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Beatrice Cenci (opera)
''Beatrice Cenci'' is an opera in three acts by German composer Berthold Goldschmidt based on the Shelley play ''The Cenci''. Composed in 1949 to an English libretto by Martin Esslin. Goldschmidt’s second opera was one of four prize-winning works in the British Arts Council’s ‘Festival of Britain’ competition in 1949, but it never received the promised performance in the 1951 Festival. Its concert premiere was in Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in 1988, and its staged premiere in Magdeburg in 1994. Roles Synopsis Time and Place: In and near Rome, 1599. Act I In Count Cenci's palace, his daughter Beatrice, together with her stepmother Lucrezia and brother Bernardo, dreams of life away from Cenci’s brutality. Meanwhile, Cardinal Camillo delivers a message from Pope Clement VIII to Count Cenci: the "murder" is hushed up if Cenci is prepared to yield a fief to the church. The prelate Orsino, a family friend who has been in love with Beatrice, asks to see Beatrice, who imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthold Goldschmidt
Berthold Goldschmidt (18 January 190317 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many modernist critics elsewhere dismissed his "anachronistic" lyricism, stranded the composer in the wilderness for many years before he was given a revival in his final decade. Life Goldschmidt was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1903. His musical career began in earnest during the heyday of the Weimar Republic. While studying philosophy at the University of Hamburg, he was encouraged by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni to write music. In 1922, Goldschmidt entered the Berlin Hochschule für Musik and joined Franz Schreker's composition class, where his fellow pupils included Ernst Krenek, Alois Hába, Felix Petryek, and Jascha Horenstein. He also studied conducting, played freelance for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 1923, coached the choir for the Berlin premiere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelate
A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Minister (Christianity), Christian clergy who is an Ordinary (church officer), ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'prefer'; hence, a prelate is one set over others. The archetypal prelate is a bishop, whose prelature is his particular church. All other prelates, including the religious institute, regular prelates such as abbots and major superiors, are based upon this original model of prelacy. Related terminology In a general sense, a "prelate" in the Catholic Church and other Christian churches is a bishop or other ecclesiastical person who possesses ordinary authority of a jurisdiction, i.e., of a diocese or similar jurisdiction, e.g., ordinariates, apostolic vicar, vicariates/exarch, exarchates, or territorial abbacies. It equally applies to Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinals, who enjoy a kind of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiener Symphoniker
The Vienna Symphony (Vienna Symphony Orchestra, ) is an Austrian orchestra based in Vienna. Its primary concert venue is the Vienna Konzerthaus. In Vienna, the orchestra also performs at the Musikverein and at the Theater an der Wien. History In 1900, Ferdinand Löwe founded the orchestra as the ''Wiener Concertverein'' (Vienna Concert Society). In 1913 it moved into the Konzerthaus, Vienna. In 1919 it merged with the Tonkünstler Orchestra. In 1933 it acquired its current name. Despite a lull in concert attendance after the introduction of radio during the 1920s, the orchestra survived until the invasion of Austria in 1938 and became incorporated into the German Culture Orchestras. As such, they were used for purposes of propaganda until, depleted by assignments to work in munitions factories, the orchestra closed down on 1 September 1944. Their first post-war concert occurred on 16 September 1945, performing Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Under the direction of Josef Krips ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dshamilja Kaiser
Dshamilja Kaiser is a German operatic mezzo-soprano. She has been performing at the Oper Bonn since 2017. Life and career Born in Wuppertal, Kaiser studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Mechthild Böhme and Caroline Thomas. Already during her studies she sang in university productions of Handel and Rossini operas and made a guest appearance as Lisetta in Haydn's ''Il mondo della luna'' at the Städtische Bühnen Münster. She won singing competitions and was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the . In July 2007, she completed her studies with the artistic maturity examination - as ''Carmen'' in a university performance at the Landestheater Detmold. A permanent engagement at the Theater Bielefeld followed, where she sang Scarlatti, Mozart and Glinka, among others, as well as guest appearances at the Theater Münster, the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, the Landestheater Linz and the Aalto Theatre in Essen. Since t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Pohl
Christoph Pohl (born 26 July 1976 in Hanover) is a German operatic baritone who has performed at major opera houses in Europe, based at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2005 to 2018. Career Pohl was a member of the Knabenchor Hannover, and then studied voice at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Carol Richardson-Smith. He studied further as a member of the studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2003 to 2005. He then became a member of the Semperoper in Dresden, where he remained until 2018. He appeared as Mozart's Count Almaviva in ''Le nozze di Figaro'', Guglielmo in ''Così fan tutte'', Papageno in ''Die Zauberflöte'', as Rossini's Figaro in ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', Dandini in ''La Cenerentola'', as Belcore in Donizetti's ''L'elisir d'amore'', Verdi's Giorgio Germont in '' La traviata'' and Posa in ''Don Carlos'', as Valentin in Gounod's ''Faust'', Chorèbe in ''Les Troyens'' by Berlioz, Wolfram in Wagner's ''Tannhäuser'', the title role of Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Zagrosek
