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• Opera
• Turn of the Century

1882–1967, American Farrar made her debut in Faust at the Berlin Königliches Opernhaus. She rapidly acquired a strongly devoted audience who were as enamoured with her looks and stage presence as with her voice. She remained in Berlin until 1906, when she made a successful debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Farrar retired from the operatic stage ...

• Personalities
• Opera
• Turn of the Century

lyrical love story told at a distance. Introduction | Turn of the Century | Opera Major Operas | Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák | Turn of the Century Personalities | Geraldine Farrar | Turn of the Century | Opera ...

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• Classical
• Composer
• Late Romantic

France in 1910, which lasted 16 minutes, while Cecil B. de Mille mounted a grand Hollywood spectacle in 1915, with the famous and beautiful American singer Geraldine Farrar as Carmen. Carmen Jones, a musical using Bizet’s score with a new text by Oscar Hammerstein II, was produced on Broadway in 1943 with an all-black cast. The ...

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• Classical
• Composer
• Late Romantic

, was sung at the premiere by the Czech soprano Emmy Destinn, who had been London’s first Butterfly at Covent Garden. Another famous Butterfly was the American soprano Geraldine Farrar, first to sing the role at the Metropolitan Opera, where she created the title role of Suor Angelica. Many baritones have found Scarpia, the sadistic Chief of ...

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• Guitar Heroes
• Rock
• Rock’n’Roll

in the mid-1960s. After The Shadows split up in 1968, Marvin made a self-titled solo album in 1969, and then formed the vocal-harmony trio Marvin, Welch & Farrar, which developed into a revived version of The Shadows. The new line-up’s debut, Rocking With Curly Leads (1973), saw Marvin experimenting with a vocoder. By the 1980s, ...

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• Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival
• Country

sense that a successful blend of the two would come out of a place like Belleville. The Belleville Trio It was at Belleville West High School in 1984 that Jay Farrar (vocals, guitar, b. 1966) met Jeff Tweedy (vocals, bass, guitar, b. 1967) and drummer Mike Heidorn and formed a trio called Uncle Tupelo. At first ...

• Personalities
• Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival
• Country

songwriting gifts. The results inevitably recalled Uncle Tupelo and its similar blend of influences, but there was a crucial difference. In contrast to the self-effacing demeanor of Tupelo’s Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, Adams was a charismatic rock star, an impulsive man-child who would do anything to grab the audience’s attention. Whiskeytown attracted national attention with an EP ...