"Marni Nixon Margaret Nixon McEathron (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016), known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is now well known as the real singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ""The King and I"", ""West Side Story"", and ""My Fair Lady"", although this was concealed at the time from audiences. Besides her voice work in films, Nixon's varied career included some film roles of her own, television, opera, musicals on Broadway and elsewhere throughout the United States, concerts with major symphony orchestras, and"
"on the adult characters to return the plot closer to the original book. A full recording of this version was released on CD by First Night Records in 2001. The Secret Garden (musical) The Secret Garden is a musical based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The musical's script and lyrics are by Marsha Norman, with music by Lucy Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1991 and ran for 709 performances. The story is set in the early years of the 20th century. Mary Lennox, a young English girl born and raised in the"
"Shortly thereafter she became the director of the Chicago Civic Opera where she commissioned the opera ""Camille"" by 28-year-old composer Hamilton Forrest. She sang roles at the Civic Opera until 1931, notably in several United States and world premieres. Additionally, Garden appeared in two silent films made by Samuel Goldwyn. After retiring from the opera stage in 1934, Garden worked as a talent scout for MGM. She also gave lectures and recitals, mostly on the life and works of Claude Debussy, until 1949. She retired to Scotland and in 1951 published a successful autobiography, ""Mary Garden's Story"". Her voice is"
"on June 6, 2007. Shicoff's most famous roles (besides ""Werther""), include the title roles in ""Tales of Hoffman"" and ""Peter Grimes"" and Lensky in ""Eugene Onegin"" and Eleazar in ""La Juive"", as well as for a number of the Romantic French and Italian lyric and spinto tenor roles. In addition to his opera performances, he has also sung concerts with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado, the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa, among others, and at many festivals. Shicoff was"
"Lucy Simon Lucy Simon (born 1943) is an American composer for the theatre and popular songs. She has recorded and performed as a singer and songwriter, and is known for the musicals ""The Secret Garden"" and ""Doctor Zhivago"". Simon was born in New York City, the daughter of the co-founder of the book publisher Simon & Schuster, Inc., Richard L. Simon and Andrea (Heinemann) Simon, a former switchboard operator, civil rights activist, and singer. Her father was from a German Jewish family, while her maternal grandfather Friedrich was of German descent. Lucy's maternal grandmother, known as ""Chibie"", was a Catholic"
"Mary Garden Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967) was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she died. Described as ""the Sarah Bernhardt of opera"", Garden was an exceptional actress as well as a talented singer. She was particularly admired for her nuanced performances which employed interesting uses of vocal"
"The Secret Garden (musical) The Secret Garden is a musical based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The musical's script and lyrics are by Marsha Norman, with music by Lucy Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1991 and ran for 709 performances. The story is set in the early years of the 20th century. Mary Lennox, a young English girl born and raised in the British Raj, is orphaned by a cholera outbreak when she is ten years old. She is sent away from India to Yorkshire, England, to live with relatives whom she"
"Herbert Greene (Broadway conductor) Herbert Greene (June 16, 1921 – September 25, 1985) was a musician, conductor, arranger and voice teacher prominent on the Broadway stage in New York City. He won two Tony Awards for the 1958 musical ""The Music Man"". Greene was born on June 16, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York. As a boy, he studied to be an opera singer with Thomas LoMonaco, a protégé of the well-known vocal scientist, Dr. Douglas Stanley. Mr. Greene also aspired to be a composer, and had a body of serious compositions: his Sonata for Cello and Piano was performed in"
"the voices of the angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in ""Joan of Arc"" (1948). The same year, she did her first dubbing work when she provided Margaret O'Brien's singing voice in 1948's ""Big City"" and then 1949's ""The Secret Garden"". She sang for Jeanne Crain in ""Cheaper by the Dozen"" (1950) and dubbed Marilyn Monroe's high notes in ""Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"" in ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1953). Also in 1953, she sang for Ida Lupino in ""Jennifer"". Nixon appeared on Broadway in 1954 in ""The Girl in Pink Tights"". In 1956, she worked closely with Deborah Kerr to"
