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NorrlandsOperan
The NorrlandsOperan (), is a Swedish opera company in Umeå, located in Norrland, Sweden. The ownership of NorrlandsOperan is divided between the Umeå Municipality (40%) and the Västerbotten County Council (60%). NorrlandsOperan was established in 1974 as a regional opera ensemble. The NorrlandsOperan's first artistic director was Arnold Östman, from 1974 to 1979. NorrlandsOperan now has its own symphony orchestra and facilities for opera, dance, music and art as well as workshops and studios. History NorrlandsOperan was founded in 1974 as a direct result of Swedish cultural reform the same year. The musical theater group ''Sångens makt'' constituted the core of the newly formed opera ensemble. The ensemble initially had to use temporary premises but soon found a more permanent home at ''Umeå Folkets hus'' (then housed in a building at the intersection Järnvägsallén/Östra kyrkogatan). NorrlandsOperan's first director was Arnold Östman, who also was the artistic direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumon Gamba
Rumon Gamba (born 24 November 1972) is a British conductor. Biography Gamba studied music at Durham University, and then went to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied conducting with Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. He became the first conducting student to obtain the DipRAM (the Royal Academy of Music performer's diploma). He was a 1998 prize winner in the Lloyds Bank BBC Young Musicians Conductors Workshop. In 1998, he joined the BBC Philharmonic as its Assistant Conductor, and later became Associate Conductor. He left the orchestra in 2002. Gamba was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2010. He first conducted at NorrlandsOperan in northern Sweden in a concert of English music in 2007. Subsequently, in October 2008, he was named the next chief conductor and music director of NorrlandsOperan, with an initial contract of three years, effective from the 2009–2010 season. In March 2011, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elim Chan
Elim Chan (; born 18 November 1986) is a Hong Kong-born conductor. Biography Chan was born in Hong Kong. Birth year of 1986 is based on age 28 in Dec 2014. As a youth, she played cello and piano and sang in choirs. Chan attended the Good Hope School (Form One). Chan was a sixth-form student at Li Po Chun United World College in Hong Kong. Chan began studies at Smith College in the US with the initial intent of becoming a medical doctor. Following an initial experience in conducting during her second year of college, she changed her path of study and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 2009. Chan moved to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for graduate studies in music. At Michigan, her teachers included Kenneth Kiesler. She was music director of the University of Michigan Campus Symphony Orchestra, and of the Michigan Pops Orchestra (2012-2013). She earned her MM degree in orchestra conducting from Michigan in 2011, and her Doctor of Musical Arts in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristjan Järvi
Kristjan Järvi (, alternate (U.S.) spelling: Kristian Järvi) (born 13 June 1972) is an Estonian conductor, composer and producer. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he is the younger son of the conductor Neeme Järvi and brother of conductor Paavo Järvi and flutist Maarika Järvi. Early life When Järvi was age 7, his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. He became an American citizen in 1985. He grew up in New York City. Järvi studied piano with Nina Svetlanova at the Manhattan School of Music. He later went on to study conducting at the University of Michigan under Kenneth Kiesler. Career From 1998 to 2000, Järvi was Assistant Conductor to Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He and the composer Gene Pritsker co-founded the Absolute Ensemble, based in New York City, in 1993, with Järvi as its music director. In 2007, Järvi and the Absolute Ensemble were awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Quinn
Andrea Quinn (born 22 December 1964) is an English conductor. Biography Quinn is a graduate of Nottingham University and of the Royal Academy of Music. In 1993, Quinn won the Royal Opera House's "Conduct for Dance" competition, and has since then been in great demand as a ballet conductor. Early in her career, she conducted the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and Fulham Symphony Orchestra. Quinn was music director of The Royal Ballet from 1998 to 2001, the first female music director in the company's history. Quinn was music director of New York City Ballet (NYCB) from 2001 to 2006, the first female director in NYCB's history. She was chief conductor of NorrlandsOperan from 2005 to 2009, the first female conductor to hold the post in the company's history. In 2000, Quinn received a nomination for Female Artist of the Year at the Classical Brit Awards She and her husband have three children. Selected recordings * Camille Saint-Saëns: ''Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5,'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Town Opera
