Der Barbier von Sevilla: Die Opern der Welt (German Edition)

TANNHÄUSER And the Minstrel’s Contest at the Wartburg

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He knows that he is putting archetypes of Italian comedy on stage with figures such as the exotic lady-killer Selim, the young woman Fiorilla, who is chained to the stove at home, but adventurous, and her husband Geronio, who is ridiculous because he is much too old — and relishes the ironic exaggeration. This is revealed by the fact that he introduces a poet into the action who is looking for subject matter for a play.

Throughout, he constantly comments ironically on both the felicitous and the less successful punch lines in this simple yet ultimately sophisticated comedy. This is why, quite apart from its fast-paced music and arias of breakneck virtuosity, the plot itself is also reason enough to stage a new production of this Rossini opera.

Of course, the fun of a buffo opera written by Rossini will only shine if it is unleashed by spirited musicians and soloists. Geboren in Barcelona, studierte er Geige und Klavier. Zuletzt dirigierte er u.

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Queen Elizabeth I of Castile: Queen Elizabeth I of England see also Category: Operas about Elizabeth I of England. Ninon de l'Enclos , French courtesan. Enzio of Sardinia , king of Sardinia. Erasistratus , Greek anatomist, physician. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , Elizabethan courtier and royal favourite. Frances, Countess of Essex , English noblewoman. Eufrosinia , daughter of Yaroslav Osmomysl , Prince of Halych.

Philo Farnsworth , American television pioneer. Charles Simon Favart , French dramatist. Marie Favart , French opera singer, actress. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. King Ferdinand VI of Spain. Roger de Flor , German-born soldier serving Aragon kings. Francesco Foscari , Doge of Venice. Francesca da Rimini , contemporary and literary subject of Dante. Saint Francis of Assisi , founder of the Franciscans. King Francis I of France. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. John Allen Fraser , Canadian politician. Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg.

Friedrich Friesen , German gymnast and soldier. Jean Froissart , French chronicler. Georg von Frundsberg , South German knight. Galileo Galilei , Italian scientist. Vasily Vasilyevich Galitzine , Russian statesman. Vasco da Gama , Portuguese explorer. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , Indian freedom advocate.

Garcilaso de la Vega , Spanish poet and soldier. Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian freedom fighter.

Margaret "Peggy" Garner , American slave who killed her own daughter rather than allow the child to be returned to slavery. Carlo Gesualdo , Italian composer and murderer. Salvatore Giuliano , Sicilian peasant. Godfrey of Bouillon , Frankish knight, leader of the First Crusade. Xenia Borisovna Godunova , daughter of Boris Godunov. Sir Eugene Goossens , English conductor and composer.

Violet Gordon-Woodhouse , English harpsichordist. St Maria Goretti , 20th century Catholic martyr. Antonio Gramsci , Italian political theorist. Urbain Grandier , French priest. Grant , American President. Gen Leslie Groves , American military officer. Guinevere , wife of King Arthur of Britain. Francis, Duke of Guise , French nobleman. Frank Harris , Irish-American journalist, publisher. Harun al-Rashid , Abbasid Caliph. Hasdrubal Gisco , Carthaginian general. William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. Richard Hauptmann , American convicted murderer.

Sally Hemings , American mixed-race slave owned by Thomas Jefferson. Henry I, Duke of Guise. King Henry II of England. Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia. Hoffmann , German author. Fanny Holland , English singer and actress. Harry Houdini , Hungarian-American escapologist.

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Ladislaus Hunyadi , Hungarian statesman. Stig Andersen Hvide , Danish marshal, later an outlaw. Muhammad al-Idrisi , Andalusian cartographer, traveller. Gwen Ifill , American television journalist. Jaakko Ilkka , Finnish peasant leader. Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden. John Ireland , Dean of Westminster. Queen Isabella I of Castile.

