"State Opera in Munich, Vienna State Opera and the Norwegian National Opera. Since 2006 she has been professor in voice and interpretation at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Her principal roles include (in alphabetical order): Her festival appearances include the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro, where she has sung Corinna (""Il viaggio a Reims"", Rossini), Anaïs (Anaï) (""Mosè in Egitto"", ""Moses in Egypt"", Rossini), Jemmy (""Guglielmo Tell"", ""William Tell"", Rossini) and Giulia (""La scala di seta"", ""The Silken Ladder"", Rossini). They also include Salzburg, Montreux, Spoleto, Macerata, the Beethoven Festival () in Bonn, and the Handel Festival, Halle. Her"
"(1990), listed below. Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"" and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him ""one of the most talented theatre men of his era"". Schikaneder was born in Straubing in Bavaria to Joseph Schickeneder and Juliana Schiessl. Both of his parents worked as domestic servants and were extremely poor. They had a total of four children: Urban (born 1746), Johann Joseph"
"The Yeomen of the Guard The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 3 October 1888, and ran for 423 performances. This was the eleventh collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. The opera is set in the Tower of London, during the 16th century, and is the darkest, and perhaps most emotionally engaging, of the Savoy Operas, ending with a broken-hearted main character and two very reluctant engagements, rather than the usual numerous marriages."
"Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"" and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him ""one of the most talented theatre men of his era"". Schikaneder was born in Straubing in Bavaria to Joseph Schickeneder and Juliana Schiessl. Both of his parents worked as domestic servants and were extremely poor. They had a total of four children: Urban (born 1746), Johann Joseph (died at age"
"The Death of Klinghoffer The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman. First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner ""Achille Lauro"" by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the hijackers' murder of 69-year-old Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, who was wheelchair bound. The concept of the opera originated with theatre director Peter Sellars, who was a major collaborator, as was choreographer Mark Morris. It was commissioned by five American and European opera companies, and the"
"The Lily of Killarney The Lily of Killarney is an opera in three acts by Julius Benedict. The libretto, by John Oxenford and Dion Boucicault, is based on Boucicault's own play ""The Colleen Bawn"". The opera received its premiere at Covent Garden Theatre, London on Monday 10 February 1862. ""The Lily of Killarney"" became the most widely performed of Benedict's operas. It has been linked with Balfe's ""The Bohemian Girl"" and Wallace's ""Maritana"" as 'The Irish Ring'. Its convincing handling of Irish idiom is interesting considering Benedict's German-Jewish origins. Some of the opera's songs – notably ""The moon hath raised"
"""The Nutcracker Mazurka"", ""Mr. Craig"", ""The Laird of Glenburne"", and ""Scotch Country Dance"". Telgmann married Alida Jackson. Their daughter Mignon Telgmann (born 1898) was a violin teacher. Telgmann died in Toronto in 1946 at the age of approximately 91. A music bursary established by his family in his memory and that of his daughter Mignon (born 1898) was subsequently established at Queen's University. Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (29 November 1856 – 30 March 1946) was a German-Canadian composer of operettas, conductor and educator, and violinist best known for his operetta ""Leo, the Royal Cadet"". Telgmann was born in"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Tamerlano Tamerlano (""Tamerlane"", HWV 18) is an opera seria in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music theatre company, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's ""Tamerlano"" together with another libretto entitled ""Bajazet"" after Nicolas Pradon's ""Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet"". Viewed as one of Handel's major works, he composed it in the space of 20 days in July 1724, in a year in which two more great operas were composed by him: ""Giulio Cesare"" and ""Rodelinda"". Eve Meyer has noted that the role of Bajazet"
"La Croce d'oro La croce d’oro (Italian for ""The Golden Cross"") is an opera in 3 acts by Henrique Oswald to an Italian libretto. It was composed in 1872. No performances of it are registered. The work remains unpublished. ""The Golden Cross"" was the first opera composed by young Oswald. The librettist is not identified. The manuscript score consists of 237 pages. In this work the composer prefers great sonorous masses and a dense orchestral texture. Concerning the voices and their relation with orchestra, it seems that he inclined to the dramatic school of voicing. There are six main characters"
"The Lodger (opera) The Lodger is an opera in two acts composed by Phyllis Tate. The libretto is by David Franklin, after the 1913 novel of the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. The opera was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, with a grant from the William Manson Fund, and the premiere took place there on 16 July 1960. The opera took three years to write, and the planning and libretto-writing took longer than the composing. Tate started with a synopsis, and after Franklin had turned it into a libretto, she acknowledged that ""his great experience as"
