Who composed the opera 'The Cunning Little Vixen'?
"as Blonde in a production for children of Mozart's ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"" and as Modistin in Richard Strauss's ""Der Rosenkavalier"". Her first leading role was Marguerite in May 2015 in ""Le petit Faust"" by Hervé at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich. This was followed in October by the title role in Janáček's ""The Cunning Little Vixen"" for Pacific Opera, Sydney. In 2016, Flood became a Studio Artist at the Wolf Trap Opera Festival. She sang Violetta in ""Traviata Remixed"" at the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam. She sang Serpetta in Mozart's ""La finta giardiniera"" in September at the in Hanover,"
"and recent (since 1980s) English versions of the opera's name. It was probably the German name, used for the 1965 Felsenstein film, that established the English ""cunning little"", ignoring the important double meaning in ""Sharp-Ears."" The first three audio recordings, all from the Czech company Supraphon (Neumann 1957, Gregor 1972, Neumann 1980) used, naturally, the original Czech name. Then Decca recorded the opera with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1981, and this widely circulated release made ""The Cunning Little Vixen"" the international, if inaccurate, standard. Notes Sources The Cunning Little Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen (; until the 1970s, generally referred"
"three of his operas; Káťa in ""Katya Kabanová"", the vixen in ""The Cunning Little Vixen"" and Emilia Marty in ""The Makropulos Affair"". Other works that were inspired by his passion include ""The Diary of One Who Disappeared"", the ""Glagolitic Mass"", his ""Sinfonietta"" and the ""String Quartet No. 2"" (subtitled ""Intimate Letters""). While many of these works reveal a realization that the composer's love for her was unrequited, she was nonetheless the subject of intense correspondence. There are over 700 letters (and the aforementioned string quartet which was inspired by them) that bear witness to his intense obsession with this young"
"and Lindorf leave together. The aria """" (Song of little Zaches) in the prologue is based on the short story """" (""Little Zaches, called cinnabar""), 1819. The barcarolle, ""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"" in the Venetian act, is the opera's most famous number, but was borrowed by Offenbach from his earlier opera ""Rheinnixen"" (French: ""Les fées du Rhin""). Offenbach did not live to see his opera performed. He died on 5 October 1880, four months before its premiere, but after completing the piano score and orchestrating the prologue and first act. As a result, different editions of the opera soon"
"""Così fan tutte"", ""The Cunning Little Vixen"", ""The Marriage of Figaro"", and Britten's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He has also led ""La bohème"" for the State Opera of South Australia. He conducted ""Don John of Austria"", Australia's first opera, written by his great-great-great-great grandfather Isaac Nathan, in its first performance since Nathan's time. This was a concert performance in 1997, arranged by Sir Charles Mackerras (Nathan's great-great-great grandson). He has since recorded the work on CD. His overseas operatic work includes ""Rigoletto"" and ""The Makropulos Case"" (English National Opera), ""The Cunning Little Vixen"" (Aix-en-Provence), ""From the House of the Dead"""
"Milan Kymlicka Milan Kymlicka (Czech: Milan Kymlička) (15 May 1936 – 9 October 2008) was a Czechoslovak and Canadian arranger, composer and conductor. He was known for his composition of film and television scores, including those for the animated television series ""Rupert"", ""Babar"" and ""The Busy World of Richard Scarry"" and the live-action television series ""Lassie"" and ""Little Men"". He received a Genie Award in 1996 for his work on ""Margaret's Museum"". Kymlicka was born in Louny, Czechoslovakia. He earned degrees from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and the Prague Conservatory. At the latter institution he was a"
"Die Rheinnixen Die Rheinnixen (French: ""Les fées du Rhin""; English ""The Rhine Nixies"") is a romantic opera in four acts by Jacques Offenbach. The original libretto by Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter was translated into German by Alfred von Wolzogen. The Elves’ Song from ""Die Rheinnixen"" was later used in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", where it became the ""Barcarolle"" (""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour""), in the 'Giulietta' act; Conrad's drinking song was also re-used in the same act. The first performance was given in a truncated form (owing to the illness of the tenor Alois Ander) on 4 February 1864 at the Hoftheater"
