the mazurka choreographed by Witold Zapala to music from Moniuszko's opera, `` Strasny Dwor', may be the most beautiful mazurka you are likely ever to see ; ;

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie, and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.

Handel's 1709 opera, Agrippina with a libretto by Vincenzo Grimani.

* Alfonso und Estrella, an opera by Franz Schubert.

* Alfred ( Arne opera ), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne

* Alfred ( Dvořák opera ), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 to 1792, Salieri dominated Italian language opera in Vienna.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

The Italian opera buffa company was therefore replaced by a German language Singspiel troupe.

In 1783 the Italian opera company was revived with singers partly chosen and vetted by Salieri during his Italian tour, the new season would open with a slightly re-worked version of Salieri's recent success La scuola de ' gelosi.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

The Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe quoted parts of it in his opera or music theatre work Rites of Passage ( 1972-73 ), which was commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House but was not ready in time.

* Dee Bliss ( Dione " Dee " Rebecchi ), from the Australian soap opera Neighbours

Palin also had a small cameo role in Australian soap opera Home and Away.

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

Outdoor shooting later became commonplace and starting in the late 1970s it became standard practice that there will be some location-shot footage in each episode of any Australian soap opera, often to capitalise on the attractiveness and exotic nature of these locations for international audiences.

The first Australian television soap opera was Autumn Affair ( 1958 ).

During the 1980s the Australian attempts to emulate big-budget US soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty had resulted in Taurus Rising and Return to Eden, two slick soap opera dramas with big budgets and shot entirely on film.

Like GZSZ, the format was based on an Australian soap opera from Reg Watson.

Sat. 1 tried to get in the soap business as well, after successfully showing the Australian soap opera Neighbours, which got canceled in 1995 to the talk show phenomenon which took over most of Germany's daytime.

Both soaps are still aired today, along with other foreign soaps such as " Days Of Our Lives ", Australian " Home And Away " and German soap opera " Sturm Der Liebe ".

Soap opera: ' No end of story, ever ' in The Australian TV Book, ( Eds.

* 1995: Australian choreographer Stanton Welch created a ballet, inspired by the opera, for The Australian Ballet.

Pinafore is still performed around the world by opera companies such as the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen ; Australian Opera ( and Essgee Entertainment and others in Australia ); in Kassel, Germany ; and even Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

* Dame Joan Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE-( 1926 – 2010 ), Australian opera singer

While not yet appearing with this company, Joan Sutherland, then an internationally known Australian soprano, and her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge, helped the cause of opera in general in Australia during the 1960s.

In 1977, the New South Wales Friends of the Australian Opera and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust established the Armstrong-Martin Scholarship to further the musical education of professional opera singers.

Secondly, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra was integrated with the Australian Opera to produce a permanent opera and ballet orchestra for the company.

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* Ramsay Street, a fictional street in the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

* Chloe Cammeniti, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours

The Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks wrote an opera entitled Nausicaa ( libretto by Robert Graves ), first performed in 1961 at the Athens Festival.