Chris Dixon
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22nd May 1813–13th February 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as he later came to call them). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: themes associated with specific characters, locales, or plot elements. Wagner's chromatic musical language prefigured later developments in European classical music, including extreme chromaticism and atonality.
Katherine Jenkins
Katherine Jenkins (born 29 June 1980 in Neath, West Glamorgan, Wales) is a Welsh mezzo-soprano. In 2004, at the age of 23, she signed the largest record deal in United Kingdom classical recording history, with an undisclosed seven-figure deal. On Sunday 25th November 2007, Katherine Jenkins' new album 'Rejoice' entered the 'Official UK Album Chart' at number 3. Katherine beat off stiff competition from the likes of Girls Aloud, Led Zeppelin, Spice Girls, Take That and Celine Dion.
Anna Netrebko
The Russian soprano Anna Netrebko (born 18 September 1971) is a well-known opera singer. She is much admired for her sumptuous voice, her fine technique, and her great personal beauty. Netrebko was born in Krasnodar. She began her career washing floors at St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre (home of the then Kirov Opera). There, she attracted the attention of conductor Valery Gergiev who became her vocal mentor.
Vivica Genaux
Vivica Genaux (born in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American mezzo-soprano. Her father, of Belgian descent, was a biochemistry professor at the University of Alaska and her mother, of Swiss-German extraction, was a language teacher. She has sung in major operas such The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera, L'italiana in Algeri at Opera National de Paris and Cinderella with Dallas Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Bed
There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Bed is a French band. Bed don't play new-wave, they play the memories of 80s pop and new-wave music echoing in your mind. The kind of memories that create disappointment when faced with the original source. Well, there's no need for disappointment anymore, as those sounds now actually exist outside your mind in the music of bed.
2) Bed are a Kyoto-based indie rock band.
Members from diary tree and scroll started Bed in June 2005.
They released 1st EP "turn it off" in February 2007. 1st album will be released in 2008.
Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, O.M. (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was one of the foremost English composers of the 20th century. Tippett was regarded by many as an outsider in British music, a view that may have been related to his early conscientious objection and his homosexuality. His pacifist beliefs led to a prison sentence in World War II, and for many years his music was considered ungratefully written for voices and instruments, and therefore difficult to perform.
Elina Garanca
Elīna Garanča (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. Born into a musical family in Riga, Garanča entered the Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 to study singing with Sergej Martinov. She continued her studies in Vienna with Irina Gavrilovici and in the United States with Virginia Zeani. Garanča began her professional career at the Südthüringisches Staatstheater in Meiningen and later worked at the Frankfurt Opera. In 1999 she won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki, Finland
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was one of five Russian composers known as The Five (along with Alexander Borodin and Modest Musorgsky), and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, and for his extraordinary skill in orchestration, which may have been influenced by his synesthesia.