It's no fairy tale: Elvis Costello wrote & starred in a 2005 opera about this Danish fairy tale author
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The Snow Queen - Wikipedia  The Snow Queen" (Danish: Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale written by Hans Christian ... About the Mirror and Its Pieces; A Little Boy and a Little Girl; The Flower .... A 1985 episode of Faerie Tale Theatre starring Melissa Gilbert as Gerda and .... An opera The Snow Queen was written in 1913 by Slovenian composer...
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Jenny Lind - Wikipedia  Johanna Maria Lind (6 October 1820  2 November 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a ... After Lind had been with Garca for a year, the composer Giacomo ... She is believed to have inspired three of his fairy tales: "Beneath the Pillar", ..... In 2005, Elvis Costello announced that he was writing an opera about Lind,...
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Det Virtuelle Musikbibliotek  A world-class opera house in ...  Denmark's new state-of-the-art opera ready early 2005 ... with a gala concert by the Royal Danish Orchestra programmed for January 15 next year. ... Starring mainly Scandinavian singers, the Copenhagen Ring, the first to be staged by the ... to mark the bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish fairytale writer.
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Fairytale of New York - Wikipedia  "Fairytale of New York" is a Christmas song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and ... In the UK it is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century. ... It's even called 'A Fairy Tale of New York', it's quite sloppy, more like 'A Pair of ... Costello suggested naming the song "Christmas Eve in the Drunk Tank", after...
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Jeopary Questions page 1849 - ODE TO ENGLAND - TriviaBistro.com  RHODES SCHOLARS: This singer was picked to go to Oxford & to co-star with .... It's no fairy tale: Elvis Costello wrote & starred in a 2005 opera about this Danish fairy tale author  BORN FIRST: John Milton, John Grisham, John Steinbeck  FANTASY NOVELS: This author once wrote, "Let us suppose that there were a land...
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Elvis Costello - Wikipedia  Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis ... Costello has also co-written several original songs for motion pictures, .... Some of the more popular tracks include the British hit "(I Don't Want to Go to) .... 20 hit "Veronica", one of several songs Costello co-wrote with Paul McCartney.
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The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott  Reviews, Discussion ...  Wolves really howl at the moon, the dudes really live in broken down castles. ..... this work in the first place (since I am an avid fan of Scooby Doo and E.A.Poe stories). ..... Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, is based on this novel by Sir ..... Scott and i must say i am surprised i took me so long to read any of his work.
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Elvis | Sesquiotica  Apr 23, 2010 ... One may also think of other famed Elvises: Elvis Costello (born Declan ... Krall; Elvis Stojko, former world champion figure skater noted for his very guy-ish ... Elvis Grbac, star NFL quarterback; and Elvis Mitchell, movie critic for...
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The Fairy-Queen - Wikipedia  The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular". The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's wedding comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. First performed in 1692, The Fairy-Queen was composed three years before ... Purcell's "First" and "Second Music" were played while the audience were...
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What is Les Miserables?  Fikkle Fame  Jul 17, 2014 ... You don't have to know who he is, but in case you're interested, he's a ... stray bullet ends the life of Eponine in this epic musical (don't Mis it!).
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Scandinavian Music - Scribd  Copenhagen 113 Opera-production in the Gustavian era scene from .... Like Orpheus, he enchants all living things with his playing. 3. where ..... The scribe no doubt abandoned the attempt to write the complete stanza in the .... S. good luck he cannot gain. not only in Denmark but also in Norway and the ...... Olav Trygvason.
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Opera Flashcards | Quizlet  He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera "Tristan And Isolde" ... After his death in 1958, Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto's opera "Juha" premiered on...
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The Tinderbox - Wikipedia  The Tinderbox is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a soldier who acquires a ... The four tales were not favorably received by Danish critics who disliked their informal, chatty style and lack of morals. In 1946 ... Andersen based The Tinderbox" on the Scandinavian folk tale "The Spirit in the Candle". In the...
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Music: Painted From Memory - TIME  Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach. ... Music: Painted From Memory. Elvis Costello with Burt ... By Bruce Handy Monday, Sept. 28, 1998. Subscriber content preview. ... It's an inspired pairing: as composers, both men have a knack for knotty yet supple ... If only the rest of this album were up to that stunningly well-crafted peak.
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The Flying Dutchman (opera) - Wikipedia  The Flying Dutchman (German: Der fliegende Hollnder), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write the opera following a stormy sea crossing ... Wagner originally wrote the work to be performed without intermission  an...
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Jeopary Questions page 1933 - LITERATURE - TriviaBistro.com  OPERA: "The Tales of Hoffmann" was his last & greatest work  EDUCATORS: Of Japanese descent, ... OPERA: As a teen Gian Carlo Menotti turned this undersea H.C. Andersen fairy tale into an opera  EDUCATORS: Author & scholar Ruth R.
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Alien landscapes: how Australia shocked European artists | afr.com  Sep 13, 2013 ... Sidney Nolan's 'Ned Kelly' is a kind of Down Under Don Quixote. .... such precedence in the Australian landscape: Russell Drysdale's dumpy...
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jeopardy/2047_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  POTPOURRI | The 1999 Tony for Scenic Design went to "Not About Nightingales" by this late Southern playwright | Tennessee Williams. right: Andrew. Wrong:.
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J! Archive - Show #4920, aired 2006-01-20  Jan 20, 2006 ... After trying out 3 different types, this fairy tale girl eventually fell .... The 1971 musical "Ari" wasn't based on Onassis but on this Leon Uris novel,...
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Introduction to Theatre -- Realism  Realism in the last half of the 19th-century began as an experiment to make theater ... for complete illusion, even though his operas were not all realistic, many of his ... Among the subjects addressed by Ibsen in his plays are: euthanasia, the role of ... He also wrote a few treatises about naturalism in the theatre and in the...
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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)  Opera  The following listing is of operas, operettas, musicals and large-scale choral ...... Queen Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, various Shakespearean characters .... Libretto Rimsky-Korsakov with Vladimir Byel'sky and others, after 11th-century epic ..... The tale of Jason and the Argonauts translated to 20th-century USA instead...