Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

Since 2000, there have also been complete recordings issued or re-issued of the operas Axur Re d ' Ormus, Falstaff, Les Danaïdes, La Locandiera, La grotta di Trofonio, Prima la musica e poi le parole and Il mondo alla rovescia.

The prolific operas of these composers, plus the works of Verdi's maturity, such as Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos / Don Carlo, the revised Simon Boccanegra, Aida, Otello and Falstaff, blazed many new and rewarding performance pathways for baritones.

He made his premiere at Glyndebourne in 1990 and went on to build an international career as Falstaff and, more generally, in the operas of Mozart and Wagner.

Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 184210 June 1918 ), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

The operas in the company's first provincial tour included Die Meistersinger, Lohengrin, La bohème, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Tosca, Falstaff, Faust, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Il trovatore, and the first performances in English of Turandot.

While in Amsterdam Monteux conducted operas, including Pelléas et Mélisande, its Dutch premiere, Carmen, The Tales of Hoffmann, a Lully and Ravel double bill of Acis et Galatée and L ' heure espagnole, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride ( also brought to the Paris Opéra ) and Verdi's Falstaff.

* Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, is based on the play, although, as with most operas adapted from the theatre, there are significant differences as to characters and plot.

With exhilarating performances of Verdi's Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Otello and Falstaff, and Richard Strauss's Salome, Arabella, and Der Rosenkavalier, Kertész also proved himself a master of the finest of Italian romantic operas.

In 1961, Freni made her Royal Opera House debut as Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, and in 1963, her La Scala debut also as Nanetta ; Freni went on to become one of Herbert Von Karajan's favourite singers, working with him in operas and concerts.

Kallman also translated Verdi's Falstaff ( 1954 ), Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea ( 1954 ) and many other operas.

As sources, Shakespeare's plays provided Verdi with lifelong inspiration: some, such as King Lear were never realized but he wrote his two final operas using Othello as the basis for Otello ( 1887 ) and The Merry Wives of Windsor as the basis for Falstaff ( 1893 ).

BYS also performs complete semi-staged operas ( Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, MacBeth and Falstaff ).

In 1989, he started the fifth period, the last, of his musical writing: He composed three operas ( lyric tragedies ) Medea, first performed in Bilbao ( 1 October 1991 ), Elektra, first performed in Luxembourg ( 2 May 1995 ) and Antigone, first performed in Athens ' Megaron Moussikis ( 7 October 1999 ).

It is heard in his operas Insect Life ( 1985-87 ), The Book of Secrets ( 1998 ), and Before We Are All Drowned ( 1995 / 99 ), in the Symphonies no.

* Soap operas: Josep Maria Benet i Jornet is the most prolific soap opera author, having penned successful series like Poble Nou ( 1993 – 94 ) and its sequel Rosa ( 1995 – 96 ), Nissaga de Poder ( 1996 – 98 ) and its sequel Nissaga, l ' herència ( 1999 ), Laberint d ' ombres ( 1998-00 ).

His compositions include eight symphonies, twelve concertos, choral works ( several for unaccompanied choir, including Vigilia ( 1971 – 1972 )), sonatas for various instruments, string quartets and other chamber music, and a number of biographical operas including Vincent ( 1986 – 1987, based on the life of Vincent van Gogh ), Aleksis Kivi ( 1995 – 1996 ) and Rasputin ( 2001 – 2003 ).

In 1995, Fairchild returned to daytime soap operas as the catty Sydney Chase on The City.

* Till, Nicholas ( 1995 ) Mozart and the Enlightenment: truth, virtue, and beauty in Mozart's operas.

Thus, with the premiere of The City in 1995, Angie and Frankie became the first two individuals who have been regular characters on three ABC soap operas.

Opened in 1995, the " Projac " ( officially named " Central Globo de Produção ", or Globo Central Production Center ), where most of their shows are produced, is one of largest TV production centers in the world and the biggest in Latin America, with numerous lots and urban areas as backdrops for soap operas.

Gibbs is perhaps best known for starring in soap operas such as Another World as Gary Sinclair from 1995 to 1998 and Santa Barbara as Dash Nichols from 1990 to 1992.

) Other important works include twelve string quartets, the operas Die Hamletmaschine ( 1983 – 1986, text by Heiner Müller ) and Die Eroberung von Mexico ( 1987 – 1991, based on texts by Antonin Artaud ), over twenty song-cycles, the oratorio Deus Passus ( 1999 – 2000 ) commissioned by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, the chamber orchestra piece Jagden und Formen ( 1995 – 2001 ) and a series of related orchestral works bearing the title Vers une symphonie fleuve.

Brewster made her debut in daytime soap operas, with a one-time appearance on All My Children as Anita Santos, followed by a recurring role on As the World Turns as Nikki Munson from 1995 to 2001.

