"Bartók heard ""Also sprach Zarathustra"" in 1902, and later said that the work ""contained the seeds for a new life""; a Straussian influence is clearly present in his works of that period, including his First String Quartet, ""Kossuth"", and ""Bluebeard's Castle"". Karol Szymanowski was also greatly influenced by Strauss, reflected in such pieces as his ""Concert Overture"" and his first and second symphonies, and his opera ""Hagith"" which was modeled after ""Salome"". English composers were also influenced by Strauss, from Edward Elgar in his concert overture ""In the South (Alassio)"" and other works to Benjamin Britten in his opera writing."
"""Harold"" (1895). Similar trends can be seen in operas such as George Alexander Macfarren's ""Robin Hood"" (1860), Sullivan's ""Ivanhoe"" (1891) and in the operas of Arthur Goring Thomas, which included ""Esmeralda"" (1883) and ""Nadeshda"" (1885). The works of Handel, Mendelssohn and Spohr continued to be a major part of the British musical repertoire but there was an increasing emphasis on religious drama. The Italian-born Sir Michael Costa's ""Eli"" (1855) and ""Naaman"" (1864) set the pace for the later development in the works of Sullivan, including ""The Martyr of Antioch"" (1880) ""The Light of the World"" (1873), and ""The Golden Legend"""
"by its English title, ""How void of compassion""), has been recorded by several well known opera singers, including Luciano Pavarotti, Ezio Pinza, and Richard Tucker. A manuscript score from the 1689 Neapolitan production has survived. Richard Strauss made specific reference to this opera in ""Die schweigsame Frau"", recomposing ""Dolce Amor"" as a duet which is sung in the course of the music lesson scene in act 3, as one of many such reappropriations of preexisting music Strauss used to create an ""antique"" atmosphere. The immediate source of the libretto was the Latin poem ""The Thebaid"" by Statius wherein despite entreaties"
"in Strauss' ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Boston Lyric Opera; the title role in Verdi's ""Don Carlos"" with the Houston Grand Opera; Turiddu in ""Cavalleria rusticana"" at the Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Angers-Nantes Opéra, Palm Beach Opera and New York City Opera; Luigi in Puccini's ""Il tabarro"" with the San Francisco Opera and Angers-Nantes Opéra; Boris in Janáček's ""Káťa Kabanová"" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Steva in Janáček's ""Jenufa"" at the Bayrische Staatsoper and Angers-Nantes Opéra; the title role in Britten's ""Peter Grimes"" with Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli; Pollione in Bellini's"
"rather than simultaneously. Elektra (opera) Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama ""Elektra"". The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus on 25 January 1909. It was dedicated to his friends Natalie and Willy Levin. While based on ancient Greek mythology, the opera is highly modernist and expressionist. Hofmannsthal and Strauss's adaptation of the story focuses tightly on Elektra, thoroughly developing her character by single-mindedly expressing her emotions and psychology"
"previous WNO seasons (""Das Rheingold"" in 2006, ""Die Walküre"" in 2007, and ""Siegfried"" in 2009), the fourth opera, ""Götterdämmerung"", was given in a concert performance in November 2009. During the 2007/08 season, WNO produced three rarely staged operas: William Bolcom's ""A View from the Bridge"", G.F. Handel's ""Tamerlano"", and Richard Strauss' ""Elektra"". During the following season Gaetano Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" and Benjamin Britten's ""Peter Grimes"" were given, while the 2009-2010 season featured Richard Strauss' ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" and Ambroise Thomas' ""Hamlet"". In May 2012 the Washington premiere of Verdi's ""Nabucco"" took place, directed by the rising star Thaddeus Strassberger. He"
"Nabucco Nabucco (; short for Nabucodonosor ~; English: Nebuchadnezzar) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on biblical books of Jeremiah and Daniel and the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu, although Antonio Cortese's ballet adaptation of the play (with its necessary simplifications), given at La Scala in 1836, was a more important source for Solera than the play itself. Under its original name of ""Nabucodonosor"", the opera was first performed at La Scala in Milan on 9 March 1842. ""Nabucco"""