"Norman currently serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City, and is Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America. She was honored at the 2011 William Inge Festival for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre. ""Note: plays or musicals unless otherwise indicated"" Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award"
"Sylvia O'Brien (soprano) Sylvia O'Brien is a Dublin-born soprano who has sung leading roles with English Touring Opera, including the Governess in Benjamin Britten's ""The Turn of the Screw"", Gabiella (Countess Zedlau) in Strauss' ""Vienna Spirit"" and Costanze in Mozart's ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"". She has also sung as a soloist with the Irish Chamber Orchestra (Bach's ""St. John Passion"", 2008) and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Morton Feldman's, ""Neither"", at the RTÉ Living Music Festival 2006). Sylvia O'Brien was a choral scholar at Trinity College Dublin and sang in the choirs of both the Anglican Christ Church Cathedral"
"the Horticultural Society of New York on April 18, 1971. Mary Bothwell Mary Bothwell (November 28, 1900 – mid-1970s) was a Canadian classical vocalist and painter. As a singer she began her career as a contralto, but ultimately ended up performing soprano parts in the opera and concert repertoire. Bothwell was born in Hickson near Woodstock, Ontario, the daughter of Alexander Bothwell and Mary Thompson. She studied at the Canadian Academy of Music in Toronto where she was a voice student of Otto Morando and a piano student of Peter C. Kennedy. From 1920-1929 she performed as a contralto in"
"appeared at leading European opera houses such as Covent Garden, and also sang in Chicago and Boston. She made several acoustic recordings in New York in 1920-21, including arias from her operatic repertoire and Spanish songs by Falla, Chapi and Tabuyo. She made three films, ""Till We Meet Again"", in 1944, ""An Angel Comes to Brooklyn"" (1945) and ""Affair in Monte Carlo"" (1953); her autobiography, ""Forsaken Altars"", was published in 1954, after her death in Alassio, Italy. David Ewen, ""Encyclopedia of the Opera"" Marguerite d'Alvarez Marguerite d'Alvarez (c. 1883 - 18 October 1953) was an English contralto. d'Alvarez was born"
"Jablonsky, Mark Mothersbaugh, John Powell), John Ashton Thomas (John Powell, John Debney, Alan Silvestri, James Newton Howard, Henry Jackman, Lyle Workman, Theodore Shapiro, John Ottman, John Paesano), Robert Elhai (Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Kamen, Ed Shearmur, Brian Tyler, Klaus Badelt, Ilan Eshkeri ) and J.A.C. Redford (James Horner, Thomas Newman). Conrad Salinger was the most prominent orchestrator of MGM musicals from the 1940s to 1962, orchestrating such famous films as ""Singin' in the Rain"", ""An American in Paris"", and ""Gigi"". In the 1950s, film composer John Williams frequently spent time with Salinger informally learning the craft of orchestration. Robert Russell Bennett"
"at Covent Garden, in 1984. Gwynne Howell Gwynne Howell (born 13 June 1938) is a Welsh operatic bass, known particularly for his performances of Verdi and Wagner roles. Born in Gorseinon, Wales, he studied at the RMCM, where he sang Leporello in concert, and Hunding, Fasolt, and Pogner in staged performances. He joined the Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1968, and the Royal Opera House in 1970. He was also a regular guest at the English National Opera and the Welsh National Opera. His roles have included most of the major bass roles of the Verdi and Wagner repertories, such as:"
"at the 1978 Proms. Lois McDonall also created the role of Mrs. Medlock in Stephen McNeff's ""The Secret Garden"" for the COMUS Music Theatre in 1985. Lois McDonall has taught at The Banff Centre in Alberta. She taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto from 1986–1992 and taught at the University of Toronto until 2001. Now-prominent students include soprano Othalie Graham, Jackalyn Short, Elliot Madore, Stephen Harland, and Andrea Ludwig. Today Lois McDonall is retired and lives in Toronto Ontario, Canada. She is a prolific composer and teaches piano to youth and Opera. These are McDonall's recordings: Lois"
"formal structure was well-suited to musical adaptation. Wilde himself described ""Salomé"" as containing ""refrains whose recurring ""motifs"" make it so like a piece of music and bind it together as a ballad"". Strauss composed the opera to a German libretto, and that is the version that has become widely known. In 1907, Strauss made an alternate version in French (the language of the original Oscar Wilde play), which was used by Mary Garden, the world's most famous proponent of the role, when she sang the opera in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Paris, and other cities. Marjorie Lawrence sang the role"
