Emil Pollert, the Glossary
Emil Pollert, born Emil Popper (20 January 1877, Liblice at Mělník – 23 October 1935, Prague) was a Czech opera singer (bass) at the National Theatre in Prague, in his time the main representative of bass roles.[1]
Table of Contents
25 relations: Ballet, Bass (voice type), Bedřich Smetana, Bohemia, Bucharest, Charles Dvorak, Comic opera, Czechs, Dalibor (opera), Jaroslav Kvapil, Liblice, Mělník, National Theatre (Prague), Olomouc, Otakar Ostrčil, Prague, Rusalka (opera), Svatopluk Innemann, Tannhäuser (opera), The Bartered Bride, The Mikado, The Secret (opera), Vienna, Vinohrady Cemetery, Warsaw.
- Czech opera singers
- People from Mělník District
- Singers from Austria-Hungary
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.
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Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival".
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Bohemia
Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.
Bucharest
Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.
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Charles Dvorak
Charles Edward Dvorak (November 27, 1878 – December 18, 1969) was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the pole vault.
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Comic opera
Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue.
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Czechs
The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
Dalibor (opera)
Dalibor is a Czech opera in three acts by Bedřich Smetana.
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Jaroslav Kvapil
Jaroslav Kvapil (25 September 1868 in Chudenice, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 January 1950 in Prague) was a Czech poet, theatre director, translator, playwright, and librettist.
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Liblice
Liblice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Mělník
Mělník (Melnik) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
National Theatre (Prague)
The National Theatre (Národní divadlo) is a historic opera house in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Olomouc
Olomouc (Olmütz) is a city in the Czech Republic.
Otakar Ostrčil
Otakar Ostrčil (25 February 1879 in Prague – 20 August 1935 in Prague) was a Czech composer and conductor.
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Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
Rusalka (opera)
Rusalka, Op. 114, is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.
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Svatopluk Innemann
Svatopluk Innemann (18 February 1896 – 30 October 1945) was a Czech film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and actor.
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Tannhäuser (opera)
Tannhäuser (full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, "Tannhäuser and the Minnesängers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, with music and text by Richard Wagner (WWV 70 in the catalogue of the composer's works).
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The Bartered Bride
The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta, The Sold Bride) is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina.
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The Mikado
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations.
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The Secret (opera)
The Secret (Tajemství) is a comic opera in three acts by Bedřich Smetana.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Vinohrady Cemetery
Vinohrady Cemetery (Vinohradský hřbitov) is a large cemetery in Vinohrady in Prague 10 which contains Strašnice Crematorium.
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
See also
Czech opera singers
- Adam Plachetka
- Antonín Švorc
- Daniel Hůlka
- Emil Pollert
- Eva Děpoltová
- Friedrich Plaschke
- Ivan Kusnjer
- Kateřina Jalovcová
- Lubomír Havlák
- Václav Zítek
- Yveta Synek Graff
People from Mělník District
- Anna Bayerová
- Antonín Dvořák
- Bohuslava Kecková
- Emil Pollert
- František Janda-Suk
- Ivan Mrkvička
- Jan August Vitásek
- Jan Palach
- Jaroslav Pitner
- Johann Baptist Pischek
- Josef Seger
- Martin Tichý
- Miloš Jiránek
- Pavel Bucha
- Václav Bolemír Nebeský
- Václav Emanuel Horák
- Vladimír Petříček
- Wojciech Żywny
Singers from Austria-Hungary
- Anna von Mildenburg
- Ella Tvrdková
- Emil Pollert
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink
- Fanchette Verhunc
- Hermine Galfy
- Ilona Náday
- Irene von Fladung
- Karola Jovanović
- Leo Slezak
- Mizzi Günther
- Mizzi Zwerenz
- Otakar Mařák
- Poldi Gersa
- Róza Csillag
- Richárd Erdős
- Rudolf Ritter
- Solomiya Krushelnytska
- Viktor Madin