"from the beginning of the 1970s he specialized in the genre of musical film, making the film ""Farewell to St. Petersburg"" about the stay of Johann Strauss II in Russia. Yan Frid received all-union recognition after ""Dog in the Manger"" hit the television screens, which was based on the play of Lope de Vega, with Mikhail Boyarsky Margarita Terekhova in the lead roles. Great success awaited Yan Frid with films ""Die Fledermaus"" (based on the operetta of Johann Strauss II) with Yuri and Vitaly Solomin, Lyudmila Maksakova; ""Silva"" (based on Emmerich Kálmán's operetta) with Ivar Kalninsh; ""Pious Marta"" (Tirso de"
"operetta, there is no fighting or bloodshed in the 'war'. Johann Strauss: Der lustige Krieg, ORF Radio-Symphonie Orchester, Wiener Jeunesse-Chor, Wiener Motettenchor Der lustige Krieg Der lustige Krieg (""The Merry War"") is a three-act operetta composed by Johann Strauss II. The work was first performed on 25 November 1881 at the Theater an der Wien. Its libretto was by F Zell (Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée. The operetta was well received at its premiere, and was performed 69 times during its first run. It concerns a dispute between two states. The 'war' between them is played out as a game"
"Der lustige Krieg Der lustige Krieg (""The Merry War"") is a three-act operetta composed by Johann Strauss II. The work was first performed on 25 November 1881 at the Theater an der Wien. Its libretto was by F Zell (Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée. The operetta was well received at its premiere, and was performed 69 times during its first run. It concerns a dispute between two states. The 'war' between them is played out as a game of love between Colonel Umberto Spinola, the commander-in-chief of the Genoese army, and the widowed Countess Violetta. Despite the name of the"
"a thought for the tears from which the smiles arose."" The premiere was given at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, on June 21, 1868. The production was sponsored by Ludwig II of Bavaria and the conductor was Hans von Bülow. Franz Strauss, the father of the composer Richard Strauss played the French horn at the premiere, despite his often-expressed dislike of Wagner, who was present at many of the rehearsals. Wagner's frequent interruptions and digressions made rehearsals a very long-winded affair. After one 5 hour rehearsal, Franz Strauss led a strike by the orchestra, saying that he could not"
"The Man Who Laughs The Man Who Laughs (also published under the title ""By Order of the King"") is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title ""L'Homme qui rit"". It was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin and Olga Baclanova. It was recently adapted for the 2012 French film ""L'Homme Qui Rit"", directed by Jean-Pierre Améris and starring Gérard Depardieu, Marc-André Grondin and Christa Theret. In 2016, it was adapted as ""The Grinning Man"", an English musical. Hugo wrote ""The Man Who Laughs"","
"Neues vom Tage Neues vom Tage (English: News of the Day) is a comic opera (""Lustige Oper"") in three parts by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Marcellus Schiffer. The opera is a satire of modern life, celebrity and marriage, involving parodies of both Puccini's music and Berlin cabaret. The opera became notorious for a scene with a naked soprano (Laura) singing in the bath about the wonders of modern plumbing, though Hindemith replaced her with the tenor (Hermann) in the revised version. The mischievous nudity particularly aroused the ire of Ernst ""Putzi"" Hanfstängel, Hitler’s musical advisor, and was"
"also known as """" or the ""Laughing Song"". It is not a free-standing aria – in fact, it forms part of the act 1 finale – but ever since its creation it has been a chosen showcase for the technique of singers such as Adelina Patti (who sang it during the lesson scene in ""The Barber of Seville""), Amelita Galli-Curci, Joan Sutherland and Edita Gruberová. Notes Sources Manon Lescaut (Auber) Manon Lescaut is an opera or opéra comique in 3 acts by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and, like Puccini's ""Manon Lescaut"" and Massenet's ""Manon"", is based"
"The Land of Smiles The Land of Smiles (German: ) is a romantic operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German language libretto was by and Fritz Löhner-Beda. The performance time is about 100 minutes. This was one of Lehár's later works, and has a bittersweet ending which the Viennese loved. The title refers to the supposed Chinese custom of smiling, whatever happens in life. (The leading character, Prince Sou-Chong has a song early in the show, """" (""Always smiling"") which describes this.) Lavishly produced, the show was built largely around the performance of the tenor Richard Tauber, a"