Jack the Ripper , unidentified murderer of English prostitutes. King James V of Scotland. Lady Jane Grey , disputed Queen of England. Thomas Jefferson , American President. Jiang Qing Chinese figure, 4th wife of Mao Zedong. St Joan of Arc , French saint see also Category: Operas about Joan of Arc. Joan I of Naples , Queen of Naples. Joanna of Castile , Queen of Castile and Aragon. Patriarch Job of Moscow , Russian Orthodox prelate. King John of England. John of Leiden , Dutch Anabaptist leader. Andrew Johnson , American President.

Johnson , American President. Julius Caesar , Consul and Dictator of Rome. Kennedy , American President. Johannes Kepler , German astronomer, mathematician. Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky , "Tararui" chatterbox , Russian boyar. Martin Luther King, Jr. Henry Kissinger , American Secretary of State. Leon Klinghoffer , American ship passenger murdered by terrorists.

Vasily Kochubey , Cossack hetman, associate of Ivan Mazepa. Mikhail Kutuzov , Russian field marshal. Ladislaus I of Poland: Lady Caroline Lamb , lover of Lord Byron. Adrienne Lecouvreur , French actress. Eleanor Agnes Lee , daughter of Robert E. Guillaume Le Gentil , French astronomer. Augusta Leigh , half-sister and incestuous lover of Lord Byron. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz , German writer. Brother Leo , friend and confidant of Francis of Assisi. Liliuokalani , Queen of Hawaii. Anne Morrow Lindbergh , American writer and aviator. Charles Lindbergh , American pioneer aviator.

Judah Loew ben Bezalel , Bohemian Talmudic scholar. Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell. Lucretia , Roman noblewoman raped by Sextus Tarquinius legendary. Martin Luther , initiator of the Protestant Reformation. Douglas MacArthur , American general. Jeanette MacDonald , American soprano, actress. Ralph McGill , American anti-segregationist journalist.

Colin McPhee , Canadian composer and musicologist. King Macbeth of Scotland. Gaius Maecenas , political adviser to Octavian Caesar Augustus. Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney. Giovanni Malatesta , husband and murderer of Francesca da Rimini. Malatestino Malatesta , Lord of Rimini. Paolo Malatesta , brother-in-law and lover of Francesca da Rimini. Jean-Paul Marat , Jacobin leader. Benedetto Marcello , Italian composer. Alexey Maresyev , Russian fighter pilot. Maria Carolina of Austria. Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.

Mark Antony , Roman politician and general. Saint Mary of Egypt , patron saint of penitents. Mary, Queen of Scots. Masaniello Tommaso Aniello , Neapolitan fisherman, revolutionary leader. Masinissa , first King of Numidia. Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor. King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. Maurice, Elector of Saxony. Ivan Mazepa , Cossack hetman, military leader. McCormick , American newspaper publisher. Cosimo de' Medici , ruler of Florence. Lorenzino de' Medici , Italian writer and assassin. Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.

Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov , Russian statesman. Bartolomeo Merelli , Italian impresario and librettist.

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Valeria Messalina , Roman Empress. Cornelia Metella , Pompey's second wife. Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich. King Mithridates VI of Pontus. Marina Mniszech , Polish noble and Russian political adventurer. Marilyn Monroe , American actress. Thomas Moore , Irish poet, songwriter. Thomas Morton , American colonist of New England. Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy , Elizabethan figure. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer. Gaius Mucius Scaevola , Roman figure. John Murray II , British publisher.

Eadweard Muybridge , English pioneer photographer. Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara. Carrie Nation , American temperance advocate and vandal. Nebuchadnezzar II , ruler of Babylon. Nefertiti , wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten of Egypt. Adam Albert von Neipperg , Austrian general. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson , British admiral, naval hero.

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Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Rikard Nordraak , Norwegian composer. Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman. Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , English admiral and statesman. Oberlin , Alsatian pastor, philanthropist. Empress Claudia Octavia of Rome, consort of Nero. Octavia the Younger , fourth wife of Mark Antony.