"in Janáček's ""Jenůfa"", Aeneas in Berlioz' ""Les Troyens"" and Jimmy Mahoney in Weill's ""Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"". Other Wagner roles he has sung at various opera houses include Tristan in ""Tristan und Isolde"", Siegfried in ""Götterdämmerung"" and the title roles in ""Tannhäuser"" and ""Lohengrin"". Other roles have included Admete in Gluck's ""Alceste"", Herod in Strauss' ""Salome"", the title role in Berlioz' La damnation de Faust and concert performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Gustav Mahler's ""Lied von der Erde"". Besides Siegmund, he has recorded the roles of Bacchus in Strauss' ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" and Aeneas in"
"29 June 1910, Obrist broke into Sutter's apartment, murdered her, and committed suicide in the presence of Swoboda who was unable to stop him. Swoboda's more-than-40-year-long career was largely based with the Staatsoper Stuttgart where he created roles in several world premieres, including parts in Richard Strauss's ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" (1912, Harlequin), Walter Braunfels' ""Ulenspiegel"" (1913), Max von Schillings' ""Mona Lisa"" (1915, Masolini Pedruzzi), Siegfried Wagner's ""An allem ist Hütchen schuld!"" (1917, Teufel), Ture Rangström's ""Die Kronbraut"" (1919), Paul Hindemith's ""Das Nusch-Nuschi"" (1921, Mung Tha Bya), Egon Wellesz's ""Scherz, List und Rache"" (1928), Nico Dostal's ""Monika"" (1937), Dostal's ""Die ungarische"
"It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound."" In the early years of the century, Wagnerian chromatic harmony was extended by opera composers such as Richard Strauss (""Salome"", 1905; ""Elektra"", 1906–1908; ""Der Rosenkavalier"", 1910; ""Ariadne auf Naxos"", 1912; ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"", 1917), Claude Debussy (""Pelléas et Mélisande"", 1902), Giacomo Puccini (""Madama Butterfly"", 1904; ""La fanciulla del West"", 1910; ""Il trittico"", 1918), Ferruccio Busoni (""Doktor Faust"", 1916, posthumously completed by his student Philipp Jarnach), Béla Bartók (""Bluebeard's Castle"", 1911–17), Leos Janáček (""Jenůfa"", 1904; ""Osud"", 1907; ""Kát´a Kabanová"", 1919-1921) and Hans Pfitzner"
"an operatic tenor, singing roles in opera and oratorio, during the next 23 years, in Germany and Austria (where he lived in the 1980s), the United States, Canada, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere. For example, in 1993, Winter sang Calaf in ""Turandot"" with New York City Opera. In 1994, he sang Herod in Richard Strauss's ""Salome"" with Virginia Opera, a role he repeated in 2000 with Opera de las Americas in the Dominican Republic. He played Aegistheus in Strauss's ""Elektra"" with the Canadian Opera Company in 1996, repeating the role with the Hawaii Opera Theatre in 1999. In 1996, Winter's"
"popular motifs in operatic works of the early 20th century including Salome and Elektra by Strauss. Dörmann's Libretto tells a Biblical story of King David, the ""aged"" king in the opera, his female servant Abishag (Hagith) and Solomon (the young king), as described in Chapter One of the First Book of Kings. However, in the Bible, the young woman is called ""Avishag"", not Hagith. Haggith is one of the wives of David, the mother of Adonijah. In the libretto, the old and ailing King David is told by the high priest and his doctor, that only the love of a"
"""Norma"" with Dame Joan Sutherland, ""La bohème"" with Luciano Pavarotti, and Banquo in ""Macbeth"" with Sherrill Milnes. Other roles he became associated with were Zaccharia in ""Nabucco"", Rocco in ""Fidelio"", Osmin in ""The Abduction from the Seraglio"", Boris in ""Boris Godunov"", Timur in ""Turandot"", Ramphis in ""Aida"", Pistol in ""Falstaff"", Kekal in ""The Bartered Bride"", Baron Ochs in ""Der Rosenkavalier"", Nourabad in ""The Pearl Fishers"", the Commendatore in ""Don Giovanni"", and a major role in Leoš Janáček's ""The Cunning Little Vixen"". He created the role of The Maestro in Alan John's 1995 opera ""The Eighth Wonder"" at the Sydney Opera"
