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In 1813, he took up music as a profession and anglicised his surname to Rooke. The young Michael William Balfe was among his pupils on the violin (between 1815 and 1817). While chorus master and deputy leader of the orchestra at Crow Street Theatre between 1817 and 1823, Rooke composed his first opera Amilie, or the Love Test , which, however ...
It was written by English/Irish composer Robert O'Dwyer. The opera, based on an Irish-language libretto written by Galway Reverend Thomas O'Kelly, covers two acts and includes in its complex plot the presence of stepbrothers, a divine descent to earth and the transformation of a queen into a bird. [1]
After Beethoven arranged the melodies Thomson added the lyrics. His original choice to write the lyrics, the Irish poet Thomas Moore turned him down however. [1] They were published in 1814 in A Select Collection of Original Irish Airs and later reissued in Thomson's Select Melodies of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
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Margaret Burke Sheridan (15 October 1889 – 16 April 1958) was an Irish opera singer (lyric soprano). Born in Castlebar , County Mayo , she was known as Maggie from Mayo and is regarded as Ireland's second prima donna , after Catherine Hayes (1818–1861).
Hughes was born and brought up in Belfast, Ireland, but completed his formal music education at the Royal College of Music, London, where he studied with Charles Villiers Stanford and Charles Wood, graduating in 1901. Subsequently, he worked as a music critic, notably for The Daily Telegraph from 1911 to 1932.
W. B. Yeats, on whose story the opera is based, in 1903. Irische Legende was the first opera that Egk composed after World War II. [1] He had studied with Carl Orff in Munich, and was successful in the 1930s with Die Zaubergeige, Peer Gynt and Columbus. He was invited to compose an opera for the 1955 Salzburg Festival.
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