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Judith Christin
Judith Christin is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Christin received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana University. For nine years she was artist in residence at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She has sung over one hundred roles during her career. At the Metropolitan Opera she created the role of Susanna in ''The Ghosts of Versailles''; she has sung a variety of other roles at the house in nearly 200 performances since making her debut as Filippyevna in ''Eugene Onegin'' in 1993. She has appeared at San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and Santa Fe Opera, among other companies. Among roles which she has performed are Mamma Lucia in ''Cavalleria rusticana''; Marta in ''Mefistofele''; the title role in '' Louise''; the witch in ''Hansel and Gretel''; Mrs. Lovett in ''Sweeney Todd''; Marcellina in ''Le nozze di Figaro''; Suzuki in ''Madama Butterfly''; Mrs. Sedley in ''Peter Grimes''; and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e. A3–A5 in scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4; 220–880 Hz). In the lower and upper extremes, some mezzo-sopranos may extend down to the F below middle C (F3, 175 Hz) and as high as "high C" (C6, 1047 Hz). The mezzo-soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic. History While mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas, notable exceptions include the title role in Georges Bizet, Bizet's ''Carmen'', Angelina (Cinderella) in Gioachino Rossini, Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'', and Rosina in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville, Barber of Seville'' (all of which are also sung by sopranos and contraltos). Many 19th-century French- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madama Butterfly
''Madama Butterfly'' (; ''Madame Butterfly'') is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story " Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was based on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and on the semi-autobiographical 1887 French novel '' Madame Chrysanthème'' by Pierre Loti.Chadwick Jenna"The Original Story: John Luther Long and David Belasco" on columbia.edu Long's version was dramatized by David Belasco as the one-act play '' Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan'', which, after premiering in New York in 1900, moved to London, where Puccini saw it in the summer of that year. The original version of the opera, in two acts, had its premiere on 17 February 1904 at La Scala in Milan. It was poorly received, despite having such notable singers as soprano Rosina Storchio, tenor Giovanni Zenatello and baritone Giuseppe De Luca in le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Opera
The Los Angeles Opera, originally called the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth-largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center. Leadership Spanish tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo was general director of Los Angeles Opera from 2003 to 2019. Domingo sang 27 different roles with the company. He has also conducted 16 different operas and numerous concerts with the company. Domingo resigned in October 2019 following numerous accusations of sexual misconduct. Los Angeles Opera subsequently hired the law firm of Gibson Dunn, under the leadership of former United States Attorney and Superior Court Judge Debra Wong Yang, to conduct an independent investigation of the accusations. After interviewing 44 individuals, Gibson Dunn found that Domingo neither engaged in sexual quid pro quo nor any professional retaliation agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Hamilton (composer)
Iain Ellis Hamilton (6 June 1922 – 21 July 2000) was a prolific Scottish composer of ten operas, four symphonies, four string quartets and much more. He worked in the United States for twenty years. Career Hamilton was born in Glasgow and educated in London, where he became an apprentice engineer. He remained in that profession for the next seven years, studying music in his spare time. In 1947 he won a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Music for three years, studying composition with William Alwyn and piano with Harold Craxton. Simultaneously he earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of London (1950), and he was later awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of Glasgow (1970).Ruth C. Friedberg, revised by Francis J. Morris'Hamilton, Iain (Ellis)' in ''Grove Music Online'' In 1951 Hamilton became a lecturer at both Morley College and the University of London, posts he held until 1960, when he moved to New York. There he was appointed M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Karenina (Hamilton)
''Anna Karenina'' is an opera in three acts by Scottish composer Iain Hamilton. The libretto, based on Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel, ''Anna Karenina'' was written by the composer. ''Anna Karenina'' was premiered on May 7, 1981, at the London Coliseum by the English National Opera in a performance conducted by Howard Williams with Lois McDonall in the title role. Dean, Winton (1981)"Music in London: Anna Karenina" ''The Musical Times'' Vol. 122, No. 1661 (July 1981), p. 487. Retrieved 1 December 2010. The director was Colin Graham and the designers were Ralph Koltai and Annena Stubbs. Its running time is approximately two and a quarter hours. Theodore Presser CompanyIain Hamilton: Works. Retrieved 1 December 2010. Background and performance history ''Anna Karenina'' was the fifth of Hamilton's ten operas. Conrad Wilson in his 2000 obituary for the composer wrote that "inside Hamilton there was always a romantic composer struggling to get out ... it finally exploded in ''Anna Karenina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mayer (composer)
William Mayer (November 18, 1925 – November 17, 2017) was an American composer, best known for his prize-winning opera ''A Death in the Family''. Life and career Mayer was born in New York City, the son of Dorothy (née Ehrich) and John C. Mayer. His great-grandfather was Emanuel Lehman, co-founder of Lehman Brothers.Full text of "John L. Loeb Collection" retrieved October 28, 2015 He entered in 1944, but his college years were interrupted by military service (he served as a counter-intelligence agent in US-occupied Japan). Upon his discharge he re-entered Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiram Titus
