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 Los Angeles Opera presented the opera in September 1989 under conductor Kent Nagano and with a Jonathan Miller production.

* Jonathan Miller – writer, opera director, physiologist and sculptor

Many cast members from the soap opera, including Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Roger Davis, and Kathryn Leigh Scott, reprised their roles.

The original idea of the opera came from Jonathan Swift, who wrote to Alexander Pope on 30 August 1716 asking "... what think you, of a Newgate pastoral among the thieves and whores there?

The work took satiric aim at the passionate interest of the upper classes in Italian opera, and simultaneously set out to lampoon the notable Whig statesman Robert Walpole, and politicians in general, as well as the notorious criminals Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard.

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE ( born 21 July 1934 ) is a British theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor.

ENO is known for its emphasis on the dramatic aspect of opera, with productions, sometimes controversial, by directors including David Pountney, Jonathan Miller, Nicholas Hytner, Phyllida Lloyd and Calixto Bieito.

Jonathan Levin, one of the show's consulting producers, commented on the change that a new soap opera brings to the lineup, and the tough process of a viewer getting to know a new soap: " It is very difficult to change the loyalty of the daytime viewer, and we ’ re talking about shows that have been on for 30 years.

Nasseri's story was also the inspiration for the award-winning contemporary opera Flight by British composer Jonathan Dove.

Throughout his long life, Jonathan had a number of hobbies: cooking, watching movies, reading, traveling, painting, magic, playing piano ( he played a piano teacher in a 1968 episode of Bewitched ), listening to opera, spending time with children, gardening and knitting.

Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray co-founded Bunim / Murray after agent Mark Itkin of the William Morris Agency put the two together to develop a scripted soap opera for MTV.

USA on 1 February 2007 ); Sonata for Organ ( premiered by Robert Green at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 22 August 2007 ); the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, premièred at the Thomas Hardy Festival in July 2006 ; Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice, premiered by soprano Paula Downes at the MIT Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 March 2008 ; Sonata for Horn, Violin and Piano for the Brahms Trio Prague ( Monica Vrabcová, violin ; Ondrej Vrabec, Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Wiesner, piano ), premiered at the Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague on 5 February 2008 ( a CD of this work has now been released on the Czech Philharmonic Artesmon label ); Finished Fields, a setting of four poems by Wilfred Owen commissioned by Jonathan Pugsley ( bass-baritone ) and Duncan Honeybourne ( piano ) and premiered in Weymouth, Dorset on 12 November 2008 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for pianist Duncan Honeybourne and the Central England Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Bradbury in Birmingham Town Hall on 1 March 2009, and given again by the same artists in Coventry Cathedral in July 2010 ; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano for Peter Sheridan, premiered in 2009 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Sonata for Clarinet and Piano for clarinettist Angus Merion and Duncan Honeybourne, premiered in Salisbury, UK in January 2010.

On July 27, 2010, Rihm's latest opera, Dionysus, based on Nietzsche ’ s late cycle of poems Dionysus-Dithyrambs, had its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, and designed by Jonathan Meese.

* Flight ( opera ), a 1998 opera by Jonathan Dove

The Young Vic re-opened on 11 October 2006, with a production of the community opera Tobias and the Angel ; with music by Jonathan Dove and a libretto by David Lan.

Eroica soloists include the aforementioned concert pianists ; violist Scott Slapin, the only artist to record the entire Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the viola ; conductor and violinist Guillermo Figueroa, the only artist to record all three Bartók Sonatas for violin on a single CD ; lutenist F. Edgar Gilbert playing Lute music from the Baroque and Renaissance periods ; Carol Wood playing Early Music for harp and voice ; Andrea Steckermeier-Thiele playing contemporary harp works ; Dominique Piana performing traditional and contemporary harp works, Cellists Yehuda Hanani and Michael Rudiakov, each performing Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for cello Solo ; Organist Richard Heschke ; Organist James Riker, opera tenor Camillo d ' Antonio, operatic sopranos Eileen Mager, Isolda Jones, Elin Carlson, and Alicia Solomon, and classical guitarists Jonathan Adams, Scott Morris, Glenn Strauss, Joseph Sullinger, Troy King, Susan McDonald and many others.

Branson was born in St. Louis and originated the role of Jonathan Lavery on the ABC soap opera All My Children on June 15, 2004.

* Inquest of Love, script doctoring work for Jonathan Harvey's opera, English National Opera ( 1993 )

The Banff International String Quartet Competition was established in 1983 and the Banff Festival of the Arts, established in 1971, has seen several Canadian premieres including Michael Daugherty's opera Jackie O, John Metcalf's Kafka's Chimp and Jonathan Dove's Siren Song.

Birmingham Opera has a long history of collaboration with contemporary British composer Jonathan Dove, including commissioning and performing Dove's composition Life is a Dream in March 2012, an opera in three acts with the libretto written by Alasdair Middleton and based on the play of the same name by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

The Eternity Man is an opera based on Stace's life, written by Jonathan Mills to a libretto by Dorothy Porter.

Jonathan " Johnny " Allen is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Billy Murray.

In the 1980s he was a guest star for seven episodes in the prime-time soap opera Dynasty, playing Jonathan Lake, a love interest of the character Dominique Deveraux played by Diahann Carroll.