drummer Clem Cattini) The Pirates. Ten UK hits between 1959 and 1964 included chart-topping ‘Shakin’ All Over’ (1960) and ‘I’ll Never Get Over You’ (1963, Top 5). When The Pirates left Kidd in 1961, later joining The Tornados, they were replaced by Frank Farley (drums), John Spence (bass) and Mick Green (guitar). Kidd died in a car crash ...
‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ Premiered on 16 July 1782, Die Entführung aus dem Serail quickly became his most popular work and sealed the composer’s operatic reputation in German-speaking lands. The Viennese expected plenty of laughs from a Singspiel. Mozart obliged with his first great comic creation: the ‘foolish, coarse and spiteful’ (Mozart’s words) harem overseer Osmin, a larger-than-life ...
Premiered: 1643, Venice Libretto by Giovanni Faustini Background Egisto and Clori, two lovers from Delos, have been captured by pirates and sold to different masters. On the day of her marriage to Lidio, Climene has also been captured and sold to the same master as Egisto. Act I One year later, Egisto and Climene have escaped ...
Italian slave. He asks Haly to find him an Italian woman for his harem. Lindoro does not wish to marry Elvira; he still loves his lost Italian sweetheart Isabella. Haly’s pirates return with their captives – Isabella, who is searching for Lindoro, and Taddeo, her admirer. The pirates try to separate them, but they claim that Taddeo ...
‘The Gallant Indians’ Composed in 1735, Les indes galantes is an opéra-ballet in which each act has its own setting and self-contained plot. Its four entrées include a scene set in a Turkish garden, Incas worshipping the sun in a Peruvian desert, a flower festival at a Persian market and a village ceremony in a North American forest. ...
Richard D’Oyly Carte at the Savoy theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Savoy operas’ swept through audiences like a whirlwind, rivalling Offenbach in Paris and Johann Strauss in Vienna. The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Patience (1881), Iolanthe (1882), The Mikado (1885) and many others ran for extended seasons on both sides of the Atlantic, and still retain their immense appeal. ...
The greatness of The Who is that they were two contradictory things at the same time. On the one hand was the sheer physical noise they made, an eruption of volcanic force that left bystanders stupefied. But on the other was a purely intellectual force. In their chief songwriter Pete Townshend, The Who had a true rock theorist, ...
due to exhaustion from continual touring. John Pocisk, who performed until 2005, died in 2006. Styles & Forms | Fifties | Rock Personalities | Johnny Kidd & The Pirates | Fifties | Rock ...
composer of operas, in which his songs vary from simple folk-like melodies to elaborate, italianate bravura arias. Notable successes were No Song, No Supper (1790) and The Pirates (1792). Recommended Recording: O Tuneful Voice: Songs and Duets from Late 18th-Century England, Emma Kirkby, Rufus Müller, Timothy Roberts, Frances Kelly (Hyperion) Introduction | Classical Era ...
a practice he considered vital to the success of an opera: close collaboration between composer and librettist. This, though, was no democratic arrangement: as Storace’s own opera The Pirates (1792) indicates, the effect in practice was to increase the importance of the music, while the words were of lesser standing. Introduction | Classical Era | Opera Personalities ...
smooth, white funk and arty, electronic alienation. Roxy Music and Germany’s Kraftwerk were the other major influences on the two complementary strands of the new romantics and futurism. Pirates And Posers When Londoner Stuart Goddard saw The Sex Pistols, he changed his name to Adam Ant and, after several punkish false starts, delivered a vibrant pop ...
As the 1960s approached, the controversy associated with rock’n’roll was superseded by an array of inoffensive smoothies on both sides of the atlantic. However, the ongoing popularity of artists such as Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Sam Cooke, and, in the UK, Lonnie Donegan, Billy Fury and Cliff Richard, ensured ...
the support band at his local Epsom dance hall and, one night in 1961, he warmed up for Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, two early British rock’n’roll acts. Even as a support act, Page’s guitar-playing captivated the young audience. London-based singer Neil Christian was one audience member that night and he ...
absurd that Offenbach invented in his operettas, however, did find its way into the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Two of their most successful collaborations, The Pirates of Penzance (1879) and The Mikado (1885), are thinly veiled satires on the British Establishment and its hypocritical moral codes, with the added bonus of Sullivan’s genius for placing ...
Since Puccini’s death in 1924, opera houses have made little room for living composers. While the core repertory has remained more or less fixed, the need for novelty has necessitated the rediscovery of works long forgotten. This in turn has required singers able to cope with different technical and aesthetic problems; indeed, it is usually the prominence of ...
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