Gran Hermano (Spanish TV series)
Gran Hermano (as known by the acronym GH) is a reality television series broadcast in Spain on Telecinco produced by Endemol. It is part of the Big Brother franchise first developed in the Netherlands. As of September 2014, 20 editions of the show have aired (15 regular seasons, 3 VIP editions, and 3 all-star seasons). It is the longest-running series of Big Brother in the franchise worldwide currently on air.
Overview
Based on the Original Dutch Version created by Endemol, the show sees a number of different Housemates, divided by gender, social backgrounds and geographical locations locked up together in a House, where the viewing Public can watch them twenty-four hours a day, and vote them out of the House as they choose to. The housemates live in isolation from the outside world in a house custom built with everyday objects, like fridges and a garden. The house also includes cameras and microphones in most of the rooms to record all of the activity in the house. The only place where Housemates can be away from the other contestants is in the Diary Room, where they can confess their true feelings. The winner is the last contestant remaining in the house, and receives a large cash prize. Housemates are evicted weekly throughout the show by the viewing public. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1948 novel 1984, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing, omnipotent leader of Oceania.
Gran Hermano 13 (Spain)
Gran Hermano 12+1 was the 13th season of Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of Big Brother. The official name of this season is Gran Hermano 12+1, and the tag line is "Dale la vuelta" (Turn it over). The season started airing on 19 January 2012. Mercedes Milá is still the main host. The main eviction show is known as the "Gala". Beginning on the second week there is also a nominations show known as "Última Hora". "El Debate", a weekly spin-off show hosted by Jordi González, has recently evicted housemates return to the studio to comment on the house news. The grand prize this season is €300,000.
Housemates
The motto of the edition is Turn it over, with that they try "to open a door for the hope", in these times of crisis. In addition, it wanted to turn to the origins, with an alone house and fewer competitors. In this thirteenth edition it returned to modify the logo, that this time was consisting of the sum of all the eyes of the competitors.
Without losing the classic style of Gran Hermano, the edition 12+1 came loaded from innovations. Mercedes Milá announced in the show that, across eBay, everything the one that should want to compete might offer a quantity of money to buy a square in the house and turn into the "competitor + 1" of every week. All the benefits that were obtained would be destined entirely to Red Cross, which would help, across a specific project, the persons more duramente punished by the crisis.
Gran Hermano 2 (Colombia)
Gran Hermano 2 (Colombia) was the second season of Gran Hermano in Colombia. The season launched on Monday 20 August 2012. Nomination Day was set for Thursdays and Eviction was set for Tuesdays.
The series used different rules to its first season. Each week the housemates nominated two people for eviction with the two or more housemates receiving the most votes will face eviction and could be evicted.
The phone
The phone rings from time to time where the housemate who answers will either face a good or bad consequence. In Week 1, Juan answered the phone and automatically faced eviction. In week two, in the nomination night after everyone had voted the phone rang, Alejandro answered and Big Brother asked him to point with his finger a housemate; Farid was chosen. Later the consequence was known, Farid was immune that week (despite that he did not get any vote that day).
Housemates
Houseguests
Agustín
Agustín Belforte is a former housemate of Gran Hermano 4 (Argentina). He was evicted on Day 42, with 42.5% of the votes to evict. He entered in the House on Day 45, and left the house in Day 72 minutes before Juan's eviction.
Vanessa (opera)
Vanessa is an American opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber, opus 32, with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958 under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti. Barber revised the opera in 1964, reducing the four acts to the three-act version most commonly performed today.
Performance history
For the Met premiere, Sena Jurinac was contracted to sing the title role. However, she cancelled six weeks before the opening night and Eleanor Steber replaced her, making it her own for a long time. In the role of Erika, Vanessa's niece, was Rosalind Elias, then a young mezzo-soprano. Nicolai Gedda sang the lover Anatol, mezzo Regina Resnik sang the Baroness, Vanessa's mother, while bass, Giorgio Tozzi, sang the old doctor.
The premiere "was an unqualified success with the audience and with many of the critics as well although they were somewhat qualified in their judgment. Of the final quintet, however, New York Times critic Howard Taubman said it is '...a full-blown set-piece that packs an emotional charge and that would be a credit to any composer anywhere today.' ". Other reports substantiate this and it won Barber the Pulitzer Prize. In Europe, however, it met with a chillier reception.
Vanessa (Millais painting)
Vanessa (1868) is a painting by John Everett Millais in Sudley House, Liverpool. It is a fancy portrait depicting Jonathan Swift's correspondent Esther Vanhomrigh (1688-1723), who was known by that pseudonym.
Vanessa represents a major departure in Millais's art because he abandons fully for the first time the detailed finish that was still to be seen in Waking and Sleeping, exhibited in the previous year. Influenced by the work of Diego Velázquez and Joshua Reynolds, Millais paints with dramatic, visible brush strokes in vivid colours, creating what has been described as an "almost violently modern" handling of paint.
Esther Vanhomrigh is known as "Swift's Vanessa" because of the fictional name he gave her when he published their correspondence. The portrait is wholly imaginary. No actual image of Esther Vanhomrigh exists. She is holding a letter, presumably written to or from Swift. Her sad expression is related to the fraught nature of the relationship, which was broken up by Swift's relationship to another woman, Esther Johnson whom he called "Stella". Millais also painted a companion piece depicting Stella.
Vanessa (telenovela)
Vanessa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Valentín Pimstein for Televisa in 1982. Is a remake of the successful Brazilian telenovela Idolo de Pano.
It starred by Lucía Méndez, Héctor Bonilla, Rogelio Guerra, Angélica Aragón and Nuria Bages.
Plot
Vanessa is a young girl who lives with her father José de Jesús and his brother Juan, both working as railway and have a small house near the tracks; Vanessa in order to help them get work in the textile factory of Cecile Saint Michel a powerful and successful woman who lives in a huge mansion with his grandsons Pierre and Luciano.
Cast
Gran
Gran may refer to:
People
Places
Spanish language
in Spanish Gran means "Great" or "Greater", may refer to:
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