How many acts were in the music drama in which Heinz Zednik played David?
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Heinz Zednik Heinz Zednik (born February 21, 1940) is an Austrian operatic tenor, closely associated with the character tenor roles of Wagner such as Mime and Loge ("Der Ring des Nibelungen") and David ("Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"). He is also distinguished in roles such as Valzacchi ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Monostatos ("The Magic Flute"), Pedrillo ("Die Entführung aus dem Serail"), the Scribe ("Khovanshchina"), the Captain in "Wozzeck", and the Director (Luciano Berio's "Un re in ascolto").
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (] ; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg") is a music drama (or opera) in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is among the longest operas commonly performed, usually taking around four and a half hours. It was first performed at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, today the home of the Bavarian State Opera, in Munich, on 21 June 1868. The conductor at the premiere was Hans von Bülow.
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15 Minute Drama 15 Minute Drama, previously known as Woman's Hour Drama, is a BBC Radio 4 Arts and Drama production. It consists of 15-minute episodes, broadcast every weekday 10.45–11.00am (i.e. at the end of "Woman's Hour" proper), repeated at 7.45–8.00pm. These tend to be plays which extend over a week, or multiple of five episodes. Occasionally, each day's slot for a week or more will be filled by single drama, linked to the others of the week by a theme.
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Michael Ande Michael Ande (born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee) is a German actor best known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime-drama television series "Der Alte". He was a well-known German film child star during the 1950s. A German reader reports, "Michael played in mostly melodramas--those films with nice people, love and mountains, etc (sentimental film in an idealized setting). Some would consider these rather schmaltz tear-jerkers. Two words come to mind in German. The first is "Heimatfilm". Heimat is home, where I came from This kind of film stands for: very sentimental, lots of love (and some ache but with Happy End), idealistic setting, Lederhosen, Mountains, Conservative ideals, etc. The second is "Heile-Welt-Film" meaning "intact-world-film" They were, however very popular films in Germany." He played a variety of roles in these films, including choir boys. One of these films was "Der schoenste Tag in meinem Leben" (1957) in which he played a chorister in the Vienna Boys' Choir. There is an image of him, for example, on the HBC choir-film pages. Michael also played in two German films about the Trapp family: "Die Trapp-Familie" (1956) and "Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika" (1958). These films were made some years before the 1965 U.S. film musical version of the Trapp films, "The Sound of Music" was made. (The Broadway version appeared in 1959.) Michael played the role of Werner in the Trapp-films. (In "The Sound of Music" the boy's name is Kurt.) Ande like many child actors had difficulty continuing his career as an adult actor. He had problems being accepted as adult actor as he had such a youthful-looking face.
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Die Harmonie der Welt Die Harmonie der Welt ("The Harmony of the World") is an opera in five acts by Paul Hindemith. The German libretto was by the composer.
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Cardinal Beaton (play) Cardinal Beaton; A Drama, in Five Acts (1823) is an historical drama by William Tennant based on the life of David Beaton. It was not received well.
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Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) Wuthering Heights is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann. He worked on it from 1943 to 1951. It is cast in a prologue, 4 acts, and an epilogue that repeats the music of the prologue. The opera was recorded in full by the composer in 1966, but it had to wait until April 2011, the centenary of the composer's birth, for a complete theatrical performance (there was an abridged stage production in 1982 and a concert version in 2010).
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A Life for the Tsar A Life for the Tsar (Russian: Жизнь за царя , "Zhizn' za tsarya"), as it is known in English, although in Soviet times its name was "Ivan Susanin" (Russian: Иван Сусанин ) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Egor Fyodorovich (von) Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky. It premiered on 27 November 1836 OS (9 December NS) at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg. The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who gave his life in the expulsion of the invading Polish army for the newly elected Tsar Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, elected in 1613.
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Der Waffenschmied Der Waffenschmied (The Armourer) is an opera (Singspiel) in three acts by Albert Lortzing. The German-language libretto was by the composer after Friedrich Wilheim von Ziegler's "Liebhaber und Nebenbuhler in einer Person" (Lover and Rival in One Person). This is often considered his third most popular work. His works are considered to be part of the Biedermeier period. It premiered in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien on 31 May 1846 conducted by Lortzing. The role of Marie was written with Jenny Lind in mind who he hoped would sing the part. The opera was eventually successful enough that Lortzing was offered the post of Kapellmeister at the theatre which he held until the revolution of 1848, when he had to return to Leipzig. Arnold Schönberg, arranged Lortzing’s "Waffenschmied“ for piano for 4 hands. The story is set in the city of Worms in the 16th century.
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The Eternal Road The Eternal Road is an opera-oratorio with spoken dialogue in four acts by Kurt Weill with a libretto (originally in German: "Der Weg der Verheißung " – "The Way of the Covenant"), by Austrian novelist and playwright Franz Werfel and translated into English by Ludwig Lewisohn.
