A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
The international breakthrough happened for the Latvian soprano MARINA REBEKA with her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2009 as Anaï (Moïse et Pharaon). Since then, she has been a regular guest at the world' most famous opera and concert stages, among others the Met and Carnegie Hall, the ROH Covent Garden, at the Salzburg Festival, the Scala, the Deutschen Oper Berlin, the Bavarian and Hamburg State Operas, in Baden-Baden, Peraso and Valencia. Recently, she gave her role debut at the Met and Lyric Opera in Chicago as Violetta, in the Arena di Verona as Juliette, Donna Anna in the Zurich opera house and the Lyric Opera Chicago as well as Mathilde at the Nederlandse Opera. Engagements comprise, among others, Violetta at the Deutschen Oper Berlin and the ROH Covent Garden. At the Met she will sing as Mathilde (Guillaume Tell) and Donna Elvira. At the Opera house in Zurich, she will sing Vitellia and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona as Donna Anna. At the Wiener Staatsoper she gave her debut as Donna Anna and went on to sing Antonia and Violetta. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Rebeka.en.php
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.