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    The Transposed Heads is an opera in one act with six scenes composed by Peggy Glanville-Hicks. She also wrote the libretto which was adapted from Lowe-Porter's...
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    The Transposed Heads (German: Die vertauschten Köpfe) is a novella by Thomas Mann. It was written in 1940 and published later that year by Bermann-Fischer...
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    Peggy Glanville-Hicks (category American opera composers)
    Classical Composition at the APRA Music Awards of 1996. Her best known operas are The Transposed Heads and Nausicaa. The Transposed Heads is in six scenes with...
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  • Moritz von Bomhard (category Music directors (opera))
    and record five new operas in English commissioned by the orchestra. One of these was Peggy Glanville-Hicks's The Transposed Heads which premiered in April...
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    performances at the festival, after which the opera became one of the two best known works by the composer, the other being The Transposed Heads. Despite its...
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    and the Minnesängers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, with music and text by Richard Wagner (WWV 70 in the catalogue of the composer's...
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    Asian Sculpture Wing. Swati also worked on the Indian choreography for Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads, adapted by Sidney Goldfarb and Julie Taymor...
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    Albert Herring (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    The Rape of Lucretia. The libretto, by Eric Crozier, was based on Guy de Maupassant's novella Le Rosier de Madame Husson, with the action transposed to...
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    version of "Contro un cor", transposed up a tone, in E. Once after Patti had sung a particularly florid rendition of the opera's legitimate aria, "Una voce...
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    Julie Taymor (category American opera directors)
    credits include The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, The Transposed Heads, based on the novella by Thomas Mann, co-produced by the American Musical...
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  • Loren Driscoll (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    Glanville-Hicks' Transposed Heads (Phoenix Theatre, New York City, 1958) Edgar Linton in Carlisle Floyd's Wuthering Heights (Santa Fe Opera, 1958) Pedro de...
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    French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language. It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing...
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    A Life for the Tsar (Russian: Жизнь за царя, romanized: Zhizn za tsarya listen) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail...
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  • Quando me'n vo' (category Opera excerpts)
    act two of Puccini's 1896 opera La bohème. It is sung by Musetta, in the presence of her bohemian friends, hoping to reclaim the attention of her occasional...
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    puritani (The Puritans) is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino...
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    Giulio Cesare (category Opera seria)
    a dramma per musica (opera seria) in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1724. The libretto was written by...
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    instability in the 19th century. It was sometimes sung by sopranos, and at other times transposed for tenors such as John Braham who sang the role 1827. Considered...
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    sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between...
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    Christmas operas are operas which are thematically based on either the Nativity of Jesus or secular Christmas stories. The earliest Christmas operas appeared...
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    Kleinbürger) 1933/1933 Round Heads and Pointed Heads (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe) 1931–34/1936 The Horatians and the Curiatians (Die Horatier und...
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  • (1912–1990): Nausicaa, The Transposed Heads Philip Glass (1937– ): 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, Akhnaten, Appomattox, La Belle et la bête, The Civil Wars: A Tree...
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    that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater...
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    suicide on the night of Oct 29 or 30, 1772. He shot himself in the head with a pistol borrowed from Kestner. The novel was adapted as the opera Werther by...
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    interpolated the aria "[which?]" (transposed from C to B-flat) from Rossini's La donna del lago. His successor, Jean-Baptiste Faure, sang the role in 1871...
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    Treemonisha (category Operas set in the United States)
    Treemonisha (1911) is an opera by American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. It is sometimes referred to as a "ragtime opera", though Joplin did not refer...
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  • Iphigénie en Tauride (category Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera)
    18 May 1779 by the Paris Opéra at the second Salle du Palais-Royal and was a great success. Some think that the head of the Paris Opéra, Devismes, had...
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  • Michael Mann (scholar) (category German emigrants to the United States)
    joining the German faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. Mann published a number of books on musicology, short stories, an opera libretto...
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    French opera Le marchand de Venise was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 25 March 1935. The late André Tchaikowsky's (1935–1982) opera The Merchant...
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    music arranged by Gentry Warden. It featured a setting transposed from Japan to a tropical island. The show was first staged by an all-black company in Chicago...
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    King Lear (redirect from King Lear (opera))
    their respective Shakespeare in the Parks seasons. The 2002 version was directed by Michael Collins and transposed the action to a West Indies, nautical...
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