Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une Loge à l’Opéra, Au Concert (A Box at the Theater, At the Concert) 1880 Oil on canvas, 99.4 x 80.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Une Loge à l’Opéra (1880)
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Bernard Herrmann
(1911–1975) Max ‘Benny’ Herman Works: • Movie Theme Songs • “Scene d’amour” from Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” • Vertigo (1958) Filmography as Composer: Citizen Kane 1941 Director: Orson Welles Starring: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore Vertigo 1958 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Kim…
Claude Debussy
(1862–1918) Achille-Claude Debussy Works: • Arabesques (1888-1891) • Children’s Corner (1908) • Images (1905-1907) • Jeux (1913) • La Mer (1905) • Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) • Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894) • Préludes (1909-1913) • Quatuor à cordes…
Mikis Theodorakis
(1925–2021) Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης Works: • Electra (1962) • Golden Collection (Instrumental) • Iphigenia (1977) • The Trojan Women (1971) • Zorba’s Dance (1964) • Zorba the Greek (1964) Filmography as Composer: Electra 1962 Director: Michael Cacoyannis Starring: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis …
Maria Callas
(1923–1977) Μαρία Κάλλας Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos Filmography as Actress: Medea 1969 Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti Born December 2 1923 New York, NY (USA) Died September 16 1977 Paris (France) Cause of death Heart…
Julie Taymor
(1952) Filmography as Director: Frida 2002 Director: Julie Taymor Starring: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina Born December 15 1952 Newton, MA (USA) Occupation Film director Opera director Occupation Theatre director Screenwriter Writer Awards Emmy Laurence Olivier Award Tony
George Gershwin
(1898–1937) Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz Works: • An American in Paris (1928) • Concerto in F (1925) • Girl Crazy (1930) • Porgy and Bess (1935) • Rhapsody in Blue (1924) Filmography as Composer: Funny Face 1957 Director: Stanley Donen Starring:…
Richard Wagner
(1813–1883) Wilhelm Richard Wagner Works: • Das Rheingold (The Ring of the Nibelung) (1869) • Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (1843) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) (1868) • Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) (1870) • Götterdämmerung…
Luchino Visconti
(1906–1976) Luchino Visconti di Modrone, conte di Lonate Pozzolo Filmography as Director: Bellisima 1951 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari Senso 1954 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Alida Valli, Farley Granger Le Notti Bianche 1957 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni …
La classe de danse (1874)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…