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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 680. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2. Willis, Stephen C. "Opera composition". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. "Television's audience for opera", The Guardian, 8 December 1966, p. 8. [full citation needed
Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. [1] It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
The host guides the viewer to the places of origin of each opera, and explores the culture, history—and modern and current trends and how they apply to opera. The show premiered on Servus TV in Austria and Germany on 17 January 2015, [6] on La 2 in Spain on 8 March 2015, on RAI 5 in Italy on 15 May 2015, [7] and on 19 August 2015, on Foxtel ...
The First Hundred Years was the first ongoing TV soap opera in the United States that began as a daytime serial, airing on CBS from December 4, 1950 until June 27, 1952. [ 1 ] A previous daytime drama on NBC, These Are My Children , aired in 1949 [ 2 ] but only lasted one month, and NBC's Hawkins Falls began in June 1950 as a primetime "soap ...
Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
The first episode of series 2 brought in 5.98 million viewers, bringing the show its highest ratings to date. Each week the results show featured a guest performance, normally an opera star singing to promote their upcoming album. For every vote cast, money was donated to the Nordoff-Robbins charity. The winner also received a payment for a ...
Idomeneo is a 181-minute television film of the Metropolitan Opera's first staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1781 opera Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante, produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and performed by a cast headed by John Alexander, Hildegard Behrens, Ileana Cotrubaș, Luciano Pavarotti and Frederica von Stade under the direction of James Levine.
Owen Wingrave, Op. 85, is an opera in two acts with music by Benjamin Britten and libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after a short story by Henry James. It was originally written for televised performance. It was originally written for televised performance.