Cape Town Opera (CTO) is a professional opera company in Cape Town, South Africa. CTO was founded in 1999 by the management and staff of the former South Africa Arts Council Opera and the Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB), itself a successor to the Cape Province Performing Arts Council and the previous Opera School at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, which had been founded in the early 1920s under the Italian tenor Giuseppe Paganelli. Mission The company produces many fully staged opera productions during an annual season at the Opera House of the Artscape Theatre Centre, the Joseph Stone Auditorium and approximately 15 other venues throughout South Africa. The company has established itself as South Africa's largest performing arts organisation and the only opera house in Africa with a year-round programme; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Östman
Arnold Otto Natanael Östman (24 December 1939 – 15 August 2023) was a Swedish conductor and music director. Early life Arnold Östman was born in Malmö, Sweden. He studied art history and musicology at Lund, Paris and Stockholm. As a musician, he concentrated on the piano and the harpsichord, being largely self-taught. During his years as a researcher, he focused on the subject of early opera, bringing to light a number of theretofore unknown or little-known baroque operas. Östman was a teacher at the University College of Opera (then called the ') in 1969. He was theatre and museum director at the Drottningholms Teatermuseum (later known as Sveriges Teatermuseum) in Stockholm starting in 1979. Conducting career Östman was artistic director and conductor of the Vadstena Academy from 1971 until 1981, while also serving as conductor and artistic director of the NorrlandsOperan in Umeå from 1974 until 1978. Östman was made artistic director of the Drottningholm Palace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fura Dels Baus
La Fura dels Baus () is a Spanish theatrical group founded in 1979 in Moià, Barcelona (Spain), known for their urban theatre, use of unusual settings and blurring of the boundaries between audience and actor. "La Fura dels Baus" in Catalan means "The ferret from Els Baus" (Els Baus is a toponym from the birthplace of two of the founders, Moià). According to a 1985 review of their London performance, published in ''NME'', the group "create a kind of adult adventure playground of fun, danger, slapstick and fantasy". History La Fura dels Baus was founded in 1979. Since the early 1990s, it has diversified its creative efforts, moving into the fields of written drama, digital theatre and street theatre, performing contemporary theatre and opera, and producing major corporate events. La Fura performed a section of the opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, which was broadcast and watched live by more than 3.5 billion viewers. Since this first large show, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycksalighetens ö
''Lycksalighetens ö'' (The Isle of Bliss) is a Swedish-language opera in four acts by Hilding Rosenberg; the libretto by the composer, is based on the 1823 play of the same name by Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom. Atterbom's work – his most extensive piece of writing – is based on the 1690 fairy tale "" by Madame d'Aulnoy which Atterbom follows closely, but added his own layer of allegory on enjoying bliss for its own sake. Poetry which only touches the senses, cannot satisfy nobler souls yearning for eternal life and happiness (such as King Astolf). Written during the Second World War, it was first performed at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, on 1 February 1945 and was revived several times in the following years. In 2002 Norrlands Opera presented a production of a slightly abridged version of the score in Umeå conducted by Kristjan Järvi, of which recorded performances were issued by .Sofia Nyblom. Notes accompanying Musica Sveciae PSCD 722 (1–2), 2002. Roles Syno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porgy And Bess
''Porgy and Bess'' ( ) is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play ''Porgy (play), Porgy'', itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel ''Porgy (novel), Porgy''. ''Porgy and Bess'' was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935, before it moved to Broadway theatre, Broadway in New York City. It featured a cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. A 1976 #1976 Houston Grand Opera production, Houston Grand Opera production gained it a renewed popularity, and it is now one of the best known and most frequently performed operas. The libretto of ''Porgy and Bess'' tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black street beggar living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Opera Companies
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Dagens Nyheter
(, ), abbreviated ''DN'', is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It is published in Stockholm and aspires to full national and international coverage, and is widely considered Sweden's newspaper of record A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large newspaper circulation, circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and i .... History and profile was founded by Rudolf Wall in December 1864. The first issue was published on 23 December 1864. During its initial period, the paper was published in the morning. In 1874 the paper became a joint stock company. Its circulation in 1880 was 15,000 copies. In the 1890s, Wall left and soon after, the paper became the organ of the Liberal Party. From 1946 to 1959, Herbert Tingsten was the executive editor. The newspaper has been owned by the Bonnier Group since 1909, when Karl Otto Bonnier acquired the remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
