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Madalena
Madalena is a feminine given name. It is a Portuguese form of Magdalene. It may refer to: Films * ''Madalena'' (1960 film), a Greek film * ''Madalena'' (2021 film), a Brazilian film People *Madalena Alberto, Portuguese actress, singer and composer *Madalena Boavida, East Timorese politician * Maddalena Casulana, (c. 1544–c. 1590), Italian composer, lutenist and singer *Madalena Iglésias, (1939–2018), Portuguese actress and singer * Madalena dos Santos Reinbolt, (1919–1977), Brazilian painter and textile artist Places * Madalena, Brazil, in the State of Ceará, Brazil *Madalena (Lisbon), a civil parish in Lisbon, Portugal *Madalena (Tomar), a civil parish in Tomar, Portugal *Madalena, Vila Nova de Gaia, a civil parish in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal *Madalena (Azores), a municipality along the western coast of Pico, Portuguese Azores *Madalena (Madalena), a civil parish along the western coast of Pico, Portuguese Azores *Madalena do Mar, a civil parish in Machico, Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena (Madalena)
Madalena is a Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the municipality (''concelho'') of Madalena (Azores), Madalena in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 2,581, in an area of 35.59 km². The parish of Madalena is the authority responsible for the administration and distribution of social services and economic programs in the local seat of the Madalena (Azores), municipality of the same name. It contains the localities Areia Larga, Barca, Cabo Branco, Madalena, Sete Cidades, Toledos and Valverde. History Originally known as ''Lugar dos Ilhéus ''(literally, ''the place of the islets''), the parish was founded sometime before 1542. Fisherman had established a small colony of homes during the first half of the 15th century. At that time, the parish included the areas known as Toledos, Sete Cidades, Cabo Branco, Barca, Valverde, and Areia Larga. Geography The parish is bounded by the parishes of Bandeiras (Madalena), Bandeiras to the north and we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena (Azores)
Madalena () is a municipality along the western coast of the island of Pico, in the Portuguese Azores. It has 6,332 inhabitants as of 2021, in an area of 147.12 km2. The municipality is fronted by the stratovolcano Pico in the eastern frontier, and the Faial Channel which divides Pico from the island of Faial seven kilometers away. It is made up of six freguesias (civil parishes) and is encircled almost entirely by the Atlantic Ocean except in the east, where it is bordered by the two remaining municipalities on the island: Lajes do Pico to the southeast, and São Roque do Pico to the northeast. History The settlement of the island of Pico occurred much later than most islands, partly due to greater interest shown in the other islands of the Central Group. For a time, only small herds, deposited by property-owners from Faial and Terceira, along with their caretakers (some of whom were slaves), were the only inhabitants of the island. It was not until the Infanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena Alberto
Madalena Alberto is a Portuguese actress, singer and composer who has developed her career in London's West End. Alberto received rave reviews for her role as Eva Perón in '' Evita'' in the West End (2014), where the show arrived after its UK Tour. Alberto played the role of Fantine in the 25th Anniversary production of ''Les Misérables''. Career Her professional debut was in ''Aladdin'' at the Old Vic, London, with Sir Ian McKellen (2005). She has developed her career mainly in Musical Theatre performing the roles of Lucy in ''The Threepenny Opera'' (Lisbon, 2005), Carmen Diaz in '' Fame'' (UK Tour, 2007) and Hunyak in ''Chicago'' (Kuala Lumpur, 2007). Alberto was part of the original cast of the West End production of ''Zorro the Musical'' (Garrick Theatre, 2008), playing the role of Luisa at certain performances; and in the summer of 2009, Alberto played the role of Sam in Christopher Hamilton's new musical ''Over the Threshold'' at the Edinburgh Festival. The show transferr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena Do Mar
Madalena do Mar is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta do Sol in the Portugal, Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 516, in an area of 2.07 km2. History By conjecture, the primitive community was referred to as ''Madalena'' or ''Santa Maria Madalena'', and received its suffix from its location along the sea, in order to distinguish it from the parish and chapel of Santa Maria Madalena, in the parish of Porto Moniz (which was the centre of pilgrimages). Even today, the area is still referred to as ''Madalena'' by many of the locals. The parish had its origin in a small farm and houses, including chapel (whose patron was Santa Maria Madalena, but yet invoked to the name of Santa Catarina.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena Iglésias
Madalena Iglésias (24 October 1939 – 16 January 2018) was a Portuguese actress and singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, with the song "Ele e ela". Biography Madalena Lucília Iglésias Doval was born in the Santa Catarina, Lisbon, Santa Catarina neighborhood of Lisbon on 24 October 1939. She studied at the Conservatory and the School of Singing, and at the age of 15, she joined the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal's Center for Radio Artist Training, under the direction of Motta Pereira. She died on January 16, 2018, in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain, at the age of 78. Career Iglésias made her public debut in 1954 on both television and the national radio. Her international career began in 1959 with an appearance on Spanish television. In 1960, she was named "Queen of Radio and Television" in Portugal. She participated in numerous national and international music festivals. In 1962, she represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena (2021 Film)
