Premiered in 1947 which composer wrote the music for the opera 'Albert Herring'?
"In 1949, Evans married the producer and librettist Eric Crozier, who became a co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival with Britten and Peter Pears. Nancy Evans (opera singer) Nancy Evans OBE (19 March 1915 – 20 August 2000) was an English mezzo-soprano who had a notable career as a concert and opera singer. She is particularly associated with Benjamin Britten who wrote his song cycle, ""A Charm of Lullabies"", and the role of Nancy in his opera ""Albert Herring"" for her. Evans was born in Liverpool and educated at Calder High School for Girls there. After studying singing first with John"
"Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) Wuthering Heights is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann. He worked on it from 1943 to 1951. It is cast in a prologue, 4 acts, and an epilogue that repeats the music of the prologue. The opera was recorded in full by the composer in 1966, but it had to wait until April 2011, the centenary of the composer's birth, for a complete theatrical performance (there was an abridged stage production in 1982 and a concert version in 2010). The libretto was by Herrmann's first wife, Lucille Fletcher, based on the first part of Emily"
"Albert Herring (Britten, Copenhagen Opera House); La Voix Humaine (Cocteau/Poulenc, Stockholm Opera House, awarded Best Contemporary Opera production in Sweden); Powder Her Face (Thomas Adès, Ystad Opera, awarded Best Contemporary Opera Production in Sweden); Potent Shakespeare (Andrew Toovey, Festival Hall, London); Pascal Dusapin's To Be Sung (world premiere, Banff Centre); Puccini's Madama Butterfly (New Zealand Opera); Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Bizet's Carmen, Verdi's Macbeth, Beethoven's Fidelio, Massenet's Werther (all English Touring Opera); Barber's A Hand of Bridge; Gershwin's Blue Monday; and Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti (all Barbican Centre, designed by Chevara); Mozart's Magic Flute (Holland Park Opera, London); Dvořák's The"
"at the Hollywood Bowl in 1948. She continued as a student at the University of Southern California and as a soloist for the San Francisco Symphony for the following two years. Amara appeared in the title role of ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" and as Lady Billows in Britten's ""Albert Herring"" in 1949. Amara made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the ""Voice from Heaven"" in Verdi's ""Don Carlos"", the opening night of Sir Rudolf Bing's inaugural season as general manager, on November 6, 1950. She continued at the Met over the course of 41 seasons until 1991, singing 56 roles in 882"
"by Australian-born composer Arthur Benjamin written for the earlier Hitchcock film of the same name). However, this film did give Herrmann the opportunity for an on-screen appearance: he is the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in the Albert Hall scene. Herrmann's most recognizable music is from another Hitchcock film, ""Psycho"". Unusual for a thriller at the time, the score uses only the string section of the orchestra. The screeching violin music heard during the famous shower scene (which Hitchcock originally suggested have no music at all) is one of the most famous moments in film score history. Hitchcock admitted"
"operas by Francesco Cavalli. In 1963 he composed the original score for Peter Brook's ""Lord of the Flies"", the film adaptation of William Golding's novel of the same name. His original score for the 1969 film ""Alfred the Great"" was released by MGM Records in the UK, and vinyl copies are now highly collectible. In November 1969, he made his USA debut conducting the Westminster Choir and New York Philharmonic, at which occasion he also appeared as soloist in the Joseph Haydn's Harpsichord Concerto in D major. In 1973 he became principal conductor of the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra in"
"to supervise recordings by Menuhin and Furtwängler, and to oversee the 1956 ""Meistersinger"" conducted by Kempe. In 1950 and the following year he played a key role in recordings involving Casals, first in Prades then in Perpignan. His second opera, ""The Death of Tintagiles"", set to Alfred Sutro's translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's drama, was premiered on 16 April 1950. His other compositions include a piano concerto and a piano quartet. Lawrance Collingwood brought many foreign operas to the British stage for the first time. His premieres as a conductor included: Nikolai Medtner dedicated his song ""The Raven"" to Lawrance Collingwood."
