Who composed the opera 'The Love For Three Oranges'?
"Loca"" (1979, written for and starring Beverly Sills), Myron Fink's ""The Conquistador"" (1993), and Alva Henderson's ""Medea"". United States premieres included Daniel Catán's ""Rapaccini's Daughter"", Hans Werner Henze's ""Der junge Lord"", Riccardo Zandonai's ""Giulietta e Romeo,"" and Emmanuel Chabrier's ""Gwendoline"". Additional notable performances and productions include the farewell performance of Beverly Sills opposite Joan Sutherland in ""Die Fledermaus""; the San Diego Opera-commissioned productions by Zandra Rhodes of ""The Magic Flute"" (2001) and ""The Pearl Fishers"" (2004); and the West Coast premieres of Giuseppe Verdi's ""Giovanna d'Arco"" and ""I Lombardi"", and of Sergei Prokofiev's ""The Love for Three Oranges"". Notes Other"
"Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from ""The Love for Three Oranges,"" the suite ""Lieutenant Kijé"", the ballet ""Romeo and Juliet""—from which ""Dance of the Knights"" is taken—and ""Peter and the Wolf."" Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas,"
"Three Oranges"". He also composed around that time ""Four Pieces"", Op. 32. Both were composed in order to mitigate his ongoing economic situation due to the delay of the opera's premiere; however, he did not obtain the money in royalties he expected for them. The piece can be described as an old grandmother narrating tales to his young grandson that listens carefully in her lap. Its a musical page full of nostalgia. The work comprises four untitled movements: Tales of an Old Grandmother Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31 () is a piano composition by Sergei Prokofiev. It was"
"Das Dreimäderlhaus Das Dreimäderlhaus (""House of the Three Girls""), adapted into English-language versions as Blossom Time and Lilac Time, is a Viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert, rearranged by Hungarian Heinrich Berté (1857–1924), and a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . The work gives a fictionalized account of Schubert's romantic life, and the story was adapted from the 1912 novel ""Schwammerl"" by Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952). Originally the score was mostly Berté, with just one piece of Schubert's (""Ungeduld"" from ""Die schöne Müllerin""), but the producers required Berté to discard his score and create a pasticcio of"
"LP. Despite the attribution, the conductor was Aleksandr Gauk. A short sound film of Prokofiev playing some of the music from his opera ""War and Peace"" and then explaining the music has been discovered. Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from ""The Love for Three Oranges,"" the suite ""Lieutenant Kijé"", the"
"Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He also completed some of his older, unfinished works, such as his Third Piano Concerto. ""The Love for Three Oranges"" finally premièred in Chicago, under the composer's baton, on 30 December 1921. Diaghilev became sufficiently interested in the opera to request Prokofiev play the vocal score to him in June 1922, while they were both in Paris for a revival of ""Chout"", so he could consider it for a possible production. Stravinsky, who was present at the audition, refused to listen to more than the first act. When he then accused Prokofiev of ""wasting time composing operas"","
"success. By 1910 she was a household name in America and Garden appeared in operas in several major American cities; including performing with the Boston Opera Company and the Philadelphia Opera Company. Between 1910 and 1932 Garden worked in several opera houses in Chicago. She first worked with the Chicago Grand Opera Company (1910–1913) and then joined the Chicago Opera Association in 1915, ultimately becoming the company's director in 1921. Although director for only one year, Garden was notably responsible for staging the world premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's ""The Love for Three Oranges"" before the company went bankrupt in 1922."
