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Frida
Frida, Frieda, or Freida may refer to: People and fictional characters *Frida (given name), any of several people or characters ** *Frieda (surname), any of several people or characters *Afroditi Frida (born 1964), Greek singer *Frida (singer) (born 1945), stage name of Anni-Frid Lyngstad of the pop band ABBA Arts and entertainment * Frida (2002 film), ''Frida'' (2002 film), about artist Frida Kahlo ** Frida (soundtrack), ''Frida'' (soundtrack), for the 2002 film * Frida (2024 film), ''Frida'' (2024 film), a documentary about Frida Kahlo *''Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo'', a 1983 book by Hayden Herrera *Frida (album), ''Frida'' (album), a 1971 album by Frida Lyngstad *Frida (opera), ''Frida'' (opera), a 1991 opera based on the life of Frida Kahlo *Frieda (play), ''Frieda'' (play), a 1946 play by Ronald Millar *Frieda (film), ''Frieda'' (film), a 1947 British postwar drama *Frida (ballet), 2020, based on the life of Frida Kahlo Places *Frieda (Werra), a river in Germany *72 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (singer)
Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad (born 15 November 1945), also known simply as Frida, is a Swedish singer who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA. Courtesy titles ''Principality of Reuss-Gera, Princess Reuss'' and ''Countess of Plauen'' are also in use because of her third marriage. Born in Bjørkåsen (in Ballangen Municipality), Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Torshälla, Sweden, and started her first solo career there, as a jazz singer in 1967, through a talent competition called ''New Faces''. She won the competition with her song "En ledig dag", leading to a television appearance on ''Hylands Hörna'' on Dagen H; as a result, she was signed by EMI, and in turn was signed by Stig Anderson's record label, Polar Music, after years of releasing several singles and an album, ''Frida (album), Frida'', under the earlier record label. She then had moderate success in Sweden, as she was a contestant for Melodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (2002 Film)
''Frida'' is a 2002 American biographical film directed by Julie Taymor, about the Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo. Salma Hayek stars as Kahlo and Alfred Molina plays her husband Diego Rivera. The film was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Antonio Banderas and unofficially by Edward Norton from a 1983 biography of Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. ''Frida'' premiered at the 59th Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2002. Upon its release in U.S. theaters by Miramax on October 25, the film received generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed $56.3 million on a $12 million production budget. At the 75th Academy Awards, ''Frida'' received six nominations, winning for Best Makeup and Best Original Score. Hayek's universally acclaimed performance garnered Best Actress nominations at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, the Baftas and the SAG Awards. Plot In 1925, Frida Kahlo suffers a traumatic accident at the age of 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (2024 Film)
''Frida'' is a 2024 documentary film directed by Carla Gutierrez about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. As Gutierrez's directorial debut, it was first shown at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Documentary Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award. Premise Through her own writings and interviews, as well as brand-new animation, Kahlo chronicles and addresses her entire life and career from a first-person perspective. Many of the most pivotal and formative moments of her life are mentioned and/or detailed, such as her devastating accident as a passenger of a trolley car, her complicated relationship with the fellow Mexican painter Diego Rivera, her time spent in cities like New York and Detroit, and her affair with the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Both animation and sound design are leveraged in order to further depict the complexity of Kahlo's psyche, making for a visceral and intimate look at her vast and changing senses of human desire, the state of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (dog)
Frida (12 April 2009 – 15 November 2022) was a yellow Labrador Retriever who worked as a search and rescue dog for the Mexican Navy (SEMAR). She was deployed to help the rescue efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters. Equipped with protective goggles, harness and boots, she was trained to bark if she detected someone in need of help. During her service with the Mexican Navy, she took part in 55 rescue operations. She was deployed to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, where she is credited with locating 12 survivors. She gained international recognition following the 2017 Puebla earthquake in Mexico. Career Frida's first deployment was in response to the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010. On that occasion she detected 12 survivors and a further 12 deceased persons. Following a gas-leak explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower (Pemex Tower) in Mexico City on 31 January 2013, which killed at least 37 people, Frida l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (album)
''Frida'' is the debut studio album by Swedish singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, released in March 1971 by EMI Columbia. Recorded between September 1970 and January 1971, ''Frida'' was produced by her then-fiancé, Benny Andersson. ''Frida'' was her only album recorded for EMI during her contract, not counting her eponymous compilation album from 1972, before being signed to Polar and forming the pop group ABBA, a year later. The album received positive receptions from critics, both retrospectively and at the time of the album's release, but did not chart, with the exception of her non-album single from the same year, "Min egen stad", until ''Frida'' charted in Sweden, in April 2017 with a limited edition reissue, reaching No. 28 on Sverigetopplistan's album charts. ''Frida'' has since been reissued several times by EMI and Parlophone since the original issue of the album. Background Recording session ''Frida'' commenced its recording session at EMI Studios, Stockholm, now known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (given Name)