King Olaf I Tryggvason of Norway. Aristotle Onassis , Greek shipping magnate. Kennedy, then of Aristotle Onassis. Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist. Pylyp Orlyk , associate of Ivan Mazepa. Pier Francesco Orsini , Italian condottiero. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Italian composer. Sarah Palin , American politician, Governor of Alaska, vice-presidential candidate. Papantzin , Aztec princess, sister of Moctezuma II. Johan Papegoja , Governor of New Sweden.

Boris Pasternak , Russian novelist. Francisco Pelsaert , Dutch merchant, naval commander. Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Italian composer. King Peter of Castile , "Peter the Cruel". Peter the Hermit , priest and leader of the First Crusade. Gaius Petronius Arbiter , Roman courtier, writer.

Michele Pezza , Neapolitan guerilla leader, known as "Fra Diavolo". King Pharnaces II of Pontus. Gaspare Pisciotta , Sicilian peasant. Gaius Calpurnius Piso , Roman senator. Edgar Allan Poe , American writer. Poliziano Angelo Ambrogini , Italian renaissance poet, scholar. Pompey the Great , Roman military and political leader.

Porus , King of Paurava. Sister Helen Prejean , American nun, death penalty abolitionist. John of Procida , Italian medieval physician and diplomat. John Proctor , a tavern keeper in 17th century Massachusetts who was hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. Publius Valerius Publicola , Roman consul. Yemelyan Pugachev , Russian pretender to the throne. Qin Shi Huang , first Emperor of unified China. Nikolay Raevsky , Russian general. Gilles de Rais , French soldier and serial killer of children.

Elizabeth Raleigh , wife of Sir Walter Raleigh.

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Sir Walter Raleigh , English explorer and courtier. Grigori Rasputin , Russian mystic, confidant of Tsarina Alexandra. Rastislav of Moravia , second ruler of Moravia. Ronald Reagan , President of the United States. Wilhelm Reich , Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Penelope Rich, Lady Rich , English noblewoman. King Richard II of England. Rafael del Riego , Spanish general. Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian poet. Robert I, Duke of Normandy. Maximilien Robespierre , French revolutionary figure. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , English writer, libertine.

Rogneda of Polotsk , consort of Vladimir I of Kiev. Salvator Rosa , Italian painter and poet. Paavo Ruotsalainen , Finnish farmer and lay preacher. Lillian Russell , American actress and singer. Rustichello da Pisa , Italian writer. Oliver Sacks , British neurologist, writer. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just , French revolutionary figure. Antonio Salieri , Italian-Austrian composer. Mature beyond her years, she was a professional and the complete musical stage performer even as a student. Her singing is flawless — Karl Dent had a lot to do with that — but what makes her truly unique is her approach to the music and how masterful she is at communicating intellect, emotion and raw feeling to her audience.

She is capable of bringing whatever the composer or writer demands from a role and from her music.

There aren't many performers who can do that. Dent, who also has known Babb-Nelsen since her high school days, said in addition to being highly intelligent, quick to learn and memorize music and capable of tackling difficult music scores, she possesses another trait important to her success. She is a very special combination of all the talents necessary to be successful in the singing world — brains, brawn, beauty and a bountiful heart.

After arriving in Vienna on her Fulbright scholarship, she quickly became involved in the local music scene and part of several critically acclaimed productions. She said what she's gained from the experience far surpasses anything she may have missed out on in the process. Dent, who has followed Babb-Nelsen's success, said he has no doubt her success and rise in fame will continue for years to come. He said the leading roles she has sung and will continue to sing are indicative of the respect Vienna has for her abilities.

I believe she will continue to grow in her career, will always bear and wear her Texas Tech and Lubbock affiliations proudly and will continue to put Texas Tech on the map globally. In the upcoming season, Babb-Nelsen will perform again in the role of Violetta, this time in Vienna and Sweden. She is able to bring all of her talents to it for the betterment of humanity. Like Dent, Dolter said he knows Babb-Nelsen will continue to make her mark in the world of opera.

Only a few make the highest level, but there can be a place for anyone who believes and is willing to work. Rebecca had the ability and believed in herself. We should be so proud of her. She is proof that from here, it is possible.

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