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Rue de l'Odéon

18: Agnes Goodsir, the Australian artist, lived here in the 1920s and 30s with her companion, Rachel Dunn.


3 Magic Words

The film premiered in the U.S. at the Harmony Gold Theater in Hollywood and had its European premiere in London on December 21, 2012 at the Odeon West End in Leicester Square.

Barnet

High Barnet is home to an Odeon cinema, the Barnet Museum, the All Saints Art Centre, the traditional annual Barnet Fair, which was chartered in Medieval times, the Ravenscroft local park and Barnet recreational park, a now disused well that was frequented by, among others, Samuel Pepys, and many restaurants and public houses.

Carrefour De Lodéon

The name of the show is a double entendre: it may refer to the Carrefour de l'Odéon, a square in Paris located in the 6th arrondissement, and the last name of the host.

Charles Zeuner

His oratorio “The Feast of Tabernacles,” which was published in 1832, was premiered by the Boston Academy of Music in 1837 at the Odeon.

Cineplex Entertainment

By May 1998, Drabinsky had lost control of Cineplex to the Bronfmans' Seagram and its MCA division, which subsequently merged Cineplex Odeon Theatres with Sony's Loews Theatres.

Cineplex Odeon Corporation

Also, in 1986, when federal regulations had been relaxed, MCA (owners of Universal) purchased a stake in Cineplex Odeon.

Digital Cinema Media

The new company supplied cinema advertising for Odeon, Cineworld as well as ABC and UCI Cinemas prior to their respective takeovers by Odeon.

El Ateneo

Glücksman started his own radio station in 1924 (Radio Splendid), which broadcast from the building where his recording company, Nacional Odeón, made some of the early recordings of the great tango singers of the day.

Francisco Tárrega

In 1881, Tárrega played in the Opera Theatre in Lyon and then the Paris Odeon, in the bicentenary of the death of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Hôtel de Condé

The Hôtel de Condé comprised almost all the terrain in the 6th arrondissement of Paris that is now enclosed within rue de Condé, Vaugirard and Monsieur-Le-Prince and the crossroads of the Odéon.

Jeanne Granier

For the gala re-opening of La Vie de Bohème at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1875, Granier appeared in Act I as Musette, singing "La Jeunesse et l'amour" (with words by Meilhac and music by Massenet); likewise a song for Esmeralda "Mon père est oyseau, ma mère est oyselle" was composed by Massenet in 1879 for her appearance in Notre-Dame de Paris.

Los Mustang

In October 1962, Los Mustang recorded their debut album on EMI-Odeon, featuring cover versions of popular songs like "Quinientas Millas", Peter, Paul and Mary's "500 Miles", Johnny Hallyday's "Madison Twist", and Spanish songs "He de saber" and "No lo ves".

Marcia o Crepa

In the UK this film was shown at Odeon cinemas as part of a double feature with The Day of the Triffids.

Minos EMI

In 1991, EMIAL purchased a controlling share of Minos Matsas & Son, a record company founded by pioneering Greek music industry executive and prominent rebetiko musician Minos Matsas, in 1927, and which also edited music under the label Odeon and which produced, since then, records under the Minos label.

Nusch Éluard

Born Maria Benz in Mulhouse (then part of the German Empire), she met Swiss architect and artist Max Bill in the Odeon Café in Zurich; he nicknamed her "Nusch", a name she would stick to.

Oberkorn

In addition, Depeche Mode also used the Oberkorn song as a prelude to the My Secret Garden song from the A Broken Frame album when recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon, now named HMV Hammersmith Apollo.

Odeon Records

In 1936 the director of the Odeon branch was forced to retire and replaced by Dr. Kepler, a Nazi party member.

Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

:For other theatres with this name, see Odeon

Odeonsplatz

On the west side, which is set back from the line of the Ludwigstraße, are the Odeon (1826–28, now the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior) and the identical Palais Leuchtenberg (1817–21, now the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance), both modelled on the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.

Osvaldo Fresedo

He then went on to record again for several years on Odeón, until nearly the end of the 1950s, with singers Héctor Pacheco, Carlos Barrios, and Armando Garrido.

Patriarch Evtimiy Square

The Odeon Cinema lies in the western part of the square and the Bulgartabac headquarters lie to the south of it.

Phoenix Cinema

The major alterations of 1938 were a response to competition from the new 1000 seater 'picture palaces' being built by chains such as Odeon, ABC and Gaumont in the surrounding area.

Pierre-Eugène Grenier

A student of Joseph Isidore Samson at the Conservatoire, he won first prize in declamation before making his debuts at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1854 in the play The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais.

Rue de l'Abbaye

The abbot's garden also exists to this day and was the scene of one of the most sombre episodes of the French Revolution, the September Massacres of the 2nd to 5 September 1792.

The abbot's palace (Palais Abbatial), commissioned by Charles de Bourbon in 1586, is still occupied (Nos 1-5).

Simon Goddard

Originally planned to mark the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s July 1973 “retirement” concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, the book’s release ended up coinciding with Bowie’s 2013 comeback album The Next Day and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s record-breaking David Bowie Is exhibition.

Telephonetics

Founded in 1993 by Anthony McKay and Bill Burgar (who developed the original software) Telephonetics VIP software is used by multiplex cinema including Odeon and Cineworld as well as NHS Acute Health Trusts including Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

The Manhattan Transfer Live

The Manhattan Transfer Live was recorded by The Manhattan Transfer live at Manchester on 23 April 1978, Bristol on 28 April 1978, and the Hammersmith Odeon Theatre, London, on 2 May 1978.

Théâtre du Rond-Point

In the post-war years, the Theatre du Rond-Point was one of the principal venues—along with the Theatre Marigny and the Theatre de l'Odeon—where the Madeleine Renaud-Jean-Louis Barrault Company introduced the world to many of the plays of Jean Giraudoux, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, and Samuel Beckett.

Walter Passmore

Between 1900 and 1913, Passmore recorded over a dozen of individual songs from the Gilbert & Sullivan operas for Odeon.

In an historic 1908 recording of The Mikado for Odeon that was reissued by Pearl on LP (GEMM 198), Passmore also sang the role of Ko-Ko.

William Apess

Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apes, an Indian (1836).


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