"is the opera which is considered to have permanently established Verdi's reputation as a composer. He commented that ""this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that ""Nabucco"" was born under a lucky star"". It follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco (in English, Nebuchadnezzar II). The historical events are used as background for a romantic and political plot. The best-known number from the opera is the ""Chorus of the"
"Madrid, Zurich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Essen, and Stuttgart. At these stages he has performed roles such as the title role in Berg's ""Wozzeck"", the title role in Wagner's ""Der fliegende Holländer"", Orest in Strauss' Elektra, Nick Shadow in Stravinsky's ""The Rake’s Progress"", Jochanaan in Strauss' ""Salome"", Barak in Strauss’ ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"", Theseus in Birtwistle's ""The Minotaur"", Der Wanderer in Wagner's ""Siegfried"". Reuter has performed at festivals and in concert halls across Europe, including the Bregenz Festival, Maggio Musicale in Florence and the BBC Proms in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Berliner Philharmonie, and Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Scheduled"
"Elektra (opera) Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama ""Elektra"". The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus on 25 January 1909. It was dedicated to his friends Natalie and Willy Levin. While based on ancient Greek mythology, the opera is highly modernist and expressionist. Hofmannsthal and Strauss's adaptation of the story focuses tightly on Elektra, thoroughly developing her character by single-mindedly expressing her emotions and psychology as she meets"
"Bellini's ""I Capuleti e i Montecchi"" in Spring 1981, ""Norma"" in October 1983 and again in January 1994, along with Donizetti's ""Anna Bolena"" in January 1989 reflect a broad approach to the repertoire. Amongst several of Wagner's operas, ""The Flying Dutchman"" entered the repertory in January/February 1996, while ""Die Walkure"" followed in the fall of 2002 and again in early 2011. Richard Strauss is represented by ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" in 2014, although it was given several times over the earlier years, and there have been several productions of ""Salome"", the next appearing in January/February 2015. ""Elektra"" was given in early"
"(""Cupid and Psyche""). Important works from the early 20th century are ""Legenda Bałtyku"" (""The Legend of the Baltic"") by Feliks Nowowiejski and ""Król Zygmunt August"" (""King Zygmunt August"") by Tadeusz Joteyko. Karol Szymanowski wrote only two operas, both completely breaking away from the model of Moniuszko. The first, ""Hagith"", was influenced by Richard Strauss's ""Salome"" and was a failure at its premiere in 1922. Much more important was ""King Roger"" (1926). This work was slow to gain a reputation and was considered marginal until the 1990s. It has now been performed with great success in the United Kingdom, France and"
"National Opera, where his roles have included Turridu (""Cavalleria rusticana"") and ""Le comte Ory""; Opera North, where his roles have included Vana (""Katya Kabanova""), Pedrillo (""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"") and Nemorino (""L'elisir d'amore""); and Scottish Opera, where his roles have included Jack (""The Midsummer Marriage""), Narraboth (""Salome"") and Loge (""Das Rheingold""). For Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Bonaventura Bottone has sung Alfed (""Die Fledermaus""), and the Italian Tenor (""Capriccio"") Tzar Berendey (Snow Maiden). Bonaventura Bottone's European engagements include: ""Die Fledermaus"" (Alfred) at the Opéra National de Paris Bastille; ""Der Rosenkavalier"" (Italian Singer) and ""Die Fledermaus"" (Alfred) at the Bayerische Staatsoper München;"
