Thomas, (Charles Louis) Ambroise
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Thomas, (Charles Louis) Ambroise (
b Metz, 1811;
d Paris, 1896). Fr. composer.
Prix de Rome 1832. Wrote some ballets for Paris Opéra, but from 1840 concentrated on operas for Opéra- Comique, achieving greatest success with
Mignon (1866) and
Hamlet (1868). Prof. of comp. Paris Cons. from 1856, dir. from 1871. Other stage works incl.
Le songe d'une nuit d'été (1850),
Raymond (1851),
Le Carnaval de Venise (1857), and
Françoise de Rimini (1882). Also wrote choral works,
Fantasia for pf. and orch., chamber mus., and songs.
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Doubting Thomas
Magazine article from: Opera News; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Once part of the operatic mainstream, Ambroise Thomas's Mignon is now a lavender-scented relic. As...November 25, 1871, review of the New York premiere of Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon, which took place at the Academy...
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RECITAL: Thomas Allen
Magazine article from: Opera News; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Rossini, Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Thomas, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Britten...in English comes this recital by Thomas Alien, one of the most durable...s fun to have the brindisi from Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, and here Alien has...
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THOMAS: La Cour de Célimène
Magazine article from: Opera News; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; OPERA AND ORATORIO THOMAS: La Cour de Climne * Claycomb, Rodgers...Besides, the music is beautiful. Ambroise Thomas (1811-96) was a fine craftsman...passages, are not unexpected. Yet Thomas's full-bodied sonorities are firmer...
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Cypress Bay, St. Thomas rule.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 10/28/2006; 700+ words
; ...next seven finishers were St. Thomas boys, led by runner-up Martin...is exciting for her," St. Thomas coach Trish Butler said...Marietta (CC) 22:18, 23. Ambroise (BA) 22:19, 24. Van...GIRLS Team scores: 1. St. Thomas Aquinas 21, 2. Boca Raton...
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THOMAS: Mignon
Magazine article from: Opera News; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; OPERA AND ORATORIO THOMAS: Mignon * Vignon, Massis; Gabriel...Opra Comique in Paris, Mignon earned Ambroise Thomas the Cross of the Legion of Honor for...version (with spoken dialogue), so Thomas obliged with a death scene for Mignon...
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Monstrous conceptions and Lodge's 'Robin the Devil.' (Thomas Lodge)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Readers of Thomas Lodge's work have attempted to account in various ways for the grimly...fostered by a number of medical treatises on teratology, among them, Ambroise Pare's On Monsters and Marvels (1573). I want to further suggest...
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Vocal music.
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Offenbach, Gioachino Rossini, Ambroise Thomas, and Giuseppe Verdi. An Anthology...Meyerbeer, Camille Saint-Saens, Ambroise Thomas, and Giuseppe Verdi. An Anthology...Ernest Reyer, Gioachino Rossini, Ambroise Thomas, and Giuseppe Verdi. An Anthology...
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OPERA: O, what a falling off was there... HAMLET Royal Opera House London oo999
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the remains of Shakespeare's Hamlet as exhumed by Ambroise Thomas and his librettists Michel Carre and Jules Barbier...to it. A great play needs a great composer - and Ambroise Thomas was never that. His score - six years in the making...
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Milnes plays melancholy `Hamlet' to the hilt
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/15/1990; ; 671 words
; "Hamlet" by Ambroise Thomas, presented by the Lyric Opera at the Civic Opera House Saturday...planned an opera about Jesus Christ but settled for "Parsifal." Ambroise Thomas selected an equally difficult subject, "Hamlet," and moreover...
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La laitière de Trianon
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 3/1/2009; ; 508 words
; ...Opera Rara's recent release of Ambroise Thomas's Cour de Climne, we are in...the home of a certain "Mme. Thomas," as Commons tells us in his...essay, when it is clearly Mme. Ambroise Thomas (as stated in the libretto...
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Ambroise Thomas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ambroise Thomas , 1811-96, French operatic composer, studied at the Paris Conservatory...He later taught composition there and became its director in 1871. Thomas wrote cantatas, a number of ballets, and 20 operas, of which Le Ca...
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Thomas, (Charles Louis) Ambroise
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Thomas, (Charles Louis) Ambroise ( b Metz, 1811; d Paris, 1896). Fr. composer. Prix de Rome 1832. Wrote some ballets for Paris Opéra, but from...
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Humor
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Erasmus (1466? – 1536) and Thomas More (1478 – 1535) and exemplified...Laurent Joubert [1529 – 1582], Ambroise Par é [1510 – 1590...physiology; in the seventeenth century Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679), following...
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Gout
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...notable names from history who qualify under both theories are: Ambroise Par é (1510-1590), chief surgeon to three kings of France Philip II (1527-1598), king of Spain Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), English physician, sometimes called...
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Mignon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Mignon. Opera in 3 acts by Ambroise Thomas to lib. by Barbier and Carré based on Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795–6). Prod. Paris 1866, London 1870, New Orleans 1871, NY 1883.
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