Opera

Leontyne Price is 90 years old (birthdate: February 10, 1927).

Chinese Opera Masks are used to portray the plot or ti add humor to the scene. They can also be used for identifying a character in his or her role in the opera.

One more use that i found was Chinese Opera masks being used to express particular sentiments.

A performance of Gounod's Faust on 22nd October 1883.

Christoph Willibald Gluck, mostly

Benjamin Britten's chronology of operas is as follows....

Paul Bunyan (1941)

Peter Grimes (1945)

The Rape of Lucretia (1946)

Albert Herring (1947)

The Little Sweep (1949)

Billy Budd (1951)

Gloriana (1953)

The Turn of the Screw (1954)

Noye's Fludde (1958)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960)

Curlew River (1964)

The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966)

The Prodigal Son (1968)

Owen Wingrave (1971)

Death in Venice (1973)

Sissieretta Jones, American soprano, sang at Carnegie Hall on June 15, 1892, in the lower level "Recital Hall" (today's Zankel Hall). She returned to sing in the main Carnegie Hall auditorium (today's Isaac Stern Auditorium) on February 13, 1893.

1841 William Henry Fry composes Aurelia the Vestal, which remains unperformed. 1845 The premiere of Fry's Leonora is the first known performance of an opera by an American composer. The link below will give you a full time-line.

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aria col 'de Capo' is usually in 3 parts, with the second in the relative major or minor key and the third part a repeat of the first part, but left to the singer to ornament.

Tommy Walker

Yes, he married Marta Ornelas in 1962.

The opera Carmen premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875

It was Carmen. Check the answer:

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Magnolia.html

SHe's a 1st soprano

This would be a personal preference but there are many good Opera singers.

As Vesta Was Descending is a madrigal.

In Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park

Can-can was featured in the operetta "Orphée aux Enfers" (Orpheus In Hell) by 19th century French composer Jacques Offenbach.

Ian Storey is an English tenor. See the link below to his website.

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Light opera [or comic opera] is of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending. There are many styles and countries developed their own styles of light [comic] opera. This is especially shown by England's Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

The earliest opera on record is Dafne by Jacopo Peri, an Italian composer. It is thought to have been written around 1597. Earlier Greek dramas were thought to have choruses that sung parts of the play, but those were not written as musical performances, hence the credit goes to the Italians.

As she is retired the only suggestion is to look her up in the London phone directory. The last time I had contact with her she lived in East Sheen, S.W. 14.

I can do better than SW14 - she left that address 40yrs ago! I contacted Sheila about 5yrs ago by sending a letter to the Cathrine Ferrier Award Society - enclosing a letter to be forwarded to her. She replied but did not want to disclose her address. You may have better luck - Sheila did not have much luck with men & I was one of her bad choices although I still love her - to this day.

Placido Domingo in Otello Placido Domingo holds the world record for the longest ovation ever on the operatic stage: 101 curtain calls and 80 minutes of applause, in Vienna, after singing Otello on June 30, 1991.

Così fan tutte (Thus Do They All) K. 588, is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto (the words) was written by Lorenzo da Ponte.
Così fan tutte is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto written by Lorenzo da Ponte.
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