"Robin Hood (opera) Robin Hood is a ballad opera by Michael Tippett based on the legend of Robin Hood. Composed in 1934, the score remains unpublished. However, Tippett later used an expanded version of the overture as the finale to his 1948 ""Suite in D major (For the Birthday of Prince Charles)"". During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Tippett was hired to organize the musical life of a number of work camps for unemployed miners in North Yorkshire. As part of his work there, he revised and abridged John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"" for performances in the church hall"
"Harold or the Norman Conquest Harold, or the Norman Conquest is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Edward Malet, edited by Frederic Edward Weatherly, adapted into the German by L.A. Caumont, and first performed at Covent Garden, London on 8 June 1895. In a hall in Alfnoth's castle, Alfnoth and his men return from hunting, and Edith, Alfnoth's daughter, comes out to greet her father. Harold, Earl Godwin's son, who had joined the hunting party uninvited to gain access to Edith, with whom he is in love (and"
"Strauss' ""Salome"" and the title role in Verdi's ""Falstaff"". Heldenbaritone A Heldenbaritone, also known as dramatic bass-baritone or hoher bass (high bass), is an opera singer, a German dramatic baritone. ""Heldenbaritone"" (Ger. ""Heroic baritone) is a fach (operatic voice type) that is usually associated with the operas of Richard Wagner. It is usually sung by bass-baritones such as Hans Hotter, Theo Adam or Bryn Terfel. Wagner himself calls this voice type ""Hoher Bass"" (high bass) rather than baritone. In his opera scores he distinguishes between the two so that Wolfram in ""Tannhäuser"" is labelled ""Bariton"", whereas Wotan in ""Die Walküre"""
"The Bassarids The Bassarids (in German: """") is an opera in one act and an intermezzo, with music by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, after Euripides's ""The Bacchae"". The conflict in the opera is between human rationality and emotional control, represented by the King of Thebes, Pentheus, and unbridled human passion, represented by the god Dionysus. A noteworthy feature of the opera is its construction like a classical symphony in four 'movements': Henze has noted that he quotes from Johann Sebastian Bach's ""St. Matthew Passion"" and the ""English Suite"" in D"
"were Malcolm in ""Macbeth"", Gastone in ""La traviata"", the comic character roles of Dr Caius in ""Falstaff"" and Alcindoro in ""La bohème"", and the one Italian role with which he became associated, the Emperor Altoum in ""Turandot"", which he first sang at the Royal Opera House in 1984 and in which he made his final appearance there, in 2009. At Covent Garden and elsewhere he sang many leading roles, such as Captain Vere in ""Billy Budd"", the title role in ""Peter Grimes"", Aschenbach in ""Death in Venice"", Lensky in ""Eugene Onegin"", Herod in ""Salome"", Loge in ""Das Rheingold"", Belmonte in"
"on the Stanislavski's system under Alan Langdon at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City. Sam Douglas Sam Douglas (born Douglas Samuel Waters; 17 June 1957) is an English-American actor best known for his role as private detective Scott Shelby in the PlayStation 3 video game ""Heavy Rain"", as King Herod in ""The Bible"" miniseries for the History Channel, and as Rosebud in the movie ""Snatch"". He has had several other roles in films, television, commercials, and on stage. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from Simpson College, Iowa, and in directing from the"
"operas to English choral works. The soloists at the premiere were the sopranos Anna Maria Strada and Cecilia Young, the tenor John Beard, and a bass called Erard (first name unknown). The soprano aria ""War, he sung, is toil and trouble"" was featured in Alfonso Cuaron's film ""Children of Men"". Alexander's Feast (Handel) Alexander's Feast (HWV 75) is an ode with music by George Frideric Handel set to a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton adapted his libretto from John Dryden's ode ""Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music"" (1697) which had been written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke"