"the care of his Moscow publishing house, and thereafter it was put to theback of his mind, although Miaskovsky wrote to him in Paris in 1924 to ask about it. Possibly this motivated him to collect the score when he visited Russia in 1927 to hear the Moscow production of his ""Love for Three Oranges"". When Prokofiev finally returned to Russia permanently in 1936, the score was left behind in Paris. It finally found its way to the publishers Boosey & Hawkes in London in 1960. The composer's widow, Lina Prokofiev, who was established as being the rightful owner of"
"Didier Henry Didier Henry (born 24 May 1953) is a French baritone. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris before joining the Opéra National de Lyon. He is well known for his French opera roles, including those by Massenet, Gounod, Debussy, and Ravel. He also starred in a notable recording of Prokofiev's ""The Love for Three Oranges"" in French, under conductor Kent Nagano. The baritone is regularly invited on international stages, as often for lyrical productions than for concerts or recitals. His career was marked by Pelléas's part. He has been in charge of the opera’s creation in Moscow in"
"production of Prokofiev's ""Boris Godunov"" which he conducted along with his father, Mikhail Jurowski, for the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. In September 2004, he was assistant conductor of ""Parsifal"" at the Genoan Teatro Carlo Felice under the guidance of Harry Kupfer and then conducted Prokofiev's ""The Love for Three Oranges"" with Associazione Lirica e Concertistica Italiana. The opera toured 23 theatres in Northern Italy; as a result of its success since after it he was invited to the Martina Franca Festival. In 2005 he performed and recorded, for the Dynamic label, Luigi Cherubini's ""Lo Sposo di tre e il Marito"
"as well. As of 2013 he has conducted such operas as Benjamin Britten's ""Billy Budd"", Charles Gounod's ""Roméo et Juliette"", as well as Tchaikovsky's ""Eugene Onegin"" and ""The Queen of Spades"" both of which were later performed at La Scala, Milan, and Opera de Bordeaux. The same year, he has conducted Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka at both the Bavarian State Opera and both Rotterdam Philharmonic and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras. In 2014 his repertoire will include production of ""The Love for Three Oranges"" which will be performed by the Latvian National Opera as well as first ballet at La Scala theatre."
"joined the Academy chorus to be able to watch such conductors as Bruno Walter and Herbert von Karajan in rehearsal. He also spent time at the Chigiana Academy in Siena. In 1958, Abbado made his conducting debut in Trieste. That summer, he won the international Serge Koussevitzky Competition for conductors at the Tanglewood Music Festival, which resulted in a number of operatic conducting engagements in Italy. In 1959, he conducted his first opera, ""The Love for Three Oranges"", in Trieste. He made his La Scala conducting debut in 1960. In 1963, he won the Dimitri Mitropoulos Prize for conductors, which"
"Waldemar Kmentt Waldemar Kmentt (Wien, 2 February 1929 Ibidem, 21 January 2015) was an Austrian operatic tenor, who was particularly associated with the German repertory, both opera and operetta. Born in Vienna, Kmentt studied at the Vienna Music Academy, first the piano, and later voice with Adolf Vogel, Elisabeth Radó and Hans Duhan. In 1950, he sang the tenor-solo part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Karl Böhm. His professional opera debut was in 1951 at the Vienna State Opera, as the Prince in ""The Love for Three Oranges"". He appeared regularly at the Staatsoper for the next 35 years, in"
"""The Love of Three Oranges"", ""Cinderella"", and ""War and Peace"", that show ""the composer's fondness for the eighteenth century"". The language he chose combined elements of humour and romance with an underlying melancholy—he interpreted the story as more tragic than comic. Prokofiev had heard Ravel's ""Boléro"" in Paris, and had been much impressed by the French composer's use of the saxophone, an instrument then rarely used in orchestral compositions outside France but which suited Prokofiev's intentions perfectly. The composer Gerard McBurney has pointed out the ""haunting sounds of the tenor saxophone"" that punctuate the ""Kijé"" music. The critic Ernest Chapman"
"tutte"". His son, the conductor Philippe Jordan, made his own debut at the Met in 2002. Armin Jordan died in Zürich five days after he collapsed while conducting Prokofiev's opera ""The Love for Three Oranges"" at the opera house in Basel. In addition to Philippe, his survivors are his widow Kate and his daughter Pascale. Armin Jordan Armin Jordan (9 April 1932 – 20 September 2006) was a Swiss conductor known for his interpretations of French music, Mozart and Wagner. Armin Jordan was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. ""Mr. Jordan was a large man, with a slab of a face and"
