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Sanae * George Gershwin Time * Listen Children * Eating Without Meat |
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'Sanae'
The setting of 'Sanae' takes place in front of a zen buddist temple south of Tokyo, Japan. Sanae, a young school teacher contracts leukemia and dies because of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945. He to be husband Sadahiko soon after Sanae's death enters into a monastery where he drives himself to madness due to his profound grief of Sanae death.
Hiram Gyle Waddy (librettist) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the
United States of America. In the music industry he has done many things. Gyle Waddy, has also worked as a lyricist for different singers and recording artist: Viktor Lazlo, Timmy Thomas, George Mc Crea, Yorgos, etc.
His other writing achivement are - a Macrobio-vegetarian cookbook "How To Eat
Without Meat"; "George Gershwin Time", a one-man show on the life of
one of Americas contempory composors, George Gershwin. The libretto of
Sanae is his first opera text.
Nick Dumont was born in 1935 in Brussels, Belgium. As a young man he
participated and won different singing contest. A the age of 17 he left for
Italy where he studied with the great tenor Benjamin Gigli in Pesaro. There he
participated in "Vacation musicales of Venise"
and sang in Milan at the Ricordi House. It
was in Italy where he obtained the first prize for the best singer of l'art
lyrique at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Milan. When he returned to Belgium he received the first prize for l'art lyrique from the class of Frédéric Anspach at the Brussels Conservatory. He became the first tenor at the Antwerp Opera House where he sang the first tenor roles from Mozart to Wagner. His repetroir also included B. Britten, Alban Berg and Strauss. Nick Dumont also sang at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in Liege, Gent, Namur, Ostende Knokke etc. Not only did he sing the first tenor roles in Belgium, he also sang in Barcelonna at the Gran Liceo, in Florence, Naples, Trier, Paris and at different opera houses in Netherlands. The principal roles that Nick Dumont sang are: Pinketon, Rodolpho, Alvaro, Radamès, Cavaradossi, Canio, Turriddu, don José, Riccardo, Calif, the Greux ( Puccini et Massenet), Ismaele, Eric, Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Max, Faust (Gounod, Boïto and Berlioz), Pedro, Peter Grimes, Florestan, Othello, etc. He has worked with many great conductors such as: Antoniono Votto, Gavazzeni, Molinari Pradelli, René Defossez, Daniel Sternefeld, Van Reoortel, andré Vandernnot, Fritz Celis, Leonce Gras, Luigi Martelli, Robert Janssens, etc. As a recording artist he has recorded under the lable of Decca classic. Since 1983 he has been the singing professor at the Brussels Academy of Music. Nick Dumont was not content only to have sung many of the major roles in operas so he decided to compose his first opera in 1992, Sanae. Nick Dumont would like to thank everyone who has contributed in the realisation of this opera, in particular, Thierry Smets, Baudouin Machiels for their help in accompaning the singers. Guy Delbrouck for the realisation of the sheet music and his help with the percussion.
Nick Dumont died in June of 2003
'George
Gershwin Time' Synopsis: Who dosen't have the theme of Rhapasody in Blue or one or more melodies of Porgy & Bess in their head ? George Gershwin, the composer of these famous works, lived a short life but compact life. His carreer started at the age of 15, as a variety pianist in 'Tin Pan Alley': He died at the early age of 38 in 1937 of a brain tumor. Gyle Waddy, recounts this life story by way of song and dance in a 50 minute show.
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Idea & Book: Gyle Waddy
First performed in the Belgium school
system for the 1995-1996 season for the Synopsis: Gyle Waddy offers a show about part of his own Black American roots. Nothing is impossible is a musical tracing the Africans, who were imported to American, Latin America, the Carabies and Europe, in song and dance. The songs in this musical go from the Work Song through the Negro Spritual and on to the Gospel songs. Gyle Waddy, recounts this transition by song and dance in a 50 minute show.
Performed in different cities of Belgium
(Eating Without
Meat)
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