when was a night at the opera released
Ghost Festival


Chinese opera, dramas, and in some areas, even burlesque shows. Traditionally Chinese opera was the main source of entertainment but the newer shows, concerts, dramas, wars and so forth are referred to as Getai. These acts are better known as "Merry-making". For rituals, Buddhists and Taoists hold ceremonies to relieve ghosts from suffering, many of them holding ceremonies in the afternoon or at night (as it is believed that the ghosts are released from hell when the sun sets). Altars are built
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Linda Ronstadt


had discovered the opera "La bohème" through the silent film with Lillian Gish and was determined to someday play the part of Mimi. When she met the opera superstar Beverly Sills, she was told, ""My dear, "every" soprano in the world wants to play Mimi!"" In 1984, Ronstadt was cast in the role at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. However, the production was a critical and commercial disaster, closing after only a few nights. In 1982, Ronstadt released the album "
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


expanded reissue of the album set for release in May 2011. This as part of a new record deal between Queen and Universal Music, which meant Queen's association with EMI Records came to an end after almost 40 years. According to Universal Music, all Queen albums were to be remastered and reissued in 2011. By September 2012 the reissue program was completed. Along with this came a 5.1 channel release of the album on Blu-ray Audio. "A Night at the Opera" was not reviewed by the majority of
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A Night at the Opera (film)


DVD release, the film originally began (after the opening credits) with the image of a "boat on canal". A superimposed title read, "ITALY – WHERE THEY SING ALL DAY AND GO TO THE OPERA AT NIGHT", and was followed by a musical number featuring bits and pieces from Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" performed by "everyday" Italians: a street sweeper sings part of the prologue ("Un nido di memorie...") as he greets a man who then hands out opera tickets to a
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of its release. The album's title is taken from the Marx Brothers film of the same name. The album was recorded at various studios across a four-month period in 1975. Due to management issues, Queen
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The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film)


The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher, a loose adaptation on the 1910 novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions. The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900. The first night of the season at the London Opera House finds the opening of a new opera by Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough), a wealthy and pompous man, who is annoyed and scornful when the opera manager Lattimer (Thorley
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Mikael Karlsson (composer)


make the music to Battlefield Bad Company released in 2008. He also wrote the music for Battlefield Bad Company 2. Mikael Karlsson has collaborated with the choreographer Alexander Ekman on several occasions. He has, among other things, written music for Ekman's ballets and sets of Tyll and Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Sweden and Swan Lake on the Oslo Opera in Oslo, Norway. They became good friends when Ekman's sister moved into the apartment that Karlsson inhabited in NYC. Mikael Karlsson has, in
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Beethoven's Last Night


Beethoven's Last Night is a rock opera by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, released in 2000. The album tells the fictional story of Ludwig van Beethoven on the last night of his life, as the devil, Mephistopheles, comes to collect his soul. With the help of Fate and her son Twist, Beethoven unwittingly tricks the devil and is allowed to keep his soul which he had thought lost, but that the devil had no claim on. The album is a rock opera featuring many classical crossover rock songs which are
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Opera Australia


with the Australian Opera to produce a permanent opera and ballet orchestra for the company. In its first performances outside Australasia in 1994, the company performed Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Edinburgh International Festival. In addition, the Baz Luhrmann production of "La bohème" was screened over more than 300 North American television stations, followed by worldwide video release and a later Broadway version. Opera Australia (OA) was formed by the merger of the Australian Opera and the Victoria State Opera (VSO) companies
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The Very Eye of Night


The Very Eye of Night is 1958 American experimental silent black and white short written, cinematography and directed by Maya Deren and his last completed film. The film was made in collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. The film editing by Deren into a 16 mm format and music by Teiji Ito. The entire film is projected as photographed in the negative. The film was made between 1952 to 1955 in collaboration with choreographer Antony Tudor, though it was not released until 1959 when the musical score by Teiji Ito was added. The
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Morag McLaren


, concerts and music theatre productions during her career, including principal roles with Welsh National Opera (The Mother and Witch in "Hansel and Gretel"), Scottish Opera (Lucy in "Threepenny Opera"), The Royal National Theatre (Mrs Segstrom in "A Little Night Music") and in the West End (Carlotta in "Phantom of the Opera"). McLaren toured internationally with Opera Circus (The Good Wife in "Shameless an Immoral Tale"), presented on BBC Radio 3, released three solo
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Thomas Wharton (children's writer)


1991, Thomas Wharton wrote and illustrated the children's book Hildegard Sings about an opera singing hippo who aspires to be an opera star. Publishers Weekly describes the book as a "lighthearted and triumphant tale" while Kirkus sees it as "an excellent way to introduce kids to the opera." Thomas Wharton and Robert Lowe then established One Hundred Robots, an iOS application development and publishing company. Their first iOS application, The Night Before Christmas, was released in December 2010. Their next release, Cinderella - A Princess Story
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Groucho Marx


. Their first movie was a silent film made in 1921 that was never released, and is believed to have been destroyed at the time. A decade later, the team made two of their Broadway hits—"The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers"—into movies. Other successful films were "Monkey Business", "Horse Feathers", "Duck Soup", and "A Night at the Opera". One quip from Marx concerned his response to Sam Wood, the director of "A Night at the Opera". Furious with the
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Live at the Sydney Opera House (Kate Miller-Heidke album)