"Orpheus (Telemann) Orpheus (full title: Die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe oder Orpheus, ""The Wonderful Constancy of Love, or Orpheus"") is an opera in three acts by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first performed in a concert version at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg on 9 March 1726. The anonymous libretto is based on ""Orphée"" by Michel du Boulay, originally set by the French composer Louis Lully. Most of the work is in German but it also contains passages in French and Italian drawn from famous operas by Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully. The music to these words"
"of these were ""La Dori"" (Venice, 1663), ""Il pomo d'oro"" (Vienna, 1668) and ""Orontea"" (1656). ""Il pomo d'oro"" (""The Golden Apple"") was written for the wedding in Vienna of Emperor Leopold I in 1666, and first performed in 1668, in a famously lavish production. It was far more elaborate than contemporary Venetian operas, including a large orchestra, numerous choruses, and various mechanical devices used to stage things like gods descending from heaven (""deus ex machina""), naval battles, and storms. ""'Orontea"" was revived seventeen times in the next thirty years, making it one of the most frequently performed operas on the"
"He also received a contract from the music director of the Chicago Opera Association, Cleofonte Campanini, for the production of his new opera ""The Love for Three Oranges""; however, due to Campanini's illness and death, the premiere was postponed. The delay was another example of Prokofiev's bad luck in operatic matters. The failure also cost him his American solo career since the opera took too much time and effort. He soon found himself in financial difficulties, and in April 1920, he left for Paris, not wanting to return to Russia as a failure. In Paris, Prokofiev reaffirmed his contacts with"
"L'amore dei tre re L'amore dei tre re (""The Love of the Three Kings"") is an opera in three acts by Italo Montemezzi. Its Italian-language libretto was written by playwright Sem Benelli who based it on his play of the same title. The opera premiered at La Scala in Milan on April 10, 1913. It received mixed reviews, but quickly became an international success, especially in the United States, where it became a staple of the repertory for several decades. After the Second World War, the frequency of performances declined dramatically, and it wasn't performed in the US for nearly"
"productions include Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night ́s Dream"" (2003), Chekhov's ""The Three Sisters"" (2004), Ibsen's ""Peer Gynt"" (2004), Marivaux's ""The Dispute"" (2005), Shakespeare's ""The Twelfth Night"" (2006) and Schiller's ""Marie Stuart"" (2011). He began his career as an opera director in 1981 with ""The Love of Three Oranges"" by Prokofiev. Since then, he has directed productions including: ""L ́Étoile"" by Chabrier (1982), ""Les Voyages de Monsieur Broucek"" by Leoš Janáček, conducted by Gilbert Amy (1982), Offenbach's ""Les Brigands"", conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner (1987), and Martinu's ""Les Trois Souhaits"", conducted by Kent Nagano (1990). He was both librettist and"
"performing, and his creative team Pierre-Alain Bertola, (set design), Mireille Dessingy (costumes), and Pascal Mérat (lighting). The vibrant and innovative opera, which premiered at the Mariinsky in 2005, was awarded two Golden Masks (Russian theater's highest award) for best opera and best director, and a Golden Sofit (best opera in St Petersburg). Maratrat's relationship with the Mariinsky Theater continued with a new version of ""The Love for Three Oranges"" in 2007 and a 360 degree staging of Mozart’ s ""Magic Flute"" (2008), which has been performed more than 150 times at the world-famous opera house. Throughout his life, Maratrat has"
"Il pomo d'oro Il pomo d'oro (""The Golden Apple"") is an opera in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed before the imperial court in a specially constructed open-air theatre Vienna in 1668. The work was so long it had to be staged over the course of two days: the Prologue, Acts One and Two were given on July 12; Acts Three, Four and Five on July 14. Originally planned to mark the wedding of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and Margaret Theresa"
"comedy such as Commedia dell'Arte. Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni, two Venetian writers, were moving away from the old style of Italian theatre, which threatened the work of the Granelleschi Society. In 1757 Gozzi defended Commedia dell'Arte by publishing a satirical poem, ""La tartana degli influssi per l'anno 1756"", and in 1761 his comedy based on a fairy tale, ""The Love for Three Oranges"" or ""Analisi riflessiva della fiaba L'amore delle tre melarance"", he parodied Chiari and Goldoni. To perform his play, he obtained the services of the Sacchi company of players, a Commedia dell'Arte troupe who had been out"