"Die schweigsame Frau Die schweigsame Frau (""The Silent Woman""), Op. 80, is a 1935 comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's ""Epicoene, or the Silent Woman"". Since ""Elektra"" and ""Der Rosenkavalier"", with only the exception of ""Intermezzo"", all previous operas by Strauss were based on libretti by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who died in 1929. Stefan Zweig, who was then a celebrated author, had never met Strauss, who was his senior by 17 years. In his autobiography ""The World of Yesterday"", Zweig describes how Strauss got in touch with him after Hofmannsthal's"
"and bass baritones, including Hans Hotter, Kurt Moll, Thomas Quasthoff, and Matti Salminen. Notes Sources Die schweigsame Frau Die schweigsame Frau (""The Silent Woman""), Op. 80, is a 1935 comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's ""Epicoene, or the Silent Woman"". Since ""Elektra"" and ""Der Rosenkavalier"", with only the exception of ""Intermezzo"", all previous operas by Strauss were based on libretti by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who died in 1929. Stefan Zweig, who was then a celebrated author, had never met Strauss, who was his senior by 17 years. In his autobiography"
"The Laughing Man (band) The Laughing Man is a pop group from Wuppertal, Germany. Founded in 2003, the band plays pop music. Stefan Neumann aka J. Gedsudski, a singer with an audible German accent, says that The Laughing Man tries to ""deconstruct the language to get new meanings out of it"". The independent pop music of the Laughing Man, the name inspired by J.D. Salinger's story of the same name, is influenced by The Smiths, The Beatles, The Clash, American Music Club and many other British and U.S. bands of the 1980s and early '90s. The band is well known"
"Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (, ), Op. 28, is a tone poem written in 1894–95 by Richard Strauss. It chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peasant folk hero Till Eulenspiegel, who is represented by two themes. The first, played by the horn, is a lilting melody that reaches a peak, falls downward, and ends in three long, loud notes, each progressively lower. The second, for D clarinet, is crafty and wheedling, suggesting a trickster doing what he does best. The work opens with a ""Once upon a time"" theme,<br><score vorbis=""1""> \relative c { \clef"
"French and Italian comic opera. It is also referred to as the forgotten comedy, in that only two of Wagner's works are comedies, the other being ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"". The opera was rarely performed in the following hundred years. In the United Kingdom, the first performance was given on 16 February 1965 at the Collegiate Theatre of the University of London. In North America its most successful revival was in 1983, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, but its fully staged premiere took place on 19 July 2008 at the Glimmerglass Festival in a production by Nicholas Muni. The cast was"
"models by Jacques Offenbach, Gioachino Rossini, Dmitri Shostakovich and Alfred Schnittke. The composer wrote: ""To write a comic opera one has to not only have experienced a lot, but also be able to look at these experiences with perspective. One must be able to laugh at oneself, something that cannot be done at the age of thirty."" The opera was premiered by the Bavarian State Opera on 8 July 1991 for the opening of the annual Munich Opera Festival. It was staged by the company's Intendant, August Everding, and conducted by Michael Boder. The cast was led by the character"
"Die Laughing (song) ""Die Laughing"" is a song by Therapy? released as a single on A&M Records on 30 May 1994. It is featured on the ""Troublegum"" album. The single reached number 29 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 14 in the Irish Singles Chart. The single was released on CD, 'laughing' CD Digipack, 12"" Vinyl, Red 7"" Vinyl and Cassette. Therapy? performed this song live at the 1994 MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin, And was supposed to be played at the 1994 Mercury Music Prize Awards in London. Live tracks recorded at the Town & Country Club,"
"Laughing (The Guess Who song) ""Laughing"" is a popular song by Canadian rock band The Guess Who. It peaked at #1 on the Canadian Singles Chart and at #10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, becoming the band's second single to reach the Top 10 on the latter. It also became their second of three gold records. It appeared on their 1969 album, ""Canned Wheat"", and was released as a single that year. It sold more than 350,000 copies in its first three weeks of release. Dave Bist of ""The Montreal Gazette"" has written that ""These Eyes"" and ""Laughing"" gave its"
