An impresario (from Italian impresa , 'an enterprise or undertaking') is a person who organizes and often finances concerts , plays , or operas , performing a role in stage arts that is similar to that of a film or television producer .
21-531: (Redirected from Tindall ) Tindal , Tindale or Tindall may refer to: People [ edit ] Adela Tindal (1862–1929), British composer, more usually known as Adela Maddison Bill Tindall (1925–1995), American aerospace engineer, NASA engineer and manager Blair Tindall (born 1960), American oboist and journalist George Tindall (1921–2006), American historian Gillian Tindall (born 1938), British author Mardi Tindal (born 1952), Moderator of
42-703: A harpsichordist who also presided over seventeenth-century North German court music as an impresario. The traditional term is still used in the entertainment industry to refer to a producer of concerts , tours and other events in music, opera, theatre , and even rodeo . Important modern impresarios in the traditional sense include Thomas Beecham , Rudolf Bing , Sergei Diaghilev , Richard D'Oyly Carte , Fortune Gallo , Sol Hurok , Sarah Caldwell , Andrew Lloyd Webber , Aaron Richmond , and jazz festival producer George Wein . Bill Graham , who produced music shows at The Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco,
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84-554: A Royal Australian Air Force base near Katherine, Northern Territory Tindale, Cumbria , England, United Kingdom Tindall, Missouri , United States Tindal, Northern Territory , Australia Tindall, Virginia , United States Other uses [ edit ] Acetophenazine Tindal Centre , a defunct psychiatric hospital in Buckinghamshire, England Tindal Street Press , a British publisher The boatswain's mate or second most senior engine room petty officer in
105-513: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adela Tindal Katharine Mary Adela Maddison , née Tindal (15 December 1862 – 12 June 1929), usually known as Adela Maddison , was a British composer of operas, ballets, instrumental music and songs. She was also a concert producer . She composed a number of French songs in the style of mélodies ; for some years she lived in Paris, where she
126-689: Is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France . In Paris she was also acquainted with Delius , Debussy and Ravel , and produced performances of her own works and those of others. She hosted the first performance of Delius's opera Koanga in March 1899 at her residence there, attended by Prince Edmond de Polignac and the Princesse de Polignac . Fauré was among the performers. From Paris she moved to Berlin, where she continued to produce concerts, and composed an opera, Der Talisman , which
147-529: The Common Pleas (great grandson of Rev Nicolas). Patricia Randall Tindale (1926–2011), English architect and civil servant T.J. Tindall (1950–2016), American guitarist William Tindal (1756–1804), English antiquary William York Tindall (1903–1981), American James Joyce scholar at Columbia University Zara Tindall (born 1981), British royal and equestrian, otherwise known as Zara Phillips Places [ edit ] RAAF Base Tindal ,
168-596: The Princesse de Polignac, and they moved on to London when World War I started. Their friends in England included Radclyffe Hall and Mabel Batten. Mundt returned to Berlin sometime during the war. Maddison moved to Glastonbury , Somerset and spent a number of years in the production of works for the Glastonbury Festivals of that era. These included the ballet The Children of Lir , which
189-689: The United Church of Canada Mary Tindale (1920–2011), Australian botanist Matthew Tindal (1657–1733), English writer influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment Mike Tindall (born 1978), English rugby player Mike Tindall (footballer) (1941–2020), English football player Nicolas Tindal (1687–1774), 18th century translator and historian, nephew of Matthew Norman Tindale (1900–1993), Australian anthropologist, archaeologist and entomologist Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776–1846), English Lord Chief Justice of
210-412: The compositions she created during her stays in Paris and Berlin, and for the music she created for the Glastonbury Festivals, seem to have been lost. Selected works include: Operas Ballets Chamber music Vocal Impresario The term originated in the social and economic world of Italian opera , in which from the mid-18th century to the 1830s, the impresario was the key figure in