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Die geschiedene Frau Die geschiedene Frau ("The Divorcée"), is an operetta in three acts by Leo Fall with a libretto by Victor Léon, after Victorien Sardou's "Divorçons!". Conducted by the composer, It opened to considerable success at the Carltheater in Vienna on 23 December 1908 with Hubert Marischka as Karel.
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Die Kluge Die Kluge. Die Geschichte von dem König und der klugen Frau ("The Wise [Girl]. The Story of the King and the Wise Woman") is an opera in 12 scenes written by Carl Orff. It premiered in Frankfurt, Germany, on 20 February 1943. Orff referred to this opera as a "Märchenoper " (fairy tale opera). The composer also wrote the libretto, based on "Die Kluge Bauerntochter" ("The Peasant's Wise Daughter") from the Grimm's Fairy Tales. A performance lasts for about 90 minutes and is often paired with Orff's "Der Mond".
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La fille du Danube La Fille du Danube ("The Daughter of the Danube") is a ballet in two acts and four scenes, choreographed by Filippo Taglioni to music by Adolphe Adam.
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Ritter Blaubart Ritter Blaubart ("Knight Bluebeard") is a fairy-tale opera (German: "Märchenoper") in three acts by the Austrian composer Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek. Herbert Eulenberg wrote the German libretto, based on his own five-act play with the same title, which had been first performed unsuccessfully at the Lessing Theater in Berlin in 1906.
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Imagine This Imagine This is a musical with music by Shuki Levy, lyrics by David Goldsmith and a book by Glenn Berenbeim. Set in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, it focuses on a family of actors trying to stage a play about the siege at ancient Masada to inspire hope and optimism within the Jewish community.
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Karlštejn (opera) Karlštejn (1916) is an opera by Czech composer Vítězslav Novák, a pupil of Dvořák. It was the composer's second opera and written with nationalist intentions during World War I. The plot is based on Jaroslav Vrchlický's drama of the same name. It was moderately successful and performed over 70 times in Prague.
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The Music Master The Music Master was a theatrical play written by Charles Klein, and produced and directed by David Belasco. The three-act comedy-drama opened at the Belasco Theatre in New York on September 26, 1904. It ran for 124 performances before it was moved to the Bijou Theatre where it ran for another 511 performances over that and the next two seasons (taking summers off), before going on tour. David Warfield originated the title role, Anton Von Barwig, and continued playing it in revivals and on tour for two decades. William Furst composed the play's incidental music.
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Weiße Rose (opera) Weiße Rose ("White Rose") is a chamber opera in one act by Udo Zimmermann. The opera tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister in their early twenties, who were guillotined by the Nazis in 1943 for leading Die Weiße Rose, a non-violent resistance group. The opera premiered at the Dresden Conservatory on 17 June 1967 with a German libretto by the composer's brother, , a well known journalist and writer in Germany. The opera was received fairly well. Zimmermann revised it the following year for a professional production in Schwerin.
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Round Heads and Pointed Heads Round Heads and Pointed Heads (German: "Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe" ) is an epic parable play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin, Emil Burri, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and the composer Hanns Eisler. The play's subtitle is "Money Calls to Money" and its authors describe it as "a tale of horror." The play is a satirical anti-Nazi parable about a fictitious country called Yahoo in which the rulers maintain their control by setting the people with round heads against those with pointed heads, thereby substituting racial relations for their antagonistic class relations. The play is composed of 11 scenes in prose and blank verse and 13 songs. Unlike another of Brecht's plays from this period, "The Mother", "Round Heads and Pointed Heads" was addressed to a wide audience, Brecht suggested, and took account of "purely entertainment considerations." Brecht's notes on the play, written in 1936, contain the earliest theoretical application of his "defamiliarization" principle to his own "non-Aristotelian" drama.
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Der Wein "Der Wein " (The Wine) is a concert aria for soprano and orchestra, composed in 1929 by Alban Berg. The lyrics are from Stefan George's translation of three poems from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal ", as is the secret text of Berg's "Lyric Suite". "Die Seele des Weines" (The Wine's Soul), "Der Wein der Liebenden" (The Wine of Lovers), and "Der Wein des Einsamen" (The Wine of the Lonely One). The aria was dedicated to Ružena Herlinger, its commissioner and first performed in Königsberg on June 4, 1930 with Hermann Scherchen.
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They Shall Have Music They Shall Have Music is a 1939 musical film starring famed violinist Jascha Heifetz (as himself), Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, and Gene Reynolds. A young runaway finds his purpose in life after hearing Heifetz play, and the kindly master of a music school in financial difficulty takes him in.
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Robert and Bertram (1939 film) Robert and Bertram (German: Robert und Bertram) is a 1939 German musical comedy film directed by Hans Heinz Zerlett and starring Rudi Godden, Kurt Seifert and Carla Rust. It premiered in Hamburg on 7 July 1939. It was based on the 1856 play "Robert and Bertram" by Gustav Räder about two wandering vagrants which had been adapted into several film versions including a Polish film of the same title the previous year. It was set in 1839.