career was brief. At 18 she made her debut at the Paris Opéra in 1832, singing the role of Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s (1791–1864) Robert le diable. However, Falcon was a mezzo-soprano who wanted to be a soprano and ruined her full, resonant voice by forcing it too high. By 1838 her career was over and an attempt ...
Vienna Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Background Keikobad, ruler of the spirit world, gave his daughter a talisman to transform herself into an animal. Hunted by the emperor’s falcon, she changed from a gazelle into a beautiful woman with whom the emperor fell in love, but the falcon flew off with the talisman. Act I Every month ...
Halka and asks the piper to play a lament. Halka waits outside the village church for the procession to arrive. She tells Zofia that she has lost Jasko, her falcon, and Janusz hurries them into the church. Halka imagines her child dying of hunger and is about to set the church on fire when she hears prayers within. Calling ...
(1987); duetting with Mick Jagger on ‘Dancing In The Street’ for Live Aid); acting (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Into The Night, Absolute Beginners, Labyrinth); and soundtracks (‘The Falcon And The Snowman’, ‘When The Wind Blows’). In 1989 he formed a band called Tin Machine with the rhythm section from Iggy Pop’s band and made two self-titled, rock-oriented ...
to produce a ‘chest voice’ top C, an extraordinarily high note beyond the range of many tenors before and since. Introduction | Early Romantic | Opera Personalities | Cornélie Falcon | Early Romantic | Opera Houses & Companies | Paris Opéra | High Romantic | Opera ...
Hailed as one of hard rock’s greatest rhythm guitarists, Malcolm Young (b. 1953) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. When he was 10, the family emmigrated to Sydney, Australia, where Malcolm and younger brother Angus were taught to play guitar by elder sibling George, a member of The Easybeats. Malcolm founded AC/DC with Angus in 1973. ...
guitars, but onstage and in the studio, he uses just a few instruments: a 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop; Martin D-45 and D-28 acoustics; Gretsch 6120 and White Falcon electrics; and a 1927 Gibson Mastertone, a six-string banjo, tuned like a guitar. Essential Recordings 1970 Solo: After The Gold Rush 1972 Solo: Harvest 1979 with Crazy Horse: ...
Falls; 1982’s abstract Off Ramp (which introduces his use of guitar synthesizer); 1983’s Rejoicing, a subdued guitar-trio setting with bassist Haden and drummer Billy Higgins; 1984’s film soundtrack The Falcon And The Snowman, which included a collaboration with pop star David Bowie on ‘This Is Not America’; and 1986’s provocative Song X, an historic collaboration with one of ...
the fiddle. So the tunes changed. In 1928, the recording industry sought out the good-time dance music and a 78rpm disc, ‘Allons à Lafayette’, by Joseph and Cleoma Falcon, was released. Cleoma Falcon’s brother Amédé Breaux then released a recording of ‘Jolie Blonde’ (‘Pretty Blonde Girl’), which would become as important to Cajun music as the phrase ‘Woke ...
1639–82, Italian Alessandro Stradella was in his native Rome, writing intermezzi and other music for revivals of operas by Cavalli and Cesti, when he became embroiled in a quarrel with the Catholic authorities. He then had to leave Rome and decamped to Genoa, where he arrived in 1678. By that time, Stradella had composed several operas ...
(Vocals, b. 1935) Floyd first found fame with the 1950s gospel soulsters The Falcons. After going solo, he eventually migrated to Stax Records as writer and producer; with Steve Cropper he co-wrote ‘634-5789’, a No. 1 R&B hit for Wilson Pickett (who had replaced him in The Falcons). The pair also wrote ‘Knock On Wood’, originally meant for Otis ...
(Vocals, 1941–2006) After an early career with the seminal R&B group The Falcons (he replaced Eddie Floyd as lead singer), Pickett signed with Atlantic in 1965, recording with Booker T. And The M.G.s at Stax in Memphis, and scored an early hit with ‘In The Midnight Hour’, first of many successes characterized by mighty horn stabs ...
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