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Royal Opera House chorus & orch. cond. John Pritchard: Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. [2] 1966–69 The Knot Garden: Voices and orchestra 2 December 1970: London. Royal Opera House cond. Colin Davis: Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. [3] 1973–76 The Ice Break: Voices and orchestra 7 July 1977: London. Royal Opera House ...
Marie Jean Baptiste François Sabatier (2 July 1818, Montpellier - 1 December 1891, near Lunel-Viel) was a French philanthropist, art critic and translator. He changed his name to Sabatier-Ungher after his marriage to the Austro-Hungarian opera singer, Caroline Ungher .
full-length music drama; libretto by Libby Larsen. A Wrinkle in Time (1991) one-act opera; libretto by Walter Green. Mrs. Dalloway (1993) full-length music drama in two acts; libretto by Bonnie Grice. Eric Hermannson's Soul (1998) full-length opera with orchestra; libretty by Chas Rader-Shieber. Barnum's Bird (2000)
The author of books on the relationship between music, literature and the fine arts, Sabatier also participates in the writing of notices in musical encyclopedias and articles in musicology journals. He is the editor of L'Orgue [ 1 ] magazine and a member of the Organs committee of the City of Paris.
Henze's first full-length opera is an updating of the story of Manon Lescaut, also the source for important operas by Massenet and Puccini. [222] 1953 Gloriana (Britten). Composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, this opera looks back to the relationship between her namesake Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. [223]
Judith Weir (born 1954) Began composing full-length operas in 1987 with A Night at the Chinese Opera. Shafiga Akhundova (21 January 1924 – 26 July 2013) was a prominent Azerbaijani composer, the first professional female author of an opera in the East. She is also The People’s Artist of Azerbaijan.
Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre , which impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later those by other ...
A new staging by the English National Opera and Improbable theatre, co-produced by the Metropolitan Opera, opened in London in April 2007 [8] and in New York in April 2008. [9] It was revived in London in February 2010 [10] and in New York in November 2011; the New York performance on November 19 was part of the Met Opera: Live in HD series.