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La dame blanche (French pronunciation: [la dam blɑ̃ʃ], The White Lady) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu.The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels Guy Mannering (1815), The Monastery (1820), and The Abbot (1820). [1]
The critic Alfred Mortier suggested that the piece might be called "The Elderly Dame Blanche" or the "Gioconda of Quillebeuf". [2] Félix Clément, in his Dictionnaire des opéras (1880), called the piece a plagiarism of Martha and La dame blanche adapted for the benefit of lovers of the suggestive.
The name Lammendam is a Dutch adaptation of the French term "La Dame Blanche", which translates to "The White Lady." This name was given to the ghost that appeared in Schinveldse Bossen by French farmers who had evacuated to the Netherlands during the French revolution. [3] [7]
The confrontation between Boule-de-Neige and three ministers in act 3 uses the musical theme "Prenez garde! la Dame blanche regarde!" from Boieldieu's La dame blanche. The device of having a man disguised as the bear while reducing the bite of the plot (from the dog in Barkouf) made the piece more acceptable to the public. [8]
In 2009, Rone released a new maxi, entitled "La Dame Blanche". The track was later remixed by LCD Soundsystem's bass player Tyler Pope and Austrian electronic music artist Clara Moto. The same year he brought out his first album Spanish Breakfast, also on Infiné. Electronic Beats ranked him in their top 25 Best Albums of 2009. [4]
Anna Schechner as Weiße Dame in François-Adrien Boieldieus La dame blanche, Lithograph by Joseph Lanzedelly the Elder, ca. 1830 Nanette Schechner , real name Anna Schechner , married name Anna Schechner-Waagen , (3 February 1804 – 29 April 1860) was a German operatic soprano .
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Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez (19 March 1964 – 9 November 2016), better known as La Veneno ('The Poison'), was a Spanish singer, actress, sex worker, and media personality.. Considered one of the more important and beloved LGBT icons in Spain since her death, she rose to fame in 1996 after being discovered in the park where she worked as a sex worker by Faela Sainz, a reporter for the late-night ...