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    Raoul Samuel Gunsbourg (January 6, 1860, in Bucharest – May 31, 1955, in Monte Carlo) was a Jewish-Romania-born opera director, impresario, composer and...
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    occasion of Monaco's National Day and on the occasion of a tribute to Raoul Gunsbourg. In December he sang the title role in Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto...
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  • and cinema pioneer Raoul Gueguen (born 1947), French modern pentathlete Raoul de Guînes (c. 992–1036), French nobleman Raoul Gunsbourg (1860–1955), Romanian...
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    Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was later killed. Blum's colleague Raoul Gunsbourg, the director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, helped by the French Resistance...
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    rewriting for a 1904 production in Monte Carlo by the theatre director Raoul Gunsbourg and André Bloch with new words by Barbier's son Pierre. The air "Scintille...
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    transported to Auschwitz, where he was later murdered. Blum's colleague Raoul Gunsbourg, the director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, helped by the French Resistance...
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    August 5, 6 and 7. She received the help of Antony Réal (the son), Raoul Gunsbourg (in charge of the artistic organisation) and Paul Mariéton [fr]. The...
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    deported. However, the prince did not intervene when Jewish-Romanian Raoul Gunsbourg, the longtime director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, was forced to resign...
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    instrumental in bringing Adelina Patti) and the fortunate combination of Raoul Gunsbourg, the new director from 1892, and Princess Alice, the opera-loving American...
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    Monte-Carlo on 18 February 1893, where it was produced by its director Raoul Gunsbourg with Jean de Reszke singing the role of Faust and Rose Caron, Marguerite...
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    the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on February 24, 1906, and was directed by Raoul Gunsbourg and conducted by Léon Jehin. Celebrated soprano Geraldine Farrar created...
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  • Italian Alberto Franchetti 1860 1942 Italian Axel Gade 1860 1921 Danish Raoul Gunsbourg 1860 1955 Romanian Celeste de Longpré Heckscher 1860 1928 American...
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    Young Lovers. Artistic directors included Edoardo Sonzogno (1887–88), Raoul Gunsbourg (1889-91) and Ferdinand Aymé (1950–82). Musical directors included...
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    health. In the next few years he was compelled to complete the work by Raoul Gunsbourg, director of the Monte Carlo Opera, who had insisted Ravel write a...
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    included in the published suite, which has four movements. In 1918 Raoul Gunsbourg, manager of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, invited Fauré to write a short...
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    conceived. The opera was one of six commissioned from Massenet by Raoul Gunsbourg for the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Don Quichotte was premiered in Monte...
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    professional debut as a substitute in the premiere of Ivan the Terrible, by Raoul Gunsbourg (at La Monnaie, 26 November 1910). Between 1914 and 1918 she sang a...
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    Tosca, Elsa, and eventually Isolde. She sang in the premieres of Raoul Gunsbourg's operas Le vieil aigle (1909), Le cantique des cantiques (1922) and...
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    was not a great success, partly because the director of the theatre, Raoul Gunsbourg, was more concerned with promoting his own opera, Vénise, which made...
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    Drigo and a group of dancers from the Imperial Ballet were invited by Raoul Gunsbourg, director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, to produce a ballet in Monaco...
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    November 1905), and Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust (adaptation by Raoul Gunsbourg, 21 February 1906) and Les Troyens (26 December 1906) Several of this...
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    and the French singing school, particularly during the 1952 season. Raoul Gunsbourg, then director of the Monte-Carlo Opera asked her to come and sing...
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    After a visit to the Opera House in Monaco (then newly set up under Raoul Gunsbourg), Sophie Cruvelli died aged 81 on 6 November 1907 in the Hotel de Paris...
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    Blanchefleur, Théâtre du Casino, Monaco, 13 March 1920 L'Archangel in Raoul Gunsbourg's Satan, Théâtre du Casino, Monaco, 20 March 1920 Casaglia, Gherardo...
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    operas to receive its premiere at the Opéra in Monte-Carlo run by Raoul Gunsbourg. In a centenary survey of the operatic output of Massenet, Rodney Milnes...
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    University Press, 2000), pp. 7–26. "Henri Busser"; "Paul Claudel"; "Raoul Gunsbourg"; "Tibor Harsanyi"; "Jean Huré"; "André Jolivet"; "E. L. T. Mesens";...
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    César Franck, was requested by the director of the Monte-Carlo Opera, Raoul Gunsbourg, to compose the rest. Alexandre Dratwicki notes that the opera bears...
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    orchestra, as well as Ivan le terrible (premiere), and Le vieil aigle by Raoul Gunsbourg. He died in Monaco, aged 74. In 1953, a centennial concert was held...
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    premiere on 14 March 1911, conducted by Léon Jehin and directed by Raoul Gunsbourg. The first performance was given on 28 August 1898 in the arena at...
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    America. In Chicago she added Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, Zina in Raoul Gunsbourg's Le Vieil Aigle, Isabeau in the North American premiere of Mascagni's...
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