Live at the Sydney Opera House is a live album credited to by Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke with The Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The album was recorded in March 2017 during the tour of her "" album and released in August 2017. The album peaked at number 31 on the ARIA Charts. Upon release, Miller-Heidke said "Performing my songs for three nights in a row with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House was an absolute career highlight, a crazy pinch-myself moment that even
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The Prophet's Song


"The Prophet's Song" is a song by the British rock band Queen, originally released on their fourth studio album "A Night at the Opera" in 1975. "The Prophet's Song" was composed by Brian May (working title "People of the Earth"). On the show "In the Studio with Redbeard", which spotlighted "A Night at the Opera", he explained that he wrote the song after a dream he had about a great flood while he was recovering from being ill while
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A Night at the Opera (film)


, during pre-production of "Duck Soup", two years before "A Night at the Opera" was released. The rumor arose because Frenchy had had such a cameo appearance in the Marx Brothers' earlier "Monkey Business". There is, however, a reference to the Marx Brothers' mother, Minnie Marx, during the stateroom scene, in which a woman asks, "Is my Aunt Minnie in here?" Part of the concept of casting the Marx Brothers as stowaways on a ship was recycled from
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


listening to a playback of the song at Trident Studios during the time of album release, Sheffield was appalled, and sued the band and the record label for defamation, which resulted in an out-of-court settlement, but also confirmed his connection to the song. In the "Classic Albums" documentary about the making of "A Night at the Opera", Brian May stated that the band was somewhat taken aback at first by the bitterness of Mercury's lyrics, and described by Mercury as being "so vindictive
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


to global superstars. As with many such landmark albums it became part milestone and part millstone, with every album that followed compared in some way or another to the musical and commercial success they achieved here. Be that as it may, the music is what counts – and it is simply amazing." In a 2006 review, Paul Rees of "Q" observed that although "A Night at the Opera" was "released the same year as both Bowie's arch soul pastiche "Young Americans" and the sleek art
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Sweet Lady (Queen song)


one can hear the wires on the snare drum of Taylor's kit vibrating along with John Deacon's bass guitar riff. "Sweet Lady" was first performed live on the A Night at the Opera Tour in November 1975. It was one of only three songs from the soon to be released album ("A Night At The Opera") to be performed live (the others being "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "The Prophet's Song"). The band were still completing the album a week before it was to
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Queen (band)


, and two Greatest Video Hits (Volumes 1 and 2, spanning the 1970s and 1980s) have seen the band's music remixed into 5.1 and DTS surround sound. So far, only two of the band's albums, "A Night at the Opera" and "The Game", have been fully remixed into high-resolution multichannel surround on DVD-Audio. "A Night at the Opera" was re-released with some revised 5.1 mixes and accompanying videos in 2005 for the 30th anniversary of the album's
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


finest hour". In 2011, remastered versions of the earlier Queen albums were released, prompting another batch of reviews. "Uncut" said that the album "proved there was no limit to their capabilities" and concluded, "Containing not one but two monumental epics ('Bohemian Rhapsody', 'The Prophet's Song'), and gorging on grandiose gestures galore, "A Night at the Opera" secured itself instant classic status". "Pitchfork"s Dominique Leone stated, "No punches pulled, no expense spared
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In the Good Old Summertime


Were Young" was written in the 1930s by Harold Arlen and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg for the Metropolitan Opera star Lawrence Tibbett. Garland loved it and wanted to include it in the film. It was recorded and filmed but when the picture was released, it was cut from the final print. The audio recording of "Last Night When We Were Young" was featured on several of Garland's MGM record albums and she also later recorded it for Capitol Records in the 1950s. The entire footage of the number was
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Rudolf Bing


Norma" on opening night in 1956, he famously canceled her contract in 1958 when they could not come to terms regarding the roles she would sing. Bing invited Callas to return to the Met for two performances of "Tosca" in 1965, the year that turned out to be her final season in opera. After leaving the Met, Bing wrote two books of memoirs, "5000 Nights at the Opera" (1972) and "A Knight at the Opera" (1981). While living in Berlin, Bing
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Trystan Llŷr Griffiths


National Opera. His first album, "Trystan", was released in 2016 by Sain. After training at the National Opera Studio during 2015, he joined the International Opera Studio in Zürich in 2016. He also features on Opera Rara's recording of Carlos in a recording of Donizetti’s "Le Duc d’Albe", with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder. In 2017, in addition to recording "O Holy Night" with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for inclusion in the Classic FM "Nation's Favourite Carols"
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Opera Memphis


through 2010. In addition, he held the post of General Director for most of those years. The company premiered his completely "a cappella" opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 2011 at Playhouse on the Square, and Albany Records released the CD of the production in 2014. In December 2010, the Board of Trust announced Canty as the new Opera Memphis General Director. Since his arrival, he has made many significant changes including the creation of "30 Days of Opera" and a restructuring of the regular
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Aladdin (opera)


Aladdin, Op. 43, is an opera by the Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg, to a libretto written by and . Two versions exist, in Swedish and German. The opera is based on the story, "Aladdin's Magic Lamp" from "One Thousand and One Nights". It was first performed on 18 March 1941 at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm. The idea for the composition was born in August 1936 when the composer met the librettists in Garmisch. The libretto was largely finished when Atterberg began composing the
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The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall


Peter Jöback, who has now played the role in the West End, Broadway, and Sweden, John Owen-Jones from the London and 25th Anniversary Tour productions. The performance concludes when Ramin Karimloo joins the four Phantoms to sing "The Music of the Night", along with the entire cast and creative teams including Michael Crawford. The production was recorded live and later released on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and digital download. The initial releases were in the UK on 14 November 2011. The digital download format
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Give Us This Night


Give Us This Night (1936) is one of five movies produced by Paramount Pictures featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies. After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in
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A Little Night Music


conducted by Andrew Greene. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis performed the musical in June 2010. Designer Isaac Mizrahi directed and designed the production, with a cast that starred Amy Irving, Siân Phillips and Ron Raines. The piece has also become a popular choice for amateur musical theatre and light opera companies. In 2017, the musical was performed by students at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. A film version of "A Little Night Music" was released in 1977, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


Special. May eventually arranged the song so it could be played on an acoustic 12 string for live performances. "Love of My Life" was such a concert favourite that Mercury frequently stopped singing and allowed the audience to take over. It was especially well received during concerts in South America, and the band released the song as a single there. When Queen and Paul Rodgers performed the song (specifically Brian solo) he sang almost none of the words and let the audience sing it all, continuing the tradition. When
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Irving Vendig


Irving Vendig (October 11, 1902 — January 7, 1995) was an American soap opera writer best known for creating "The Edge of Night". Born in the Mississippi city of Holly Springs, Vendig created "The Edge of Night" for Procter and Gamble Productions and CBS Daytime in 1956. He had been a writer on the "Perry Mason" radio show and when Erle Stanley Gardner refused to allow the show to become a soap opera, Vendig refashioned the show into "The Edge of Night", and
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Metropolitan Opera


of handling multiple large complex opera productions simultaneously. When the opera company is on hiatus, the Opera House is annually home to the spring season of American Ballet Theatre. It has also hosted visits from other noted opera and ballet companies. To provide a home for its regular Tuesday night performances in Philadelphia, the Met purchased an opera house originally built in 1908 by Oscar Hammerstein I, the Philadelphia Opera House at North Broad and Poplar Streets. Renamed the Metropolitan Opera House, the theater was operated by the Met from 1910 until
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Eden (Sarah Brightman album)


It was released as a single and experienced a big success in Brazil, because it was featured on the soundtrack of the soap opera Andando nas Nuvens ("Walking on the Clouds"). The single "Deliver Me" also gained certain mainstream American success because of its inclusion on the soundtrack of the 1999 film "Brokedown Palace". Subsequent to the release of "Eden", Brightman performed her first world tour ever, One Night In Eden Tour, and released the VHS/DVD "One Night in Eden"
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La Julia Rhea


at the Met notwithstanding, Rhea became the first black performer to star in "the title role of a major opera company" when in Chicago on December 27, 1937 she appeared in Verdi's "Aida" with William Franklin as Amonasro in a performance of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. In attendance for the performance was the drama critic for the "Chicago Tribune" Cecil Smith, who commented: "A musical event without parallel in grand opera in America took place at the Civic Opera House last night when two colored singers
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History of the Opera web browser


on June 9, 2015, based on Chromium 43. Opera 31 was released on August 4, 2015, based on Chromium 44. Opera 32 was released on September 15, 2015, based on Chromium 45. When you access a website using Silverlight, it gives a message that the Microsoft Silverlight plugin will soon no longer be supported. Opera 33 was released on October 27, 2015, based on Chromium 46. Microsoft Silverlight and NPAPI still work and the message from Opera 32 is no longer displayed. Opera 34 was
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Michael Ching


and syllables weaving around them, amplifying their characters and conflicts, sometimes echoing their words (or even their thoughts), or supplying atmosphere. The voicestra gives the opera an added human dimension ..." Albany Records released the CD of "A Midsummer Night's Dream — opera a cappella" in 2014. The Recorded A Cappella Review Board reviewed the work, noting that "Slaying the Dragon", Ching's fact-based 2012 opera, explores intolerance and redemption, and was inspired by the 1990s true story "Not by
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Metropolitan Opera


Met continued to perform annually in Philadelphia for nearly eighty years, taking the entire company to the city on selected Tuesday nights throughout the opera season. Performances were usually held at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, with the company presenting close to 900 performances in the city by 1961 when the Met's regular visits ceased. On April 26, 1910, the Met purchased the Philadelphia Opera House from Oscar Hammerstein I. The company renamed the house the Metropolitan Opera House and performed all of their Philadelphia performances there until 1920, when the company
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A Night at the Opera Tour


The A Night at the Opera Tour (advertized as A Night at the Opera with Queen) was a concert tour by Queen to promote "A Night at the Opera". It spanned 1975 and 1976, and covered the UK, the US, Japan, and Australia. It marked the debut of "Bohemian Rhapsody", which would be played at every Queen gig thereafter. The DVD "A Night at the Odeon" is taken from the Christmas Eve concert at the Hammersmith Odeon. "It's quite something to
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Steve's Piece


