Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz tɔmɑ]; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas...
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(Offenbach) Ophélie, Hamlet (Ambroise Thomas) Oscar, Un ballo in maschera (Verdi) – trouser role Philine, Mignon (Ambroise Thomas) Philomele, The Love of the...
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composer Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896). All premieres took place in Paris unless otherwise noted. Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), 'Thomas, Ambroise' in The New...
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Hamlet is a grand opera in five acts of 1868 by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French...
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Mignon (category Operas by Ambroise Thomas)
1866 opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas. The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré...
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principal music college, the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied under Ambroise Thomas, whom he greatly admired. After winning the country's top musical prize...
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she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman...
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Raymond, ou Le secret de la reine (category Operas by Ambroise Thomas)
Raymond, ou Le Secret de la reine, is an opéra comique composed by Ambroise Thomas on a libretto by Joseph-Bernard Rosier and Adolphe de Leuven, premiered...
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high D (D6). Final cadenza from the Valse in Ophélie's Mad Scene (Act IV) from the opera Hamlet (1868) by Ambroise Thomas (piano-vocal score, p. 292)....
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repertoire such as Philine in Mignon and Ophélie in Hamlet, both by Ambroise Thomas, and the title role of Lakmé by Leo Delibes. She performed as Susanna...
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(Berlioz)* Meg, Little Women (Mark Adamo) Mignon, Mignon (Ambroise Thomas)* Miranda, The Tempest (Thomas Adès) Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)*...
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1871 to 1891 and composition from 1891 to 1896, when he succeeded Ambroise Thomas as the Conservatoire's director. He continued his predecessor's strictly...
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repeated this gesture twice – on the deaths of Charles Gounod in 1894 and Ambroise Thomas in 1896. Professors from the Conservatoire were elected on both occasions...
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Ambrose Thomas may refer to: Ambrose Thomas (artist) (1880–1959), English artist Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896), French composer This disambiguation page...
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such prominent composers as Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi and Ambroise Thomas. They included the leading baritone parts in L'Africaine, Don Carlos...
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permanently by Ambroise Thomas, who held the post from 1871 to 1896. Auber's health deteriorated and in May 1871 he took to his bed. Two friends – Thomas and his...
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Ambroise (French: [ɑ̃.bʁwaz]) is a given name and surname. People with the name include: Ambroise (fl. c. 1190), a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third...
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Ambroise Paré (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II,...
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Amleto), an 1865 Italian opera by Franco Faccio Hamlet (Thomas), an 1868 French opera by Ambroise Thomas Hamlet, a 2006 German opera by Anno Schreier Hamlet...
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Lyrique to the Paris Opera, where she created the role of "Ophelia" in Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet. This was followed in 1869 by the Paris Opera's first production...
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Merry Wives of Windsor. Le songe d'une nuit d'été (1850), an opera by Ambroise Thomas in which Shakespeare and Falstaff meet. Falstaff (1893), Giuseppe Verdi's...
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and was not published until 1932. The director of the Conservatoire, Ambroise Thomas, was a deeply conservative musician, as were most of his faculty. It...
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French equivalent of Ophelia Ophélie, character in Hamlet (opera) by Ambroise Thomas "Ophélie", poem by Arthur Rimbaud set by: "Ophélie", art song by Paul...
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reminiscences of popular tunes by, amongst others, Camille Saint-Saëns and Ambroise Thomas. It was premiered in Paris the year it was composed, as intermission...
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tragedy (1901; written for D'Annunzio's mistress, Eleonora Duse) Ambroise Thomas, Françoise de Rimini, opera (Paris 1882) Antonio Scontrino, Francesca...
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performance, in which she played Ophelia in the very first performance of Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet at the Vienna Court Opera. Her most noted roles included the...
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basketball player Amber Thomas (born 1993), Canadian Paralympic swimmer Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896), French opera composer Ambry Thomas (born 1999), American...
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Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély Antoine François Marmontel [pupils] Ambroise Thomas [pupils] Józef Wieniawski Giuseppe Balducci Vincenzo Bellini Michael...
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in Gounod's Faust with the Dutch National Opera, the title role in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet and Alphonse XI in Donizetti's La Favorite at the Deutsche...
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Delibes, Duparc, Grétry, Lalo, Lully, Offenbach, Saint-Saëns and Ambroise Thomas. Many of Beecham's later recordings of French music were made in Paris...
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