"in Der Rosenkavalier"" is one of Grainger's more complex piano transcriptions, with many sumptuous ornamentations and harmonic twists and turns. Notes Sources Other sources General reference Der Rosenkavalier ' (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer""""'), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ""Les amours du chevalier de Faublas"" by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière's comedy ""Monsieur de Pourceaugnac"". It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max"
"The Smiling Lieutenant The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda from the operetta ""Ein Walzertraum"" by Oscar Straus, with libretto by and , which in turn was based on the novel ""Nux, der Prinzgemahl"" (""Nux the Prince Consort"") by Hans Müller-Einigen. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. This was the first of three films directed by Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins. The other two were"
"Laughing Song ""Laughing Song"" is a poem by the English poet William Blake. This poem is one out of nineteenth in Blake's collection ""Songs of Innocence"". “Laughing Song” is a three-stanza lyric poem. Its rhyme scheme consists of abcc/aabb/abcc. The title of this poem and its rhyme scheme is very appropriate for the message that Blake is trying to convey. The title in itself states that this is a song about laughter, and the three stanzas give this impression, especially in this line of the second stanza: With their sweet round mouths sing ""Ha, ha, he."" Then again in the"
"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"
"Leeds, England on 27 February 1994 Die Laughing (song) ""Die Laughing"" is a song by Therapy? released as a single on A&M Records on 30 May 1994. It is featured on the ""Troublegum"" album. The single reached number 29 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 14 in the Irish Singles Chart. The single was released on CD, 'laughing' CD Digipack, 12"" Vinyl, Red 7"" Vinyl and Cassette. Therapy? performed this song live at the 1994 MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin, And was supposed to be played at the 1994 Mercury Music Prize Awards in London. Live tracks recorded"
"Tannhäuser (opera) Tannhäuser (; full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, ""Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg"") is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends: Tannhäuser, the legendary medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest. The story centers on the struggle between sacred and profane love, and redemption through love, a theme running through much of Wagner's mature work. Wagner made a number of revisions of the opera throughout his life and was still unsatisfied with its format when he died. The"
"Führer’s hand. I kiss right in 'der Führer’s face!'"" (the joke being a popular near-contemporary song with this title composed by Oliver Wallace and the subject of a Disney animated short in 1943). Afterwards, Göring exclaims ""Oh, I’m a bad ""flooten-boy-glooten""!"", a variant on Warner Bros. cartoons' frequently-cited Lou Costello-type catchphrase: ""I'm a bad boy!"". Later, when the jig is up, Bugs rides in on a white horse, dressed as Brünhilde—from Wagnerian opera, to the tune of the ""Pilgrims’ Chorus"" from ""Tannhäuser""). Entranced, Göring responds by dressing up as Siegfried. The two dance, before Bugs once again makes a fool"
"In the late nineteenth century, a new, lighter form of opera, operetta, became popular in Vienna. Operettas had immediately attractive tunes, comic (and often frivolous) plots and used spoken dialogue between the musical ""numbers"". Viennese operetta was inspired by the fashion for the French operettas of Jacques Offenbach. ""Der Pensionat"" (1860) by Franz von Suppé is generally regarded as the first important operetta in the German language, but by far the most famous example of the genre is ""Die Fledermaus"" (1874) by Johann Strauss. Franz Lehár's ""The Merry Widow"" (1905) was another massive hit. Other composers who worked in this"
"swimming scene at Amalienbad, Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (""Yours is My Heart Alone""), is from the operetta Das Land des Lächelns composed by Franz Lehár to the lyrics of the first president of Hakoah Vienna, Fritz Löhner-Beda. Löhner-Beda was sent to Auschwitz after the Anschluss where he was shot to death by a Nazi officer for not running quickly enough. Löhner-Beda also wrote the lyrics to the song Buchenwald March to the music of a fellow prisoner and a Viennese cabaret giant, Hermann Leopoldi while they were prisoners at Buchenwald. In the cabaret scene in the film, actor and"
