"Kremmen: The Movie Kremmen: The Movie is a 1980 science fiction comedy film written and produced in Great Britain, starring comedian Kenny Everett. The film itself is centred on Everett's sci-fi character, Captain Kremmen, a pastiche of Dan Dare. After a whole eon, Kremmen has been awarded ""The Most Fabulous Man in the World Apart from God Award"", and is presented with an enormous, fully automated spaceship shaped like a Brain. While Dr. Gitfinger examines the controls, Carla persuades Kremmen to have casual sex with her in their private quarters. On Earth, the United Nations, along with David Frost, hold"
"Clarence M. Leumane Clarence M. ""Jack"" Leumane (died 23 February 1928) was an English-born singer, actor, songwriter and librettist. He played leading tenor roles in opera, especially the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, in the 1880s, first in Britain and then Australia. He was also a librettist and writer of the song '""The Lambton Worm"" in 1867. Leumane was born in England, possibly in the Sunderland area, as the words of the song ""The Lambton Worm"" are from the Mackem dialect. As an actor, in the autumn of 1881, he created the role of Captain Harleigh in ""Claude Duval"","
"Sergey Kuryokhin Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (, also transliterated as Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergei Kurekhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin, etc.; nicknamed ""The Captain""; 16 June 1954 – 9 July 1996) was a Russian composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist, film actor and writer, based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kuryokhin began his acting career as a piano and keyboard player with a school band in Leningrad. After playing with professional jazz bands, as well as popular rock musicians, Kuryokhin went through several stages in his career and eventually became one of the most recognisable names and faces in Russia during the 1980s and"
"Song of Scheherazade Song of Scheherazade is a 1947 American musical film directed by Walter Reisch. It tells the story of an imaginary episode in the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont), in 1865, when he was a young naval officer on shore leave in Morocco. It also features Yvonne De Carlo as a Spanish dancer named Cara de Talavera, Eve Arden as her mother, and Brian Donlevy as the ship's captain. Charles Kullman (credited as Charles Kullmann), a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera, plays the ship's doctor, Klin, who sings two of Rimsky-Korsakov's melodies. Rimsky-Korsakov, a"
"the Performing Arts Foundation of Memphis Tennessee and ran for a season at Chichester Festival Theatre before touring. In the 1970s television period drama ""Upstairs, Downstairs"", he played the role of Captain Charles Hammond, the young lover of Lady Marjorie Bellamy, in the episode ""Magic Casements"". Kernan also had small roles in several films, including ""Gaolbreak"" (1962), ""Mix Me a Person"" (1962), ""Farewell Performance"" (1963), ""Zulu"" (1964), ""Otley"" (1968), ""Up the Chastity Belt"" (1971) and ""Carry On Abroad"" (1972). David Kernan David Kernan (born 23 June 1938) is an English actor and singer, best known as an interpreter of the"
"Semen Hulak-Artemovsky Semen Stepanovich Hulak-Artemovsky (, also referred to as Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky and Artemovs’kyj) ( – ), was a Ukrainian opera composer, singer (baritone), actor, and dramatist who lived and worked in Imperial Russia. He is known mainly for his comic opera ""Zaporozhets za Dunayem"" (""A Zaporozhian (Cossack) Beyond the Danube""), as well as for his dramatic talent and his powerful, rich baritone voice. He was the nephew of the poet Petro Hulak-Artemovsky and a close friend of Taras Shevchenko. Hulak-Artemovsky was born in Horodyshche a city in present-day Ukraine (at the time a part of Imperial Russia) to the"
"Yuliy Kim Yuliy Chersanovich Kim (; born 23 December 1936, Moscow) is one of Russia's foremost bards, composer, poet, songwriter for theater and films. His songs, encompassing everything from mild humor to biting political satire, appear in at least fifty Soviet movies, including ""Bumbarash"", ""The Twelve Chairs"", and ""An Ordinary Miracle"", as well as the songs ""The Brave Captain,"" ""The Black Sea,"" ""The Whale-Fish,"" ""Cursed Lips,"" ""Captain Bering,"" and ""Baron Germont Went to War."" Since 1998, he has been living in Israel and has made periodic tours through Russia, Europe, and the United States. Kim was born in 1936 in"
"Werner Klemperer Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was a German-American stage, film, and television actor and singer/musician. Born in Cologne, Rhine Province, Germany, Klemperer and his family fled Germany in 1935. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began his professional acting career on the Broadway stage in 1947. Klemperer appeared in several films and numerous guest starring roles during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965, he won the role of Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom ""Hogan's Heroes"". The series aired for six seasons with Klemperer receiving a"
"Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera ""Peter Grimes"" (1945), the ""War Requiem"" (1962) and the orchestral showpiece ""The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"" (1945). Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer"
"Peter Graeme Graeme Peter Crump (1921 – 1 March 2012), known professionally as Peter Graeme and as 'Timmy' Crump to friends and family, was an English oboist and academic teacher. He was best known as the principal oboist of the Melos Ensemble. Peter Graeme studied the oboe with Léon Goossens. Graeme was the oboist of the Melos Ensemble, founded in 1950, and participated with the group in the premiere of the ""War Requiem"" by Benjamin Britten, conducted by the composer at the Coventry Cathedral in 1962. In 1954 he played English horn in a recording of Warlock's song cycle ""The"
"was composed by Igor Matvienko and the poem itself was written by Anna Timireva in memory of the admiral. The other song ""Vopreki"" (""Despite"") was written by Konstantin Meladze. This song is performed by Russian star Valery Meladze. The Admiral (2008 film) The Admiral ( Admiral) is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a vice-admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and the poet Anna Timiryova. An extended version of the movie was made into a 10-part"
"recorded and released on CD in 2017 by CPO. Benzin (opera) Benzin (German ""petrol"") is a comic opera in 2 acts by Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, with a libretto based on Homer's ""Odyssey"" and material from Calderón de la Barca's play ""El mayor encanto, amor"" (1635), composed in 1929 but not performed until 2010 at the Theater Chemnitz, Germany. The plot concerns a Zeppelin captain, Ulysses Eisenhardt, who lands on an island seeking its fuel reserves, but whose crew are ensnared by the enchanting Gladys Thunderbolt. The 2010 premiere featuring Kouta Räsänen, Johanna Stojkovic, Guibee Yang, Susanne Thielemann, Matthias Winter,"
"of the submarine captain. Alex Hassilev, of The Limelighters, also spoke fluent Russian and played the sailor Hrushevsky. John Phillip Law's incorrect pronunciation of difficult English phonemes, most notably in Alison Palmer's name (""ah-LYEE-sown PAHL-myerr""), was unusually authentic by the standards of the day. Brian Keith, who also spoke fluent Russian, did not do so in the film. The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Johnny Mandel and the soundtrack album was released on the United Artists label in 1966. ""Film Score Monthly"" reviewed Mandel's soundtrack in their liner notes for their reissue of the score, noting the"
"building, an old cinema in Saint Petersburg. In 2009 the Sergey Kuryokhin Foundation and the Kuryokhin Center established an annual award in the field of the modern art. Also wrote Title Music for entire BBC TV series Comrades 1985 one episode of which featured him and other Leningrad Musicians and his Orchestra Popular mechanics ""Kuryokhin"", documentary film (director Vladimir Nepevny) Sergey Kuryokhin Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (, also transliterated as Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergei Kurekhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin, etc.; nicknamed ""The Captain""; 16 June 1954 – 9 July 1996) was a Russian composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist, film actor and"
"of the ""War Requiem"", ""Peter Grimes"" and other works in four continents. In the US the centennial events were described as ""coast to coast,"" with a Britten festival at Carnegie Hall, and performances at the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera. Notes References Sources Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera ""Peter"
"Yevgeni Grishkovetz Yevgeni Valeryevich Grishkovetz (; born February 17, 1967 in Kemerovo) is a popular Russian writer, dramatist, stage director, actor and musician. He is widely known as the author of witty solo performances. Grishkovets has staged authorial plays ""Odnovremenno"", ""Planeta"", ""Drednouty"", ""Osada"", ""Titanic"", ""po Po"" and ""+1"" and published a number of his books: collected plays ""Gorod"" (2001), ""Kak ya syel sobaku"" (2003), the novel ""Rubashka"" (2004), the story ""Reki"" (2005) and collected stories ""Planka"" (2006). He has played supporting roles in remarkable Russian films including ""Progulka"", ""Ne khlebom edinym"" and ""V kruge pervom"". Grishkovetz lives in Kaliningrad and"
"Graham Clark (tenor) Graham Clark (born 1941 in Lancashire, England) is an English opera tenor, mainly known for his character roles like Loge (""Das Rheingold""), Mime (""Siegfried"") and the Captain (""Wozzeck""). He has sung at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, and Welsh National Opera and Northern Ireland Opera in the UK, all the leading North American and European opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera New York (15 seasons) and the Bayreuth Festival (16 seasons) and he has recorded for all the major companies. Clark studied at Kirkham Grammar School"