1997 and went on to release multiple albums on hikarate Records Ted and Rob reunited to collaborate further in a band called "Mini Bike" and release "Songs about Girls - Vol. 1" in 2003. Robb Schwartz founded and currently plays in Famous Volcanos In 2010 Robb Schwartz began work on an original rock opera with John Hile. Early in the project Ted Martin was invited to collaborate and the result was Dying to Make it - A Rock Opera that performed a sold out multi-night run at Minneapolis' Southern Theater
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Welcome to the Voice


steelworker Dionysos, who discovers the music of classical opera. It becomes an obsession, when he falls in love with the voice of a young opera singer. His workmates try to persuade him to return to work, but he is determined to live on the steps of the opera house, and meet the woman whose voice has enraptured him. In the night he is visited by ghosts of opera's past (Carmen, Madama Butterfly, and Norma). They tell him he is too much like a character from an opera
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Silent Night (opera)


had written librettos before. Campbell remarked that the core message of the opera is "'War is not sustainable when you come to know your enemy as a person.' When you see that the person you might be shooting has a child or a wife or has this life at home and they’re just not the enemy, then it becomes very difficult if not impossible to sustain war." Summer, 1914: At a Berlin opera house the performance is disrupted by the announcement of war. The life and career of
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


by one of the band's roadies, Johnathan Harris, whose Triumph TR4 was evidently the "love of his life". The song is dedicated to him, the album says: "Dedicated to Johnathan Harris, boy racer to the end". When it came down to releasing the album's first single, Taylor was so fond of his song that he urged Mercury (author of the first single, "Bohemian Rhapsody") to allow it to be the B-side and reportedly locked himself in a cupboard until
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Silent Night (opera)


Silent Night is an opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell. As Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts the work had its world premiere at the Ordway Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 12, 2011 under the directorship and dramaturgy of Eric Simonson. As "Silent Night", the opera had its East Coast premiere at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on February 8, 2013. It premiered in the Southwest at Bass Performance Hall with Fort Worth Opera on May 4, 2014. The European premiere took
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History of the Opera web browser


also added. Opera 24 was released on September 2, 2014, based on Chromium 37. This release introduced tab previews, which are displayed when tabs are hovered. It also included several improvements specific to Windows: the frame of private windows was darkened and support for high DPI displays was improved again. Opera 25 was released on October 15, 2014, based on Chromium 38. This release introduced a visual bookmark manager and the inclusion of a built-in PDF viewer. Support for desktop notifications was added. Opera 26
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Marx Brothers


band Blind Guardian would also name an album "A Night at the Opera". Groucho Marx can be seen on the cover of "Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits" by Alice Cooper. The punk band "The Damned" named their single "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" (1980), in reference to a famous quote from "A Night at the Opera". On the 1988 album "Modern Lovers '88" by Modern Lovers there is a track called "When Harpo Played His Harp". The
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Ivanhoe (opera)


dozen opening night reviews, only Shaw's and Fuller Maitland's reviews were negative. "Ivanhoe" closed in July, when the opera house closed for the summer at the end of the opera season. When the house re-opened in November, after a delay, Carte produced André Messager's "La Basoche" (with David Bispham in his first London stage performance) alternating in repertory with six more performances of "Ivanhoe" (which ran at a substantial loss this time), and then "La Basoche"
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Keith Burstein


song cycle "Songs of Love & Solitude", sung by Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Rita Novikaite. The performance was recorded and subsequently released on Naxos in December 2013. In September 2011, Burstein rewrote "Manifest Destiny" for a new production by the London-based opera company OperaUpClose, resulting in a new opera called "Manifest Destiny 2011". The production ran for nine performances (including four previews and a press night). Changes from the original opera including the removal of the notorious suicide bomb-robing scene (
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Jorge Martín (composer)


Jorge Martín (born 1959) is a Cuban-American composer. Jorge Martín was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, and established his residence in the United States at an early age. He studied at Yale University and at Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Music and a Doctor of Music in composition. His opera "Before Night Falls", based on the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, was given its world premiere at the Fort Worth Opera in June 2010. The Fort Worth Opera released
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Arturo Toscanini


more for its 1963 telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera for television, "Amahl and the Night Visitors". On radio, Toscanini conducted seven complete operas, including "Fidelio", "La bohème", "La traviata", and "Otello", all of which were eventually released on records and CD, thus enabling the modern listening public to have at least some idea of what an opera conducted by Toscanini sounded like. With the help of his son Walter, Toscanini spent his remaining years evaluating and
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Albert Herring


. In 1949, Britten's English Opera Group toured with both "Rape of Lucretia" and "Albert Herring", giving ten performances between 12–23 September in Copenhagen and Oslo. An almost complete recording of one of the Copenhagen performances has been released commercially. Sviatoslav Richter called it "the greatest comic opera of the century" and in 1983 staged "Albert Herring" as part of the December Nights Festival at Moscow's Pushkin Museum. The opera was performed at Buenos Aires's Teatro Colón in 1972. In 2008–2010, over
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La Esmeralda (opera)


