- L'enfant et les sortilèges
... ra]] in one act, with music by [[Maurice Ravel]] to a [[libretto]] by [[Colette]]. It is the second Ravel opera, the first being ''[[L'heure espagnole] ...
... lette wrote the text in eight days. Several composers were proposed to Colette to write the music, but she only was enthused with the prospect of Ravel ...
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- Colette
| name = Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
| image = SidonieGabrielleColette.jpg
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- List of compositions by Maurice Ravel
* '''7''', ''[[Menuet antique]]'' for piano (1895), orchestra (1929)
* '''10''', ''D'Anne jouant l'espinette'', song with harpsichord or piano after Clément Marot (1896)
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- Claire Gibault
* Prize for harmony, fugue, counterpoint, aesthetics and the history of music, Paris Higher National Conservatory of Music ( ...
... Italie by Nina Rota, whilst La Station Thermale (recorded by Ricordi) and Les Oiseaux de Passage by Fabio Vacchi and Dédale by Hugues Dufourt (recorded ...
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- Suzanne Danco
... [[Oedipus rex (opera)|Oedipus Rex]] by Stravinsky, and Ellen Orford in [[Peter Grimes]]), at the [[Teatro di San Carlo]] (Marie in [[Wozzeck]]), at the ...
... Melisande]] and the Princess in Ravel's [[L'enfant et les sortilèges]]. Yet she also had success in some Italian works such as [[The Barber of Seville ...
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- L'Enfant
* [[L'enfant et les sortilèges]], an opera by Maurice Ravel.
* [[Pierre Charles L'Enfant]], an architect and civil engineer credited with planning the cit ...
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- List of opera librettists
... [libretto|libretti]] for [[opera]]s. Only librettists with their own articles in Wikipedia are listed. The name of the composer of each opera is also gi ...
==List of operas by librettist's last name==
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- Maurice Ravel
... [chamber music]], [[vocal music]] and [[orchestral music]] have become staples of the concert repertoire.
... Mussorgsky]]'s ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'', uses tonal color and variety of sound and [[instrumentation (music)|instrumentation]] very effectively ...
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- List of operas by title
... t of [[opera]]s''' with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by opera title, with the name of the composer and the year of the fi ...
==Alphabetical listing==
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- Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
... ch ''[[haute-contre]]'', written for a very high tenor voice with no [[falsetto]] singing.
... ly sought after by casting directors for many of opera's character tenor roles.
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- George Balanchine
{{seealso|Category:Ballets by George Balanchine}}
| birthplace = [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]]
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- List of New York City Ballet repertory
{{Portal|Ballet}}
{{seealso|New York City Ballet 2008 Winter Repertory|NYCB 2008 Spring Repertory}}
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- The opera corpus
... 'List of operettas' is incorporated here) as well as other more formal styles of opera. It covers the full historical period from the birth of opera in ...
... -1960): ''[[Ball im Savoy]]'', ''[[Die Blume von Hawaii]]'', ''[[Viki (operetta)|Viki]]'', ''[[Viktoria und ihr Husar]]''
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- 1925 in music
* [[March 1]] - [[Edgard Varèse]]'s ''[[Intégrales]]'' is premiered in [[New York City]]
* [[March 21]] - [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[L'Enfant et les sortilèges]]'' is premiered in [[Monte Carlo]]
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- List of artworks known in English by a foreign title
... ere the English may easily be inferred: ''[[Symphonie Fantastique]]'', ''[[Les Liaisons dangereuses]]''.)
... and One [[Alto]], or [[Baritone]], Voice and [[Orchestra]] (after [[Hans Bethge]]'s 'The [[China|Chinese]] [[Flute]]'), by [[Gustav Mahler]].
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- Lorin Maazel
... Opera|Met]] Orchestra), Maazel was a prodigy, taking his first conducting lesson at age seven and making his debut at age eight. At the age of eleven, h ...
... land Orchestra since his departure, although Maazel cancelled a scheduled return engagement in [[2006]] because of illness.<ref>Donald Rosenberg, "Maaze ...
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- Danielle de Niese
... [soprano]] now residing in the [[United States]], of [[Sri Lanka]]n and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] heritage.
... the title role in the Met's production of [[Ravel]]'s ''[[L'enfant et les sortilèges]]''.
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- Armin Jordan
... was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[conducting|conductor]] known for his interpretations of French music, [[Mozart]] and [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]].
... ''. His son, the conductor [[Philippe Jordan]], made his own debut at the Met in 2002.
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- Albert Wolff
... es, with the exception of two years that he spent as a conductor at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] and a few years in [[Buenos Aires]] during the Second Wor ...
... became organist at St. Thomas D'Aquin Church in Paris while leading ensembles elsewhere in that city. Wolff held that position for four years.
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- Nicole Cabell
... Competition.<ref name=bbccsotw2005>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/cardiffsinger05/performers/usa_soprano.shtml |title=Performer's Profile: N ...
... t the age of 15, Cabell began to notice that "People obviously can hear something, even if I can't," she said. "That's sort of how it's been: I've been ...
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