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Grant Doyle (baritone)
Grant Doyle (born 1971) is an Australian/British operatic baritone. Biography Born in Adelaide, Doyle studied voice at the Elder Conservatorium and then the Opera School at the Royal College of Music in London, subsequently winning a place on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at The Royal Opera, London. His roles for the Royal Opera include Ping ''Turandot'', Small Prisoner/Čekunov ''From the House of the Dead'', El Dancairo ''Carmen'', Apprentice ''Wozzeck'', Tarquinius ''The Rape of Lucretia'', Harlequin ''Ariadne auf Naxos'', Schaunard ''La bohème'', Demetrius '' A Midsummers Night's Dream'', Marullo ''Rigoletto'' and Billy Wayne Smith in the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's ''Anna Nicole''. Opera credits include Forester ''The Cunning Little Vixen'', Robert ''Iolanta'', Zurga ''Les pêcheurs de perles'', Yeletsky ''Queen of Spades'', Marcello ''La bohème'' and ''Fantastic Mr Fox'' for Opera Holland Park; Al Rocca ''Un giorno di regno'', Forester ''The Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Nicole
''Anna Nicole'' is an opera in 2 acts and 16 scenes, with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage to an English libretto by Richard Thomas. Based on the life of American model Anna Nicole Smith, the opera received its première on 17 February 2011 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, directed by Richard Jones. A recording of the opera was broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer on 25 March 2011. The broadcast drew in 67,700 viewers. The opera received its first London revival at Covent Garden in September 2014. Premiere The opera received its European continental premiere at Theater Dortmund (Germany) in April 2013 with American soprano Emily Newton in the title role. ''Anna Nicole'' received its U.S. premiere on September 17, 2013, in a production by the New York City Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the last work staged by the City Opera before its closure that year. Roles Synopsis Act 1 * 'Scene Zero' – Overture * Scene 1 – 'America Sings' * Scene 2 – "No! It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Skating Rink (opera)
''The Skating Rink'' is a British opera in three acts and an epilogue, with music by David Sawer and libretto by Rory Mullarkey. The opera, Sawer's fourth opera, is based on the novella ''The Skating Rink'' by Roberto Bolaño. Garsington Opera commissioned the opera and premiered it on 5 July 2018. In his score, Sawer incorporates Latin-American influences such as the charango in its instrumentation. Roles Synopsis * Place: A small seaside town on the Costa Brava, Spain. * Time: Towards the end of the summer, early 1990s. The opera's three acts tell the story from the different viewpoints of three male narrators (one Mexican, one Chilean, and one Spaniard), revolving around the figure-skater Nuria Martí. Act 1: Gaspar Gaspar, a young Mexican would-be poet, works as a night watchman at the Stella Maris campsite. His boss, Remo Moran, a Chilean businessman, orders him to evict two female vagrants, Caridad and Carmen, who have been staying there for free. Gaspar is relucta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Nozze Di Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, '' La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro'' ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity. Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. ''The Marriage of Figaro'' came in first out of the 20 operas featured, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Express
The ''Daily Express'' is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the ''Sunday Express'', was launched in 1918. In June 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 201,608. Under the ownership of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, the ''Express'' rose to become the newspaper with the largest circulation in the world, going from 2 million in the 1930s to 4 million in the 1940s. It was acquired by Richard Desmond's company Northern & Shell in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. In February 2018 Trinity Mirror acquired the ''Daily Express'', and other publishing assets of Northern & Shell, in a deal worth £126.7 million. To coincide with the purchase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Giovanni
''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; full title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play '' El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra''. It is a ''dramma giocoso'' blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer entered it into his catalogue simply as ''opera buffa''). It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theatre (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. ''Don Giovanni'' is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte". Composition and premiere The opera was commissioned after the success of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachtrack
