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ROMANIANS THE WORLD KNOWS ABOUT
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Several Lists of Famous Romanians
- Romanians and the World -- Stefan's List
Read about Victor Babes, Constantin Brancusi, Sergiu Celibidache, Henri Coanda, Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade,
George Enescu, Angela Gheorghiu, Eugene Ionesco, Dinu Lipatti, Radu Lupu, Gheorghe Marinescu, Grigore Moisil, Jean Negulesco,
George Emil Palade, Dumitru Staniloae, Elena Teodorini, Nicolae Titulescu, Traian Vuia -- and more coming.
- Romanian Celebrities -- by Irina and Stefan Gheorghiu
This is a section on their Discover Romania site. List includes
Constantin Brancusi, Emil Cioran, Andrei Codrescu, Mircea Eliade, George Enescu, Eugen Ionesco, Hermann Oberth,
Nadia Comaneci, Gheorghe Hagi, Ilie Nastase, Ion Tiriac, Dracula, and Ceausescu.
To see other lists available go to the Link Collections page.
Note that the links on this page point to sites
other than the above.
On this page: Angela Gheorghiu, Eugene Ionesco, Mihail Manoilescu, Emeric Marcier, Herta Müller, Hermann Oberth, George E. Palade,
Andrei Serban, Paul Tomita,
Tristan Tzara, Ion Tiriac, Johnny Weissmuller, Elie Wiesel, Gheorghe Zamfir
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Ana Aslan, Alexander Balanescu, Constantin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Nicolae Ceausescu, Sergiu Celibidache, Emil Cioran,
Henri Coanda, Andrei Codrescu, Nadia Comaneci, Ileana Cotrubas, Ioan Petru Culianu, Dracula, Mircea Eliade, George Enescu
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BOOKS / CDs / Movies |
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Angela Gheorghiu
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Angela Gheorghiu -- on EmiClassics.com
Since her graduation from the Bucharest Music Academy in 1990 and her 1992 debut at Covent Garden,
Angela Gheorghiu has been reaping accolades in the world of opera. Added: October 5, 2001.
- Official Web site of Angela Gheorghiu
Finally! Topic names are a bit confusing, but keep cliking and you'll find them all: audio clips to whet your appetite,
biography, discography, upcoming performances (under diary), rave reviews (look under press releases), interview (under news),
photo gallery, and mailing list. Added: May 16, 2002.
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CD (Decca, 1997): Alagna and Gheorghiu in Donizetti's The Elixir of Love
Recorded live at the Opéra de Lyon (1996)
with Roberto Alagna as Nemorino and Angela Gheorghiu as Adina. A charming display of operatic character and bel canto melody!
Effortless and extremely well fused vocal performances,
backed by sensitive and supple orchestral support. Besides the leads, I feel that the chorus and Simone Alaimo as
quack Dulcamara deserve special mention.
See and listen to Alagna and Gheorghiu in a short
movie clip from PBS, or read
a Meet the Artists introduction and interview by John Ardoin on PBS Great Performances Web site. More from
PBS on Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and this specific production
here.
Musical director Evelino Pidò based her score on the Alberto Zedda's edition which she then conferred with
Donizetti's manuscript to produce a more "authentic" L'elisir d'amore.
She also suggested for this recording Donizetti's second version of the romanza "Una furtiva lagrima,"
previously unavailable on disc. Stage director Frank Dunlop set this production in 1930s Italy.
Added: May 15, 2002.
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The Singing's World Golden Couple?
The Alagna and Gheorghiu couple view singers as better or worse than
others -- not just different. They also insist on stardom and too little humility, which undermines their popularity with
colleagues, says critic Norman Lebrecht. Nevertheless, "they have . . . a driving ambition and an impregnable fortress
that can shut out the world and all its barbs." By Norman Lebrecht, February 16, 2000. Added: October 5, 2001.
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Comments Accompanying the Release of Casta Diva CD by EMI Classics
The posts on Amazon have turned out to be lengthy in Angela Gheorghiu's case.
I recommend them for the points of view expressed.
- Verdi Would Be Proud
Angela Gheorghiu appears as Violetta in Zefirelli's Met performance of Traviatta, and enjoys high praise for the lead role
which catapulted her to stardom more than ten years ago. By Jay Nordlinger, The New York Sun, February 6, 2006.