Lothar Zagrosek (born 13 November 1942 in Otting, Germany) is a German conductor. As a youth, he sang in the Regensburg Cathedral choir, including performances as the First Boy in ''The Magic Flute'' at the 1954 Salzburg Festival. From 1962 to 1967, Zagrosek studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky, István Kertész, Bruno Maderna and Herbert von Karajan. Zagrosek was chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1982 to 1986. He was principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 1988. Between 1990 and 1992, he conducted regularly at the Leipzig Opera. In 1995, he became principal guest conductor of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. From 1997 to 2006, he was chief conductor at the Württemberg opera house in Stuttgart. From 2006 to 2011, he was chief conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the former Berlin Symphony Orchestra (''Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester''). Selected recordings Among Zagrosek's commercial recordings are several issues i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Bostridge
Ian Charles Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer. Early life and education Bostridge was born in London, the son of Leslie Bostridge and Lillian (née Clark). His father was a chartered surveyor. Bostridge is the brother of writer and critic Mark Bostridge, and they are the great-grandsons of the Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper from the early twentieth century, John "Tiny" Joyce. He was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School. He attended St John's College, Oxford, where he secured a First in Modern History and St John's College, Cambridge, where he received an M.Phil. degree in the History and Philosophy of Science. He was awarded his D.Phil. degree in history from Oxford in 1990, on the significance of witchcraft in English public life from 1650 to 1750, supervised by Sir Keith Thomas. He worked in television current affairs and documentaries for two years in London before becoming a Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Lorenz (baritone)
Siegfried Lorenz (; 30 August 1945 – 24 August 2024) was a German baritone who performed opera, oratorio and ''Lied''. A member of the Komische Oper Berlin and later the Berlin State Opera, he made award-winning recordings and appeared as a guest internationally. He was also an academic voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Hamburg and the Universität der Künste Berlin. Life and career Born in Berlin on 30 August 1945, Lorenz studied voice in his hometown at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" from 1964 to 1969, where he was a master student of Alois Orth. After receiving several prizes at international singing competitions, Lorenz was engaged as a lyrical baritone at the Komische Oper Berlin by Walter Felsenstein in 1969. In 1973, he became the first vocal soloist at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, a position which Kurt Masur created for him. He performed and recorded several cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and became known as a ''Lied'' singer. His recordings of son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Della Jones
Della Jones is a Welsh mezzo-soprano, particularly well known for her interpretations of works by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, and Britten. Early life Jones was born in Tonna, near Neath, Wales. She attended Neath Grammar School for Girls. She studied at the Royal College of Music, where she won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship. Career In Geneva she made her professional debut in 1970, as Feodor in Boris Godunov and Olga in Eugene Onegin. In 1977 she joined the English National Opera, where she created the role of Dolly in Iain Hamilton's ''Anna Karenina'' in 1981,Dean, Winton (1981)"Music in London: Anna Karenina" ''The Musical Times'' Vol. 122, No. 1661 (July 1981), p. 487 and the Royal Opera House in 1983, and began appearing abroad, notably in France, Italy, and the United States. In 1984 she appeared in the Channel 4 series Top C's and Tiaras. She sang Arne's ''Rule, Britannia!'' alongside John Tomlinson at the 1993 Last Night of the Proms. Her r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Estes
Simon Estes (born March 2, 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s. He has sung at most of the world's major opera houses as well as in front of presidents, popes and internationally renowned figures and celebrities including Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Boris Yeltsin, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Notably, he was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve widespread success and is viewed as part of a group of performers who were instrumental in helping to break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world. Early life and education Estes was born in Centerville, Iowa, the son of Ruth Jeter Estes and Simon Estes. His father was a coal-miner and his grandfather was a former slave who had been sold at auction for $500. Named for his father, Estes was called 'Billy' within his family circle to avoid confusion when addressing the two. One of five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College Of Music
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music, dance, and musical theatre conservatoire based in South East London. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. Trinity Laban provides training in all aspects of classical music, jazz, popular music, composition, musical theatre, contemporary dance, dance science, choreography, and music education. The conservatoire has Undergraduate education, undergraduate and Postgraduate education, postgraduate students based at three campuses in Greenwich, Deptford and New Cross. Trinity Laban also runs a Centre for Advanced Training programme for young dancers aged 12 to 17 and a junior music department (Junior Trinity), designed for young musicians aged 3 to 19. The conservatoire has formed academic partnerships with institutions including Beijing Dance Academy, KM Music Conservatory, and the University of Melbourne and industry partnerships include Trinity Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
