Maazel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is an American orchestra based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The orchestra's home is Heinz Hall, located in Pittsburgh's Cultural District.
Lorin Varencove Maazel was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but, by comparison, his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. He served as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among other posts. Maazel was well-regarded in baton technique and possessed a photographic memory for scores. Described as mercurial and forbidding in rehearsal, he mellowed in old age.
1984 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
Catiuscia Maria Stella Ricciarelli, known as Katia Ricciarelli, is an Italian soprano and actress.
Hollander is a surname. "Hollander" is a Dutch term for people from the Netherlands, or specifically Holland proper. Variants of Germanic origin include Hollaender and Holländer.
1984 is an opera by the American conductor and composer Lorin Maazel, with a libretto by J. D. McClatchy and Thomas Meehan. The opera is based on George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It premiered on 3 May 2005 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in a production directed by Robert Lepage.
Science fiction opera is a subgenre of science fiction. It refers to operas whose subject-matter fits in the science fiction genre. Like science-fiction literature, science-fiction operas may be set in the future and involve spaceflight or alien invasion. Other science-fiction operas focus on a dystopian view of the future. Like Lorin Maazel's opera 1984, they may be based on a previously written science fiction book.
The Munich Philharmonic is a German symphony orchestra located in the city of Munich. It is one of Munich's four principal orchestras, along with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian State Orchestra. Since 1985, the orchestra has been housed in the Gasteig culture centre.
Mazel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bundit Ungrangsee is a Thai symphonic conductor.
Blodget is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Florescu is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Castleton is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located northwest of Culpeper.
Lorin is a given name. The meaning of Lorin derives from a bay or laurel plant; of Laurentum. Laurentum, in turn is from laurus (laurel), from the place of laurel trees, laurel branch, laurel wreath. Laurentum was also a city in ancient Italy. It is also a Kurdish female given name, derived from the Kurmanji word lorî, meaning "lullaby".
The Castleton Festival, launched in the summer of 2009, is a program of The Chateauville Foundation, established in 1997 by Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban-Maazel. The Castleton Festival is located on Lorin Maazel's estate in Castleton, Virginia.
Bechly is a surname.
Lincoln Maazel was an American singer and actor of stage and screen.
The Enchanted Wanderer is a 2002 Russian-language 'concert opera' by Rodion Shchedrin based on the novel The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov. It was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for Lorin Maazel and first performed on 19 December 2002 in New York by the New York Philharmonic, New York Choral Artists, and Lorin Maazel. The Russian premiere was in Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, in 2007.
Solon is the surname of:
Lorwin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: