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unusual facts about Gluck



Alessandro Bonci

On them, he is heard to best advantage in operatic arias by Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and Gluck, but he was also renowned in Europe and the United States for his Rodolfo in Puccini's La boheme, his Riccardo in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and his Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto.

Bernard Germain de Lacépède

His leisure he devoted to music, in which, besides becoming a good performer on the piano and organ, he acquired considerable mastery of composition, two of his operas (which were never published) meeting with the high approval of Gluck; in 1781–1785 he also brought out in two volumes his Poétique de la musique.

Chasing Fortune

Chasing Fortune (German: Die Jagd nach dem Glück) is a 1930 German drama film directed by Rochus Gliese and starring Catherine Hessling, Alexander Murski and Amy Wells.

Dance in Israel

From its inception until 1979, the prima ballerina of Batsheva was Rina Schenfeld; she and Rena Gluck were the company's principal dancers for many years.

Dance of the Happy Shades

The title of the main story is the English translation provided for the ballet in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice when it was first presented in London.

Doug Varone

As a director and choreographer, he has staged Gluck’s Orfée et Eurydice and Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Opera Colorado and Laurent Petitgirard’s Joseph Merrick: The Elephant Man (for Minnesota Opera).

Earle J. Gluck

Gluck also served in organizations such as the Kiwanis Club, Civitan Club, and the Boy Scouts of America.

Ernst Kurth

Kurth studied musicology with Guido Adler (a student of Bruckner and Hanslick) in Vienna, and earned his Ph.D (1908) with a thesis about Christoph Willibald Gluck's's operatic style.

Eva Gronbach

Summer 2006: „Glück auf“ - Made of former coal miner's working clothes to symbolize the coal workers culture in the Ruhr area.

First Live Recordings

#"Ain't Nothing Shakin'" (Fontaine, Colacrai, Lampert, Gluck) – 1:14

Frederick Gluck

Frederick W. "Fred" Gluck (born 1935) was a longtime top senior partner and director at management consultancy McKinsey & Company, serving as managing director (chief executive) from 1988 to 1994.

Ingrid Caven

She starred alongside Carole Bouquet in the film Day of the Idiots as a doctor and won an award for Outstanding Individual Achievement: Actress at the German Film Awards of 1982 for her performance as Inga in the film Looping - Der lange Traum vom kurzen Glück

König Ottokars Glück und Ende

König Ottokars Glück und Ende is a tragedy in five acts written by Franz Grillparzer in 1823.

Malcolm Gluck

Gluck's other controversial statements include, "Terroir is rubbish. It is complete utter balderdash from the first syllable of its pretentious and mendacious utterance to its last".

Mario Rossi

Mario Rossi (March 29, 1902, Bitetto– June 29, 1992, Rome) was an Italian conductor, noted for his solid and meticulous readings of a repertory ranging from Italian classics to Russian moderns such as Prokofiev, to the German operatic classicist Christoph Willibald Gluck.

Marusha

Söhne Mannheims - Dein Glück 2001 Trip To Asia (Movie) - Temple Remix 2007

Moritz Makes his Fortune

Moritz Makes his Fortune (German:Moritz macht sein Glück) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Sig Arno, Viktor Schwannecke and Willy Prager.

Number opera

The replacement of numbers with more continuous music began in operas by Jommelli, Traetta, Gluck, and especially Mozart, whose late operas Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni contain several segments in which different numbers are unified by bridge passages to form a musical whole.

Opera Quotannis

The ensemble's first production was in January 1991, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, with counter-tenor Derek Lee Ragin as Orpheus and soprano Tracey Mitchell as Euridice, with a period-instrument orchestra, at the Church of St Paul the Apostle at Lincoln Center.

Paride ed Elena

Paride ed Elena (Paris and Helen) is the third of Gluck's so-called reform operas for Vienna, following Alceste (Alcestis) and Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice), and the least often performed of the three.

Peter L. Gluck

In the 1970s and 1980s Gluck designed projects of all types including the Marriot Casa Marina (Key West, Florida), Ojai Valley Inn (Ojai, California), Trancas Medical Center (Napa, California) work for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Technimetrics Inc., Lloyd's Bank International in New York, in addition to many private residences.

After designing a series of houses from New York to Newfoundland, Gluck went to Tokyo to design large projects for Takenaka Komuten Co., LTD a leading Japanese construction consortium.

Piano Squall

In 2008, Gluck was employed by videogame publisher EA to create an orchestral arrangement of the Ultima Online main theme, which was featured in the official trailer entitled “Fall of Magincia”.

As of 2008, Gluck had been a musical guest at more than thirty anime conventions, including Sakura-Con '06 and '07, A-Kon '06, and Otakon '05, where he performed for an audience of three thousand people.

Renato Fasano

The best-known of Fasano's recordings (most of which were for the RCA label) is that of an opera by a non-Italian musician: Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, with Shirley Verrett, Anna Moffo, and Judith Raskin in the cast.

Suzanne Adams

While in France she sang numeroues roles by Gounod and Meyerbeer, as well as the Queen of the Night in the The Magic Flute and the title role in Gluck's Eurydice among other roles.

The Plague

Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.

Turhan Bey

A documentary film about Bey, Vom Glück verfolgt. Wien - Hollywood - Retour, was made in 2002 by Andrea Eckert.

Uno Entre Mil

This album was the end of the artistic relationship between the production team of the 1980s: Miguel Blasco, José Ramón Florez, Jesus Glück, Gian Pietro Felisatti… Mijares wanted to evolve, renew his career, and he made it.

Ursula Neugebauer

It is a constant that runs through her entire oeuvre in various forms—from verschwinden (Disappear, 1999) and Briefe (Letters, 2001) to zu Tisch (At Table, 2011) and the video ...das grösste Glück, welches vorstellbar ist (The Greatest Happiness Imaginable, 2010), a work about the mathematician Grigori Perelman.

Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Kriege

Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Kriege ("On the misfortune and fortune of art in Germany after the last war") is a 1990 book-length essay by the German writer and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.

Whirled into Happiness

Whirled into Happiness is a musical comedy with music by Robert Stolz, and book and lyrics by Harry Graham, adapted from Stolz's Der Tanz ins Glück, with a libretto by Robert Bodanzky and Bruno Hardt-Warden.


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