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    Appomattox is an opera in English based on the surrender ending the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher...
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  • the early 20th century Appomattox (opera), a 2007 opera in based on the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass Appomattox (statue), a bronze Confederate...
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    Francisco Opera has presented several world premieres under David Gockley's tenure. So far these include Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton's Appomattox in...
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    Philip Glass (category American opera composers)
    collection. Appomattox, an opera surrounding the events at the end of the American Civil War, was commissioned by the San Francisco Opera and premiered...
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    politician Alexina Louie: Mulroney: The Opera Howell Cobb, American political figure Philip Glass: Appomattox Walter Cocking, dean at the University of...
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  • This is a list of individual opera composers and their major works. The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in...
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    Christopher Hampton (category British opera librettists)
    led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Appomattox was also performed as an opera with Philip Glass at The Kennedy Center in 2015. In 2020...
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  • Nightingale and the Rose. In July 2009 they performed the European Premier of Appomattox by Glass.[citation needed] The company's 2006 production of Sondheim's...
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    performance. In 2012, he starred in the debut of Christopher Hampton's play Appomattox at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, playing a dual role as both U.S...
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  • Philip Skinner (category American opera singer stubs)
    of Edgar Ray Killen when San Francisco Opera staged the world premiere of the Philip Glass opera, Appomattox, and in 2015 he created the role of Casaubon...
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  • Dwayne Croft (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    2000, and that of Robert E. Lee in Philip Glass's Appomattox. His brother, Richard Croft, is also an opera singer of international renown. A native of Cooperstown...
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    On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., with his...
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  • voices, chorus and orchestra (2005, after the novel by J. M. Coetzee) Appomattox (2007, libretto by Christopher Hampton) Kepler (2009, libretto by Martina...
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  • written libretti for operas. Only librettists with their own articles in Wikipedia are listed. The name of the composer of each opera is also given. Contents: ...
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    led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Appomattox was also performed as an opera with Philip Glass at The Kennedy Center in 2015. In 2020...
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    multidisciplinary, hands-on children's museum. Appomattox Courthouse: The site of the Battle of Appomattox Court House, where the surrender of the Confederate...
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    Hill to push back the remaining Union forces from the battlefield. At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment...
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    pp. 65–66. See John C. Waugh, The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox—Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers (Ballantine Books:...
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  • Richard Croft (tenor) (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    Robert E. Lee in the debut production of Appomattox. He also portrayed the role of Loge in the Metropolitan Opera's 2012 production of Wagner's Das Rheingold...
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    Canby offered Taylor the same terms agreed upon between Lee and Grant at Appomattox. Taylor accepted the terms and surrendered his command on May 4 at Citronelle...
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  • Elza van den Heever (category 21st-century South African women opera singers)
    part of the Merola Opera Program and the San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellowship, creating the role of Mary Custis Lee in Appomattox by Philip Glass, conducted...
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  • as Ulysses S. Grant in Philip Glass' Appomattox at San Francisco Opera. In 2003 he appeared as Hans Sachs in Opéra de Nantes' production of Die Meistersinger...
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    "The Greatest Man in the World", and "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox". The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze has several short stories...
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    Kim Delaney (category American soap opera actresses)
    known for her stint as innocent teenager Jenny Gardner Nelson on the soap opera All My Children, which also was her first job. She played the character...
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  • Chad Shelton (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    world premiere of Philip Glass's Appomattox at the San Francisco Opera (2007). Shelton has appeared with numerous opera companies throughout the United...
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    Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln Allan Sears as Klansmen Dark Cloud as General at Appomattox Surrender Vester Pegg Alma Rubens Mary Wynn Jules White Monte Blue Gibson...
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  • Sandy Boucher Twelve Ancillary Approximations for the Quark/ Cover Called Appomattox, by Russell FitzGerald "Carthing", by A. E. van Vogt "Daughter of Roses"...
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    llega al Cervantino en forma de ópera" [The deeds of Harriet Tubman arrive at the Cervantino in the form of an opera]. La Jornada (in Spanish). Archived...
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    the convention organizers had planned to use had been double-booked by an opera troupe. Almost all delegates were instructed to support Frémont, with a...
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  • David Gockley (category American opera managers)
    Opera Names a New Director," The New York Times, February, 2005 Anthony Tommasini, "Appomattox," New York Times, October 2007 Joshua Kosman, "Opera review:...
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