"Metropolitan Opera in 2003, which has become a signature role for Brewer. Brewer is most famous for her interpretations of roles by Wagner, Strauss and Britten including Isolde, Ariadne, Färberin (""Die Frau ohne Schatten""), Ellen Orford (""Peter Grimes"") and Queen Elizabeth I (""Gloriana""). She made her debut at the San Francisco Opera in 2006 singing the title role in Beethoven's Fidelio and returned the following season singing the role of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde. Brewer is a regular featured singer at The Proms and the Wigmore Hall. In late March 2009, Brewer had to withdraw from the complete Ring"
"original production, the piece returned to Broadway at the Knickerbocker briefly in 1906, and, in between national tours, at both the original Academy of Music and the Knickerbocker in 1907, at the Globe Theatre in 1913 and at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre in 1929, among many other revivals and tours through the early 20th century. Later revivals have included several revivals by the Light Opera of Manhattan in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and a production by Ohio Light Opera in 2009. A 1926 silent film version starring Corinne Griffith was broadly adapted, but well received. A ""talking"" film"
"11, 2016. The concert was originally scheduled to be one night only, but a second performance was added for January 17, 2016. Daisy Eagan, the original ""Mary Lennox"" was the host for the concerts. ""The Secret Garden"" (in concert) was presented in Toronto, Canada, in January 2017 as the inaugural show of a newly formed theatre company Podium Concert Productions, headed by Producer Peter da Costa and Conductor Mark Camilleri. This synopsis describes the original Broadway production; the reworked London production altered this sequence by moving or omitting several scenes and songs. Mary Lennox, a 10-year-old English girl who has"
"Elgar's ""The Kingdom"" (LSO/Elder); Shostakovich's ""Blok Romances"" (Nash Ensemble); Schumann's ""Das Paradies und die Peri"" at the Edinburgh Festival (SCO/Norrington) and in Vienna (Vienna Philharmonic/Rattle) and Britten's ""Les Illuminations"" – including the world premiere of Britten's three additional Rimbaud settings (BBCSSO/Brabbins). A Grammy nominated artist, she has recorded prolifically for Chandos, Hyperion, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Decca, Philips and Collins Classics among others. Gritton is married to the opera director Stephen Medcalf. Susan Gritton Susan Gritton (born 31 August 1965) is an English operatic soprano. She was the 1994 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and has sung leading roles in"
"House Covent Garden in London in 1991, both times as Prince Orlofsky in ""Die Fledermaus"". He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1994 in the same role. In 1995 he took part in the Salzburg Festival. He has established a reputation as a concert and oratorio singer in the major musical centres of Europe, the USA and Japan, working with such conductors as Gary Bertini, Neville Marriner, Vittorio Negri, Zubin Mehta, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, among others. He has performed in Austria, France, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States and is well received by critics. Kowalski is"
"come, </poem> Garden and Ruby both died on January 3, 1967. Notes Sources Mary Garden Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967) was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she died. Described as ""the Sarah Bernhardt of opera"", Garden was an exceptional actress as well as a talented singer. She"
"Berg's opera of that name, a part she would later sing at The Met and at Glyndebourne. Other notable opera roles were ""Alcina"" at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre, Donna Anna in a production of ""Don Giovanni"" in the Palais Garnier, directed by Michael Haneke and Gilda in a 2000 BBC production of Rigoletto at Covent Garden. Her repertoire contains several baroque operas, Bach cantatas, and many of the great Mozart roles, such as Konstanze (""Die Entführung aus dem Serail""), Cherubino (""The Marriage of Figaro""), Pamina (""The Magic Flute"") and Servilia (""La clemenza di Tito""). But Schäfer also sings modern pieces"
"Philharmonic, l'Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Italy, Radio France, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Czech Philharmonic, and London Symphony Orchestra with Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Jurowski, Christoph von Dohnányi, Sir Colin Davis, Lord Yehudi Menuhin and others. In addition to Mozart roles, and such roles as Candide, the Prince in ""The Love for Three Oranges"", Rodolfo in ""La bohème"" and the Duke in ""Rigoletto"", George has sung as the tenor soloist in Bach's Passions and Cantatas with Helmuth Rilling, and in oratorio—""Elijah"", ""St. Paul"" and ""Carmina Burana"". His voice has been credited with being a ""pleasing tenor sound, inflected"