"Salome (opera) Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play ""Salomé"" by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer. The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its ""Dance of the Seven Veils"". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos. Oscar Wilde originally wrote his ""Salomé"" in French. Strauss saw the play in Lachmann's version and immediately set to work on an opera. The play's"
"people strike up a stirring hymn to Yarilo. Prologue Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Act 4 Audio Recordings (""Mainly studio recordings"") Source: www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk The Snow Maiden The Snow Maiden (subtitle: A Spring Fairy Tale) () is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky (which had premiered in 1873 with incidental music by Tchaikovsky). The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS) conducted by"
"Brokeback Mountain (opera) Brokeback Mountain is an opera by American composer Charles Wuorinen, with a libretto in English by Annie Proulx, based on her 1997 short story ""Brokeback Mountain"". They began work on it in 2008 under a commission by Gerard Mortier of the New York City Opera. He took the project with him to the Teatro Real of Madrid, where the opera was premiered on January 28, 2014. In 2007, Wuorinen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, saw the 2005 film directed by Ang Lee and ""was inspired by its operatic possibilities."" He approached Proulx with the idea of turning"
"III, scene 9 - Chorus, ""Viva lieta, e sia regina"" Semiramide (Mysliveček) Semiramide is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček. It was composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio that was first set to music in 1729. For a performance in the 1760s, it would only be expected that a libretto by Metastasio would be abbreviated and altered to suit contemporary operatic taste. The cuts and changes in the text made for the 1766 performance of Mysliveček's opera are not attributable. The opera was the first one ever composed by Mysliveček,"
"The Mountain Sylph The Mountain Sylph is an opera in two acts by John Barnett to a libretto by Thomas James Thackeray, after ""Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail"" by Charles Nodier. It was first produced in London at the Lyceum Theatre in 1834 with great success. Often (mistakenly) cited as the first through-composed English opera of the 19th century, it was Barnett's only great success on the stage out of some 30 operas and operettas, and was perhaps the most effective work by an English composer in the style of Carl Maria von Weber. Rarely (if ever) performed in the"
"Scipione Scipione (HWV 20) - or Publio Cornelio Scipione - is an opera seria in three acts, with music composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) in 1726. The librettist was Paolo Antonio Rolli. Handel composed ""Scipione"" whilst in the middle of writing ""Alessandro"". It was based upon the life of Roman General Scipio Africanus. Its slow march is the regimental march of the Grenadier Guards and is played at London Metropolitan police passing out ceremonies. ""Scipione"" had its premiere on 12 March 1726 at The King's Theatre, Haymarket. Handel revived the opera in 1730,"
"Tolomeo Tolomeo, re d'Egitto (""Ptolemy, King of Egypt"", HWV 25) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's ""Tolomeo et Alessandro"". It was Handel's 13th (or 14th if the one act Handel contributed to the collaborative opera ""Muzio Scevola"" is counted) and last opera for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) and was also the last of the operas he composed for the triumvirate of internationally renowned singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The story of the opera"
"The Snow Maiden The Snow Maiden (subtitle: A Spring Fairy Tale) () is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky (which had premiered in 1873 with incidental music by Tchaikovsky). The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS) conducted by Eduard Nápravník. By 1898 it was revised in the edition known today. It remained the composer's own favorite work. The story deals with the"
"Baroque instruments. Telemaco (Scarlatti) Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe is a 1718 opera by Alessandro Scarlatti to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (sometimes spelled ""Capeci""), court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, living in exile in Rome, for the Teatro Capranica in Rome, where it was premiered during the carnival season. The opera was revived in 2005 by the Schwetzingen Festival and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The libretto was written by Carlo Sigismondo Capece, based on Homer's ""Odyssey"" and François Fénelon's didactic novel ""Les Aventures de Télémaque"". The librettist was regarded as one of the central authors"
"Maddalena (opera) Maddalena () is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto based on a play of the same name by Magda Gustavovna Lieven-Orlov (under the pen name Baron Lieven). That play was in turn based on Oscar Wilde's play ""A Florentine Tragedy"". Although Prokofiev had already written four operas (the earliest being ""The Giant"" which he composed at the age of eight and was written down by the composer's mother), ""Maddalena"" is the first of his works in this genre to which he gave an opus number (op. 13). The"
"family and worked often as an accompanist for singers, and as an academic teacher for singers, which prepared him to consider their requirements in an opera. The opera was recorded in 1996, with Richard Salter as K., conducted by Michael Boder, by the label Wergo. Das Schloß (opera) Das Schloß (""The Castle"", literally: The palace) is a 1992 German-language opera by Aribert Reimann. He wrote his own libretto based on Kafka's novel and its dramatization by Max Brod. It premiered on 2 September 1992 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, staged by Willy Decker and conducted by Michael Boder. Aribert Reimann"
