Rigoletto composer5/27/2023 ![]() Scholar : SAVANTĪ “savant” is a learned person. “Nabob” comes from the title of a governor in India. Big wheel : NABOBĪ nabob is a person of wealth and prominence. The show is a creation of WGBH-TV in Boston. “Frontline” is a much-acclaimed PBS documentary program that has been airing since 1983. Her song “Yellow Flicker Beat” is included in the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1”. ![]() Lorde’s cover version of the great Tears for Fears song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” was used in the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” (2013). Lorde is a stage name of the singer-songwriter Ella Yelich-O’Connor from New Zealand. One-named singer with the #1 hit “Royals” : LORDE The Marne was the site of two major battles in WWI, one fought in 1914, and one in 1918.Ĭhampagne is a historic province in the northeast of France, famous of course for its sparkling white wine. The River Marne runs roughly northwestward for over 300 miles, running into the River Seine just outside Paris. Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles … 16. The Slings and Arrows of outrageous fortune ![]() Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer To be, or not to be, that is the question: My favorite opinion is that Hamlet is weighing up the pros and cons of suicide (“to not be”). There has been centuries of debate about how one interprets Hamlet’s soliloquy that begins “To be or not to be …”. However, “antsy” has been used in English since the 1830s, whereas “ants in the pants” originated a century later. The word “antsy” embodies the concept of “having ants in one’s pants”, meaning being nervous and fidgety. Famously, the piece appeared in the US in ads for Gatorade and Old Spice aftershave. One study placed “O Fortuna” as the most often played piece of classical music in the UK over the past 75 years, largely due to its use in television commercials. The best known movement of the cantata by far is the dramatic “O Fortuna” used at the opening and closing of the piece. The name translates as “Songs from Beuern”. “Carmina Burana” is a cantata by Carl Orff based on a collection of medieval poems that go by the same name. Carl who composed “Carmina Burana” : ORFF Our verb “to spay”, meaning “to surgically remove the ovaries of” (an animal) comes from an old Anglo-French word “espeier” meaning “to cut with a sword”. There can be no doubt that the meeting of these two artistic worlds will produce a result full of surprises.Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies Across As for the stage direction, the Berlin director and filmmaker Axel Ranisch will, for the first time, confront a piece by Verdi with his own offbeat universe, tinged with a burlesque melancholy, love of the circus and punk poetry. Ever ready to put one voice in the limelight, here it is the baritone that the composer honours in the tormented role of the jester, a concentration of the contradictions of the human condition, here entrusted to Roberto Frontali. ![]() It stands as the extremely dense first part of Verdi’s trilogy, which was to be completed by Il Trovatore and La Traviata. The meeting of two universes A black masterpiece, adapted from a rather unsuccessful play by Victor Hugo, whose characters Verdi carefully altered so as to avoid censorship, Rigoletto triumphed at the Fenice in Venice in 1851. But Gilda has taken his place and is killed instead. Dishonoured, Rigoletto engages a killer to assassinate the Duke. But the Duke kidnaps and seduces Gilda, who falls in love with him. Rigoletto, the jester of the Duke of Mantau, a depraved seducer, secretly protects his daughter Gilda from attention and danger, in fear of a curse pronounced by Monterone.
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