Hiram may refer to: People * Hiram (name) Places * Hiram, Georgia ** Hiram High School, Hiram, Georgia * Hiram, Maine * Hiram, Missouri * Hiram, Ohio ** Hiram College, a private liberal arts college located in Hiram, Ohio ***Hiram Terriers, the school's sports teams * Hiram, Texas * Hiram, West Virginia * Hiram Township, Cass County, Minnesota Other uses * ''Hiram'' (TV series), a TV drama series in the Philippines * Hiram's Highway, a road in Hong Kong * Hiram House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States * Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7, a gothic revival building in Franklin, Tennessee; also the oldest masonic lodge in Tennessee * Operation Hiram Operation Hiram was a military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was led by General Moshe Carmel, and aimed at capturing the Upper Galilee region from the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) ..., a three-day military operation in the Upper Galilee launched by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pasatieri
Thomas Pasatieri (born October 20, 1945) is an American opera composer. Life and career Pasatieri was born in New York City, United States. He began composing at age 10 and, as a teenager, studied with Nadia Boulanger, although his main teachers were Vittorio Giannini and Vincent Persichetti. He entered the Juilliard School at age 16 and eventually became the school's first recipient of a doctoral degree. Pasatieri has taught composition at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. From 1980 through 1984, he held the post of artistic director at Atlanta Opera. He has composed 24 operas, the best known of which is ''The Seagull'', composed in 1972. Two of his operas were premiered in 2007: '' Frau Margot'' by the Fort Worth Opera and '' The Hotel Casablanca'' in San Francisco. Other popular operas include ''La Divina'' and '' Signor Deluso''. In 1984, Pasatieri moved to Los Angeles, California, where he formed his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signor Deluso
''Signor Deluso'' is an opera buffa in one act composed by Thomas Pasatieri. The English-language libretto, written by the composer, is loosely based on Molière's 1660 comedy ''Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire'' ("Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold"). It premiered on 27 July 1974 at the Madeira School auditorium in McLean, Virginia performed by the Wolf Trap Opera Company. It has been subsequently performed many times by various small opera companies in the United States and Europe. In a review of a 2008 revival in Washington, D.C., Anne Midgette described it as "an exuberant sendup of over-the-top comic opera plots, filled with effusive lovers leaping with alacrity to wrong conclusions in floods of extreme vocalism." Background and performance history A commission from the Juilliard School of Music, the opera was composed when Pasatieri was 28. He chose the subject after reading Molière's ''Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire''. He wrote the libretto himself and completed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Douglas Burton
Stephen Douglas Burton (born February 24, 1943) is an American composer. Life and career A native of Whittier, California, Whittier, California, Burton received his musical education at the Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied from 1960 to 1962, and Peabody Conservatory, from which he received his master's degree in 1974; he studied further at the Salzburg Mozarteum under Hans Werner Henze. From 1970 until 1974 he was on the faculty of the Catholic University of America; beginning in 1973 he taught at George Mason University, from which he retired in 2006. There he became a professor in 1983; he was named the Heritage Chair in Music in 1996. Burton has received commissions from such groups as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de France. Active as well in the field of film music, he worked with Gillian Anderson (musicologist), Gillian Anderson to restore the original scores for the 1922 version of ''Robin Hood (1922 film), Robin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Beeson
Jack Hamilton Beeson (July 15, 1921 – June 6, 2010) was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are '' Lizzie Borden'', ''Hello Out There!'', and ''The Sweet Bye and Bye''. Early life Born in Muncie, Indiana, Beeson began with music when he started piano lessons with Luella Weimer in 1928, but it was not until 1933 that he began to compose. He decided to become an "opera-composer" after being influenced by Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. From 1936 until 1939, he switched piano teachers and was with Percival Owen during this period of time. In 1938 he received certificates with first class honors in piano and theory from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto, a very well earned accomplishment at the age of 21. From 1944 to 1945 he had private studies with Béla Bartók in New York City. At this time he was also associating with the Columbia University Opera Workshop and the opera productions of Columbia Thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Sassy Tree (opera)
''Cold Sassy Tree'' is an opera composed by Carlisle Floyd, based on the 1984 novel by Olive Ann Burns. ''Cold Sassy Tree'' was Floyd's tenth opera. It had its world premiere on April 14, 2000, at the Houston Grand Opera, with a production staged by Australian filmmaker Bruce Beresford and conducted by Patrick Summers. The original cast included Dean Peterson, Patricia Racette, Diane Alexander, Beth Clayton, Margaret Lloyd and John McVeigh. The production was the Houston Grand Opera's 25th new opera, and was created in a co-commission between the company and opera companies in Austin, Baltimore, North Carolina and San Diego. Floyd came to the project by way of a sibling. "The book was given to me by my sister, because she thought that somebody from this part of the world, the southeast, would probably fully appreciate it,” he said in an interview following the Houston premiere. “But, everywhere I have traveled in this country, people have read ''Cold Sassy Tree'' and the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
