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- Opera (25153 bytes)
2: [[Image:GarnierOperaParis.jpg|frame|The foyer of [[Charles Garnier (ar...
3: ...isting of a [[drama|dramatic]] stage performance set to [[music]].
5: ...ting]]. However, the words of the opera, or [[libretto]], are [[singing|sung]] rather than spoken. The...
7: ...e. Finally, [[dance|dancing]] is often part of an opera performance, particularly in France.
9: ...es, such as lyric soprano, [[coloratura]], ''soubrette'', spinto, and dramatic soprano, which associat...
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- Performance (3170 bytes)
1: [[Image:Street accordion player.jpg|thumb|A street musician with accordion in Bremen]]
2: ...cipatory theatre]]" where audience members might get involved in the [[theatrical event]].
7: ** [[opera]]
8: ** [[operetta]]
12: ** [[opera]] - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the r...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, ...
15: ...ut [[Duke of Albany]], a royal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died bef...
24: ...rd to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep h...
28: ...child's head, where it rested on a circlet of velvet. The Cardinal steadied the crown and Lord Livings... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...'. After a few years away from Washington Hickok returned and lived in the White House with the first ...
20: In [[1939]], the [[opera]] singer [[Marian Anderson]] was refused permissi...
33: ... perspectives focusing on the varied needs of society."''
35: ...d War II, she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and others in formulating the [[UN ...
37: ...r old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democrati... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...rable reputation. In [[1873]] she married E. J. Wethereil. She died at [[Salt Lake City]]. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
1: [[image:Margaret_Atwood.jpg|right|framed|Margaret Atwood]]
2: ...laces in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She i...
4: ...ian fiction]], a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[n...
6: ...effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voice...
8: ...The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[T... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: ...segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Literature]] or [[Hispanic L...
10: ...F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
29: *[[Dreaming Emmet]] (performed 1986)
31: ==Libretto==
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005) - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...0px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
3: ...Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
5: ...ubsequently recorded and performed many bel canto operas, contributing greatly to the bel canto revival o...
7: ...reo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher regist...
9: ...but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
14: ...and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holid...
18: ...'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[[Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''.
20: ...ous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr.
22: ...ances. She is interred in the [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]]. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...list ever by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] and [[VH1]].
6: ...ents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
16: She returned to working with Wexler, but her last Atlanti...
18: ...for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ... - [[May 8]], [[1891]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame B...
5: ...sian Empire]]), the daughter of [[Colonel|Col.]] Peter Alexeivich von Hahn and Elena Fadeev. Her mothe...
7: ... herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occult]] phenomena with Emma Cutti...
11: ...piritualist]] phenomena. Soon they were living together in the "Lamasery" (alternate spelling: "Lamast...
13: ...e was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and their divorce was l... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his jun...
9: ...r defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...ta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
15: ...e so occupied in [[New York City|New York]], she met her second husband, Harold Stewart McPherson, an ...
23: ...ld give sermons through a bullhorn. On the road between sermons, she would sit in the back seat typin... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des ...
2: ...ition of her innocence{{fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthum...
10: ... Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...scort of six men. Two of these soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her mal...
14: ...words "Jesus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the mor... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
3: ... '''Margarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[exotic dancer]] who was accused...
11: ...a suspicious resemblance to [[Puccini]]'s popular opera, ''[[Tosca]]''.
15: ... film of her final days, "Mata Hari", starred [[Greta Garbo]] in the leading role.
17: A fictionalized version of Margarete Zelle, a French super-spy code-named Malkovich, ... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
8: ...her social circle included the likes of [[Andre Breton]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[John Cage]], and [[Ana...
14: ...over]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
24: ...Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and Antony Tudor, music by Teiji Ito - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
3: The family returned to Australia when Nicole was four years old,...
8: ...oung People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production an...
10: ...e]]'', the mini-series ''[[Vietnam (miniseries)|Vietnam]]'' (1986), ''[[Bangkok Hilton]]'' (1989) and ...
26: ...eincarnation]] of her dead husband, the film was met with a mixed reception. Despite the mixed recepti...
43: ...lm Critics Circle]], [[Las Vegas Film Critics Society]], [[London Critics Circle]], [[Prestige Academy... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
5: ...lbert and Sullivan|Gilbert and Sullivan's]] [[operetta]] ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]''. This would serve as ...
7: ...or and starred in some of his [[comic opera|comic operas]].
11: .... She performed with a variety of [[opera company|opera companies]] including the company of the [[Casino...
15: ... 1922, Russell was interred in the [[Allegheny Cemetery]] in [[Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania]]. - Laura Serrano (2835 bytes)
3: ... A Empezar (television)|Volver A Empezar]]'' soap opera, she went to [[Las Vegas]], and on a [[Pay Per Vi...
7: ... frontiers. Mexico had also proclaimed equallity between the sexes in [[1992]] (sort of a [[Mexican]] ...
11: Next came a world title try, and she met the great world champion [[Tracy Byrd (boxer)|Tra...
19: She is also a lawyer nowadays, and is set to marry her fiancee very soon. Her trainer is fr... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...tan areas by population|thirteenth most populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at...
6: ...t Mars during the foundation of the city. The planet Mars, asssociated with destruction was called "Al...
28: ...rt]], built about [[150|AD 150]], built near the settlement known as [[Babylon-in-Egypt]], which lay c...
32: ... the city Al-Qahirah after the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] which was rising on the day the city was ...
38: ...in [[1517]], but the ruling [[Mameluks]] quickly returned to power as nominal vassals to the Ottoman S... - Heckelphone (1998 bytes)
1: ...with a wider bore and hence a heavier and more penetrating tone. It is pitched an octave below the reg...
3: ...rs themselves were unclear as to the distinction between the two instruments.
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