"Y. Belinsky), ""Song of Peace"" (music: B. Muradeli; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), ""Sedina"" (music: A. Ekimyan; lyrics: F. Laube), ""Son of the Fatherland"" (music: S. Tulika; lyrics: V. Lazarev), ""The Song of Russia"" (music: St. Tulika; lyrics: V. Kharitonov), ""Song of the Volga Boatmen"" ""Death of Varyag"" See image here. (Russian: Иван Семёнович Козловский). (b.Mali, Poltava, Ukraine 1900; d.1993); a lyric tenor. Order of the National Anthem (1941); People's Artist of the USSR (1940). He made his debut at the Kharkiv Opera Theatre. From 1926 to 1954 he was a member of the Bolshoi Theatre. He was professor at Gnessin State"
"""Admiral I.F. Kruzenshtern, a man and a steamship"", ""pirated"" from the title of a requiem poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, ""To Comrade Nette, a Man and a Steamship"". As a third-level linguistic derivation, there is a Russophone Israel klezmer-rock band, Kruzenshtern & Parohod (""Krusenstern and Steamship""). Another legacy is that the Cook Islands in the South Pacific bear that name thanks to von Krusenstern. Previously known as the Hervey (or Harvey) Islands (or Group), he changed their name in 1835 to honour Captain Cook. More accurately, he changed the name of those which comprised the Southern Group and it was subsequently"
"Peter Gordeno Peter Gordeno (20 June 1939 in Rangoon, Burma – 18 October 2008 in London, England, UK) was a British dancer, recording artist, cabaret singer, choreographer, and occasional actor. Born as Peter Godenho to an Italian American father and Scottish/Burmese mother, Gordeno was known primarily for his work with composer and arranger John Barry, but also became a household name in the 1970s due to his appearances as a submarine captain and combat pilot ""Peter Carlin"" in the Gerry Anderson television programme ""UFO"". He appeared in the 1968 London stage production of ""Man of La Mancha"", as Anselmo, a"
"founded. Graeme also recorded chamber music for smaller formations, such as the oboe quintet of Arthur Bliss, dedicated to Léon Goossens. Peter Graeme Graeme Peter Crump (1921 – 1 March 2012), known professionally as Peter Graeme and as 'Timmy' Crump to friends and family, was an English oboist and academic teacher. He was best known as the principal oboist of the Melos Ensemble. Peter Graeme studied the oboe with Léon Goossens. Graeme was the oboist of the Melos Ensemble, founded in 1950, and participated with the group in the premiere of the ""War Requiem"" by Benjamin Britten, conducted by the"
"Nikolai Fomenko Nikolai Vladimirovich Fomenko (, born 30 April 1962) is a Russian musician, comic actor, motor racer, former president of Marussia Motors and former engineering director of Marussia F1. Fomenko started his career as vocalist and guitarist in the band Secret, who were very popular in Russia in the mid-1980s. Fomenko first started his acting career as a theater actor in the Theater of Youth Creativity (1974-1976). Fomenko performed in the popular Russian music collection series ""Staryye Pesni o Glavnom"" (Old songs about the important). He hosted two seasons of a TV show ""The Interception"" and a season of"
"""Ol' Man River"", ""Pick Yourself Up"", ""She Didn't Say Yes"", ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"", ""The Song Is You"", ""They Didn't Believe Me"", ""The Way You Look Tonight"", ""Why Was I Born?"", ""Yesterdays"", ""You Are Love"" and ""Who?"". Jerome Kern Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as ""Ol' Man River"", ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"", ""A Fine Romance"","
"Andriy Kuzmenko Andriy ""Kuzma"" Kuzmenko (; 17 August 1968 – 2 February 2015) was a Ukrainian singer, poet, writer, TV presenter, producer and actor. He was best known as the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock band Skryabin, founded in 1989. Kuzmenko died in a traffic collision on 2 February 2015 in Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, aged 46. Andriy Kuzmenko was born on August 17, 1968, in Sambir, Lviv region. His family moved to the city of Novoyavorivsk, where he would start his career. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a garbage truck driver. His mother was a music teacher,"
"Krematorij Krematorij (Russian ""Крематорий"" - ""Crematorium"") is a Russian rock band. The band is considered one of the best concert performing teams in Russia, known for its masterly rock-n-roll. Formed in Moscow in 1983, Krematorij gained quick recognition, achieved the status of a legend of Russian Rock-n-Roll and after 30 years on stage continues to delight its audiences throughout the former Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel and the United States. The group’s front man (and main song writer) is Armen Grigoryan. The group was formed by Armen Grigoryan and Viktor Troyegubov in 1983 when rock music in the USSR"
