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(La-o’ De-lebz’) 1836–91 French composer Known as ‘the father of modern ballet’, Delibes studied with Adolphe Adam and after his first ballet, La Source (1866), composed two enduring masterpieces: Coppélia (1870), which combines brilliantly orchestrated mazurkas, czardas, waltzes and boleros with dramatic symphonic music; and Sylvia (1876), best known as a concert suite, its delightful ‘Pizzicato’ popularized in ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1836–91, French Delibes was initially taught by his mother and uncle before entering the Paris Conservatoire. He worked as an accompanist and chorus master at the Théâtre Lyrique as well as writing occasional music. Delibes soon completed his first full stage work, Deux sous de charbon (1855), which was produced in 1856. His second work, Deux vieilles gardes ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, the highest of the family, can be heard in Ravel’s Boléro. In the orchestra, the saxophone was initially written for by French composers such as Saint-Saëns, Delibes and Bizet. Because the saxophone’s early successes were in France and in band music, when Strauss took his Symphonia domestica to New York in 1904 finding the necessary four ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1843–1919, Italian The Italian soprano Adelina Patti was among the greatest of all prima donnas. As such, she enjoyed special privileges. One was exemption from rehearsals. Another was top pay for her time, amounting to $5,000 (£2,725) a performance after 1882. Patti made her singing debut at age seven, and first appeared on stage at ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

radical style. Recommended Recording: The Stone Guest, soloists, Bolshoi Theatre Chorus and Orchestra (cond) Andre Tchistyakov (Chant du Monde) Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | Léo Delibes | Late Romantic | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Dies from cancer, Paris Introduction | Turn of the Century | Opera Major Operas | Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy | Turn of the Century Personalities | Léo Delibes | Turn of the Century | Opera Houses & Companies | Opéra-Comique | Early Romantic | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

writers. Meilhac’s most renowned partnership, which began after a chance meeting outside a Paris theatre in 1860, was with Ludovic Halévy. They produced libretti for Bizet, Léo Delibes (1836–91) and most famously for Offenbach. Meilhac and Halévy had great talent for depicting and satirizing the foibles and shortcomings of human nature. The Meilhac-Halévy libretto for Bizet’s dramatic and ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

b. 1965 French soprano Dessay’s performance as Olympia (Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann) at the Opéra Bastille (subsequently repeated at the Vienna State Opera, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera) established her reputation as the world’s leading French coloratura soprano. She made frequent appearances as Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) and as Donizetti’s Lucia, Delibes’ Lakmé, and ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

definitive production two years after the composer’s death. Its balance of narrative drama with sheer melodic charm took to greater heights the achievements of the ballets by the French composer Delibes, Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876). Tchaikovsky had not heard them when he composed Swan Lake, but he soon fell under their spell. For him, they came to ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

not only many of the nineteenth-century Italian operas which Callas had revived, but also operas by Handel, early works by Verdi, and French operas by Meyerbeer, Delibes and Massenet. Many, though not all, of the operas exhumed for Callas and Sutherland were recorded by them. Although some have found themselves reinterred, both singers proved ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

It foreshadows the style of the incantation from Act II of Delibes’ Lakmé, which would be premiered in 1883, although as yet Massenet does not go as far as Delibes in invoking the orient through pastiche. Hérodiade, first given in 1881, goes much further, and was fuelled by the international success of Le roi de Lahore. Here ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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