"what should be done to anyone who would harm her. Various people said various things; the slave said she should be burned, and so the prince had the slave burned. The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale) ""The Love for Three Oranges"" or ""The Three Citrons"" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the ""Pentamerone"". It is the concluding tale, and the one the heroine of the frame story uses to reveal that an imposter has taken her place. It is Aarne-Thompson type 408, and the oldest known variant of this tale. It was the basis"
"for Three Oranges (fairy tale)|Love for the Three Oranges"" by Carlo Gozzi). Realized a number of projects in the genre of musical theater (musical ""Ali Baba and The forty Thieves"" by Veniamin Smekhov to the music of Vladimir Bystryakov, musical tale ""The Adventures of Buratino"" by Aleksey Tolstoy to the music of Alexey Rybnikov). According to the data of 2017, M. Urytskyi has staged more than 50 performances. From 2013 to 2015 M. Urytskyi served as a vice-president and a chairman of the commission for the protection of professional, social and material interests of UNIMA members. He is a theater"
"operas’ (Handel and the Opera Seria, p. 91), comparable on several counts with ""The Magic Flute"". The opera is scored for two recorders, two oboes, bassoon, two horns, strings and continuo (cello, lute, harpsichord). Orlando (opera) Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's ""L'Orlando"" after Ludovico Ariosto's ""Orlando Furioso"", which was also the source of Handel's operas ""Alcina"" and ""Ariodante"". More an artistic than a popular success at its first performances, ""Orlando"" is today recognised"
"Three Romances for Oboe and Piano (Schumann) The Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94 () is a composition by Robert Schumann, his only composition for oboe. It was composed in December 1849. The work consists of three short pieces in A-B-A form, and it was written during what was speculated to be one of Schumann's manic episodes. An average full performance lasts roughly 12 minutes. The Romances were written in December 1849, one of the most productive years of Schumann's entire career. Previously that year, Schumann had written two other works for wind instruments and piano: the Adagio"
"Nicolas Testé Nicolas Testé (born 1970) is a French concert, song and opera singer in the bass and baritone vocal range. Born in Paris, Testé first studied piano, bassoon and music history in Paris. He studied singing at the Paris Opéra and the ""Centre de Formation Lyrique"", among others. In 1998, he won second place in the ""Voix Nouvelles"" singing competition. The artist sang and sings on the great opera stages of Milan, Munich, Leipzig, Geneva, Lyon, Berlin, Antwerp, Vienna and New York. etc. His role repertoire includes: Léandro (""The Love for Three Oranges""), Ferrando (""Il trovatore""), Masetto (""Don Giovanni""),"
"by Busoni, and, more famously, Puccini, Prokofiev's ""The Love of Three Oranges"" and Hans Werner Henze's König Hirsch. Carlo Gozzi Carlo, Count Gozzi (; 13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806) was an Italian playwright and champion of Commedia dell'Arte. Gozzi was born and died in Venice; he came from a family of minor Venetian aristocracy, the Tiepolos. At a young age, his parents were no longer able to support him financially, so he joined the army in Dalmatia. Three years later, he had returned to Venice and joined the Granelleschi Society. This society was dedicated to the pursuit of"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"Opera North productions which he conducted included Delius's ""A Village Romeo and Juliet"", Borodin's ""Prince Igor"", Wagner's ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"", Berlioz's ""Les Troyens"", Richard Jones's staging of ""The Love for Three Oranges"", a double-bill coupling (as at their first performances) of Tchaikovsky's ""Iolanta"" and ""The Nutcracker"" – the latter choreographed by Matthew Bourne of Adventures in Motion Pictures – and the world première of Wilfred Josephs's ""Rebecca"". He also conducted orchestral concerts for Opera North, including at festivals in France and Germany. He stepped down from the position of Music Director in 1990. Lloyd-Jones has conducted at the Royal"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"Ottorino Respighi Ottorino Respighi (; 9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian violinist, composer and musicologist, best known for his trilogy of orchestral tone poems: ""Fountains of Rome"" (1916), ""Pines of Rome"" (1924), and ""Roman Festivals"" (1928). His musicological interest in 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century music led him to compose pieces based on the music of these periods. He also wrote several operas, the most famous being ""La fiamma"". Ottorino Respighi was born on 9 July 1879 in an apartment inside Palazzo Fantuzzi on Via Guido Reni in Bologna, Italy, into a musical family. His father, a local piano"