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The Hours (opera)
''The Hours'' is a 2022 opera in two acts with music by Kevin Puts and an English-language libretto by Greg Pierce, based on Michael Cunningham's The Hours (novel), 1998 novel and its The Hours (film), 2002 film adaptation, both with the same title. The opera was first performed on 18 March 2022 in a concert presentation at the Kimmel Center in PhiladelphiaZachary Woolfe (20 March 2022)"Review: ''The Hours'' Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met" ''The New York Times''. and received its stage premiere on 22 November 2022 at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center), Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.Zachary Woolfe (23 November 2022)"Review: In ''The Hours'', Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar" ''The New York Times''. The stage premiere was audio-streamed at the Met Opera website,Met Opera Archive: Performance of ''The Hours'', 22 November 2022CID:357754 and the performance of 10 December was presented in movie theaters as a part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Puts
Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for his opera ''The Hours (opera), The Hours'' and for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera ''Silent Night (opera), Silent Night'' and a Grammy Award in 2023 for his concerto ''Contact''. Early life and education Puts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Alma, Michigan. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman School of Music. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler (composer), Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang (composer), David Lang, Christopher Rouse (composer), Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and, in piano, Nelita True. He also studied at the Tanglewood, Tanglewood Music Festival with William Bolcom and Bernard Rands. Career He is composer-in-residence at the Fort Worth Symphony and has received a commission from the Aspen Music Festival and School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kander
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is an American composer, known largely for his work in the musical theater. As part of the songwriting team Kander and Ebb (with lyricist Fred Ebb), Kander wrote the scores for 15 musicals, including ''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'' (1966) and ''Chicago (musical), Chicago'' (1975), both of which were later adapted into acclaimed films. He and Ebb also wrote the standard "Theme from New York, New York, New York, New York" (officially known as "Theme from ''New York, New York''"). The team received numerous nominations, including eleven for Tony Awards (won four, followed by a Lifetime Achievement Award for Kander), two nominations for Academy Awards, and five for Golden Globe Awards. Early life John Kander, the second son of Harold and Bernice (Aaron) Kander, was born on March 18, 1927, in Kansas City, Missouri. He has stated that he grew up in a loving, middle-class Jewish family and maintained a lifelong close relationship with his older bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral music, or to soprano C (C6) or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura soprano, coloratura, soubrette, lyric soprano, lyric, spinto soprano, spinto, and dramatic soprano, dramatic soprano. Etymology The word "soprano" comes from the Italian word ''wikt:sopra, sopra'' (above, over, on top of),"Soprano" ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' as the soprano is the highest pitch human voice, often given to the leading female roles in operas. "Soprano" refers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Type
A voice type is a classification of the human singing voice into perceivable categories or groups. Particular human singing human voice, voices are identified as having certain qualities or characteristics of vocal range, vocal weight, tessitura, vocal timbre, and vocal transition points (''passaggio''), such as breaks and lifts within the voice. Other considerations are physical characteristics, speech level, scientific testing, and vocal register. A singer's voice type is identified by a process known as voice classification, by which the human voice is evaluated and thereby designated into a particular voice type. The discipline of voice classification developed within European classical music and is not generally applicable to other forms of singing. Voice classification is often used within opera to associate possible roles with potential voices. Several different voice classification systems are available to identify voice types, including the German ''Fach'' system and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Performances
''Great Performances'' is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries. It is produced by the PBS member station WNET in New York City (originally in conjunction with KQED (TV), KQED/San Francisco, WTTW/Chicago, Maryland Public Television, South Carolina ETV and KERA-TV/Dallas/Fort Worth). The series is the longest-running performing arts anthology on television and has won 29 Primetime Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society. History ''Great Performances''' predecessor, ''New York Playhouse'', premiered on October 7, 1972, with a production of ''Antigone (Anouilh play), Antigone''. In 1973, Exxon and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting provided grants to create ''Theater in America'', which reran the ''New York Playhouse'' and some ''NET Playhouse'' pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Opera Radio (Sirius XM)
Metropolitan Opera Radio is an all-opera radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 75 (previously 78) and XM Satellite Radio channel 75 (previously 79). Originally on channel 85, Met Opera Radio was shifted to channel 78 on June 24, 2008. In December 2020 it was moved again — this time to channel 355. It is also on Dish Network channel 6078. It carries live broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera two to three times each week during the opera season. In addition, throughout the day performances are presented from among the 1,500 recorded broadcasts in the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast archives. The channel's host and announcer for the live broadcasts is Mary Jo Heath. The producers are Ellen Keel, John Bischoff, Matthew Principe, with William Berger as writer and commentator. Jay David Saks is the audio producer. History and description The channel was launched at 6:30 PM, September 25, 2006 the opening night of the Met season. The first broadcast was a live performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie-B Parson
