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Sigurd (opera), the Glossary

Sigurd is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by the French composer Ernest Reyer on a libretto by Camille du Locle and Alfred Blau.^[1]

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Alexandre Lapissida

Alexandre Lapissida (9 March 1839, Volkrange - 16 February 1907, Paris) was a French operatic tenor, producer, director and theatre manager.

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Alfred Blau

Alfred Blau (born Blois, 29 May 1827, died 23 February 1896) was a French dramatist and opera librettist.

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Andréa Guiot

Andréa Guiot (11 January 1928 – 15 February 2021) was a French operatic soprano.

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Andrée Esposito

Andrée Esposito (born 7 February 1934) is a French opera singer, a lyric soprano particularly associated with the French repertory and contemporary works.

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Attila

Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in early 453.

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In opera, a banda (Italian for band) refers to a musical ensemble (normally of wind instruments) which is used in addition to the main orchestra and plays the music which is actually heard by the characters in the opera.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.

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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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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Blanche Deschamps-Jéhin

Blanche Deschamps-Jéhin (also Marie Blanche Deschamps-Jehin) (18 September 1857, Lyons- June 1923, Paris) was a French operatic contralto who had a prolific career in France from 1879-1905.

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Brunhild

Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Brynhildr, Brünhilt, Modern German or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend.

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Burgundians

The Burgundians were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes.

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Camille du Locle

Camille du Locle (16 July 18329 October 1903) was a French theatre manager and a librettist.

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César Vezzani

César Vezzani (8 August 1888 – 11 November 1951) was a French/Corsican operatic tenor who became a leading exponent of French grand opera through several decades.

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Chris Merritt

Chris Merritt (born September 27, 1952, in Oklahoma City) is an American tenor.

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Claude Méloni

Claude Méloni (born 6 August 1940 in Marseille) is a French baritone of the Paris Opera.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Cor anglais

The cor anglais (or original; plural: cors anglais) Longman has /kɔːz/ for British and /kɔːrz/ for American -->, or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.

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Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

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Denise Scharley

Denise Scharley (born Neuilly-en-Thelle, 15 February 1917 – died Versailles, 26 July 2011) was a French contralto who made her debut in 1942, singing Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra-Comique.

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Der Ring des Nibelungen

(The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.

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Dietfried Bernet

Dietfried Bernet (14 May 1940 – 23 May 2011) was an Austrian conductor.

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Edda

"Edda" (Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) is an Old Norse term that has been applied by modern scholars to the collective of two Medieval Icelandic literary works: what is now known as the Prose Edda and an older collection of poems (without an original title) now known as the Poetic Edda.

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Ernest Blanc

Ernest Blanc (November 1, 1923 – December 22, 2010) was a French opera singer, one of the leading baritones of his era in France.

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Ernest Reyer

Louis Étienne Ernest Reyer (1 December 1823 – 15 January 1909) was a French opera composer and music critic.

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Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier

The Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, formerly the Festival de Radio France et de Montpellier, is a summer festival of opera and music held in Montpellier, France created in 1985.

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Françoise Pollet

Françoise Pollet (born 10 September 1949 in Boulogne Billancourt) is a French soprano.

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Franks

Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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French Opera House

The French Opera House, or Théâtre de l'Opéra, was an opera house in New Orleans.

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Günter Neuhold

Günter Neuhold (born 2 November 1947) is an Austrian conductor.

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Germaine Lubin

Germaine Léontine Angélique Lubin (1 February 1890 – 27 October 1979) was a French dramatic soprano, best known for her association with the music of Richard Wagner.

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Grand opera

Grand opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras.

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Gunther

Gundaharius or Gundahar (died 437), better known by his legendary names Gunther (Gunther) or Gunnar (Gunnarr), was a historical king of Burgundy in the early 5th century.

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Guy Chauvet

Guy Chauvet (2 October 1933 – 25 March 2007) was a French operatic singer in the tenor register, regarded as a Heldentenor.

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Hagen (legend)

Hagen (German form) or Högni (Old Norse Hǫgni, often anglicized as Hogni, Old English Hagena, Latin Hagano) is a Burgundian warrior in Germanic heroic legend about the Burgundian kingdom at Worms.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Joseph Dupont (violinist)

Henri-Joseph Dupont (3 January 1838 – 21 December 1899) was a Belgian violinist, leader, theatre director (manager) and conductor.

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Jules Bastin

Jules Bastin (18 August 1933, Brussels – 2 December 1996, Waterloo) was a Belgian operatic bass who excelled in both serious and comic roles, and left several recordings.

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Kobold

A kobold (occasionally cobold) is a mythical sprite.

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La Monnaie

The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (italic,; italic; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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La statue

La statue (The Statue) is an opera in three acts and five tableaux by Ernest Reyer to the libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on tales from One Thousand and One Nights and La statue merveilleuse, an 1810 carnival play (pièce foraine) by Alain-René Lesage and Jacques-Philippe d'Orneval. Sigurd (opera) and la statue are French-language operas and operas by Ernest Reyer.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Manuel Rosenthal

Manuel Rosenthal (18 June 1904 – 5 June 2003) was a French composer and conductor who held leading positions with musical organizations in France and America.

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Marcel Journet

Marcel Journet (25 July 1868 – 7 September 1933), was a French operatic bass.

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Marjorie Lawrence

Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (17 February 190713 January 1979) was an Australian dramatic soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas.

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Maurice Renaud

Maurice Arnold Renaud (24 July 1861 – 16 October 1933) was a cultured French operatic baritone.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Michèle Lagrange

Michèle Lagrange (born 29 May 1947) is a contemporary French operatic soprano.

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Monte Pederson

Monte Pederson (21 August 1958, Sunnyside, Washington – 6 November 2001, Kreuth, Germany) was an American operatic bass-baritone.

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Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied (Der Nibelunge liet or Der Nibelunge nôt), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Odin

Odin (from Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism.

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Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

The Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française (ORTF;, or French Radio and Television Broadcasting Office) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1975, with providing public radio and television in France.

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Opéra de Marseille

The Opéra de Marseille, known today as the Opéra Municipal, is an opera company located in Marseille, France.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Orchestration

Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.

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Palais Garnier

The italic (Garnier Palace), also known as italic (Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102.

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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Régine Crespin

Régine Crespin (23 February 1927 – 5 July 2007) was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989.

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Rüdiger von Bechelaren

Rüdiger von Bechelaren is a legendary hero of German mythology immortalised in the Nibelungenlied saga.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Robert Massard

Robert Massard (born August 15, 1925) is a French baritone, primarily associated with the French repertory.

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Rose Caron

Rose Caron (17 November 1857 – 9 April 1930) was a French operatic soprano.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Salammbô (Reyer)

Salammbô is an opera in five acts composed by Ernest Reyer to a French libretto by Camille du Locle. Sigurd (opera) and Salammbô (Reyer) are French-language operas, opera world premieres at La Monnaie and operas by Ernest Reyer.

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Sigurd

Sigurd (Sigurðr) or Siegfried (Middle High German: Sîvrit) is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon—known in some Old Norse sources as Fáfnir—and who was later murdered.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Viorica Cortez

Viorica Cortez (born 26 December 1935) is a noted Romanian-born mezzo-soprano, later French by naturalisation.

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Voice type

A voice type is a group of voices with similar vocal ranges, capable of singing in a similar tessitura, and with similar vocal transition points (passaggi).

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