"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"
"in ""Die Fledermaus"" (1874). The entry of Bugs and his white horse into the scene is repeated in ""What’s Opera, Doc?"". The dance with the male suitor is, however, changed from a slapstick-rendition of the waltz to a refined ballet. The motivation of the dancers also changes. Göring is ""lost in the moment"" and follows his partner's lead. In the latter, the dance is part of an artistic performance. Both cartoons were written by Michael Maltese, which may account for the similarities. In the older short, the musical references were intended as a criticism of Germany, Richard Wagner serving as"
"his newest operetta, ""Der Frauenfresser"" (""The Woman-Eater"") was also well received. This was followed by the premiere of ""Der lachende Ehemann"" (""The laughing groom"") in March 1913. What was especially well received by reviewers were the catchy, unpretentious melodies. This work had been performed 1793 times by 1921. Even during the years of World War I, more and more of Eysler's operettas were staged at the Vienna Bürgertheater every season, such as ""Frühling am Rhein"" (""Rhine Spring""), ""Die – oder Keine!"" (""That One – Or No One"") und ""Der dunkle Schatz"" (""The Dark Treasure""). After the end of World War"
"re-enters the scene dressed as Brünnhilde. The costume includes a blonde wig with braids and a Viking-style helmet. Bugs rides on a white horse, visually based on the Clydesdale horse. Musically, the scene is accompanied by the ""Pilgrim’s Chorus"" from the ""Tannhäuser"" (1845). In response, Hermann Göring changes clothes. His lederhosen is replaced by a long brown loincloth. He wears a horned-type Viking helmet. The horns grow in size as if erect, as he lustfully gazes at ""Brünnhilde"". The duo dances to the tune of two waltzes by Johann Strauss II: ""Vienna Life"" and ""You and You"", the latter originating"
"him too much to care. A musical leitmotif is introduced in ""Suspicion"". Whenever Lina is happy with Johnny — starting with a ball organised by General McLaidlaw — Johann Strauss's waltz ""Wiener Blut"" is played in its original, light-hearted version. At one point, when she is suspicious of her husband, a threatening, minor-key version of the waltz is employed, metamorphosing into the full and happy version after the suspense has been lifted. At another, Johnny is whistling the waltz. At yet another, while Johnny is serving the drink of milk, a sad version of ""Wiener Blut"" is played again. By"
"on 28 May 1766. Die verwandelten Weiber Die verwandelten Weiber, oder Der Teufel ist los, erster Teil (""The Metamorphosed Wives, or The Devil to Pay, Part 1"") is a three-act 'comische Oper' by the German composer Johann Adam Hiller, incorporating 14 musical numbers from the popular farce ""Der Teufel ist los"" by Johann Georg Standfuss. The libretto was by Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804) based on the ballad opera ""The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos'd"" by Charles Coffey (1731), and an opéra comique text by Michel-Jean Sedaine using the same material. The opera was first performed at the theatre"
"Vaslav Nijinsky in 1916. Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (, ), Op. 28, is a tone poem written in 1894–95 by Richard Strauss. It chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peasant folk hero Till Eulenspiegel, who is represented by two themes. The first, played by the horn, is a lilting melody that reaches a peak, falls downward, and ends in three long, loud notes, each progressively lower. The second, for D clarinet, is crafty and wheedling, suggesting a trickster doing what he does best. The work opens with a ""Once upon a time"" theme,<br><score vorbis=""1"">"
"it two out of five stars, citing the ""dismayingly unclear"" narrative and ""largely unmemorable"" music and singing. The Grinning Man (musical) The Grinning Man is a tragicomic musical based on Victor Hugo's novel ""The Man Who Laughs"" with a book by Carl Grose, music by Phillips & Teitler and lyrics by Grose, Morris, Phillips & Teitler. The musical premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in October 2016 before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End from December 2017. ""The Grinning Man"" received mostly positive reviews, with ""The Guardian"" calling it ""a fabulously theatrical conceit"" and giving it four"