Annie-B Parson is an American choreographer, dancer, and director based in Brooklyn, New York. Parson is notable for her work in dance/theater, post-modern dance, and art pop music. Parson is the artistic director of Brooklyn's Big Dance Theater, which she founded with Molly Hickok and her husband, Paul Lazar. She is also well known for her collaborations with Mikhail Baryshnikov, David Byrne, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Laurie Anderson, Jonathan Demme, Ivo van Hove, Sarah Ruhl, Lucas Hnath, Wendy Whelan, David Lang, Esperanza Spalding, Mark Dion, Salt ‘n Pepa, Nico Muhly, and the Martha Graham Dance Co. Early life and education Parson received her BA in Dance from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut in 1980. She received her Master's degree Columbia University/Teacher's College in 1983. Big Dance Theater Parson founded Big Dance Theater in 1991 with Molly Hickok and Paul Lazar. She has since choreographed and co-created dozens of works for the company, ranging fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phelim McDermott
Phelim McDermott (born 21 August 1963) is an English actor and stage director. He has directed plays and operas in Britain, Germany, Spain, the United States, and Australia. McDermott was a co-founder of the Improbable theatre in 1996. Career McDermott was born in Manchester, England. His screen debut was as Jester in the 1991 film ''Robin Hood'', followed by further minor roles in '' The Baby of Mâcon'' (1993) and other films. He has appeared on stage, including in 1991 at the Nottingham Playhouse production of Sandi Toksvig's ''The Pocket Dream'', in Shakespeare's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and in a 2017 production of ''Lost Without Words'' at the Royal National Theatre. He also appeared in the BBC Radio 4 improvisational show '' The Masterson Inheritance'' (1993 to 1995). He was made an Honorary Doctor of Middlesex University in 2007. McDermott received the 2023 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director for '' My Neighbour Totoro''. Notable productions *1998: '' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Woolf
Leonard Sidney Woolf (; – ) was a British List of political theorists, political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. Leonard and Virginia did not have any children. Early life Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh). His family was Jewish. After his father died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at Arlington House School near Brighton, Sussex. From 1894 to 1899, he attended St Paul's School (London), St Paul's School, and in 1899 he won a classical scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles. Other contemporary members in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamez McCorkle
Jamez McCorkle ( ; born ) is an American opera singer. A tenor, he is known for originating the title role in the 2022 opera ''Omar''. Early life and education McCorkle was born in New Orleans. His mother, who was very supportive of him, died just before his college auditions. McCorkle originally focused on piano before switching to voice, later graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music. Career McCorkle's first contracted opera performance was the role of Vladimir Lensky in ''Eugene Onegin'', at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2017. Prior to that, in 2012 he took part in the "I Sing Beijing" program, performing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China), and appeared on a popular China Central Television program, performing George Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" alongside American soprano Meghan Picerno and Dutch-Canadian Tenor Lucas van Lierop. His other operatic roles include Peter the Honeyman in ''Porgy and Bess'', the Duke of Cornwall in ''Lear'', Leonard W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Virginia Woolf was born in South Kensington, London, into an affluent and intellectual family as the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen. She grew up in a blended household of eight children, including her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Educated at home in English classics and Victorian literature, Woolf later attended King’s College London, where she studied classics and history and encountered early advocates for women’s rights and education. After the death of her father in 1904, Woolf and her family moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury district, where she became a founding member of the influential Bloomsbury Group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912, and together they established the Hogarth Press in 1917 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Johnson Cano
Jennifer Johnson Cano is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Before her college education, she attended St. Pius X High School (Festus, Missouri), graduating in the Class of 2002. While in high school, she was a member of the choir, singing at Mass and state competitions. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Webster University and a Master of Music degree from Rice University where she was a pupil of Kathleen Kaun. In 2008, she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and in 2009, she won the Young Concert Artists competition and was the recipient of a Sullivan Foundation grant. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. In 2008, Cano made her professional opera debut with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as The Muse/Nicklausse in Jacques Offenbach's ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. In 2009, she made her debut at the Chicago Opera Theater as Kate Julian in Benjamin Britten's '' Owen Wingrave'', and made her debut at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