"brave men swim to their deaths, opening sluice gates below the reactor in the hope of preventing a nuclear explosion. This song is about the fate of the 17th-century Russian rebel, Stepan Razin, its lyrics and music written in 1864 by poet, playwright and novelist Alexander Navrotsky. The song was an anthem for revolutionaries of the late 19th and early 20th century in Russia; Lenin often sang it with his comrades-in-arms. The song is still culturally central to Russia. Kharitonov remembered: Properly titled Yo, Heave, Ho! (or Ej, uhnem!), (Russian: Эй, ухнем!) In the West Kharitonov is recognised for his"
"Alexandrov Ensemble The Alexandrov Ensemble (; commonly known as the Red Army Choir in the West) is an official army choir of the Russian armed forces. Founded during the Soviet era, the ensemble consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The Ensemble has entertained audiences both in Russia and throughout the world, performing a range of music including folk tunes, hymns, operatic arias and popular music. The group's repertoire has included ""The Volga Boatmen's Song"", ""Katyusha"", ""Kalinka"", and ""Ave Maria"". It is named for its first director, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883–1946). Its formal name since 1998"
"in Captain America as Jan, Fury and Our Kind of Traitor as Andrei. Marek Oravec Marek Oravec (born December 27, 1983) is an Austrian actor, living and working in London. At the beginning of his career the actor was cast in three major roles at the Murau festival Shakespeare in Styria performed in English: In 2006 he was Caliban in a Nicholas Allen production of ""The Tempest"", in 2007 and in 2009 he performed the male leading roles in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and in ""Macbeth"", both directed by Daniel Winder. Since 2005, Oravec lives and works in London, Great Britain"
"Armen Grigoryan Armen Grigoryan (, ) is a singer/songwriter, artist, and the front man (and main songwriter) of ""Krematorij"" (""Crematorium"") Russian rock-band. Armen Grigoryan was born on November 24, 1960 in Moscow by Armenian parents. A player of Dynamo Moscow, he became a two-time champion of junior football. He grew up listening to the magic sounds of The Beatles mysteriously penetrating the Iron Curtain. Inspired by Beatle's music, Grigoryan, while still in high school, started his musical career (since 1977 he played in a band called ""Atmospheric pressure"") and in 1983 he formed ""Crematorium"" which gained a reputation throughout the"
"of Labour (1971), and Order of the Red Star (1946). Nikita Bogoslovsky Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky (; May 22, 1913 in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Empire – April 4, 2004 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet Russian composer, author of more than 200 songs, 8 symphonies (1940–1991), 17 operettas and musical comedies, 58 soundtracks, and 52 scores for theater productions. Bogoslovsky is best known for two Mark Bernes's trademark songs from the Great Patriotic War film ""Two Fighters"" (Dva boitsa, 1943), ""Tyomnaya noch"" (Dark Night) and ""Shalandy polnye kefali"" (Boats Full of Mullets). Among his many honorary titles and State awards were People's"
"taken to a hospital in Kryvyi Rih. Andriy Kuzmenko Andriy ""Kuzma"" Kuzmenko (; 17 August 1968 – 2 February 2015) was a Ukrainian singer, poet, writer, TV presenter, producer and actor. He was best known as the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock band Skryabin, founded in 1989. Kuzmenko died in a traffic collision on 2 February 2015 in Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, aged 46. Andriy Kuzmenko was born on August 17, 1968, in Sambir, Lviv region. His family moved to the city of Novoyavorivsk, where he would start his career. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a garbage truck"
"Captain Vere in Billy Budd in Genoa; Golitsin in Khovanschina in Florence and Barcelona; Sigmund in Die Walküre in Madrid; and in Seville, Mefistofeles in Doktor Faust and Loge in Das Rheingold. Among the roles he has created, are the title role in Dominic Argento's The Dream of Valentino with the Washington Opera, and Don Ygnacio in Peter Eotvos's Of Love and Other Demons at the Glyndebourne festival. He has also had the opportunity to sing Peter Grimes in Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten wrote the opera, and Boris in Katya Kabanova at the Janáček Festival in Byrno. On DVD: Chairman"
"Gerhard Stolze Gerhard Stolze (1 October 1926, Dessau – 11 March 1979, Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German tenor. He was a character tenor best known as a Wagner singer. His signature role was Mime (""Das Rheingold"", ""Siegfried""). Other important roles were David (""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg""), Loge (""Das Rheingold""), Aegisth (""Elektra"") and Herod (""Salome""). He also sang the Captain in ""Wozzeck"" and, the roles of Oberon (""A Midsummer Night's Dream"") and the Emperor Nero, both of which were originally written for countertenor. He recorded Mozart's high-tenor ""Singspiel"" roles, Monostatos and Pedrillo. He portrays Mime on both the studio recordings of ""Siegfried"""