. Name is from the Italian for demon.
- Creonte (bass): the evil chef who has imprisoned the three oranges and threatens the Prince and Truffaldino with a giant ladle.
- Ninetta (soprano): one of the princess of the orange.
- Linetta (mezzo) and Nicoletta (soprano): the other, ill-fated orange princesses.
- A chorus of "Ridiculous People" representing the audience of the play and also involved in the action of the play at times.
[edit] Role creators, etc.
During the recent Rossini months, I discovered (as some may have noticed) a very useful source for information about first performances of operas. This is the Almanacco at AmadeusOnline.net. It's in Italian, but reasonably easy to use. If you click this link you'll see that the display shows musical events of all descriptions (births, deaths, first performances of all sorts of compositions, appointments, etc., etc.) that happened on this day in past years.
Today is 10 April, and among the events shown on the first of the two pages is the 1913 first performance of Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re. It says
première (successo) nel Teatro alla Scala di Milano di "L'amore dei tre re", poema lirico tragico in 3 atti di Italo Montemezzi, su libretto di Sem Benelli, dirige Tullio Serafin, scenografia di Mancini {coi soprani Luisa Villani (Fiora), Fernanda Guelpi (ancella), Enrica Merli (giovanetta) e voce bianca (fanciullo-voce fuoriscena), il mezzosoprano Rosa Garavaglia (vecchia), i tenori Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana (Avito), Giordano Paltrinieri (Flaminio) e Cesare Spadoni (giovanetto), il baritono Carlo Galeffi (Manfredo), il basso Nazzareno De Angelis (Archibaldo)}
The word "dirige", if shown, is followed by the name of the conductor - in this case, Tullio Serafin, and the bracketed section starting "coi" ("with the") lists the singers in descending order of voice, with the parts they played shown in brackets after their names.
[edit] Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, March 27, 1819 (Conductor: Nicola Festa) |
|---|---|---|
| Ermione (Hermione), daughter of Helen and Menelaus | soprano | Isabella Colbran |
| Andromaca (Andromache), widow of Hector | alto | Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni |
| Pirro, (Pyrrhus) son of Achilles and king of Epirus | tenor | Andrea Nozzari |
| Oreste (Orestes), son of Agammemnon | tenor | Giovanni David |
| Pilade (Pylades), Oreste's companion | tenor | Giuseppe Ciccimarra |
| Cleone, Ermione's confidante | mezzo-soprano | Maria Manzi |
| Fenicio, Pirro's tutor | bass | Michele Benedetti |
| Cefisa, Andromaca's confidante | alto | Raffaella De Bernardis |
| Attalo, Pirro's confidant | tenor | Gaetano Chizzola |
| Astianatte (Astyanax), Andromaca's son | silent | |
| Lords of Epirus, Trojan prisoners, Oreste's attendants, Spartan maidens | ||
