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Die Schuldigkeit Des Ersten Gebots
' (complete title in historical spelling: '; The Obligation of the First and Foremost Commandment), K. 35, is a sacred musical play (''geistliches Singspiel'') composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1767 when he was 11 years old. It is Mozart's first opera or, more specifically, ''sacred drama'', as is suggested by the name. The libretto is now attributed to , although Johann Adam Wieland or Jakob Anton Marianus Wimmer had been suggested earlier. (The title page of the libretto ascribes it only to "J.A.W.".)OperaGlass summary at stanford.edu accessed on October 6, 2007 Only the first part of the opera was composed by Mozart; the second and third parts were contributed by |
Singspiel
A Singspiel (; plural: ; ) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and aria In music, an aria ( Italian: ; plural: ''arie'' , or ''arias'' in common usage, diminutive form arietta , plural ariette, or in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompa ...s which were often strophic, or folk-like. Singspiel plots are generally comic or romantic in nature, and frequently include elements of magic (paranormal), magic, fantastical creatures, and comically exaggerated characterizations of good and evil. __TOC__ History Some of the first Singspiele were Mystery play, miracle plays in Germany, where dialogue was interspersed with singing. By the early 17th century, miracle plays had grown profane, the word "Singspiel" is found in print, and secular Singspiele were also being performed, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Sukis
Lilian Sukis (born 29 June 1939, Kaunas) is a Canadian operatic soprano of Lithuanian birth. Her family moved first to Germany during World War II, and then to Canada in 1950. She earned a BA from McMaster University and a diploma from the University of Toronto, and made her professional opera debut in 1964 as Kate Pinkerton in Giacomo Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'' with the Canadian Opera Company. In 1965 she sang the role of Countess Almaviva in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro'' at the Stratford Festival. That same year she became a pupil at the Metropolitan Opera Studio and School. She made her debut at the Met in 1967 as Helen Niles in the world premiere of Marvin David Levy's ''Mourning Becomes Electra (opera), Mourning Becomes Electra''. In 1969 she became a member of the Bavarian State Opera where she remained for more than 20 years. She has also appeared as a guest artist with several major opera houses and opera festivals internationally, including the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Baldin
Aldo Baldin (1 January 1945 - 5 January 1994) was a Brazilian opera and concert-hall tenor. His recordings include a number of Bach cantatas. Life Born in Urussanga, Santa Catarina, he was taught singing and cello by Heloisa Nemoto Vergara and Jean-Jacques Pagnot at the ''Escola Superior de Música da UFRGS'' in Porto Alegre. He graduated in vocal studies alongside Roberto Miranda and Eliane Sampaio from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Supported by the conductor Karl Richter and a scholarship from DAAD, he continued his singing training at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt in Germany under Martin Gründler. He also trained in Berlin under Margarethe von Winterfeldt and in Paris. He made his debut at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern in 1975, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1980 and at the Scala in Milan in 1981. Among other institutions, he taught at the music academies in Blumenau in Brazil and in Heidelberg, Mannheim and Karlsruhe in Germany. His pupils in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Peter Blochwitz
Hans Peter Blochwitz (born 28 September 1949) is a German lyric tenor, who is known internationally in opera and concert, especially for singing parts in Mozart operas. Career Born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 28 September 1949, Blochwitz first studied computer science at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and holds a Ph.D. He studied singing from 1975 in Mainz with Elisabeth Fellner Köberle and in Frankfurt with Erna Westenberger and Karlheinz Jarius. He appeared in 1978 in Frankfurt as a soloist in Bach's Mass in B minor, and in 1984 as the Evangelist in Bach's '' St Matthew Passion'' at the Altenberger Dom. He made his operatic debut in September 1984 as Lenski in Tchaikovsky's '' Eugen Onegin'' at the Frankfurt Opera; he subsequently sang in Brussels, Geneva, Hamburg, Milan, and Vienna, especially as a Mozart singer. When Peter Schreier, a lyric tenor himself, conducted his first production of Mozart's '' Don Giovanni'' in 1987, he cast Blochwitz as Don Ottavio. In S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inga Nielsen
Inga Nielsen (2 June 1946 – 10 February 2008) was a Danish soprano who had an active international opera career from 1971 to 2006. A child prodigy, Nielsen performed on American radio during the 1950s, beginning at the age of six, and also released some commercial recordings of Danish folk songs and Christmas carols as a child. She began her opera career performing parts in the lyric soprano repertory and then became an admired singer of dramatic soprano roles, beginning in the late 1980s. She was a particularly renowned interpreter of the roles of Konstanze in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'' and the title role in Richard Strauss's '' Salome''. She excelled in portraying some of the more rarely heard and demanding dramatic soprano roles such as the woman in Arnold Schoenberg's ''Erwartung'', Ursula in '' Mathis der Maler'' and Jenny in ''Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny''. Early life and education Nielsen was born in Holbæk, Denmark to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Murray
