Austrian actor Karlheinz Bohm has died, aged 86.
Bohm was known for playing Kaiser Franz Joseph in 1955's Sissi and its two sequels, as well as the serial killer in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom in 1960.
He also played Jacob Grimm in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in 1962 and Ludwig Beethoven in The Magnificent Rebel.
The following decade, he worked with New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring in four of his films.
Bohm turned to activism in later years, founding the charity Humans for Humans after losing a bet on German TV show Wanna Bet?. The charity raises money to help people in Ethiopia.
He received several honours for his charity work, including the Balzan Prize in 2007 and the Essl Social Prize in 2011. He was also handed honorary Ethiopian citizenship in 2003.
Bohm is survived by wife Almaz Teshome and five children from previous marriages.
The actor's parents...
Bohm was known for playing Kaiser Franz Joseph in 1955's Sissi and its two sequels, as well as the serial killer in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom in 1960.
He also played Jacob Grimm in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in 1962 and Ludwig Beethoven in The Magnificent Rebel.
The following decade, he worked with New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring in four of his films.
Bohm turned to activism in later years, founding the charity Humans for Humans after losing a bet on German TV show Wanna Bet?. The charity raises money to help people in Ethiopia.
He received several honours for his charity work, including the Balzan Prize in 2007 and the Essl Social Prize in 2011. He was also handed honorary Ethiopian citizenship in 2003.
Bohm is survived by wife Almaz Teshome and five children from previous marriages.
The actor's parents...
- 5/30/2014
- Digital Spy
Acclaimed actor Karlheinz Bohm, who rocketed to international stardom as Kaiser Franz Joseph in the Sissi films of the 1950s and had a second career as the founder of the charity group Humans for Humans, has died. He was 86. The only child of conductor Karl Bohm and the soprano Thea Linhard, Bohm was perhaps destined for a life on the stage. But instead of music, he pursued acting, first in the theater and later in some 45 films and numerous television productions. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 Bohm's international breakthrough came playing opposite Romy Schneider as Austrian Kaiser Franz
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- 5/30/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Swiss soprano renowned for her beauty and singing of Strauss
When the Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa, who has died aged 93, made her Covent Garden debut in the title role of Richard Strauss's Arabella on the Bavarian State Opera's visit to London in 1953, she won all hearts with the beauty of her singing and of her appearance. This role became her trademark, and when the Royal Opera decided to stage its own production of the work in 1965, Della Casa was, of course, the Arabella, with Georg Solti in the pit.
The producer was Rudolf Hartmann, who had done much to launch Della Casa's career on an international level. That career had begun in 1941 in the Swiss town of Solothurn-Biel, where she made her debut in the title role of Madama Butterfly. She joined the Zurich Opera House in 1943, appearing as the First Boy in The Magic Flute, later ascending...
When the Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa, who has died aged 93, made her Covent Garden debut in the title role of Richard Strauss's Arabella on the Bavarian State Opera's visit to London in 1953, she won all hearts with the beauty of her singing and of her appearance. This role became her trademark, and when the Royal Opera decided to stage its own production of the work in 1965, Della Casa was, of course, the Arabella, with Georg Solti in the pit.
The producer was Rudolf Hartmann, who had done much to launch Della Casa's career on an international level. That career had begun in 1941 in the Swiss town of Solothurn-Biel, where she made her debut in the title role of Madama Butterfly. She joined the Zurich Opera House in 1943, appearing as the First Boy in The Magic Flute, later ascending...
- 12/11/2012
- by Alan Blyth
- The Guardian - Film News
Despite circumstances that would make most men bitter, Anton Bruckner (Sept. 24, 1824 – Oct. 11, 1896) in his mature symphonies and choral works wrote some of the most spiritual music since Bach's. Insecure, he spent his thirties studying with the dictatorial music professor Simon Sechter, who had briefly taught Franz Schubert. Brucker didn't compose a symphony until 1863, the "Study" Symphony, which he withheld (as he did the later so-called No. 0).
In Vienna, Bruckner was considered by many to be a naïve country bumpkin; he got unfairly entangled in the bitter Brahms-Wagner debates that split the city. Bruckner's symphonies were thus the object of myopic criticism from some in the Brahms camp, including powerful critic Eduard Hanslick (however, Wagner, Liszt, and Emperor Franz Joseph I were among those who praised or supported Bruckner). The unprecedented length of Bruckner's symphonies, which develop in slow-moving monoliths of sound, was an impediment for some listeners. Bruckner, an excellent organist,...
In Vienna, Bruckner was considered by many to be a naïve country bumpkin; he got unfairly entangled in the bitter Brahms-Wagner debates that split the city. Bruckner's symphonies were thus the object of myopic criticism from some in the Brahms camp, including powerful critic Eduard Hanslick (however, Wagner, Liszt, and Emperor Franz Joseph I were among those who praised or supported Bruckner). The unprecedented length of Bruckner's symphonies, which develop in slow-moving monoliths of sound, was an impediment for some listeners. Bruckner, an excellent organist,...
- 10/10/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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