"Orange Mountain Music label, based on the staging by the Landestheater Linz (Austria) and conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. The Voyage (opera) The Voyage is an opera in three acts (plus a prologue and an epilogue) by the American composer Philip Glass. The English/Latin/Spanish libretto was written by David Henry Hwang. The work was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, and first performed there on October 12, 1992 (that date being the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas). The British premiere was in Leeds, England, performed by The City Of Leeds Youth Opera, with Johnathon Cliff"
"La gazza ladra La gazza ladra (, The Thieving Magpie) is a ""melodramma"" or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ""La pie voleuse"" by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez. The composer Giaochino Rossini wrote quickly, and ""La gazza ladra"" was no exception. According to legend, before the first performance of the opera, the producer assured the composition of the overture by locking Rossini in a room, from the window of which the composer threw out the sheets of music to the copyists who then wrote the orchestral parts, to"
"Semiramide (Mysliveček) Semiramide is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček. It was composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio that was first set to music in 1729. For a performance in the 1760s, it would only be expected that a libretto by Metastasio would be abbreviated and altered to suit contemporary operatic taste. The cuts and changes in the text made for the 1766 performance of Mysliveček's opera are not attributable. The opera was the first one ever composed by Mysliveček, just three years after he moved permanently from Prague to"
"Semiramide Semiramide () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy ""Semiramis"", which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 3 February 1823. ""Semiramide"" was Rossini's final Italian opera and according to Richard Osborne, ""could well be dubbed ""Tancredi Revisited"""". As in ""Tancredi"", Rossi's libretto was based on a Voltaire tragedy. The music took the form of a return to vocal traditions of Rossini's youth, and was a melodrama in which he ""recreated the"
"the opera, ""its lyrical and dramatic ingredients reflecting the philosophy of the opera"". It was first performed on 30 November 1982 by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. Act 1 ""Prologue"" A garden at the English court in May. The guide and chorus portray England in an encroaching Ice Age. The prime minister suggests that it would be a good time for the prince to choose a wife, for which purpose he presents the two Carolines and the two Annes. ""Scene 1"" The Carolines and Annes introduce themselves and sing of their identical purposes: to become the prince’s"
"Notes Sources Roland (Piccinni) Roland is a tragédie lyrique in three acts by the composer Niccolò Piccinni. The opera was a new setting of a libretto written by Philippe Quinault for Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1685, specially adapted for Piccinni by Jean-François Marmontel and based on Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem ""Orlando Furioso"" (""The Frenzy of Orlando""). The opera was first performed on 27 January 1778 by the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opera) at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. ""Roland"" was the first opera Piccinni wrote for Paris. He had been hired by the Académie royale de musique in 1776, in spite"
"Anna Bolena Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (""tragedia lirica"") in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's ""Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena"" and Alessandro Pepoli's ""Anna Bolena"", both recounting the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII. It is one of four operas by Donizetti dealing with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, ""Il castello di Kenilworth"" (1829), ""Anna Bolena"" (1830), ""Maria Stuarda"" (named for Mary, Queen of Scots, it appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835), and ""Roberto Devereux"" (1837, named for"
"on the stage. Lizzie Borden (opera) Lizzie Borden is an opera by Jack Beeson. It is based on the real-life case of Lizzie Borden. It was written in 1965 and premiered on March 25, 1965 by the New York City Opera conducted by Anton Coppola. The English libretto is by Kenward Elmslie after a scenario by Richard Plant. It is in three acts and an epilogue. The plot is a dramatic retelling of the famed double axe murders of the stepmother and the father of the title character in Fall River, Massachusetts. However a great deal of dramatic changes are"
"second opera ""Die Seidenraupen"" (The Silkworms) from 1964-68, when it was successfully premiered during the Wiener Festwochen at the Theater an der Wien with singers Jeannette Pilou and Oskar Czerwenka. The composer describes that the work is based on three scales, for the three main characters, which are derived from each other and sometimes combined in a way leading to tonality. His first violin sonata, op. 14 (1969/70), was a return to a ""new tonality"", incorporating Hungarian and ""gypsy"" elements. He dedicated ""Milchzahnlieder"" (Baby Tooth Songs) for soprano and chamber orchestra, op. 17 (1973), and ""Krokodilslieder"" (Crocodile Songs), for baritone"