Ann Murray, (born 27 August 1949) is an Irish mezzo-soprano. Life and career Murray was born in Dublin. Having won a number of prizes at the Feis Ceoil, she studied singing at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin) with Nancy Calthorpe, as well as arts and music at University College Dublin. In 1968, she made her Irish opera debut performing the shepherd role in a concert performance of ''Tosca''. She pursued further studies with Frederic Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's '' Alceste'' in 1974. She has since sung at all major opera houses and is particularly noted for her performances in works by George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. Murray performs mainly at Covent Garden (where she performed as Siphare in Mozart's ''Mitridate, re di Ponto''), the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera (where she was made Kammer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Anne Marshall
Margaret Anne Marshall OBE (born 4 January 1949) is a Scottish soprano. Marshall was born in Stirling. Her career started in the 1970s and she has sung a wide range of classical and operatic roles up to her retirement in 2004. She received the James Gulliver Award for Performing Arts in Scotland in 1991, in 1999 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours, and on 23 June 2009 she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the University of St Andrews. Biography Margaret Marshall studied singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow with Ena Mitchell, with whom she continued to study after graduating. Awarded a Caird Travelling Acholarship, Marshall travelled to Munich to study with German bass-baritone Hans Hotter, who suggested she enter the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Winning first prize in the 1974 ARD Competition, singing Purcell and Bach in the final, launched Marshall's interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Bader
Roland Bader (born 24 August 1938) is a German choral conductor and music director. He is the principal guest conductor of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and the Opera Krakowska, officially authorized as representative for their guest performances in Germany and Switzerland. Since 1988 he is the visiting professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where in 1989 he was awarded the distinction of the Professor Honoris Causa in Humanistic Disciplines. Career Born in Wangen im Allgäu, he studied first church music in Rottenburg am Neckar, then at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, organ, piano, viola and composition, with Johann Nepomuk David. From 1958 to 1965, he took private conducting lessons with Hans Hörner, conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic. Bader was cantor in Böblingen from 1960 to 1967, and in Ludwigsburg from 1967 to 1970. He was the chief conductor of an orchestra at Oberhausen from 1970 to 1974, and served as director of the Folkwang Hochschu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Hollweg
Werner Hollweg (13 September 1936 in Solingen - 1 January 2007 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German operatic tenor. He is best known for his interpretation of Mozart's operas. Hollweg died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most commo .... References 1936 births 2007 deaths People from Solingen Neurological disease deaths in Germany Deaths from motor neuron disease German operatic tenors 20th-century German male opera singers {{Germany-opera-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arleen Auger
Joyce Arleen Auger (sometimes spelled Augér ; September 13, 1939 – June 10, 1993) was an American soprano, known for her coloratura voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Schubert. She won a posthumous Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance" in 1994. Early life and education Auger was born in South Gate, California and grew up in Huntington Beach. Her father, Everett Auger, was a noted minister who had emigrated from Canada with his wife Doris (nee Moody). As a child, Auger studied voice, violin and piano. She received a BA in Education from California State University at Long Beach in 1963. Her first job was as a kindergarten and first grade teacher. Between 1965 and 1967, she studied voice with tenor Ralph Errolle in South Pasadena, California, supporting herself by teaching first grade and church and synagogue singing jobs on the weekends. Career In 1967, Auger was teaching first grade in Los Angeles when she wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krisztina Laki
Krisztina Laki (born 16 September 1944) is a Hungarian coloratura soprano who worked mainly on the opera stage in Germany, with guest appearances in major European opera houses. She has held master classes internationally. Career Born in Érd, Laki studied voice at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with József Réti. She made her debut in 1971 as Gilda in Verdi's ''Rigoletto'' at the Stadttheater Bern, where she also appeared as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's ''Die Zauberflöte'' and as Sophie in ''Der Rosenkavalier'' by Richard Strauss. In 1974 to 1979, she sang at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. She appeared in 1977 at La Scala in Milan as Blonde in Mozart's ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', directed by Giorgio Strehler, and alongside Edita Gruberová as Konstanze. From 1980 to 1989 she worked mainly with the Cologne Opera. Laki retired from the stage in 2001. She has held master classes internationally and has been a juror at music competitions. Selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Geszty
Sylvia Geszty (born Sylvia Maria Ilona Wytkowsky; ; 28 February 1934 – 13 December 2018) was a Hungarian-German operatic coloratura soprano who appeared internationally, based first at the Staatsoper Berlin in East Berlin and from 1970 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. She is remembered as Mozart's Queen of the Night and an ideal Zerbinetta in ''Ariadne auf Naxos'', but also performed Baroque opera and in the world premiere of Kurt Schwaen's ''Leonce und Lena''. Geszty was for decades a professor of voice at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and also taught a master class in Zurich. She made many recordings and appeared on radio and television and in concert and recitals. Life and career Born in Budapest, she studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Erszebeth Hoor-Tempis. She won several singing competitions while still a student, including the Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Berlin. In 1959, she made her debut at the Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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