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1748–1829, English William Shield, who was both composer and librettist, belonged to a trio of musicians (with Charles Dibdin and Stephen Storace) who dominated the English comic opera stage in the late eighteenth century. Shield started out as an apprentice boat builder, but moved on to become a violinist. In 1772, he arrived in London from ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Poppea sees Ottone fleeing, pursued by Arnalta, and assumes that the figure is Drusilla. Act III Drusilla is arrested for the attempted murder of Poppea and, to shield Ottone, pleads guilty and is sentenced to death. Ottone then comes forward, explaining that he was acting under Octavia’s orders. This makes the situation fairly straightforward for Nero ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Zauberflöte. Subsequently, Schikaneder returned to theatrical management, but in 1806 he suddenly went mad and had to leave Vienna. Introduction | Classical Era | Opera Personalities | William Shield | Classical Era | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

way when Led Zeppelin passed through town. It’s no wonder the band had such a turbulent ride, nor that they depended upon the forceful bulk of Peter Grant to shield them from the fall-out. The rock writer and movie director Cameron Crowe (of Almost Famous fame) recalled seeing Grant introduce himself to Bob Dylan. And Dylan’s laconic reply ? ‘I ...

Source: Led Zeppelin Revealed, by Jason Draper

Aida, set in Ancient Egypt, was not composed to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, as has often been suggested. Nor was it commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt to mark the opening of the Cairo Opera House that same year. It happened that the French Egyptologist, Auguste Mariette, keeper of monuments to ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Verdi’s five-act opera Don Carlos was taken from a drama written in 1787 by the German playwright Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805). Written for the Paris Opéra, Don Carlos was first performed there on 11 March 1867. Schiller’s play was translated and the libretto written by Joseph Méry, who unfortunately died before it was completed, and Camille du Locle ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Strauss saw Hedwig Lachmann’s German version of Oscar Wilde’s play in Berlin in 1903. Directed by Max Reinhardt, it made an immediate impression on the composer and he decided to set Lachmann’s text himself. The relatively short length of Salome allowed Strauss to approach the composition as though it were another of the tone-poems with which he had established his ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Alternative-rock guitarist Kevin Shields (b. 1963) was born in Queens, New York. When he was 10, the family relocated to Dublin, where he learned guitar as a teenager with Johnny Ramone as his role model. My Bloody Valentine came together in 1984. The band moved to Holland and then Berlin, where they recorded the mini-album This Is ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

(Vocal/instrumental group, 1983–97, 2007–present) MBV began as a thrashy 1960s garage band and ended up redefining the sound of rock guitar on the swirling, distorting but lambently beautiful Loveless (1991). Isn’t Anything from 1988, features slightly more recognizable tunes and song forms. Vocalist/guitarist Bilinda Butcher contributed lyrics and (guitarist/vocalist) Kevin Shields the revolutionary sounds. Deb Googe (bass) ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Rock and jazz guitarist Neal Schon, son of a jazz saxophonist and composer, was born in Oklahoma in 1954. A precocious talent, he learned guitar at the age of 10 and joined Santana at 15, turning down an invitation to join Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominos. Schon made two albums with the band, Santana ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

(Instrumental group, 1917–25) The Original Dixieland Jass Band were five young white musicians from working-class uptown New Orleans – Nick LaRocca (cornet), Larry Shields (clarinet), Eddie Edwards (trombone), Tony Spargo (real name Sbarbaro, drums) and Henry Ragas (piano). All alumni of ‘Papa’ Jack Laine’s stable of bands, they went to Chicago and then to New York, where ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

A crucial figure in New York’s late 1970s new-wave scene, Tom Verlaine (b. 1949) was born Thomas Miller in New Jersey. At an early age, he learned piano before switching to saxophone, inspired by John Coltrane. He took up the guitar in his teens and began forging his own style, searching for new ways of expressing himself ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

Originally coined as a criticism of the bands’ static stage performances – band members were said to stand stock still staring at their shoes – the so-called shoegazers played slow- or medium-paced rock, generally with heavily distorted or heavily reverbed guitars topped by dreamy, melodic and ethereal vocals. Influenced by the use of distorted guitars by The Jesus & ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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