Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fidelio (/ f ɪ ˈ d eɪ l j oʊ /; [1] German: [fiˈdeːlio]), originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), [2] Op. 72, is the sole opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Leonora, ossia L’amore coniugale (Leonora or Conjugal Love) is an opera (specifically a dramma semiserio) in two acts by the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer.The libretto, by Giovanni Schmidt, is based on Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal (1794) by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, which was also the source of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Leonora (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera Fidelio, in which the heroine is named Leonora (or Leonore in German); Leonora (opera) by William Henry Fry (the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845)
April 7 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, has its public premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna under his baton, marking the beginning of his middle period. November 20 – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore) is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
Early in 1804, after dropping Vestas Feuer, Beethoven began work on a different opera, then entitled Leonora; [3] which ultimately became Fidelio, now a cornerstone of the repertory. Lockwood explains why the Leonora libretto was everything to Beethoven that the Vestas Feuer libretto was not:
Where is Leonora Knatchbull's grave? Following a funeral in October 1991, Leonora was buried on her family's estate, Broadlands, in Hampshire, England. Next, find out how accurate The Crown really is.
She was one of the pioneering singers who joined and performed in the inaugural season of the Ópera Nacional (National Opera), performing Leonora in Beethoven's Fidelio in 1943. During her career, which lasted into the mid-1970s, she sang with many well-known conductors and musicians, including Claudio Arrau , Leonard Bernstein , Pablo Casals ...
Leonora Knatchbull, 5, appears on the newest season of 'The Crown.' All about the little girl, Penny, and her relationship with her godmother, Princess Diana.