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Renata
Renata is a feminine given name of European origin, and a New Zealand surname. The name is of Latin origin of Renatus. The cognate names include Renée and Renate. Notable people with the given name Renata include: * Renata Adler (born 1938), American author, journalist and film critic * Renata Alt (born 1965), Slovakian born German politician * Renata Beger (born 1958), Polish politician * Renata Berková (born 1975), Czech triathlon athlete * Renata Borgatti (1894–1964), concert pianist * Renata Burgos (born 1982), Brazilian swimmer * Renata Dancewicz (born 1969), Polish actress * Renata Fast (born 1994), Canadian hockey player * Renáta Fučíková (born 1964), Czech book illustrator, artist and author of children's books * Renata Jaworska (born 1979), Polish artist * Renata Katewicz (born 1965), Polish discus thrower * Renata Kallosh (born 1943), Ukrainian-American theoretical physicist * Renata Končić (born 1977), Croatian singer * Renata Nielsen (born 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi ( , ; 1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004) was an Italian spinto soprano, lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-World War II, war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La Scala, Teatro di San Carlo, San Carlo and, especially, the Metropolitan Opera. Often considered among the great opera singers of the 20th century, she focused primarily on the ''verismo'' roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires. Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini called her voice "" ("the voice of an angel"), and La Scala music director Riccardo Muti called her "one of the greatest performers with one of the most extraordinary voices in the field of opera." Early years and education Born in Pesaro, Tebaldi was the daughter of cellist Teobaldo Tebaldi and Giuseppina Barbieri, a nurse. Her parents separated before her birth and Tebaldi grew up with her mother in her maternal grandparents' home in Langhirano. Stricken with polio at the age of three, Tebaldi became in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Przemyk
Renata Janina Przemyk (born February 10, 1966, in Bielsko-Biała) is a Polish singer and songwriter. Biography In Bielsko-Biała she attended primary and secondary school. She enjoyed her childhood together with her parents, grandmother and brothers. After finishing school, Renata moved to Katowice and began to study Czech philology at University of Śląsk. In 1994 she moved to Cracow, and at the end of 1999 she decided to lead a quiet life in the country near Cracow, away from the fuss of a big city, which enabled her to compose, make arrangements of her own songs and bring up her daughter in a peaceful atmosphere. Career Her career as a singer started when she was a teenager, by singing with local rock bands. However, she developed the real calling for music during her studies when she was inspired by the music of Tom Waits, Talking Heads and Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American guitarist, composer, and bandlea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Scotto
Renata Scotto (24 February 1934 – 16 August 2023) was an Italian soprano, opera director, and voice teacher. Recognised for her sense of style, her musicality, and as a remarkable singer-actress, Scotto is considered to have been one of the preeminent opera singers of her generation. For more than 40 years, she performed in some 45 roles, first in Italy, then as a leading soprano of the Metropolitan Opera (Met). She is remembered especially for the title roles of Verdi's ''La traviata'', performed for her stage debut in Milan in 1952, and Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'', which was her first role at the Met and her last there in 1987, but also for belcanto works such as Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. She appeared in the first telecast from the Met in 1977, as Mimi in Puccini's ''La bohème'', alongside Luciano Pavarotti and conducted by James Levine. She later expanded her repertoire by roles such as the Marschallin in ''Der Rosenkavalier'' by Richard Strauss, Elle in Poule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Adler
Renata Adler (born October 19, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and film critic. Adler was a staff writer-reporter for ''The New Yorker'' for over thirty years and the chief film critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1968 to 1969. She has also published several fiction and non-fiction books, and has been awarded the O. Henry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Early life Adler was born in Milan, Italy, to Frederick L. and Erna Adler while they were traveling from Germany to the United States. She has two older brothers. Her family had fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and moved to the U.S. in 1939. Adler grew up in Danbury, Connecticut and attended Bryn Mawr College, where she studied philosophy under José Ferrater Mora and German literature. She graduated summa cum laude in 1959. She then pursued her interest in philosophy, linguistics and structuralism at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of Jean Wahl and Claude Lévi-Strauss, graduating in 1961. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Salecl
Renata Salecl (born 1962) is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and holds a professorship at Birkbeck College, University of London.Biographical details School of Law, Birkbeck College, 13 February 2013, Accessed: 2013-05-24. (Archived by the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20130926143218/http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law/our-staff/ft-academic/renata-salecl/biographical-details ) She has been a visiting professor at the |
Renata Jaworska
Renata Jaworska (born 1979 in Zwoleń, Poland) is a Polish contemporary visual artist. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Salem, Germany. Early life and education While still a student of the Józef Chelmoński High School of Fine Arts in Nałęczów, Jaworska visited the exhibition "Znaki, symbolei wizje"(Sings, Symbols and Visions) by Jörg Immendorff at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1998. This influenced the choice of her future academy and master. After graduating from high school at 19 she was accepted at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and she moved to Germany to study. From 2000 to 2006, she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf art history under Prof. Werner Spies, Prof. Siegfried Gohr and painting in the class of Prof. Jörg Immendorff as his master student. In 2006 she received her academy diploma with distinction from Prof. Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. During her studies she designed the stage design for the one-act operatic monologue '' La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Renata Of Austria