"La Esmeralda" was revived in February 2002 when it was staged to piano accompaniment (using the Bertin/Liszt score) at the Théâtre-Opéra in Besançon to mark the 200th anniversary of Hugo's birth. A concert performance using the full orchestral score was given on 23 July 2008 at the Opéra Berlioz in Montpellier as part of the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier and later released on CD. Setting: Paris, 1482 "The Cour des miracles at night" The beggars and thieves of Paris, led by Clopin
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Frisco Kid


but impossible. Riled at a judge's snub, he determines to bring his Barbary Coast crowd to the opening night at the Opera House, which the Judge has opened as an alternative place of amusement to the gambling dens. A gambler, Paul Morra, shoulders his way into the judge's box and on a flimsy excuse, murders him. The outrage provokes a public outcry, and when Morra is arrested and jailed and a lynch mob gathers, crying for his blood, Bat arranges his release, not so much because
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A Night at the Opera (film)


"Monkey Business". As Groucho's and Margaret Dumont's characters are boarding the ocean liner, Dumont asks Groucho, "Are you sure you have everything, Otis?"; Groucho replies, "I've never had any complaints yet." In two different interviews with Dick Cavett on "The Dick Cavett Show – Comic Legends" DVD, Groucho claimed that that exchange of dialogue was banned in a majority of states when the film was released because it was too suggestive, although the number of states varied with different
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Opera Dragonfly


21 September 2011, the Opera Dragonfly team announced that from then on releases would be more focused on improvements to individual components, e.g. the DOM inspector or the UI framework. As soon as a feature for a certain component was implemented, it would be put on the experimental path for some initial testing. As part of the new release strategy, they switched over Opera Dragonfly to a new version scheme: major-version.year.month.date.today’s-build Inclusion of Opera Dragonfly ended after Opera 12.x, when Opera switched from the Presto layout engine to
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Amahl and the Night Visitors


. The 1955 and 1978 productions are the only ones released on video. Cast recordings of both the 1951 and the 1963 productions were released on LP by RCA Victor, and the 1951 cast recording was reissued on compact disc in 1987. The 1963 recording of "Amahl" was the first recording of the opera made in stereo. "Amahl and the Night Visitors" was the first network television Christmas special to become an annual tradition. There had already been several television productions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" since
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Jane White


soap operas "The Edge of Night", "A World Apart", and "Search for Tomorrow". She was one of the first African-American actresses to play a role under contract on soap operas when she originated the role of Lyndia Holliday, R. N. on "The Edge of Night". In 1998, she played the schoolteacher Lady Jones in the movie version of Toni Morrison's "Beloved". From 1979-80, White starred in a self-written, one-woman cabaret show entitled
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Richard D'Oyly Carte


badly affected. Takings dropped to £40 a night, and Carte's directors in the Comedy Opera Company advocated cutting their losses and closing the show. After promotional efforts by Carte and Sullivan, who programmed some of the "Pinafore" music when he conducted a season of promenade concerts at Covent Garden, the opera became a hit. Carte convinced Gilbert and Sullivan that when their original agreement with the Comedy Opera Company expired in July 1879, a business partnership among the three of them would be to their advantage. Each put
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Opera Lyra Ottawa


, conducted by Dwight Bennett. Jeannette Aster became Artistic Director in 1987 when Gilchrist moved to Europe for professional engagements singing Queen of the Night, Zerbinetta and other coloratura roles. The 1990 production of "Madama Butterfly" marked the first time the company performed an opera in its original language with French and English surtitles. Prior to that, operas had been performed in English (and occasionally French) translation. Until 1992, the company continued to put on one fully staged opera per season at the NAC Theatre, augmented with operas
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History of the Opera web browser


The history of the Opera web browser began in 1994 when it was started as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, the project branched out into a separate company named Opera Software ASA, with the first publicly available version released in 1996. Opera has undergone extensive changes and improvements, and introduced notable features such as Speed Dial. Until version 2.0, the Opera browser was called MultiTorg Opera (version 1.0) and had only a limited internal release—although it was demonstrated publicly at the
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Soap opera


a late-night timeslot. It underwent several revamps that removed much of the original cast, and refocused the storylines to incorporate science-fiction and fantasy elements. The series continued in a late night slot until 1992, when it was cancelled due to low ratings despite the much-discussed fantasy storylines. Several Australian soap operas have also found significant international success. In the UK, starting in the mid-1980s, daytime broadcasts of "The Young Doctors", "The Sullivans", "Sons and Daughters" and "Neighbours
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Zachary Gordin


with choruses and churches in the San Francisco Bay Area. When his voice changed, he pursued the countertenor repertoire, performing the role of Oberon in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" in concert at Berkeley Opera in 2000. He performed recitals around the US and Europe, and other countertenor/sopranist roles in operas, including both Dido and the Sorceress in "Dido and Aeneas" with Oakland Lyric Opera in 2001, and Wilder in the world premiere of "Earthrise" (composed by Lewis Spratlan) at San Francisco Opera
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History of the Opera web browser


on Android and Opera Mini on Android and iOS. Support for batch operation was added to the bookmark manager and bookmark suggestions now appear when typing in the address bar. Opera 29 was released on April 28, 2015, based on Chromium 42. Among the features added in this release were an improved start page look, an improved history manager, the sync of open tabs, sync and manage Speed Dial start pages, an audio indicator on the tab bar, custom keyboard shortcuts and more mouse gestures. Opera 30 was released
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Bohemian Rhapsody (film)


