(Vocal/instrumental group, 1999–present) It was the title track from their third album that brought Gossip and larger-than-life frontwoman Beth Ditto to the world’s attention. The three-piece dance-rock band – the other members being guitarist Brace Paine and drummer Hannah Blilie – released ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ in 2006, which became an indie anthem. Ditto became something of ...
Sophie is excitedly waiting for the Knight of the Rose to arrive. Octavian appears, richly dressed, and makes the presentation. They are immediately attracted. She knows all the gossip about him. She promises to be faithful to her future husband, but she has never seen anyone as handsome as Octavian. Sophie is horrified by Ochs’ manners when Faninal ...
Composed: 1958–64 Premiered: 1965, Cologne Libretto by the composer after Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz’s play Act I Marie Wesener, the daughter of a Lille merchant, and Stolzius, a draper in Armentières, are in love, but his mother disapproves. Marie rejects the advances of Desportes, a nobleman. The officers at Armentières discuss seduction. Desportes sends ...
certainly not to marry. He will always love her as a brother, but no more. Act II The dance to celebrate Tat’yana’s nameday is in full swing. The guests gossip about Onegin’s reputation as a gambler and a drunk. Soon he is bored and flirts with Olga, to Lensky’s dismay. Monsieur Triquet offers verses in Tat’yana’s honour. Lensky is ...
, Grimes drags him away. Act II A church service begins while Ellen sits knitting in the sun with John, the new apprentice. As Mrs Sedley, the local gossip, watches, Ellen finds a tear in John’s coat and a bruise on his neck, observing ‘Well… it’s begun’. Grimes has spotted a shoal that no one else ...
1878–1933, Czech Born in Prague as Ema Kittl, Destinn studied with Marie Loewe-Destinn, whose name she adopted out of gratitude. She made her debut at the Hofoper in Berlin with the role of Santuzza from Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. Her most famous performances are those of Minnie in the premiere of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West at the Metropolitan ...
(Vocals, songwriter, b. 1948) Gail Davies initially played jazz, and then formed a duo with her brother, songwriter Ron Davies. After session work in Los Angeles, she moved to Nashville in the mid-1970s. Two breaks came in 1978: Ava Barber’s only US Top 20 country hit was Davies’ song ‘Bucket To The South’, and Davies released ...
computer graphics to simple shadows to convey the characters without actually revealing the masterminds behind them. 2010 brought Plastic Beach. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | Rock Personalities | Gossip | Twenty-First Century | Rock ...
I’m having lunch in a Chelsea restaurant with a sprightly gent of 60-plus. His wits are quick and he’s a fabulous source of softly spoken gossip. He reflects a moment on one especially key evening in his life, early in 1963. ‘If you’re not sure who rock’n’roll belongs to,’ says Andrew Loog Oldham, ‘then it surely isn’t you ...
a wealthy landowner and silk manufacturer. The two embarked on a passionate love affair, which was later romanticized in literature, but caused a considerable scandal at the time. Gossip about it was all the more vigorous because in 1831, Bellini had become internationally famous after writing two more operas La sonnambula (‘The Sleepwalker’, 1830) and Norma (1833). Bellini’s ...
illicitly, and it is easy to underestimate the fascination audiences had with discussing the merits and foibles of the most famous singers. Castrato Status In addition to the usual gossip and adulation that surrounded the prima donna, audiences were equally passionate about the leading man, the primo uomo. He was almost always a castrato – a singer who ...
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