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2 unusual facts about At the Opera House


At the Opera House

This album is typical of Ella's concert repertoire in the mid 50's, singing swing standards, and songs referencing her recent 'Songbook' series, in this case, the Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart songbooks.

The first half of the 1990 CD edition includes a performance that was recorded on September 29, 1957 at the Chicago Opera House, whilst the second half highlights the concert recorded on October 7, 1957 at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles.



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Bernard d'Ascoli

In 2000 he was a special guest of the Sydney Olympic festivities, appearing at the Opera House both as recitalist and soloist with the Sydney Symphony.

Franz Ferenczy

He continued to study further in Vienna from 1855-1858 before making his professional opera debut in 1859 under the name Franz Ferenczy as Manrico in Verdi's Il trovatore at the opera house in Graz.

Galina Gorchakova

She moved to Novosibirsk in Siberia with her parents who were singers at the opera house there.

Jenny Erpenbeck

After the successful completion of her studies in 1994 (with a production of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle in her parish church and in the Kunsthaus Tacheles, she spent some time at first as an assistant director at the opera house in Graz, where in 1997 she did her own productions of Schoenberg's Erwartung, Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and a world premiere of her own piece Cats Have Seven Lives.

Khedivial Opera House

Verdi's opera Rigoletto was the first opera performed at the opera house on 1 November 1869.

Triumph Church

In June 2010, after six months of weekly occupancy at the Opera House, Triumph transitioned its 11 am service into two different services at two different locations; a 10:45 am service at the Millennium Centre and an 11:45am service at the East Campus.

Triumph Church held weekly worship services at the Opera House from January 3, 2010 through June 6, 2010, including an Easter Sunday worship service featuring the Grammy award-winning gospel musician Kirk Franklin.

Wilhelm Elsner

Born in Brno, Elsner received his training in his native city from Hermann Pfeiffer before making his professional opera debut in 1889 at the opera house of Linz.