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The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".
Overture to La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) - 6:37; Overture to L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) - 8:35; Overture to Semiramide - 13:11; Overture to Il signor Bruschino - 04:55; Overture to La cenerentola (Cinderella) - 8:30; Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) - 10:17; Overture to Guillaume Tell (William ...
La gazza ladra, an 1817 opera by Rossini; La gazza ladra, 1934 short by Corrado D'Errico; La gazza ladra (animated film) , 1964 Italian animated film about a "real" thieving magpie with soundtrack based on Rossini's opera; Thieving Magpie , 1848 novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre; Thieving ...
The second soundtrack album contains a synthesiser version of Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie); the film contains an orchestral version. In 1998, a digitally-remastered album edition, with tracks of the synthesiser music was released.
"La Gazza Ladra" ("The Thieving Magpie", Abridged) (Gioachino Rossini) 5:50: Not actually commissioned for the movie, but inspired by the movie's use of the orchestral version. "Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)" 1:44: The title theme reset in the style of Beethoven and played using flute-like tones. "Ninth Symphony: Second Movement" 4:52
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Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales [1] [2] (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is an English retired actress. [3] She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991), for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award. [4]