"Gore and Prudence Hyman. Herbert Griffiths also composed the music and conducted the orchestra for an ice skating and cabaret show titled ""St. Moritz – Ice Musical Spectacle"" that took place at the London Coliseum in 1937. Herbert Griffths worked also for films and created music for ""Such Is the Law"" (1930), ""Black in the Face"" (1954), ""Five O'Clock Finish"" (1954), ""That's an Order"" (1955), ""Playground Express"" (1955), ""The Stripes of Sgt. Schweiger"" (1956) and ""The Baroness"" (1956). Herbert Griffiths Herbert Griffiths (14 April 1899 – 1969) was a British organist and composer and arranger of classical music, theatre music"
"Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra (Arnold) The Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, Opus 46, is a concerto featuring a harmonica soloist, written by English composer Malcolm Arnold. The piece was composed in 1954 for the American harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler, and was premiered on August 14, 1954 at the Royal Albert Hall, with accompaniment by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The concerto was one of the first of a number of ""serious"" pieces composed for the harmonica after the Second World War (in addition to works by Darius Milhaud, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Heitor Villa-Lobos). The concerto has a duration of"
"Sinfonia antartica Sinfonia antartica (""Antarctic Symphony"") is the Italian title given by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams to his seventh symphony. Vaughan Williams provided the music for the film ""Scott of the Antarctic"" in 1947, and was so inspired by the subject that he incorporated much of the music into a symphony. The piece was begun in 1949, and composition completed in 1952, with a dedication to Ernest Irving. The first performance took place on 14 January 1953 in Manchester with Sir John Barbirolli conducting the Hallé Orchestra; the soprano soloist was Margaret Ritchie. The first American performance was"
"Allegro (musical) Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor, Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at a big-city hospital. After the immense successes of the first two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, ""Oklahoma!"" and ""Carousel"", the pair sought a subject for their next play. Hammerstein had long contemplated a serious work which would deal with the problems of"
"Albert Hall creative team, the original creative team, as well as the original leads from both the London and Broadway productions, and the original London cast, including Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. Brightman sings ""The Phantom of the Opera"" with four Phantoms: Colm Wilkinson from the original workshop and the Canadian production, Anthony Warlow from the Australian production, Peter Jöback, who has now played the role in the West End, Broadway, and Sweden, John Owen-Jones from the London and 25th Anniversary Tour productions. The performance concludes when Ramin Karimloo joins the four Phantoms to sing ""The Music of the Night"","
"a manuscript score given by the composer to the Foundling Hospital. The performance, conducted by Adrian Boult, Pitt's successor as director of music and also the founding conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, was a landmark in authentic performance style in Handel's music. Herbage was a member of the Royal Philharmonic Society's management committee, from 1940 until 1971. From 1940 to 1944 Herbage was Boult's second-in-command as assistant director of music, but he found himself better suited to building programmes than to being an administrator, and in 1944 he dropped his managerial role and returned to detailed programme planning. In"
"(1947), ""Steps of the Ballet"" (British Council/Central Office of Information 1948), ""Master of Bankdam"" (Holbein Films 1947), ""Above Us the Waves"" (1955) and ""Fire Down Below"" (1957). While most of his music scores are archived in the British Library, his film scores are completely lost. Apart from the Boosey & Hawkes edition of ""An Ideal Husband"" the only surviving score is the ""Storm Clouds Cantata"". Arthur Benjamin gave a number of important premieres including: Herbert Howells wrote an orchestral suite ""The Bs"", in five movements, each celebrating a close friend. The work was first performed in 1914, and ends with"
"Theatre). He also composed and arranged music from his early years. He started with traditional forms like a ""String Quartet in B minor"" in 1920 but became more famous in later years for his work on light classical music and music for films. A well-known work is the operetta ""A Kiss in Spring"", which was originally composed by Emmerich Kálmán, but for a performance series at the Alhambra Theatre in 1932 Herbert Griffiths reworked the score together with Constant Lambert. The performance also included some ballet scenes choreographed by Frederick Ashton and was danced by Alicia Markova, Harold Turner, Walter"
"to ""Allegro"". Those fellows were so mad I was fairly certain that they could make a great musical out of the Bronx telephone directory."" That project would become ""South Pacific"" and be a tremendous hit. Hischak ties the failure of ""Allegro"" to a change in the pair's style: Online sources Allegro (musical) Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor, Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a"
"of the British Empire (CBE). In 1999, he was knighted. Both awards were for his services to opera. In 1998 he was named a member of the Royal Opera's Opera Advisory Board, the first time a singer had been given such an appointment. Allen's first book, ""Foreign Parts – A Singer's Journal"" was published in 1993. In November 2002, he directed for the first time in Britten's ""Albert Herring"" at the Royal College of Music. Other directorial credits include Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"" and ""Don Giovanni"" (for Samling, of which he is the patron) at the Sage Music Centre in"
