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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]
Opera Rara CDs: ORR 239 includes Balfe's cantata Sempre pensoso e torbido, and ORR 277 includes his song The Blighted flower. Opera Ireland (2008) live concert of Balfe's Falstaff, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and National Chamber Choir of Ireland, conducted by Marco Zambelli, broadcast by RTÉ Lyric FM and later released on CD as RTÉ LyricFM CD119 ...
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 ...
Eileen is a comic opera in 3 Acts [n 1] with music by Victor Herbert and lyrics and book by Henry Blossom, based loosely on the 1835 novel Rory O'More by Herbert's grandfather, Samuel Lover. [5] Set in 1798, the story concerns an Irish revolutionary arrested by the British for treason.
Irische Legende (Irish Legend) is a 1955 opera by Werner Egk who also wrote the libretto after the 1892/1899 verse drama The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats. It premiered at the Salzburg Festival on 17 August 1955.
In Irish productions, he sang Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and the title role in Faust for Opera Ireland, Carmen ' s Don José for Ireland's Glasthule Opera, [52] Don Ottavio in a Lismore Music Festival production of Don Giovanni, [53] and he sang with the Royal Dublin Society as the lead tenor in the first complete performance since the early ...
Although offered a career in opera, O'Dowda was drawn to popular music and, in the early 1950s, he moved to England in order to advance his prospects. [3] There, he formed The Four Ramblers musical group with Val Doonican. [4] Subsequently, he enjoyed solo success on BBC Radio, guesting on programmes such as Just A Song At Twilight and Music ...
Count John Francis McCormack [1] (14 June 1884 – 16 September 1945), [2] was an Irish lyric tenor celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control. [3] He was also a Papal Count. [a] McCormack became a naturalised American citizen before returning to live in Ireland.