Killer Queen". After touring to promote the album, Mary and Freddie become engaged. The album hits the charts in America and the band embarks on a sold-out U.S. tour, where Freddie questions his sexuality. In 1975, Queen records their fourth album, "A Night at the Opera," but leaves EMI when executive Ray Foster refuses to release the operatic "Bohemian Rhapsody" as the album's lead single due to its six-minute length; Foster also derides the single for its lyrics and melody,
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John Cranko


CD has been released. Cranko followed the format of "Cranks" with a new revue "New Cranks" opening at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith on 26 April 1960 with music by David Lee and a cast including Gillian Lynne, Carole Shelley and Bernard Cribbins, but it failed to have the same impact. In 1960, Cranko directed the first production of Benjamin Britten's opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream", at the Aldeburgh Festival. When the work had its London premiere the following year at Covent Garden, Cranko was
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


most famous songs in the Queen catalogue. The song was initially taken as a joke by May, who thought that Taylor was not serious when he heard a demo recording. Taylor played the guitars in the original demo, but they were later re-recorded by May on his Red Special. The lead vocals were performed by Taylor on the studio version, and all released live versions. The revving sounds at the conclusion of the song were recorded by Taylor's then current car, an Alfa Romeo. The lyrics were inspired
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


the UK music magazines when it came out because the band were remixing the album until the last moment, and consequently no preview discs or tapes were sent out to the media before the album was officially released. In "Record Mirror" & "Disc", Ray Fox-Cumming attempted to review the album based on a single listening at the playback party held for the press, which he admitted "isn't really enough" to form a proper critical opinion. However, he described his first impressions of "an amazing
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A Night at the Met


A Night at the Met is the third official album release by Robin Williams on August 9, 1986. It features segments recorded live at Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The album won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical. The album was released the year before Williams' critically acclaimed performance in the motion picture "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987). He had been shifting his focus from stand-up comedy to film making for several years, and "A
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Ledlanet Nights


not unknown but festivals generally were nowhere near as widespread as they have since become. In 1963 when opera was found in Scotland largely at the Edinburgh International Festival, and when Scottish Opera had only just been founded, any additional opera on a small scale was welcomed. Handel works, then much less well known, featured prominently at Ledlanet with productions including Agrippina and Alcina. Jill Gomez and Josephine Barstow were among several singers appearing who made an impression there at a relatively early stage in their careers, in "Il Re Pastore
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Afternoons in Utopia


the 1992 release First Harvest 1984-92: The first song, "IAO" (which stands for International Aquarian Opera), begins with the word "night" and fades into the short IAO chorus (which itself is a lyric from the song "Afternoons in Utopia"). The album ends with the song "Lady Bright", a limerick about relativity, wherein the Lady Bright leaves one day and returns "the previous ...[night]", with the word "night" omitted. Thus the album
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Opera Mini


but the characters are spaced out so that each character takes up the same amount of space. Opera Mini's address bar is capable of using several pre-configured search engines. The user can add more search engines. The default search engines are Google and Wikipedia. Opera Mini features an ad blocker. When activated, Opera Mini servers try to filter out advertisement before rendering the page and sending it to the client phone. Opera Mini features an AI-powered news aggregator, serving personalised news, night mode and private browsing
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The Climax


in turn used Universal's opera house set for "Phantom of the Opera" (1925). Choreography was by Lester Horton. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 for Best Art Direction (John B. Goodman, Alexander Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb). "The Climax" was a box office disappointment. This film, along with "Night Key", ""Tower of London"", "The Strange Door" and "The Black Castle", was released on
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


May Night" by Nikolai Gogol. The story had long been a favorite of his, and his wife Nadezhda had encouraged him to write an opera based on it from the day of their betrothal, when they had read it together. While musical ideas for such a work predated 1877, now they came with greater persistence. By early 1878 the project took an increasing amount of his attention; in February he started writing in earnest, and he finished the opera by early November. Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that "May Night
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


afford new drumsticks. The matter eventually reached a turning point when John Deacon, who had recently married, was denied a cash advance of £4,000 by manager Norman Sheffield to put a deposit on a house. This increasing frustration led to Freddie Mercury writing the song "Death on Two Legs", which would serve as the opening track to "A Night at the Opera". In December 1974, the band hired Jim Beach as their laywer and began negotiating their way out of Trident. In January 1975, while Queen
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Night Castle


Night Castle is the fifth rock opera by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra; a double CD that includes a sixty-page booklet illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt, it was released on October 28, 2009, debuting at #5 on the Billboard charts and #1 on the rock music charts. It was certified gold in eight weeks and is currently a platinum album. Like in all of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's previous albums, the story in "Night Castle "is as important as the music. Though both music and story
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Night Fishing (album)


's new and wider direction, and felt it was at the forefront of modern pop music. He felt that "Night Fishing" had a Don Quixote-like strong volition that was easy to become obsessed about. "CDJournal" reviewer Mori listed it as his third favorite release of the year, praising the word-play, melodies and arrangements on "Night Fishing". Yuji Tanaka of "CDJournal" praised the album's addition of "opera-like choral work" on the album, noting it as the biggest
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Transformations (opera)