"Aladdin (opera) Aladdin, Op. 43, is an opera by the Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg, to a libretto written by and . Two versions exist, in Swedish and German. The opera is based on the story, ""Aladdin's Magic Lamp"" from ""One Thousand and One Nights"". It was first performed on 18 March 1941 at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm. The idea for the composition was born in August 1936 when the composer met the librettists in Garmisch. The libretto was largely finished when Atterberg began composing the piano score on 15 July 1937. On 24 August 1940 the piano score was"
"The Jewel Box The Jewel Box is a pasticcio opera constructed by Paul Griffiths out of various pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Its mostly English libretto by Paul Griffiths includes new translations of most of the Italian-language texts of the musical numbers. It was premiered by Opera North at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, on 19 February 1991. The conductor was Elgar Howarth, the director was Francisco Negrin and the designer was Anthony Baker. Griffiths, realising that arias composed by Mozart for insertion in other composers' operas are seldom performed nowadays, worked up what he called ""a ""jeu d'esprit"""" which also"
"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 as a masterpiece. The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 27 January 1733. There were 10 further performances and it was not revived. The first production since Handel's lifetime"
"score by Ferdinand Hérold, and found the light, simple music more suitable for his conception. Ashton then commissioned the Royal Opera House's composer and conductor John Lanchbery to orchestrate and edit Hérold's score. After becoming frustrated with the under-developed nature of this music, Ashton and Lanchbery decided that Hérold's music would be better used as a foundation for an entirely new score, for which Lanchbery would compose a few new numbers. They went even further by incorporating passages of the original ""pastiche"" music from the premiere of 1789 into the score, as well as one number from Hertel's score which"
"Cochran commissioned Herbert to write another musical, ""Bless the Bride"", which opened at the Adelphi on 26 April 1947. It ran for two and a quarter years, and was the source of ""an accretion of cash"" for Herbert as well as being Cochran's most successful musical. Herbert sat on the Supreme Court Committee on Practice and Procedures, chaired by Raymond Evershed, which was investigating the cost of litigation. He also chaired the Literary Sub-Committee of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, which judged the literary compositions of 29 nations in their own languages. He also accepted an invitation to serve"
"Three through Ten"", as he himself put it (the first two were withdrawn), continue to grow in stature. His concerto for violin (1947, rev. 1959) has been hailed as among his ""most powerful works ... it could almost be considered a symphony for violin and orchestra."" Other works include the ""New England Triptych"" (1956, based on melodies by William Billings), the ""American Festival Overture"" (1939), the ballets ""Undertow"" (1945) and ""Judith"" (1949) (the latter written for Martha Graham), the ""Mail Order Madrigals"" (1972) to texts from the 1897 Sears Roebuck catalog, and two operas, ""The Mighty Casey"" (1953, based on"
"Notable successes for Lanchbery included the arrangement of the Liszt music for Kenneth MacMillan's stormy multi-act Mayerling, which premiered at Covent Garden in 1978, and the arrangement of the Franz Lehár score for the first full-length ballet production of The Merry Widow for the Australian Ballet in 1976. In 1970 he arranged the score for the ballet film ""The Tales of Beatrix Potter"". His sources were many and varied, including the operas of Michael William Balfe and Arthur Sullivan. He also arranged the music and conducted the orchestra for ""Nijinsky"" in 1980. Lanchbery was the first to convert operas into"
"that time Her Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket was the main centre of ballet and opera but after a dispute with the management in 1846 Michael Costa, conductor at Her Majesty's, transferred his allegiance to Covent Garden, bringing most of the company with him. The auditorium was completely remodeled after an 1846 fire, during the following 1846–47 seasons, the company performed at the Lyceum Theatre. The theatre reopened as the Royal Italian Opera on 6 April 1847 with a performance of Rossini's ""Semiramide"". In 1852, Louis Antoine Jullien the French eccentric composer of light music and conductor presented an opera"
"nine minutes and is cast in three movements: Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra (Arnold) The Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, Opus 46, is a concerto featuring a harmonica soloist, written by English composer Malcolm Arnold. The piece was composed in 1954 for the American harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler, and was premiered on August 14, 1954 at the Royal Albert Hall, with accompaniment by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The concerto was one of the first of a number of ""serious"" pieces composed for the harmonica after the Second World War (in addition to works by Darius Milhaud, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and"
"interrupted for several years in which his wrote his ""Symphony"", ""Ebony Concerto"", ""Concerto in D"", and the ballet ""Orpheus"". He resumed work on it in the fall of 1947 and completed it March 15, 1948. On February 26, 1947, Irving Fine conducted the Kyrie and Gloria, accompanied by two pianos. The first complete performance occurred on October 27, 1948 in Milan. Ernest Ansermet conducted members of the chorus and orchestra of La Scala. The work is scored for mixed chorus and an ensemble of wind instruments comprising two oboes, English horn (Cor anglais), two bassoons, two trumpets, and three trombones."