"La vedova scaltra La vedova scaltra (English: ""The Cunning Widow"") is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Mario Ghisalberti, after Carlo Goldoni's original play (also called ""La vedova scaltra"") first given in 1748. It was first performed at the Teatro Reale dell'Opera in Rome on 5 March 1931, Director Gino Marinuzzi and opera director Marcello Govoni. It was revived in Venice, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Goldoni, in February 2007. This performance, with Anne-Lise Sollied, Maurizo Muraro and Emanuele D'Aguanno as the main soloists, has been recorded (see"
"below). The story is a comedy about a young widow courted by four suitors of different nationalities. La vedova scaltra La vedova scaltra (English: ""The Cunning Widow"") is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Mario Ghisalberti, after Carlo Goldoni's original play (also called ""La vedova scaltra"") first given in 1748. It was first performed at the Teatro Reale dell'Opera in Rome on 5 March 1931, Director Gino Marinuzzi and opera director Marcello Govoni. It was revived in Venice, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Goldoni, in February 2007. This"
"Little Women (opera) Little Women (1998) is the first opera written by American composer Mark Adamo to his own libretto after Louisa May Alcott's tale of growing up in New England after the American Civil War, ""Little Women"". The opera also includes text by John Bunyan (Beth's setting of ""The Pilgrim's Progress""), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dr. Bhaer sings ""Kennst du das Land""), and Alcott herself (an excerpt of one of her thrillers at the beginning of Act II, which is spoken and mostly omitted on the audio recording). Commissioned by the Opera Studio of Houston Grand Opera (HGO), then"
"as a book in 1921, won a state prize and achieved lasting popularity. This optimistic tale, somewhere between a children's fairy tale and adult satire, was used as the basis for Leoš Janáček's opera ""The Cunning Little Vixen"" (""Příhody Lišky Bystroušky"", 1923). Some of Těsnohlídek's other work reflects more pessimism and alienation than the lighthearted Vixen's tale. His life, as interpreted by his journalistic colleague Bedřich Golombek, was a melodramatic tragedy imbued with pessimism, darkness, melancholy and decadence, a life plagued from childhood by feelings of sadness and social exclusion. In his teens, he watched helplessly as a friend drowned."
"The Cunning Peasant The Cunning Peasant (""Šelma sedlák"" in Czech) is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech-language libretto is by Josef Otakar Veselý. ""The Cunning Peasant"" was written at a time when there was a lack of high-quality Czech dramatic writers. In his 1995 notes to the Supraphon recording, Milan Pospíšil indicates that Veselý did not solve that problem. His libretto demonstrates talent but also uncritical self-confidence and recycles traditional plot elements and even the names of characters. Both Jeník and Václav, for example, are based on models with similar names in ""The Bartered Bride"". The influence of the"
"last act. The work concludes with a combination of the barcarolle and the Vaterlandslied. Its text is: Offenbach: ""Les fées du Rhin "" (in German) - Orchestre National de Montpellier Die Rheinnixen Die Rheinnixen (French: ""Les fées du Rhin""; English ""The Rhine Nixies"") is a romantic opera in four acts by Jacques Offenbach. The original libretto by Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter was translated into German by Alfred von Wolzogen. The Elves’ Song from ""Die Rheinnixen"" was later used in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", where it became the ""Barcarolle"" (""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour""), in the 'Giulietta' act; Conrad's drinking song was also"
"Royal Danish Opera, during the 2012-13 season, as the Dog and Owl in ""The Cunning Little Vixen"". She went on to sing Emilia in Verdi's ""Otello"" and Rosalinde in Strauss's ""Die Fledermaus"", and won the Reumert Talentpris. In 2015, she won first prize in the Queen Sonja Competition and first prize and audience prize in the Operalia competition in London. She also won three prizes at the 2015 Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Amsterdam, and was an HSBC Aix-en-Provence Laureate, received a Statoil Talent Bursary Award, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize, and the Kirstin Flagstad Award. In 2018, she"
"marry, and so the couple separated. He retired to Cornwall and died in Falmouth, of tuberculosis, at the age of 41. Paul Rubens (composer) Paul Alfred Rubens (29 April 1875 – 5 February 1917) was an English songwriter and librettist who wrote some of the most popular Edwardian musical comedies of the early twentieth century. He contributed to the success of dozens of musicals. Born in Kensington, London, he attended Winchester College before studying law at University College, Oxford. He began writing songs for shows at the age of 10 and had his first major success with ""The Little Chinchilla"""
