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...on Sunday. (Kozinn) CORA BURGGRAAF/SIMON LEPPER (Sunday) After the Dutch mezzo-soprano Cora Burggraaf made her Covent Garden debut in 2005, The Observer in London named her "Most Promising Newcomer of the Year. " This rising young artist...

In this article: Sunday, Lincoln Center, Elliott Carter, Manhattan, New York City, James Levine, and Daniel Barenboim

...Grisi. One famous musical director of Drury Lane was the eccentric French conductor and composer of light music Louis-Antoine Jullien (1812-1860), who successfully invited Berlioz to visit London and give concerts in the Theatre. The...

In this article: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Drury Lane, Thomas Killigrew, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, King's Company, Duke's Company, Charles Macklin, and Christopher Wren

Frank Patterson performed sell-out concerts from London's Royal Albert Hall to New York's Carnegie Hall, and with his family he presented two concerts at the White House, for Presidents Ronald Reagan in 1982 and Bill Clinton in 1995. He...

In this article: Frank Patterson, New York City, John Huston, Clonmel, Colin Davis, Dublin, John Bruton, Lisa Marie Presley, and Millers Crossing

...the United States. In 1972, Norman debuted at La Scala, where she sang the title role in Verdi's Aida and at London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden, where she sang the role of Cassandra in Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens. Norman appeared as...

In this article: Jessye Norman, Carnegie Hall, Augusta, Aida, New York City, United States, Salzburg Festival, Cassandra, Berlin Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic

...by Bemberg. In January 1892, McGuckin was called in to sing Berlioz' Damnation of Faust in two concert performances in London given by the Halle Orchestra, with George Henschel and Mrs Henschel as Mephisto and Marguerite: 'Mr Barton...

In this article: Barton McGuckin, Damnation of Faust, Ivanhoe, Lohengrin, Alberto Randegger, Alexander Mackenzie, George Henschel, and Alwina Valleria

...painter, creating a portrait of Prince Albert in 1851. Later he often returned to London to do portraits of celebrities such as Charles Dickens and the French composer Hector Berlioz. Baugniet also designed the first Belgian postage stamp,...

In this article: Brussels, Belgian House of Representatives, Horace Vernet, Prince Albert, Leopold I of Belgium, and Paul Delaroche

...fantasque and Trois valses romantiques. In later years, as a conductor of Wagner especially, he visited London and New York , where he was guest conductor for the Metropolitan Opera in 1903. In 1904 he was made a director of the Akademie...

In this article: Felix Josef von Mottl, Emmanuel Chabrier, Munich, Orchestration, Akademie der Kunste, Tristan und Isolde, Ernest van Dyck, and Hans Richter

...of our longing." He also translated Berlioz's autobiography, published by Gollancz in UK in 1969. He conducts the Thorington Players, a London-based orchestra that plays regularly in St Mary's Church, Putney and St. John's, Smith Square.

In this article: David Cairns, Hector Berlioz, Yorkshire Post, Sunday Times, The Spectator, St Mary's Church, Putney, and St. John's, Smith Square

...Pixis, Francois-Joseph Fetis and Friedrich Kalkbrenner and was a close friend of Frederic Chopin and Hector Berlioz) and a member of a London family that had had associations with Rossini , Meyerbeer , Jenny Lind, Michael Balfe and Anton...

In this article: Paul Verlaine, Brussels, and Nellie Melba