231-499: The emergence of a distinctive style. From around 1894, Maddison and her husband played a major part in encouraging and facilitating Fauré's entry onto the London musical scene. Her husband was now working for a music publishing company, Metzler, which obtained a contract to publish Fauré's music during 1896–1901. She provided English translations of some of his mélodies, and of his choral work La naissance de Vénus , Op. 29; Fauré used
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#1732772244702252-414: The latter that her treatment of his poem Hiver was masterly. During 1898 – c. 1905, she lived in Paris without her husband; Fauré's biographer Robert Orledge believes there was a romantic liaison with Fauré, who dedicated his Nocturne No. 7, Op. 74, to her in 1898; this piece was expressive of his feelings towards her, according to Orledge. Fauré gave her the nocturne's manuscript; it
273-533: The latter translation in 1898, when he conducted a choir of 400 at the Leeds Festival . Fauré was a friend of the family and in 1896 vacationed at their residence in Saint-Lunaire , Brittany . She became Fauré's pupil, and he thought her a gifted composer. She composed a number of mélodies, setting the works of poets such as Sully Prudhomme , Coppée , Verlaine and Samain ; in 1900 Fauré told
294-453: The organization of a lyric season. The owners of the theatre, usually amateurs from the nobility, charged the impresario with hiring a composer (until the 1850s operas were expected to be new) and the orchestra, singers, costumes and sets, all while assuming considerable financial risk. In 1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart satirized the stress and emotional mayhem in a single-act farce Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ). Antonio Vivaldi
315-454: The premieres of the first version of Giuseppe Verdi 's Macbeth , two of Vincenzo Bellini 's operas and five of Gaetano Donizetti 's, including Lucia di Lammermoor . Domenico Barbaia (1778–1841) began as a café waiter and made a fortune at La Scala , in Milan, where he was also in charge of the gambling operation and introduced roulette . Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg was
336-556: The strength of the recommendation of leading German socialist Eduard Bernstein to the ILO director, Albert Thomas . Mundt became the ILO's officer dealing with employment issues for women and children, and the ILO's liaison with feminist organisations. She represented the ILO at a number of international congresses around Europe. Maddison often travelled to Geneva to visit Mundt there. Maddison died in Ealing , London in 1929. The scores for
357-611: Was a pupil, friend and possibly lover of Gabriel Fauré . Subsequently, living in Berlin , she composed a German opera which was staged in Leipzig . On returning to England she created works for Rutland Boughton 's Glastonbury Festivals . She was born at 42 York Terrace, Regent's Park , London on 15 December 1862 (rather than in 1866 as is sometimes stated), the daughter of Vice Admiral Louis Symonds Tindal (1811–76) and Henrietta Maria O'Donel Whyte (1831/2–1917). Her grandfather
378-548: Was staged in Leipzig in 1910. In Germany she started a lifelong friendship with Martha Mundt, the editor of a Berlin socialist journal. Born in 1872, Mundt came from Königsberg ; she had studied sociology and economics there and in Berlin, Genoa and Rome. Music historian Sophie Fuller believes it is quite likely the relationship between the two women was a lesbian one. They left Germany for France, where Mundt obtained work with
399-626: Was subsequently staged in 1920 at the Old ;Vic . Her piano quintet , written in 1916, but first performed in 1920, was a success. A modern recording was issued in 2009. She continued to compose opera and songs, and to produce concerts, into the 1920s. From the early 1920s, Martha Mundt lived in Geneva , having joined the secretariat of the International Labour Organization (ILO) as an information officer on
420-421: Was the judge Nicholas Conyngham Tindal . She seems to have been raised in London. On 14 April 1883 she married barrister and former footballer Frederick Brunning Maddison (1849–1907), at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate , London. They had two children, Diana Marion Adela and Noel Cecil Guy, born in 1886 and 1888 respectively. Her first published works date from 1882. Twelve Songs in 1895 marked
441-567: Was unusual in acting as both impresario and composer; in 1714 he managed seasons at Teatro San Angelo in Venice, where his opera Orlando finto pazzo was followed by numerous others. Alessandro Lanari (1787–1852), who began as the owner of a shop that produced costumes, eliminated the middleman in a series of successful seasons he produced for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. He presented
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