H. Wesley Balk with set and costume design by Robert Israel and lighting design by Bruce Miller. Sexton herself was in the audience that night. She subsequently returned to Minneapolis for further performances and made a tape-recording of the opera which she listened to repeatedly and played for her friends and family. In August 1978, the opera received its US television premiere when it was broadcast on the PBS network in a slightly shortened version performed by Minnesota Opera and co-produced by WNET and KTCA. Anne Sexton did not live to
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A Night at the Chinese Opera


A Night at the Chinese Opera is an opera in three acts by Judith Weir, who also wrote the libretto. Aside from an earlier opera for children, this was Weir's first full-scale opera, written on commission from the BBC for performance by Kent Opera. Weir incorporated an early Chinese play of the Yuan dynasty, "The Orphan of Zhao", as the centrepiece of Act 2 of her opera. The work received its premiere on 8 July 1987 at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, England. The Opera
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Conchita Wurst


Unstoppable", which was released on 5 March 2015. "Firestorm" and "Colours of Your Love", two tracks from the debut album, were released as a double A-side single on 7 August 2015. On 3 March 2016, Wurst performed at the Sydney Opera House accompanied by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and together with Australian stars like Courtney Act and ESC 2015 participant Guy Sebastian as a part of Sydney Mardi Gras festival. Conchita performed for BBC Radio 2's "Friday Night Is Music Night" on 25
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House of Rufus


Lady Gaga's Haus of Gaga. Wainwright claimed the box set's release shortly after his father's (Loudon Wainwright III) box set "40 Odd Years" was "totally serendipitous". The box set's title commemorates Wainwright's five-night residency at London's Royal Opera House during July 18–23, 2011, also referred to as the "House of Rufus" (sometimes the "Haus of Rufus") or billed as "Five Nights of Velvet, Glamour and Guilt". During the first night, Wainwright
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Philip Jeays


himself. Back in England, he was taught to sing by his mother, who had trained as an opera singer at the Royal Academy of Music, started playing a guitar and then changed his name to Philip Jeays, after his maternal great-great-grandfather. His first performance in 1985 at Hampton Wick Folk Club was well received. Due to nerves he didn't perform again until 1989 when he took part in an acoustic and poetry club night in Clapham, London. He releases his first recordings on cassette in 1990
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Opera (film)


apartment over. Betty returns to the opera house and meets with Marco. He tells her that he has a plan to trap the killer, while Betty ponders connections between the killer and her long-dead abusive mother. The following night, Betty once again takes the stage as Lady Macbeth, but her performance is interrupted when Marco unleashes a flock of vengeful ravens into the audience. Recognizing the face of their attacker from the previous night, the birds swoop down on him sitting in the audience, gouging out one of his
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A Night at the Opera (film)


Margaret Dumont), has stood her up and is having dinner with another woman in the very same restaurant. When she discovers him seated directly behind her, Driftwood joins Mrs. Claypool, and introduces her to Herman Gottlieb (Sig Ruman), director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. Driftwood has arranged for Mrs. Claypool to invest $200,000 in the opera company, allowing Gottlieb to engage Rodolfo Lassparri (Walter Woolf King), the "greatest tenor since Caruso". Backstage at the opera house
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Clarence M. Leumane


He continued with the company until 1890 in more Savoy Operas, as the Duke of Dunstable in "Patience", Colonel Fairfax in "The Yeomen of the Guard", and Marco in "The Gondoliers". In between these productions, he also appeared in Australia as Geoffrey Wilder in Alfred Cellier's hit comic opera "Dorothy", and was the title character in Gounod's "Faust", including on the night in 1888, in Melbourne, when Frederick Federici died at the conclusion of the opera. He repeated
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David Henry Hwang


, "The Great Helmsman" for the Papp's night of plays: "Ten". Hwang has continued to work steadily in the world of opera and musical theatre, and has written for children's theatre as well. Hwang co-wrote the English-language libretto for an operatic adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" with music (and part of the libretto) by the Korean composer Unsuk Chin. It received its world premiere at the Bavarian State Opera in 2007 and was released on DVD in 2008
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Opera (Tosca album)


Opera is the debut studio album by Austrian duo Tosca. It combines new material and previously released singles, including "Chocolate Elvis". "Irresistibly funky" (BBC), "the blues, and the thick sultry bass, makes it as sexy and melancholy as cigarette smoke after a one-night stand in a strange city" ("Mixmag"). It is "one of the few sure things in a modest genre" (Sasha Frere-Jones, "LA Weekly"). All tracks written by
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Sean Panikkar


. Panikkar has released two albums as a member of FORTE: their self-titled debut in 2013, and "The Future Classics" in 2016. The highlights of 2018 for Panikkar were joining the Salzburg Festival, performing in The Bassarids, and taking the leading role, as Gandhi, in Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha". As Panikkar made his debut at the Salzburg Festival, he was also named "Artist of the Week" by Opera World. 2019 began for Panikkar with a four night run of the reunited
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Roman Tikhomirov


his debut on the professional stage at the Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater (“May Night” by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov). In 1952-1956, he was the chief director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1957-1959 he was the artistic director of the Central Television. In 1958, his first film as a director and screenwriter, "Eugene Onegin", was released. Starting in 1960, he was the chairman of the artistic council of the creative association of television films attached to Mosfilm
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)


. But "A Night at the Opera" remains glorious, monumental. It is British rock's greatest extravagance." In 2007, Chris Jones of BBC Music noted the diverse range of musical styles on the album, saying, ""Sheer Heart Attack" had hinted at a working knowledge of 19th century parlour balladry, 20s ragtime and Jimi Hendrix. "A Night at the Opera" was to add opera, trad jazz, heavy metal and more to the mix." He concluded that the album "remains their
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Long Night (The Corrs song)


"Long Night" is a single by The Corrs, released in 2004, taken from their fourth studio album "Borrowed Heaven". The song was written by Sharon Corr. Even though it was not a major hit around Europe or Australia, it became a hit in Brazil after its use on a famous prime time national soap opera "Senhora do Destino". The video for "Long Night" only features Andrea and, very shortly, Sharon during her violin solo. Apart from that, we see different versions of
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Arc Dream Publishing


released for free download with the "Agent's Handbook" following soon after on April 27, 2016. The "Handler's Guide" was released October 31, 2017 in PDF and on March 8, 2018 a compilation of several other Delta Green adventures released by Arc Dream was released in only one book "Delta Green: A Night at the Opera", containing the adventures "Reverberations", "Viscid", "Music from a Darkened Room", "Extremophilia", "Star Chamber" and "Observer Effect
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Leon Lishner


continued with the production when it moved to Broadway later that year. He also reprised the part in 1953 in concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra and in 1957 at Public Garden in Boston. After the critical success of "The Consul", Menotti was invited by NBC to compose an opera for television which was to be performed by the newly created NBC Opera Theatre (NBCOT). What resulted was the highly successful Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" which was premiered on Christmas Eve of 1951 in a national broadcast to
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Cleopatra's Night


Cleopatra's Night is a short opera in two acts by American composer Henry Kimball Hadley. Its libretto is by Alice Leal Pollock based on a short story by French author Théophile Gautier. The opera premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on January 31, 1920. The opera was revived the following season, and was broadcast on NBC radio in 1929. "Cleopatra's Night" is written in an eclectic late romantic style, influenced both by the dramatic lyricism of the verismo movement and the rich orchestral approach employed by Wagner and Richard Strauss
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Niall Morris (singer)


"Don Giovanni", Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Fenton in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Paris in "La Belle Hélène", and Antonio in "The Duenna". He created the tenor roles in Thomas Adès first opera "Powder Her Face", which was released on EMI Classics and nominated for a Grammy (Best Opera Recording 2000). Morris was a founding member of the Irish singing group "The Celtic Tenors" who won the German Echo Klassik Award for Best Classical
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Leonard Bernstein


the same time, Bernstein made a studio recording of the opera for Deutsche Grammophon and the opera itself was filmed by Unitel and released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon in late 2006. In May 1978, the Israel Philharmonic played two U.S. concerts under his direction to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Orchestra under that name. On consecutive nights, the Orchestra, with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and
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Hard rock


Hurts". Having enjoyed some national success in the early 1970s, Queen, after the release of "Sheer Heart Attack" (1974) and "A Night at the Opera" (1975), gained international recognition with a sound that used layered vocals and guitars and mixed hard rock with heavy metal, progressive rock, and even opera. The latter featured the single "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK charts for nine weeks. In the United States, shock-rock pioneer Alice Cooper
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Prime Time Theater


) and Marc Poritz (video artist). In Germany, the stage sitcom "Gutes Wedding, Schlechtes Wedding" ("Good Wedding, Bad Wedding") is unique in its form. The title refers to the most popular German soap opera ""Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten"" ("Good Times, Bad Times"). The series parodies typical television formats and uses video clips to increase the feeling of a television night. Every fifth week a new episode is released. As with soap operas, new
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Boys Night Out (band)


cuts both his hands off with a machine at his work so that he can not kill again. Kara Dupuy's vocals act as the deceased wife's voice heard by the patient throughout the album. The band released their third album, "Boys Night Out", on June 26, 2007. The first single from the album is "Up with Me". Boys Night Out played their first show in two years at the Opera House in Toronto using the original five members, on 24 October 2009. The band played
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Edda Moser


she sang at the opera houses in Hagen, Bielefeld, Hamburg and Frankfurt, before joining the Vienna State Opera in 1971. She also sang in Salzburg. She made her American debut in November 1968, when she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Wellgunde in "Das Rheingold". She went on to sing various roles there over nine seasons, including the parts of Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni") and the Queen of the Night ("The Magic Flute"), as well as Liù in
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Roger de Flor (opera)


the opera was staged for 4 nights. It was sung in Italian translation by Ernesto Palermi. Although the vocal score of the opera was published shortly after its premiere, the full score remained in the manuscript (this was actually the normal publication practice in Spain by that time). When modern musicians turned to "Roger de Flor" having the goal of a new performance, they found out that about a half of the first act was lost. The incomplete version was supposed to be performed on October 8 or 9,
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La Danse (Carpeaux)


to come to the Opera. The statue was attacked on the night of 27-28 August 1869, when black ink was thrown over the statue. The Opera considered moving the statue inside, but that was opposed by the corps de ballet. The scandal reached such a level Charles Gumery was commissioned to make a replacement (his gilded sculptures of "L'Harmonie" and " La Poésie" already crown the Opera's end pavilions). The issue was forgotten after the Franco-Prussian War broke out in July 1870, and
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