"of the composer. In Vienna Nancy had contracted an unfortunate marriage with the psychopathic English composer John Abraham Fisher, from whom she soon separated. At Braham’s début, which was the first of the season at Bath, Nancy also performed, as a soloist and in a duet with him. It was the starting-point of a liaison which was to last for over twenty years, during which Nancy bore Braham a son, Spencer. Stephen invited Braham to take the lead role in his new opera ""Mahmoud"" in 1796; Braham triumphed at the première. Later that year he sang lead roles, also to"
"Kandaules, and Alviano in Die Gezeichneten (“Robert Brubaker is a tour-de-force as Alviano using his light helden tenorvoice to convey the anguish he feels.” – Michael Sinclair, TheOpera Critic); Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Opera Covent Garden; Laca in Jenufa at the Glynebourne Festival. He has sung at most of the major theaters in Italy and Spain: Herod in Salome at La Scala, Bologna, Trieste and Barcelona (“Absolutely sensational [is] the Herodes of Robert Brubaker... At last a Herodes sung with [a] heroic voice.” – In Fernam Land, June 20, 2009); Hermann in Pique Dame in Naples;"
"""Le nozze di Figaro"", the title role in Pyotr Tchaikovsky ""Eugene Onegin"", Rodrigo in Giuseppe Verdi's ""Don Carlos"", Iago in Verdi's ""Otello"", Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"", Sixtus Beckmesser in Richard Wagner's ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"", the title role in the ""Boris Godunov"" and the Jochanaan in Richard Strauss's ""Salome"". Hans Herbert Fiedler Hans Herbert Fiedler (November 10, 1907 in Triest – February 14, 2004 in Munich) was a German operatic bass and actor. He is best known today for portraying the role of Moses in the original 1954 production of Arnold Schoenberg's ""Moses und Aron"". Fiedler studied Germanistics (German"
"by many singers, including John McCormack, Georges Thill, Richard Tauber (in German), Raoul Jobin, Leopold Simoneau, Michael Schade and Roberto Alagna. There are no female characters in the opera, but the role of Benjamin is for a soprano playing ""en travesti"". Many years earlier, Joseph the Israelite, the favourite son of Jacob, was sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers. Nevertheless, he found favour with the Egyptian pharaoh and rose to become one of the leading men in the country (under the assumed name, in the opera, of Cleophas). Now famine is afflicting Israel and Joseph's brothers arrive at"
"historical elements of the story along with Powell interviewing biblical historians such as Helen Bond and Candida Moss. Robert Powell Robert Powell (; born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in ""Jesus of Nazareth"" (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his roles as Mark Williams in the BBC One medical drama ""Holby City"", as David Briggs in the sitcom ""The Detectives"" alongside Jasper Carrott, and as Tobias 'Toby' Wren in the ""science-fact"" drama ""Doomwatch"". His distinctive voice has become well known in"
"socio-political themes. ""The Death of Moses"" (1992) uses Moses' angry refusal to die as an allegory for the destiny of the victims of the Holocaust; while the cantata ""Babylon the Great is Fallen"" (1979) and the opera ""Behold the Sun"" (1985)—for which ""Babylon the Great"" can be considered to be a sketch study—both explore the themes of violent revolution via the texts from the Anabaptist uprising in Münster of 1543. There are also non-political works such as the ""Sing, Ariel"", that recalls Messiaen's stylised birdsong and sets a kaleidoscope of English poetry, and the opera ""Arianna"" (1995)—written on a Rinuccini"
"Enoch Arden (Strauss) Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV. 181, is a melodrama for narrator and piano, written in 1897 by Richard Strauss to the words of the 1864 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Richard Strauss wrote ""Enoch Arden"" for the actor Ernst von Possart, who in 1896 had assisted him in obtaining the post of Chief Conductor at the Bavarian State Opera. He wrote it while engaged in composing ""Don Quixote"" and finished it in February 1897. Strauss and Possart toured together widely with the melodrama, in a German translation by Adolf Strodtmann. It was well"