Evans Mirageas and Conductor Ramon Tebar discuss Ramon’s career, how he came to the United States, and his philosophies on how to be a musician and love your life as a musician.
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Renata Scotto is an Italian soprano and opera director.
Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti
València is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain.
Montserrat Caballé was a Spanish operatic soprano.
Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
Robert Schumann a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic.
The Spoleto Festival (Festival dei Due Mondi) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958.
Opera Idol was an annual opera competition for amateur singers run by Cincinnati Opera.
Ainadamar is the first opera by Argentinian composer Osval do Golijov.
Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.
The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Mozart.
Don Carlos is a grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.
Manuel de Falla was a Spanish composer.
Francisco Albéniz was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor.
Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan, naturalized French, composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, theatre director, and salon singer.
Enrique Granados was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music.
Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
Tomás Luis de Victoria was the most famous composer in 16th-century Spain, and was one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.
Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist.
Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure now, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa.
Luigi Boccherini was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers.
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer.
Farinelli was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.
The Vienna State Opera is an Austrian opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.
Otto Klemperer was a Jewish German-born conductor and composer, described as "the last of the few really great conductors of his generation."
Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor, pianist and composer.
Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years.
The Spanish National Youth Orchestra is a Spanish youth orchestra.
Teresa Berganza is a Spanish mezzo-soprano.
Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-born orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Luisa Miller is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.
Lorin Maazel was an American conductor, violinist, and composer.
Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music. He is currently music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and Conductor Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italian conductor.
The Symphony No. 5 is Beethoven’s 5th symphony and is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies.
The Goldberg Variations is a musical composition for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations.
La Traviata is an opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera by Charles Gounod.
Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi."(Ravenni & Girardi n.d., Introduction.)
Richard Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.
Pablo Casals was a cellist, composer, and conductor from Catalonia.
La 1 (La Uno, The One), is the flagship television channel of Spanish public broadcaster Radio televisión Española (RTVE).
La 2 (La Dos, The Two) is Spain's second state-owned television channel for the public broadcasting service.
Senegal is a country in West Africa.
José Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera, conductor, and arts administrator.
Otello is an opera by Verdi.
Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor.
Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conductor.
"Fritz" Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.
Alicia de Larrocha was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was considered one of the great piano legends of the 20th century.
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