Cecilia Renata of Austria (, , ; 16 July 1611 – 24 March 1644) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the wife of King-Grand Duke Władysław IV Vasa. Selection and coronation Cecilia Renata was a daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, of the House of Habsburg, and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Born in 1611 in Graz, she was chosen as a bride by the Polish-Lithuanian nobility. She married Władysław on 9 August in Vienna by proxy, and then in Warsaw in person on 12 September 1637, and the same day was crowned at St. John's Cathedral. This was the first royal coronation outside of Kraków, the historic, former capital of Poland, and this greatly angered the Polish nobility. A law was instigated to reserve coronations to Kraków in 1638. Queenship Young and energetic, Queen Cecilia Renata soon began organising the royal court to her liking. She was popular, especially for her politeness. One noble wrote in his memoirs that she insisted other women sit with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Soñé
Renata De Jesús Soñé Savery (born August 6, 1982 in New York City) is an American-born Dominican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the 2nd Runner-Up at Miss Universe 2005 after winning Miss Dominican Republic 2005. Life and career At six months of age, Soñé was left in the care of her grandparents after her mother's death. She went on to pursue a degree in clinical psychology before participating in the Miss Dominican Republic pageant. Of her long-term career goals, Soñé has said she wishes to found a children's institute to continue her interest as a psychologist. To this end, she has been the spokesperson for many campaigns headed by Dominican Attorney General Rossana Reyes designed to discourage child neglect, and curtail the high number of abandoned children through education and public awareness. Prior to winning the national pageant, Soñé was a professional model with Ossygeno Model Management, appearing in several Dominican fashion periodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Fast
Renata Fast (born October 6, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Sceptres of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and member of Canada women's national ice hockey team. She played college ice hockey at Clarkson and won the 2014 National Collegiate women's ice hockey championship title. She made her debut with team Canada at the 2015 4 Nations Cup, held from November 4–8 in Sundsvall, Sweden. She went on to represent the Canada women's national ice hockey team at the 2016 4 Nations Cup in Vierumäki, Finland, November 1–5. She competed in the 2017 Women's World Championships in Plymouth, Michigan, losing in overtime to the United States. She competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal. On September 6, 2023, Fast signed a three-year deal with the PWHL Toronto of the newly formed new Professional Women's Hockey League. Playing career NCAA In her second year (2013–2014), the Clarkson Golden Knights women's ice hockey te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Ruiz
Renata Ruiz Pérez (born 9 May 1984) is a Chilean model, sociologist and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of the contest Elite Model Look Chile 2001. In September of the same year she took part in the international final of that contest (Nice, France) with more than 60 delegates from 40 countries. Ruiz was the 1st runner-up, behind Rianne Ten Haken from the Netherlands. Another Dutch woman, Femke Lakenman, was the 2nd runner-up. Ruiz represented Chile at the Miss Universe 2005 in Thailand. She was elected under the organization of Ana Maria Cummins and Francisco Zegers. She did not place in the pageant, which was won by the Canadian Natalie Glebova. Filmography Radio *''Canciones Play'' ( Play FM) *''Mapa Play'' ( Play FM) *''Ciudad Rock & Pop'' ( Rock & Pop) (2013–present) *''La Picá de Uno'' ( Radio Uno) (2014) (guest) Televisión *''Algo esta pasando'' (Chilevisión Chilevisión (often abbreviated as CHV) is a Chilean free-to-air television chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Sorrah
Renata Leonardo Pereira Sochaczewski (born 21 February 1947), known professionally as Renata Sorrah, is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for portraying Nazaré Tedesco in '' Senhora do Destino'' (2004). Early life Sorrah was born in Rio de Janeiro, to Míriam Leonardo Pereira, who is of Portuguese ancestry and Peter Sochaczewski, a Polish immigrant. In 1964 she joined a cultural exchange program and moved to Los Angeles, where she took dramatic arts classes and finished her studies. At that time California was the heart of the hippie movement and that influenced Sorrah's style. When Sorrah returned to Brazil in 1967, she saw that Brazilian cultural scene had hippie ideals. Even though she hadn't been one, she adopted their outfits. Personal life Sorrah was married three times. She has a daughter, Mariana Simões, whose father is director Marcos Paulo. In May 2023, it was widely reported that Sorrah had come out as bisexual. However, in June 2023, in an intervi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Kallosh
Renata Elizaveta Kallosh (; ; born 1943) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist. She is a professor of physics at Stanford University, working there on supergravity, string theory and inflationary cosmology. Biography Kallosh was born in 1943 in Chernivtsi. She completed her Bachelor's from Moscow State University in 1966 and obtained her Ph.D. from Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow in 1968. She was then a professor at the same Institute, before moving to CERN for a year in 1989. Kallosh joined Stanford in 1990. In 2022 she retired, but continues her research as a member of Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2009 she received the Lise Meitner Award of the Gothenburg University. In 2014 awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Groningen. In 2017 she was awarded Lorentz Chair position at the University of Leiden, and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2024 she gave the Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture at Stockholm Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
