This composer's adopted niece, Johanna, created the role of Elisabeth in his opera "Tannhauser"
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Free Flashcards about OPERA - StudyStack  THIS COMPOSER'S ADOPTED NIECE, JOHANNA, CREATED THE ROLE OF ELISABETH IN HIS OPERA, "TANNHAUSER", WAGNER. KLINGSOR'S MAGIC...
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Richard Wagner: My Life, Part 3 (1850-1861) | Wagneropera.net  The idea of my niece Johanna occurred to me, whom, as a matter of fact, I had ..... of my three operas, the Fliegender Hollander, Tannhauser, and Lohengrin. .... as conductor and opera composer, brought about this immoderate excitement. ... these social democrats publicly and had adopted their electioneering programme,...
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Richard Wagner: My Life, Part 2 (1842-1850) | Wagneropera.net  I also paid a visit to Rellstab, to whom I had a letter of introduction from his trusty .... just time to see, and with him I went quickly through a part of his role in Rienzi. ...... She thereupon observed that the composer of that opera was an altogether ...... This was my niece, Johanna Wagner, who, because of her marvellous voice...
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The letters, Vol.2 - Piano Society  hope to have entirely finished the Elizabeth in three months. Until then I can .... Liszt's in Weimar; died there in September 1892] for his letter. I feel the want of...
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Opera 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  William Tell. The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria "Sois immobile" ("hold yourself still") ... Queen Elizabeth I .... Tchekalinsky, Tomsky & Prince Yeletsky are roles in "The Queen of Spades" by this composeretsky ..... Like many of his works, this composer's "Tannhauser" is based on Germanic legends.
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Soprano Birgit Nilsson with her Kitty | I Miei Favoriti | Pinterest ...  Role: Salome Singer: Birgit Nilsson Opera: Salome (R. Strauss) (Who else is reminded of ..... American soprano Geraldine Farrar as Elisabeth in Tannhauser, ..... Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was one of the greatest opera singers that lived to...
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Iphignie en Aulide - Wikipedia  Iphignie en Aulide (Iphigeneia in Aulis) is an opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, ... In 1847 Richard Wagner presented a revised German version of Gluck's opera, Iphigenia in Aulis, at the court of Dresden. ... Calchas, the great seer, prophesies that King Agamemnon must sacrifice his own daughter, Iphigenia,...
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Tannhauser | opera by Wagner | Britannica.com  Lucile Grahn in La Cracovienne, lithograph by Pierre-Emile Desmaisons, 1844 ... with the German composer Richard Wagner on the production of several of his operas, including Tannhuser (1873), for which she arranged the bacchanal.
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CLASSICalmanac.com ~ the CLASSICAL music almanac: APRIL 18  1682 FP of Lully's opera Perseus at Paris Opera. ... Sang in premiere of Artaserse (Zingarelli). ... 1786 Birth of Swiss composer Franz Xaver Schnyder von WARTENSEE in Luzern. ... Wenzel Punto and the composer at the piano in Vienna. ... (Gregorian, Julian May 1); 1910 Birth of Austrailian soprano Sylvia FISHER in...
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J! Archive - Show #2581, aired 1995-11-20  Lucile Grahn choreographed the Bacchanal in this composer's opera "Tannhauser". $400, 27. An insect called a webspinner spins this fiber as it runs back &...
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Tannhuser (opera) - Wikipedia  Tannhuser is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends; Tannhuser, ..... The minstrel-knight Heinrich von Ofterdingen, known as Tannhuser left the court of the Landgrave of Thuringia a...
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Die Fledermaus Synopsis - Metropolitan Opera  Composer Johann Strauss, Jr. Librettist Karl Haffner, Richard Gene; Sung In English Met Titles In English German Spanish. World premiere: Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 1874. ... The supreme example of Viennese operetta, Die Fledermaus both defines ... Rosalinde at first doesn't like the idea but changes her mind when...
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Lohengrin (opera) - Wikipedia  Lohengrin, WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard ... In composing Lohengrin Wagner created a new form of opera, the ... under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner. .... him to withdraw because he cannot prevail against the Knight's powers, but he...
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Franz Liszt - Wikipedia  Franz Liszt (born Franz Joseph Liszt) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso ... Adam began teaching him the piano at age seven, and Franz began .... There he met the Polish Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, who was to ... including the great virtuoso Hans von Blow, who married Liszt's daughter...
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Biography of Beethoven. Biography from Grove / Kunst der Fuge  With his wife Maria Josepha Poll, whom he had married in 1733, and who later took ..... Julie (Giulietta) Guicciardi, who came to Vienna from Trieste with her parents in .... the fact that it was to her that he dedicated the 'Moonlight' Sonata (Op. 27 No. .... then Beethoven was involved in a dispute with the director of the theatre,...
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Free Flashcards about OPERA - StudyStack  THIS ITALIAN OPERATIC COMPOSER'S INFANT DAUGHTER, VIRGINIA, DIED IN 1838, JUST AFTER HER BROTHER ICILIO WAS BORN, VERDI. EITHER OF...
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Richard Wagner - Wikipedia  Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor ... He was the ninth child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, who was a clerk in the .... He had completed Lohengrin, the last of his middle-period operas, before the ... In 1850, Julie, the wife of his friend Karl Ritter, began to pay him a small...
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Robert Schumann His Life and Work - Scribd  'Cello and Piano Schumann's home life Schumann reviews his Andante and ... Richard Wagner Mendelssohn's Fiolin Concerto Tannhauser Scenes from Goethe's Faust ..... En]- . little meaning. though imbued with the romantic spirit from his earliest ..... Like his namesake the King of Saxony. in the period when the Emperor...
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Soprano Birgit Nilsson with her Kitty | Opera Stars - Birgit Nilsson ...  Ramon Vinay & Birgit Nilsson in a scene from "Tristan and Isolde" at the. Save ..... American soprano Geraldine Farrar as Elisabeth in Tannhauser, photographed by ..... Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German/Austrian/British soprano (1915-2006).
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The Life and Works of Johann Strauss and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Johann Strauss was born on October 25 in 1825 in Vienna. His family called him Schani (Austrian nickname for Johann), as his father's name was also Johann. ... Johann Strauss and his brothers made the waltz popular with uncountable ... Die Fledermaus has become the worldwide most performed operetta of all times.
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Free Flashcards about OPERA - StudyStack  FIRST PERFORMED IN CAIRO, THIS VERDI OPERA WAS COMMISSIONED BY ..... SHE HAS NEVER MET, IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF THIS SMETANA OPERA .... THIS AUSTRIAN COMPOSER DIDN'T COMPLETE HIS OPERAS "ADRAST" ... IN THIS GERMAN COMPOSER'S 1882 OPERA "PARSIFAL", WAGNER.