"Patricia Brooks Patricia Brooks (November 7, 1937 – January 22, 1993), was a lyric soprano, actress, and opera singer, who performed primarily with the New York City Opera. She was known for her acting ability as much as for her voice. Brooks was born in Manhattan and attended the High School of Music and Art, studying dance with Martha Graham. Following a knee injury, she turned to theatrical performance, studied singing with Margaret Harshaw and Daniel Ferro, and studied acting with Uta Hagen. In 1960, she was performing as a member of the chorus in the Broadway musical ""The Sound"
"Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and ""The Red Shoes"", as well as the libretto for the musical ""The Color Purple"" and the book for the musical ""The Bridges of Madison County"". She is co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School. Norman was born"
"leading opera venues in Germany and Austria. Such important overseas theatres as The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and La Scala, Milan, heard him sing during the 1930s, when his international reputation attained its peak. The operatic role for which he is perhaps best remembered is that of Papageno, in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"". (In 1937-38 he recorded a complete Papageno for HMV, with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.) His stage repertoire, however, included most of the standard roles for the lighter baritone voice, including those of Wagner. Indeed, he was invited to perform at the"
"in the title role. The original Broadway cast members were nearly all new to the stage; Kennedy and Muir write that on the first day of rehearsal only one member had ever been on a stage before. The 1954 film was adapted by Hammerstein and Harry Kleiner. It was directed by Otto Preminger and starred Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. The musical has also been revived in London, running for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007. In 2018, it was revived off-Broadway at the"
"Silverdene Emblem O’Neill.” It will be premiered in 2013 and will feature a performance of the third movement by Academy Award-winning actor and singer, F. Murray Abraham at the Prague Proms. Maestro Mercurio is an acclaimed and sought after arranger. He has created arrangements for a wide array of artists, including Andrea Bocelli, Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, Fabio Armiliato, Carl Tanner, Ben Heppner, Bryn Terfel, Marcello Giordani, Il Volo, Secret Garden and Sting. Mercurio is known for his powerful, impassioned conducting. An undisputed expert interpreter of Italian standards (Puccini, Verdi, Mascagni, etc.), he is well known for his physically demanding,"
"no. 23 (K488). She achieved grade 8 in both Piano and Cello in school and went on to study at London's Trinity College of Music graduating in 2004 with a joint honours degree in piano and cello performance. She also composes music and sings jazz and has sung at legendary London jazz venue Pizza on the Park. Kate's breakthrough performance came in 1993 when she landed her first major motion picture role as Mary Lennox in Francis Ford Copola's ""The Secret Garden"" (1993 film). Directed by Agnieszka Holland, the film achieved international acclaim and has gone on to become a"
"Alison Fraser Alison Fraser is an American actress, voice actress and singer who has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in television and film. In concert, she has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, The White House, Town Hall, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Tisch Center for the Arts, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Wilma, The Emelin, Joe's Pub, 54 Below and Symphony space. Fraser is a two time Tony Award nominee for ""The Secret Garden"" and ""Romance/Romance"", She played ""Tessie Tura"" in the New York City Center and Broadway productions of """" starring Patti LuPone under the direction of"
"frequently with Luciano Pavarotti, including concerts at Madison Square Garden and at the Hollywood Bowl in addition to appearing with the tenor during his 2002/2003 concert tour in the United States. The soprano has sung in major opera houses worldwide, notably the Vienna Staatsoper, the Opera Nationale and the Opera Comique in Paris, the Sydney Opera, the Opéra de Montecarlo, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Geneva’s Grand Théâtre, the San Francisco Opera, the Budapest Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. In addition to Milan’s La Scala, the artist has appeared at"