"Opera in 2007, and by Vertical Player Repertory Opera in 2009, starring William Browning as Eddie. The opera was first performed in Europe at Theater Hagen in 2003 in German translation. The first English (original) language version produced in Europe opened at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in Rome on January 18, 2011. L.A. Theatre Works released a radio adaptation of the play in 1998. BBC Radio 3 produced a radio adaptation in 2017. A View from the Bridge A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955,"
"very positive critical attention. It has since been transferred to CD (Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2050). A live performance by the Orchestre National de Montpellier under Alain Altinoglu, with Daniel Boaz and Laura Aikin (Festival de Radio-France-Monpellier, July 2010) was released in October 2011 by the French label Accord/Universal. The 3-CD set received the Diapason d'Or-Découverte and the Diamand award from French magazines ""Diapason"" and ""Opéra"". ""Wuthering Heights"" quotes various themes from Herrmann's earlier film scores: Some themes from the opera were used in Herrmann's later scores: Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) Wuthering Heights is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann. He"
"Much younger that her husband, Isména survived him by nearly 60 years. She died in October 2004, aged 101. His early theatre compositions included incidental music for Shakespeare's ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"", additional songs for Leo Fall's operetta ""The Merry Farmer"" (1907) and the children's opera ""King Goldemar"" (1902). But Holland composed in almost all major classical forms. For orchestra he wrote ""Gavotte Pastorale"", the tone poem ""Evening on the Lake"" (1908), a violin concerto in one movement, ""Ellingham Marshes"" for viola and orchestra, the ""Spring Sinfonietta"" (1943) and the ""Threnody"" for cello and orchestra (1945), which was not"
"and China. His repertoire includes Handel's ""Messiah"", Bach's Passions, Haydn's ""The Creation"", Britten's ""War Requiem"" and Elgar's ""Dream of Gerontius"". A review in the ""Wellington Post"" wrote about his performance as the Evangelist: ""Most remarkable of the soloists was David Hamilton. His words tumbled out as if he was dramatizing a remarkable event of last week with a voice of wide range and power and a particularly arresting top."" On the opera stage, he has performed in the title role of Britten's ""Albert Herring"", Tamino in Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"" and Loge in Wagner's ""Das Rheingold"". In 2007 he performed at"
"Britten's ""Albert Herring"" (Decca), with the composer conducting, and his recording of ""Nessun Dorma"" from ""Turandot"" are all that remain to stir the memory. He married Nan (née Walters, died December 1998) on 19 August 1939. Their son Huw died in June 1999, and Evans had two grandchildren; Rebecca and Edward. Evans himself died in Northwick Park Hospital Harrow. Edgar Evans (tenor) Edgar Evans (9 June 191222 February 2007) was a Welsh opera singer. His most famous role was Hermann in Tchaikovsky's ""The Queen of Spades"" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Evans was born in Cwrtnewydd, Cardiganshire, Wales."
"Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (1946); ""Hamlet"", ""Oliver Twist"" and ""Scott of the Antarctic"" (1948); ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" and ""Passport to Pimlico"" (1949); ""The Cruel Sea"" (1953); ""Battle of the Bulge"" (1965); "" Lady Caroline Lamb"" (1972); ""King David"" (1985); ""The King and I"" (1999); ""Great Expectations"" (2012); and ""The Lady in the Van"" (2015). Philharmonia Orchestra The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Furtwängler and"