Frida (with variants Freda, Frieda, Frinta and Freida) is a feminine given name. In central and eastern Europe, Frida is a short form of compound names containing the Germanic element ''fried'' meaning "peace". People Freda * Frida Argento (born 2000), Swedish actress * Freda Betti (1924–1979), French opera singer * Freda Corbet (1900–1993), British politician * Freda Dowie (1928–2019), English actress * Freda Du Faur (1882–1935), Australian mountaineer * Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983), English socialite and mistress of future king Edward VIII * Freda Foh Shen (born 1948), American film, television and theatre actress * Freda Gardner (1929–2020), former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) * Freda Hoffman Zgodzinski (1914–2012), Anarchist activist * Freda Jackson (1907–1990), British actress * Freda James (1911–1988), British tennis player * Freda Koblick (1920–2011), American acrylic artist and sculptor * Freda Josephine McDonald (190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (ballet)
''Broken Wings'' is a one-act ballet about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, dramaturged by Nancy Meckler and designed by Dieuweke van Reij. The music was composed by Peter Salem, and featured Mexican folk song " La Llorona" sung by Chavela Vargas. The ballet premiered on 13 April 2016 at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, danced by the English National Ballet, with Tamara Rojo as Kahlo and Irek Mukhamedov as Kahlo's husband, Diego Rivera. Lopez Ochoa then created a three-act version titled ''Frida Frida, Frieda, or Freida may refer to: People and fictional characters *Frida (given name), any of several people or characters ** *Frieda (surname), any of several people or characters *Afroditi Frida (born 1964), Greek singer *Frida (singer) ...'' for the Dutch National Ballet, premiered in 2020. Production Annabelle Lopez Ochoa was commissioned by English National Ballet to create a ballet as a part of ''She Said'', an all-female choreo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (opera)
''Frida'' is a 1991 opera based on the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo with music by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, book by Hilary Blecher, lyrics and monologues by Migdalia Cruz, conceived by Hilary Blecher. Performances ''Frida'' was commissioned by the American Music Theater Festival (now Prince Music Theater) and premiered in Philadelphia in 1991, starring Helen Schneider as Frida Kahlo. It was revised in 1993, and has subsequently been produced at American Repertory Theater (Boston), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, City Summer Opera (San Francisco), the Houston Grand Opera, the Vienna Schauspielhaus, in Recklinghausen and Nordhausen (Germany), and by the Society for New Music (Syracuse, New York Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States. With a population of 148,620 and a Syracuse metropolitan area, metropolitan area of 662,057, it is the fifth-most populated city and 13 ...). In 2007, to celebrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (soundtrack)
''Frida'' is the original soundtrack album, on the Universal label, of the 2002 in film, 2002 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film ''Frida (2002 film), Frida'' starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro and Ashley Judd. The original Film score, score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal. The soundtrack features songs by various artists. The score The album won both the Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. At the World Soundtrack Academy, World Soundtrack Awards it won two awards: "Best Original Soundtrack of the Year" and "Soundtrack Composer of the Year". Track listing # Benediction and Dream - Performed by Lila Downs (2:31) # The Floating Bed (1:29) # El Conejo - Performed by Cojolites (2:29) # Paloma Negra - Performed by Chavela Vargas (3:17) # Self-Portrait With Hair Down (1:09) # Alcoba Azul - Performed by Lila Downs (1:36) # Carabina 30/30 - Performed by El Poder Del Norte (2:43) # Solo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida (magazine)
''Frida'' was a biweekly teens' magazine published in Sweden. The magazine was in circulation between 1981 and 2022. Ove Jerselius was the founder of ''Frida'' which targeted teenaged girls. Its headquarters was in Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately .... See also * List of magazines in Sweden References External links Official website 1981 establishments in Sweden 2022 disestablishments in Sweden Biweekly magazines published in Sweden Defunct magazines published in Sweden Magazines established in 1981 Magazines disestablished in 2022 Magazines published in Stockholm Defunct Swedish-language magazines Defunct teen magazines {{Sweden-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda (film)
''Frieda'' is a 1947 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns and Mai Zetterling. Made by Michael Balcon at Ealing Studios, it is based on the 1946 play of the same title by Ronald Millar who co-wrote the screenplay with Angus MacPhail. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jim Morahan and Michael Relph. During World War II, a German woman rescues an English prisoner-of-war. He decides to marry her, though he does not actually love her. Following the war, the couple settle in Oxfordshire. Frieda has to deal with both anti-German sentiment in post-war Britain, and with her unrepentant Nazi brother. Plot Frieda is a German woman who helps English airman Robert to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp as the Second World War nears its end. She loves him; he is only grateful to her. In a church between the Russian-German lines, however, Robert marries her, so that she can obtain a British passport. Together the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afroditi Frida
Greece has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 45 times since its debut in , missing six contests in that time (1975, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1999, and 2000). The country won for the first and to date only time in with "My Number One" by Helena Paparizou. The Greek participating broadcaster in the contest is (ERT). Greece has never finished last in the contest. Throughout the 20th century, Greece achieved only two top five results, finishing fifth with "" by Paschalis, Marianna, Robert, and Bessy Argyraki, Bessy in and again fifth with "" by Cleopatra (Greek singer), Cleopatra in . The start of the 21st century saw Greece become one of the most successful countries in the contest, with ten out of thirteen top-ten results between 2001 and 2013, including third-place finishes for "(I Would) Die for You, Die for You" by Antique (band), Antique in (with 2005 winner Paparizou as lead singer), "Shake It (Sakis Rouvas song), Shake It" by Sakis Rouvas in , and "Secret Combinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