Added: February 9, 2006.
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In addition to the eponym aria from Norma, Gheorghiu tackles Guglielmo Tell,
I Puritani, La Sonnambula, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor, and more. Emi Classics, 2001.
Angela Gheorghiu, featured alongside Cecilia Bartoli, Marylin Horne, Montserrat Caballé,
Mirella Freni, Joan Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Kiri Te Kanawa, Birgit Nilsson, and other divas. London Classics, 1998.
Angela Gheorghiu's new DVD, released this spring. Added: May 15, 2002.
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Eugene Ionesco
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The Bald Soprano and Other Plays: The Lesson/Jack or the Submission/The Chairs
Start getting absurd with this volume of Ionesco's works.
It's witty and humorous and quotable outside the world of the "theater of the absurd."
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Dinu Lipatti
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- Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
A moving tribute to a talented and sensitive pianist, teacher and friend unrelentingly touched by leukaemia.
By Soo Kian Hing, on inkpot.com. Added: November 1, 2001.
- Last Recital, Besançon
Notes on Lipatti's last recital in September 1950. Added: November 1, 2001.
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Dinu Lipatti's Biography -- from CBC
Dinu Lipatti in the Great Pianists series from CBC. Another paean to Lipatti which feels as though
it were imbued with his spirit. Added: November 1, 2001.
- Dinu Lipatti -- Notes and Links
"Artist Review" by Carola Grindea. Added: November 1, 2001.
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DINU LIPATTI -- LAST RECITAL |
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Last Recital -- where Lipatti's spirit, aided by cortisone, prevailed
A dying 33-year old Lipatti playing Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Chopin. Reviewers of this CD share their memories of the recording of Lipatti's last recital
at the Besançon Music Festival in September 1950.
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Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and Others
A must-have companion to the Besançon and the two CDs from Philips (ASIN: B00000DI2Z).
You have an inebriating Chopin Sonata here which you should not miss by any chance. Could also use this CD to introduce Ravel
in less than 6 minutes. From EMD Classics, 2000.
Two CDs in the Great Pianists of the 20th Century series. From Philips.
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Radu Lupu
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Mihail Manoilescu
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- Interwar and Postwar Structuralist Theories of Development in
Romania and Latin America
Professor Joseph L. Love speaks about the influential
theories of economist
Mihail Manoilescu at a four-day international conference held at Elisabeta Palace, Bucharest, in 1998. Manoilescu's
Theory of Protectionism and International Commerce, where he argues, among other things, for the industrialization of
agrarian countries and for each nation's right to protect itself on the free market, was embraced by Brazil's politicians in the
1930s and became the ideology behind the industrialization of the São Paulo state in Brazil.
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Emeric Marcier
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- The Emeric Marcier Virtual Museum
Emeric Marcier was born in Cluj, lived for the most part in Brazil, and died in Paris.
He is said to be the most important contemporary Latin American painter. Died in 1990. Explore his life, works and influence here.
- Emeric Marcier on museus.art.br
Features three self-portraits by Emeric Marcier. This site also offers, among other resources, a useful list of museums in Brazil,
find them here, with links to their Web sites.
- Marcier in Jornal de Sábado, Brazil
The inhabitants of Barbacena, Brazil, have not forgotten Emeric Marcier.
This is a brief mention of a reunion of several of Marcier's friends with the people of Barbacena.
- Marcier in The Mary Magdalene Gallery, magdalene.org
Features Marcier's Noli me tangere, 1982-3.
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Herta Müller
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- October 9, 2009.
Herta Müller, an ethnic German born in Romania who has been living in Germany since 1997, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Herta Müller Wins Nobel Prize in Literature.
By Motoko Rich and Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times, October 8, 2009.
- Mueller Wins Nobel Literary Prize.
BBC News, October 8, 2009.
- Herta Müller Takes Nobel Prize for Literature.
By Alison Flood, The Guardian, October 8, 2009.
- Nobel Prize for Herta Müller: Patriot of an Estranged Homeland.
By Iliya Troyanov, Der Spiegel Online International, October 9, 2009.
- Herta Müller and the Nobel Literature Prize: An Impulse for a New Central Europe.
By Ulrich Baron, Der Spiegel Online International, October 8, 2009.
