Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride (also known as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) is a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark comedy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel. The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the titular bride. "Corpse Bride" is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach", were directed by Henry Selick). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft, who died in a car accident during production.
Heinz Kruse
Born in Schleswig, Kruse first sang in a children's choir and completed an apprenticeship with a health insurance company. His only singing lesson was with Traute Albers-Gisevius in Schleswig. He began his singing career as a choirist at the theater in Hof, then at Stadttheater Bern and from 1966 to 1968 at Staatstheater Stuttgart. In 1968 he was engaged as at the Theater Basel. His next station was the Staatsoper Hannover in 1970, where he celebrated his first great successes in buffo and character roles. He sang Pedrillo in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", Wenzel in "Die verkaufte Braut", Die Hexe in "Hänsel und Gretel", David in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" and numerous other roles. Guest appearances led him to the Paris Opera as Pedrillo in 1978, to the opera of Toulouse as David in 1979 and to the Bayreuth Festival in 1977, where he played small roles in "Tristan" and "Parsifal". In 1986 he took part in the premiere of Hans-Jürgen von Bose's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" at the Schwetzinger Festspiele.