She was born on Tuesday 19 May 1474 at nine o ' clock in the evening in Ferrara, to Ercole I d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara and Leonora of Naples.

Leonora was the daughter of Ferdinand I, the Aragonese King of Naples, and Isabella of Taranto.

Almost four years after her marriage in December 1493, Isabella gave birth to her first child out of an eventual total of eight ; it was a daughter, Eleonora, whom they called Leonora for short.

He was also an elder brother of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Leonora of England, Queen of Castile ; Joan of England ; and John, Count of Mortain, who succeeded him as king.

The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paer ( a score of which was owned by Beethoven ).

Leonora had long carried on a relationship with the count of Ourém, who engaged in various intrigues with England and Castile, and who's influence was resented by the leaders of the aristocracy, while her tyrannical rule also aroused Rebellion of bitter opposition.

Leonora fled to Santarém and summoned aid from Castile, while D. John was proclaimed defender of Portugal.

The performance was hampered by an off night for Leonora Braham as Rose Maybud and by George Grossmith's usual first night jitters, a week after which he fell dangerously ill and had to be replaced by his understudy, Henry Lytton, for almost three weeks.

Félix was painted by many artists, including Diego Rivera, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Stanislao Lepri, Bridget Tichenor and Antoine Tzapoff.

In 1221, he was married to Eleanor, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonora of England.

Extremely stubborn and of limited intelligence, she was soon entirely under the influence of her maid Leonora " Galigai " Dori.

As a result, Concino Concini was assassinated ( 24 April 1617 ), his widow, Leonora Dori Galigaï, was tried for witchcraft, condemned, beheaded and burned ( 8 July 1617 ), and Marie was sent into exile in Blois.

King Christian IV's daughter, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, was probably the cloister's most famous resident.

She was also an older maternal half-sister to William IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and John of England.

Leonora was the first to join the church and she persuaded Taylor to continue his studies with Pratt.

Taylor practiced plural marriage and was married to nine wives: Leonora Cannon, Elizabeth Kaighin, Jane Ballantyne, Mary Ann Oakley, Sophia Whitaker, Harriet Whitaker, and Margaret Young.

He was twice married: first, to Laura, daughter of James Keymer of Dartford ; and, secondly, to Leonora Eliza, daughter of Commander Blount, R. N.

Rutherford was born on November 8, 1869 to James Calvin Rutherford and Leonora Strickland and raised in near-poverty in a Baptist farm family.

He was the second son of King Peter IV of Aragon and Eleanor of Sicily ( Leonora ), princess of the Sicilian branch of the House of Aragon.

Concini's wife, Leonora, was arrested, imprisoned in Blois and accused of sorcery.

Fry's most notable composition was the opera Leonora, which received mixed reviews upon its opening and was criticized for its debt to Vincenzo Bellini's bel canto style.

Corelli made his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera on 27 January 1961 as Manrico in Il trovatore, opposite soprano Leontyne Price as Leonora who was also making her house debut at the Met that evening.

Theobald's play changes the names of the main characters from the Spanish original: Cervantes ' Cardenio becomes Julio, his Lucinda becomes Leonora ; Don Fernando is turned into Henriquez, and Dorothea into Violante.

* Beta Virginis was the original destination of the Bussard scoopship Leonora Christine in Poul Anderson's Tau Zero.

But during her mature prime in the 1870s and ' 80s, Patti had been a more enterprising singer, proving to be an effective actress in those lyric roles that required the summoning forth of deep emotions, such as Gilda in Rigoletto, Leonora in Il trovatore, the title part in Semiramide, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Violetta in La traviata.

The D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company's usual female lead, Leonora Braham, a light lyric soprano, nevertheless moved up from the part of Lady Psyche to assume the title role.

Among the many triumphs of the decade for Corelli were two highly celebrated performances at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, a 1958 appearance as Don Alvaro in La forza del destino opposite Renata Tebaldi as Leonora and a 1959 performance of Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur opposite Magda Olivero in the title role.

Her other roles at the Met included the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Isabella in de Falla's Atlàntida, and Santuzza.

She returned to Philadelphia in 1967 to sing the title roles in Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly and to the Met to sing three Verdi heroines: Leonora in Il trovatore opposite Richard Tucker as Manrico, Desdemona in Otello opposite James McCracken in the title role, and Violetta in La traviata with Tucker and George Shirley alternating as Alfredo.

In 1970, Caballé made her " official " debut at La Scala in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia, sang Leonora in Philadelphia, and returned to the Met as Amelia in a critically acclaimed production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera with Plácido Domingo as Riccardo, and Reri Grist as Oscar.

From the early 1970s into the 1980s Freni sang heavier Verdi roles, particularly Elisabetta in John Dexter's production of Don Carlo, Desdemona in Otello ( opposite Jon Vickers ), Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Elvira in the Luca Ronconi staging of Ernani, Leonora in La forza del destino, and the title role of Aida.

The novel opens with the famous line, “ This is the saddest story I have ever heard .” Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham ( the “ good soldier ” of the book ’ s title ) and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.

Other notable roles in her career included the title role in Aida, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, and Leonora in Il trovatore ( all in New York ), and also Violetta in La traviata and Leonora in La forza del destino ( in Chicago and Buenos Aires ).

She began her career as a chorister with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and steadily took on larger roles such as Kate Pinkerton and the lead role of Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Micaela in Carmen, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Freia in Das Rheingold, Elsa in Lohengrin, Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Leonora in La forza del destino, Leonora in Fidelio, Eva in Die Meistersinger, and the title roles in Aida, Tosca and Thaïs.

It was revived in Padua under the title of Leonora di Guzman in 1842, and at La Scala as Elda in 1843.

Her other roles at the Met during these thirteen years included Aida, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Cio-Cio-San in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Elvira in Verdi's Ernani, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Maddalena in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, and the title role in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda among others.

He wrote the opera Leonora ( 1804 ), based on the same story as Beethoven's Fidelio, which was produced the following year.

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

* June 4-William Fry's opera Leonora debuts in Philadelphia.

His other published complete opera recordings included La traviata with Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, and conductor Pierre Monteux, Pagliacci with Victoria de los Ángeles, Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill ; Tosca, Aida, and Il trovatore, each with Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling ; a second recording of Il trovatore with his friend and final tenor co-star, Richard Tucker, featuring a young Leontyne Price in her Met debut role of Leonora ; and Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek and Carlo Bergonzi.

* Leonora ( opera ), an 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer, based on the same source as the work by Beethoven

She made her La Scala debut in 1839, replacing Antonietta Marini-Rainieri, who was found unsuitable in the work's premiere performance, as Leonora in the first production of Giuseppe Verdi's first opera Oberto.

His Leonor ( 1798 ) forms the basis for the libretto which Ludwig van Beethoven used for the opera Fidelio ; it was also set by Pierre Gaveaux as Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal, by Simon Mayr as L ' amor coniugale, and by Ferdinando Paer as Leonora.