''Madalena'' is a 2021 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Madiano Marcheti in his directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Marcheti in collaboration with Thiago Gallego, Thiago Coelho, and Thiago Ortman. The film was shot in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. Plot The corpse of Madalena, a trans woman, is found amidst a soybean crop in a rural town in Brazilian Central-West Region. Through flashbacks, the film then chronicles about three people connected to Madalena: Luziane, a suburban girl, daughter of a seamstress; Cristiano, son of a big farmer and a Senate candidate politician; and Bianca, a trans woman and close friend to Madalena. Cast *Natalia Mazarim as Luziane *Rafael de Bona as Cristiano *Pamella Yule as Bianca *Chloe Milan as Madalena Release During its production, ''Madalena'' was screened in the category "Working in Progress" at the 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival. By December 2020, it was chosen for the next year International Film Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena Dos Santos Reinbolt
Maria Madalena Santos Reinbolt (September 14, 1912 – 1976) was a Brazilian self-taught painter and textile artist who created "paintings with paint" and "paintings with wool" that depicted rural scenes reminiscent of the artist's childhood in Bahia. She is considered to be a naïf or primitive artist. Early life Reinbolt was born one of 16 children in a farm in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, on September 14, 1912. Her father was a farmer and her mother, Ana Maria de Souza Pereira, was a farmhand and a craft worker that mainly occupied herself by threading cotton, creating pottery dishes and pots, fabricating lace, and making butter. Madalena was never formally educated, and did not learn how to read, besides signing her own name. In her early 20s, Reinbolt moved to Salvador to work as a maid. In 1945, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she spent two years working as a maid before moving to São Paulo, in 1947. She moved back to Rio de Janeiro soon after, and finally settled in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maddalena Casulana
Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and published in the history of western music, dedicated to her female patron Isabella de' Medici. Life and work Extremely little is known about her life, other than what can be inferred from the dedications and writings on her collections of madrigals. Most likely she was born at Casole d'Elsa, near Siena, from the evidence of her name. She received her musical education and early experiences in Florence. Her first work dates from 1566: four madrigals in a collection, ''Il Desiderio'', which she produced in Florence. Two years later she published in Venice her first actual book of madrigals for four voices, ''Il primo libro di madrigali'', which is the first printed, published work by a woman in western music history. Also that year Orlando di Lasso conducted ''Nil mage iucundum'' at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena, Vila Nova De Gaia
Madalena is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a populati .... Famous for its beaches, the parish makes border with the Atlantic Ocean and only a couple of miles close to Rio Douro. Due to its geographical location, the inhabitants can enjoy considerable sunshine duration all year with warm weather. It is a historical place over 800 years old with deep agricultural traditions and fishing practices. The population in 2011 was 10,040, in an area of 4.69 km². Media ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena (1960 Film)
''Madalena'' () is a 1960 Greek comedy film directed by Dinos Dimopoulos. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. The film won three awards in the 1st Thessaloniki Film Festival. Plot A girl lives on a small Greek island in the Aegean sea. She and her family live off the job of her father who has a little boat that ferries passengers to a neighboring island. When her father dies, she has to become the head of her family and take care of her brothers and sisters. As a working woman, she faces discrimination from the island's community. Despite many difficulties she doesn't give up. Frustrated, she decides to marry a rich farmer from the island. But the love of her main competitor overturns the situation. Cast * Aliki Vougiouklaki as Madalena Charidimou * Dimitris Papamichael as Labis Yokaris * Pantelis Zervos as the priest * Thodoros Moridis (as Theodoros Moridis) as Giorgaras Yokaris * Yorgos Damasiotis as police captain * Despo Diamantidou as Mrs. Yoraki * Smaro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madalena Boavida
Maria Madalena Brites Boavida is an East Timorese politician, a member of FRETILIN, and a former Minister of Planning and Finance in the National Parliament of East Timor. Biography Boavida comes from the present municipality of Ermera. Thanks to a scholarship in 1974, she was given the opportunity to study in Portugal. There she came into contact with students from the African colonies of Portugal and the local independence movements, after which she also supported the independence of Portuguese Timor. However, FRETILIN's unilateral declaration of independence from Portugal in November 1975 was rapidly followed by the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Boavida belonged to the so-called Maputo group of FRETILIN members, including Marí Alkatiri (later prime minister), which spent much of the occupation (1975-1999) in Mozambique. Boavida was the finance director of the Timor Gap Authority, which administered the Timor Gap Treaty, under which Indonesia and Australia jointly exploi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madliena
Madliena (), formerly spelt Madalena, is an area in Swieqi, in Northern Region, Malta, Northern Region, Malta, formerly part of the adjacent town of Għargħur. Etymology It takes its name from a chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, which was built in the area in 1490. History Madliena was known as Ħal Samudi in medieval times, and was named as such together with Għargħur in documents of the time. The chapel was used as a watch post by National Congress Battalions, Maltese insurgents during the Siege of Malta (1798–1800), French blockade of 1798–1800. It was demolished by the British military in 1880 to make way for Fort Madalena, one of the forts of the Victoria Lines. A new chapel was built nearby to replace the one demolished. A 17th-century tower known as the Madliena Tower is located on the coastline close to Madliena, although it falls within the limits of Pembroke, Malta, Pembroke not Swieqi. Present Day While up to the 1960s it was mainly a rural area h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