"Vixen, conductor Jakub Hrůša and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In May 2014 the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst performed an innovative version directed by Yuval Sharon. This production returned the opera to its roots by utilizing animation and hand drawn video sets by the artists Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie of Walter Robot Studios. The production featured the use of hole-in-the-wall carnival cutouts to place the singers heads on the animated bodies of the animal characters. Glimmerglass Opera staged a new production in the summer of 2018. In the forest, the animals and insects are playing and dancing. The"
"Mavra Mavra is a one-act comic opera composed by Igor Stravinsky, and one of the earliest works of Stravinsky's neo-classical period. The libretto of the opera, by Boris Kochno, is based on Alexander Pushkin's ""The Little House in Kolomna"". Mavra is about 25 minutes long, and features two arias, a duet, and a quartet performed by its cast of four characters. The opera has been characterised as both an homage to Russian writers, and a satire of bourgeois manners and the ""Romeo and Juliet"" subgenre of romance. Philip Truman has also described the music as satirising 19th-century comic opera. The"
"Mahagonny-Songspiel Mahagonny-Songspiel, also known as The Little Mahagonny, is a ""small-scale 'scenic cantata'"" written by the composer Kurt Weill and the dramatist Bertolt Brecht in 1927. Weill was commissioned in the spring to write one of a series of very short operas for performance that summer, and he chose to use the opportunity to create a ""stylistic exercise"" as preparation for a larger-scale project that they had begun to develop together (the two had met for the first time in March), their experimental 'epic opera' ""The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"" (1930). ""The Little Mahagonny"" was based"
"Martin promises a generous dowry. Everyone praises the Prince and Princess. Notes The Cunning Peasant The Cunning Peasant (""Šelma sedlák"" in Czech) is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech-language libretto is by Josef Otakar Veselý. ""The Cunning Peasant"" was written at a time when there was a lack of high-quality Czech dramatic writers. In his 1995 notes to the Supraphon recording, Milan Pospíšil indicates that Veselý did not solve that problem. His libretto demonstrates talent but also uncritical self-confidence and recycles traditional plot elements and even the names of characters. Both Jeník and Václav, for example, are based on"
"Eleanor Greenwood Eleanor Jean Greenwood is an Australian soprano best known as an opera singer. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. Her debut with Wexford Festival Opera was as Pachole in ""Maria"" Polish Opera by Roman Statkowski. She has performed roles including Hänsel in ""Hänsel und Gretel"", Rosina in ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", Count Orlofsky in ""Die Fledermaus"", La Ciesca in ""Gianni Schicchi"", Endimione in ""La Calisto"", The Wife in ""Paradise Moscow"" (Cheryomushki), L'Enfant in ""L'Enfant et les Sortileges"" and Zerlina in ""Don Giovanni"". She has performed roles in ""The Cunning Little Vixen"""
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"Paul Rubens (composer) Paul Alfred Rubens (29 April 1875 – 5 February 1917) was an English songwriter and librettist who wrote some of the most popular Edwardian musical comedies of the early twentieth century. He contributed to the success of dozens of musicals. Born in Kensington, London, he attended Winchester College before studying law at University College, Oxford. He began writing songs for shows at the age of 10 and had his first major success with ""The Little Chinchilla"" for the hit musical ""The Shop Girl"" when he was 19 years old. This was soon followed by songs for, among"
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"to the plethora of techniques that he has invented for wind, brass and string instruments. His more important works include his opera ""Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern"" (""The Little Match Girl"") (1990–96, after Hans Christian Andersen, Leonardo da Vinci and Gudrun Ensslin), the orchestral pieces ""Schwankungen am Rand"" (1974–75, for eight brass, two electric guitars, two pianos, four thunder sheets, and 34 strings), ""Accanto"" (1975–76, for clarinet, large orchestra and tape) and ""NUN"" (1997–99, for flute, trombone, male chorus, and large orchestra), the ensemble works ""Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung)"" (1982–84, for three ad hoc players and 14 players) and"