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Tartuffe premiered on May 27, 1980, at the San Francisco Opera [1] It has since seen over 400 performances in six countries and been translated into German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Czech. [2] A "number opera" with arias, duets, trios and ensembles, Tartuffe is one of the most performed operas by an American composer. Also often sung is ...
Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite (/ t ɑːr ˈ t ʊ f,-ˈ t uː f /; [1] French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, pronounced [taʁtyf u lɛ̃pɔstœʁ]), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy (or more specifically, a farce) by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical ...
Kirke Mechem. Kirke Mechem (born August 16, 1925) is an American composer. His first opera, Tartuffe, with over 450 performances in nine countries, has become one of the most popular operas written by an American.
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Classification: Performing arts: Opera: Opera recordings also: Music : Musical compositions : Recorded music : Opera recordings Listing of sound and video recordings of opera .
Title page of the Bibliothèque nationale de France copy of the first published edition of the play, 1793. The Guilty Mother (French: La Mère coupable), subtitled The Other Tartuffe, is the third play of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. [1]
After studying Classics, Jean-Louis Pichon carried out research into theatre. In 1969, he attended a master's thesis devoted to Racine's work. As an actor, it is to Fernand Ledoux that he owes his training which lead to the world's first production of the Monde Cassé from Gabriel Marcel at the Alliance Française Theatre in 1971; Jean-Louis Pichon was both stage director and actor in this ...
Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England on Oct. 28, 1929. She appeared in amateur theater productions as a child, and won an amateur theater prize at age 15 and after high ...