(1761) Acis and Galatea, by Nicolas Poussin (c. 1629–1630) Acis and Galatea, by Nicolas Bertin Acis und Galatea, by Jacob van Schuppen (c. 1730) Acis, Galatea...
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Polyphemus and is linked with Polyphemus again in the myth of Acis and Galatea in Ovid's Metamorphoses. She is also mentioned in Virgil's Eclogues and Aeneid...
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Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata...
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Polyphemus (section Polyphemus and Galatea)
throwing the huge rock that kills Acis and even injures Galatea. Later in the century, Jean-Baptiste Lully composed his opera Acis et Galatée (1686) on the theme...
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Acis y Galatea is a zarzuela by Antonio de Literes to a libretto by José de Cañizares. It was first performed on 19 December 1708 in Madrid at the theatre...
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George Frideric Handel Acis and Galatea, or Acis et Galatée, a 1686 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully Acis (disambiguation) Galatea (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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his Acis and Galatea. Handel responded with a new production in while interpolating Italian arias from his dramatic cantata of 1708, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo...
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Poliziano. In Greek mythology, the beautiful Nereid Galatea had fallen in love with the peasant shepherd Acis. Her consort, one-eyed giant Polyphemus, after...
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secretary and adviser to the duchess, and it prefigures that of Handel's 1718 English-language masque Acis and Galatea, although Handel drew little on the...
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Acis et Galatée (Acis and Galatea) is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Unlike most of his operas, which are designated tragédies en musique, Lully called...
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story of Acis and Galatea’s infatuation as well as the jealousy of the Cyclops Polyphemus. The Polifemo was completed in manuscript form in 1613 and was subsequently...
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Cannons, was Acis and Galatea: during Handel's lifetime, it was his most performed work. Winton Dean wrote that "the music catches breath and disturbs the...
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Jardin du Luxembourg (category Parks and open spaces in Paris)
of water was built and flanked by plane trees, and the sculptures of the giant Polyphemus surprising the lovers Acis and Galatea, by French classical...
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Stadio Aci e Galatea, also known as Stadio Tupparello, is a multi-use stadium in Acireale, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is...
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Adele Addison (category Aspen Music Festival and School faculty)
47-year marriage lasted until Berger's death in 2005. Acis, Acis and Galatea (Handel) Bess, Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) Esther, Esther (Handel) Fiordiligi...
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Medici Fountain (category Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris)
discovering the lovers Acis and Galatea, in white marble. The fountain was completely cleaned during the summer of 2021, and that is the fountain as...
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Patricia Janečková (section Cancer diagnosis and death)
Dřízgová-Jirušová [cs]. In 2017, she performed the role of Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea with Collegium Marianum as part of the Janáček Music Festival...
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Accusative and infinitive a.k.a. accusativus cum infinitivo, a construction in Latin grammar Ace Combat Infinity Acis (Italian: Aci) of Acis and Galatea in Greek...
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part of a double bill with Handel's Acis and Galatea. In 2011 the opera was revived by City Wall Productions and set during World War II. A new Opera...
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Joan Sutherland (section Early and personal life)
POCL 3962-4 Track listing and audio samples George Frideric Handel Acis and Galatea—Joan Sutherland (Galatea), Peter Pears (Acis), Owen Brannigan (Polyphemus)...
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She loved Acis, the shepherd son of Pan. However, Acis was killed by the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus and, with her heart broken, Galatea turned into...
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Peter Anthony Motteux (category English dramatists and playwrights)
modern musicals; works like The Rape of Europa by Jupiter (1694), Acis and Galatea (1701), and Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (1705), Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (17078...
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between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas...
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accessible account of an earlier coronation, the Coronation of James II and VII and Mary in 1685. The text is a translation of the traditional antiphon,...
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Michel Fokine (section Teaching methods and style)
ballet Acis and Galatea (1905) and The Dying Swan (1907), which was a solo dance for Anna Pavlova choreographed to the music of Le Cygne. Acis and Galetea...
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John Gay (category English dramatists and playwrights)
Whigs and Tories. In 1718 he collaborated with Handel on the masque Acis and Galatea for which he supplied the libretto. Gay had numerous patrons, and in...
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wealthy Duke of Chandos employed a group of musicians and singers, and where Acis and Galatea, Handel's first non-religious vocal work in the English...
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Danielle de Niese (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Figaro and Despina in Così fan tutte. In 2009, de Niese made her Covent Garden debut in The Royal Opera's production of Handel's Acis and Galatea, directed...
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shepherd Acis, and was loved by the cyclops Polyphemus. Galatea, the statue of a woman created by Pygmalion and brought to life by Aphrodite. Galatea, daughter...
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