''Bachtrack'' is a London-based international online music magazine which publishes listings of classical music, opera, ballet and dance, as well as reviews of these genres, interviews and general feature articles. History Bachtrack Ltd was registered on 3 December 2007 by David Karlin and Alison Karlin. The website bachtrack.com was launched in January 2008, the following month. ''Bachtrack''s event finder initially covered the UK only. In 2009, coverage expanded to include the US and Europe. The finder permitted users to "search for events by date, country, city, festival, venue, work, composer or musician". By 2010, the site listed 7,000 events and was being described favourably by both local London and national UK press. ''Bachtrack''s first mobile app was launched in late 2009. In July 2010, ''Bachtrack'' was named as no. 5 in ''Classical Music'' magazine's top ten Web Winners. Later in 2010, ''Bachtrack'' started publishing reviews of classical music to accompany its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Giorno Di Regno
''Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao'' (''A One-Day Reign, or The Pretend Stanislaus'', but often translated into English as ''King for a Day'') is an operatic '' melodramma giocoso'' in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto written in 1818 by Felice Romani. Originally written for the Bohemian composer Adalbert GyrowetzGossett, p. 37: Gossett goes on to note that "for many Italian librettists of the time, French operatic texts were a rich vein to be mined." (Although ''Le faux Stanislas'' was a verse drama, not an operatic libretto.)Budden, p. 73 the libretto was based on the play ''Le faux Stanislas'' written by the Frenchman Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval in 1808. ''Un giorno'' was given its premiere performance at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 5 September 1840. After the success of his first opera, '' Oberto'' in 1839, Verdi received a commission from La Scala impresario Merelli to write three more operas. ''Un giorno'' was first of the three, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park is a summer opera company which produces an annual season of opera performances, staged under a temporary canopy in front of the remains of Holland House, a Blitz-damaged building in Holland Park, west central London. City of London Sinfonia has held the position of resident orchestra since 2003. Opera Holland Park was named by Hugh Canning as best opera company in his 'best and worst in classical and opera 2010' in ''The Sunday Times''. The front of house space was used as a location in Woody Allen's 2010 film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Theatre and canopy structure The current theatre canopy was designed in 2007 by Architen Landrell and Hall + Bednarczyk and covers an area of 1600 square metres. It is completely free standing and designed to be craned into position over three days, followed by a fit-out period of two weeks. The inside layout was re-design to meet Covid-19 restrictions in 2021. Opera Holland Park came into conflict with locals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantastic Mr
Fantastic or Fantastik may refer to: Music * ''Fantastic'' (Toy-Box album) * ''Fantastic'' (Wham! album) * '' Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1)'', an album by Slum Village * '' Fantastic, Vol. 2'', an album by Slum Village * ''Fantastic'' (EP), an EP by Henry Lau * "Fantastic" (song), a song by Ami Suzuki * "Fantastic!", a 1995 song by The Dismemberment Plan from '' !'' * "Fantastic", a 2017 song by Flume featuring Dave Bayley from '' Skin Companion EP 2'' Literature * Fantasy, a genre of speculative fiction also known as fantastic literature. * Fantastique, a genre of writing Publications * ''Fantastic'' (magazine), a fantasy-fiction magazine published from 1952 to 1980; title revived in the 1990s * ''Fantastic'' (comics), a weekly British comic published by Odhams Press under the Power Comics imprint Other uses * Fantastic art, a non-realistic genre * Fantastic (TV channel), a defunct Polish television channel * Fantastic (TV series), a South Korean TV series See also * Fantast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen Of Spades (opera)
''The Queen of Spades'' or ''Pique Dame'', Op. 68 (, ''Pikovaya dama'' , ) is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on the 1834 novella of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, but with a dramatically altered plot. The premiere took place in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Composition history The Imperial Theatre offered Tchaikovsky a commission to write an opera based on the plot sketch by Ivan Vsevolozhsky in 1887/88. After first turning it down, Tchaikovsky accepted it in 1889. Toward the end of that year, he met the theatre's managers to discuss the material and sketch out some of the scenes. He completed the full score in Florence in only 44 days. Later, working with the tenor who was to perform the lead character, he created two versions of Herman's aria in the seventh scene, using different keys. The changes can be found in the proof sheets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph and Courier''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It was moderately Liberalism, liberal politically before the late 1870s.Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalismp 159 ''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