- The The Land of Green Plums
is available in English (translated by Michael Hofmann, Northwestern University Press, 1998).
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Hermann Oberth
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In Remembrance of Hermann Oberth -- from the Museum of European Art, New York
Hermann Oberth: The Space Dream by Margaret Stucki. The English translation of the eulogy delivered at his funeral,
on January 3, 1990. A must read for all the sons and daughters of the 20th century.
- Hermann Oberth Space Museum
Hermann Oberth, born in Hermannstadt (Sibiu) is widely considered as one of the most prominent pioneers of space flight science
and technology. The Hermann Oberth Society founded in 1971 the Hermann Oberth Museum in Feucht, Germany.
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Hermann Oberth: The Father of Space Flight 1894-1989
Read about the book who shaped the face and future of space travel, as we know it today. By Boris V. Rauschenbach, 1994.
Primer for Those Who Would Govern
Hermann Oberth, father of astronautics, left behind science coupled with words of wisdon.
Primer for Those Who Would Govern is his last book.
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George E. Palade
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Andrei Serban
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Serban's Hamlet: A New Twist. By Ulrika Brand
Graduate of the Theater Institute of Bucharest, Romania,
Andrei Serban first made a name for himself with his bold productions of classical Greek drama. He left Romania in 1965
and has since worked with prestigious theater companies in the US, Europe and Japan. Andrei Serban has received the Tony and Obie
awards as well as grants from the Ford, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. He has been teaching at Columbia School of the Arts
since 1992.
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The Magic World Behind the Curtain: Andrei Serban in the American Theatre
Ed Menta's book follows Andrei Serban from the early 1970s to his 1989 staging of Twelfth Night at the American Repertory Theater.
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Paul Tomita
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- Paul Tomita, Teaching Golf to Kings
I discovered Pavel (Paul) Tomita on a train, in the pages of Formula AS magazine.
Born a peasant in Transylvania, he worked his way up to become golf instructor at Bucharest's Country Club. According to Tomita's
account, in 1938 Lord Halifax offered him
the choice of any country he wanted for a salary of 1,000,000 US dollars yearly.
Not taking the offer, he returned to Romania, where he was, until 1989,
the last golf professor behind the Iron Curtain. At eighty, Paul Tomita owns his own golf club in the heart of
Transylvania.
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Tristan Tzara
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The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
Read Tristan Tzara's Manifestoes and so much more. Get Dada under your skin and see if it can live there. Book edited by
Robert Motherwell.
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Ion Tiriac
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Johnny Weissmuller
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By Johnny Weissmuller Jr., William Reed, W. Craig Reed (Contributor), Danton Burroughs (Contributor).
ECW Press, October 2002.
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Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Laureate
May 1, 2002. Please note: This page is down for now.
Biography on the official site of The Nobel Foundation. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet.
He's well known for his efforts as Chairman of The President's Commission on the Holocaust,
as well as for his writings, among which
Night,
the abridged account of his Holocaust experience seems to be the most memorable.
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Elie Wiesel -- 1992 Recipient of Ellis Island Medal of Honor
A brief but informative and engaging biography on the Ellis Island Medals of Honor Web site. Added: May 1, 2002.
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Night
By Elie Wiesel, et al. Bantam Books, Reissue Edition (1982).
October 7, 2002. Now you can start reading Elie Wiesel's Night online on Amazon.
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Gheorghe Zamfir
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- Interview with Gheorghe Zamfir -- Quicktime
movie
The wind travels long and winding roads through Zamfir's panflute.
Added: September 27, 2002.
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Japan's Princess Sayako to visit Romania, Croatia and Italy
In light of her upcoming visit to three European countries, Princess Sayako vows her admiration
for pan-flute virtuoso Gheorghe Zamfir and her commitment to further cultural exchanges between Romania and Japan.
Added: September 27, 2002.
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Zamfir,
Murmures de la forêt (Forest Murmurs)
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Ana Aslan, Alexander Balanescu, Constantin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Nicolae Ceausescu, Sergiu Celibidache, Emil Cioran,
Henri Coanda, Andrei Codrescu, Nadia Comaneci, Ileana Cotrubas, Ioan Petru Culianu, Dracula, Mircea Eliade, George Enescu
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Copyright © 2001-2009 Raluca Preotu. All rights reserved.
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