Formed in Baixada Fluminense, the band has placed hits in soap operas, like the frustrated remake of Irmãos Coragem, broadcast in Rede Globo in 1995.

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Michael D. Laibson is an American television producer and theatre director who is notable for producing soap operas such as As the World Turns ( 1986 – 1988 ), Another World ( AW ) ( 1988 – 1993 ), All My Children ( Senior Producer ) and Guiding Light ( 1995 – 1996 ).

The aim was to present all Verdi's operas, either on stage or in concert performance, between 1995 and the centenary of Verdi's death, 2001.

Peter Pratt ( 21 March 1923 – 11 January 1995 ) was an English actor and singer who is best remembered for his comic roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.

His other operas include Amalie ( premiered 1995 at the Musikteateret Undergrunden in Aarhus ), Dronning Boudicca ( Queen Boudica ) ( premiered in 1997 at Anden Opera in Copenhagen ) and I-K-O-N ( premiered in 2002 at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Six operas have been premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival since 1967: The Horseman ( 1975 ), The King Goes Forth to France ( 1984, commissioned jointly by Covent Garden and the BBC ) and The Palace ( opera ) ( 1995 ) by Aulis Sallinen, The Knife ( 1989 ) by Paavo Heininen, Aleksis Kivi ( 1997 ) by Einojuhani Rautavaara and The Age of Dreams ( 2000-2001 ) by Herman Rechberger, Olli Kortekangas and Kalevi Aho.

The Bayreuth Festival opens July 23 with a new production of `` Tannhaeuser '' staged by Wieland Wagner, who is doing all the operas this time, and conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch.

It seems he was involved in the production of operas and involved in finishing the architectural designs of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff who had fallen ill.

In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.

* The traditional three-point lighting set-up routinely used in filmmaking and television production is also used on daytime soap operas, sometimes with accentuated back lighting to lift actors out of the background.

None of these programs emerged as long-running successes and Neighbours and Home and Away remained the most visible and consistently successful Australian soap operas in production.

Due to the economics of television production in Canada, relatively few daily soap operas have been produced on English Canadian television, with most Canadian stations that do air soap operas airing American or British ones.

La Scala hosted the prima ( first production ) of many famous operas, and had a special relationship with Verdi.

These included two companies touring with Patience, two touring with other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, one touring with the operetta Olivette ( co-produced with Charles Wyndham ), one with Claude Duval in America, a production of Youth running at a New York theatre, a lecture tour by Archibald Forbes ( a war correspondent ) and productions of Patience, Pirates, Claude Duval and Billee Taylor in association with J. C. Williamson in Australia, among other things.

After its original production, Iolanthe was not revived in London until 1901, making it the first of the operas to be revived after the composer's death the year before.

When Władysław was king ( as Władysław IV ) he oversaw the production of at least ten operas during the late 1630s and 1640s, making Warsaw a center of the art.

In 1864 a fire burned everything except the stone walls and the Savoy Chapel, and the property sat empty until Richard D ' Oyly Carte bought it in 1880 to build the Savoy Theatre specifically for the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, of which he was the producer.

There is some evidence that the sets for the Met's production had been taken from some of their other operas, and at the second performance that season the work was given in concert, with the ballet sequences omitted ; in this form the work traveled to Boston, where it was performed on 3 March 1895.

This production formed part of a long association between the company and Massenet and his operas, two of which were presented there posthumously.

At her behest, he travelled to Prague in 1866 to arrange the production of Glinka's operas there.

Overall, about 4 / 5 of Tveitt's production are now gone from that fire, which included symphonies, concertos, choral works, operas, and many piano works.

His most famous works for theater are two operas with libretti by Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts, especially famous for its use of an all-black cast, and The Mother of Us All, as well as incidental music for Orson Welles ' Depression-era production of Macbeth, set in the Caribbean, known as Voodoo Macbeth.

Le prophète – Act 4, scene 2, of the original production, set design by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph ThierryMeyerbeer was always concerned to intensify the theatricality of his operas, even when new ideas emerged at a relatively late stage in the music's composition.

The architecture of Festpielhaus accomplished many of Wagner ’ s goals and ideals for the performances of his operas including an improvement on the sound, feel, and overall look of the production.

" Sir Henry Wood, who had been répétiteur for the production, recalled in his autobiography that " Carte had had a repertory of six operas instead of only one, I believe he would have established English opera in London for all time.

He performed as a boy soprano soloist in operas including Pelléas et Mélisande and The Magic Flute, both at the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera, and in another production of Pelléas with the Santa Fe Opera.

In the late 80s, actresses Ángela Meyer and Camille Carrión founded a production company named Empresas Meca which produced some of the last telenovelas ( soap operas ) in Puerto Rico: La Isla, Ave De Paso starring Yolandita Monge, Yara Prohibida and La Otra.

It also provided an opportunity for Bayreuth to renew itself with each production, rather than continue to present the same operas in the same way, year after year.