Opera managers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 154. Chapters: Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Winifred Wagner, Florence Louise Pettitt, Plácido Domingo, Beverly Sills, Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Emanuel Schikaneder, Herbert von Karajan, Alphonse Royer, J. C. Williamson, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Helen Carte, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, Thomas Quinlan, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lorin Maazel, William Walker, John Crosby, Richard Gaddes, Peter Hall, David Webster, Felix Weingartner, Joseph Volpe, Kent Nagano, Carl Rosa, Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Wieland Wagner, Peter Gelb, Edward Johnson, Wolfgang Wagner, Giovanni Gallini, David Gockley, Steuart Wilson, Myer Lyon, Frederick Gye, Sarah Caldwell, Schuyler Chapin, Clemens Krauss, Gaetano Merola, Peter Jonas, Oscar Hammerstein I, Michael Maddox, Boris Goldovsky, Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, Lotfi Mansouri, Benjamin Lumley, Antoine Mariotte, John Forsell, Giovanni Zenatello, David DiChiera, Mary Allen, James Henry Mapleson, Jeremy Isaacs, Max Rabinoff, William Greet, Rolf Liebermann, Max Maretzek, Monir Vakili, Albert Carré, Claus Helmut Drese, Glynn Ross, Savva Mamontov, Eberhard Wächter, Charles MacKay, Rudolf Bing, Speight Jenkins, Kurt Herbert Adler, Franz Schalk, Terence A. McEwen, William Saurin Lyster, Hubert Deutsch, Rengim Gökmen, Franz von Dingelstedt, Carl Ebert, Allen Oxenburg, Paul Danblon, Léon Carvalho, Michael Milenski, David Pountney, Émile Isola, Vincent Isola, Temistocle Solera, John Balme, Johann von Herbeck, Fortune Gallo, Louis-Désiré Véron, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ioan Holender, Delphine Ugalde, Max Leon, Peter Hemmings, Oscar Stoumon, Giovanni Faustini, John Fisher, Antonio Denzio, John Christie, Herbert Witherspoon, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, Göran Gentele, Émile Perrin, Henry Russell, Raoul Gunsbourg, Yoshie Fujiwara, Hans Gregor, Domenico Barbaia, Giuseppe Carpani, Leonard Ingrams, Gudrun Wagner, Edward Kellogg Baird, Carlo Maria Badini, Henry Eugene Abbey, Kasper Bech Holten, Franz Salmhofer, Max d'Ollone, Alexandre Lapissida, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Michael Scott, Pietro Mingotti, Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Egon Hilbert, James Stuart, Peter Schneider, Egon Seefehlner, Edward Joseph Dent, Edward Ziegler, Edward Purrington, Henry Verdhurdt, Birgitta Svendén, Charles Strine, Heinrich Reif-Gintl, Wilhelm Jahn, John William Ward, Lothar Müthel, Domenico Guardasoni, Alan Stone, Franz von Jauner, Rudolf Gamsjäger, Heinrich Karl Strohm. Excerpt: Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; German pronunciation: ; 22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works such as The Flying Dutchman and Tannhäuser which were in the romantic traditions of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner transformed operatic thought through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"). This would achieve the synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, and was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised this concept most f...