* 1972 – Manon Rhéaume, Canadian ice hockey player

* September 23-goaltender, Manon Rhéaume became the first woman to play in the National Hockey League during a pre-season game, and also the first woman ever to play in one of the Big Four Pro Sports.

Manon Rhéaume ( born February 24, 1972 ) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender.

In October 2008, the IHL's Port Huron Icehawks announced that they going to have Manon Rhéaume take part in their training camp activities and will play for at least a period of the team's exhibition season opener.

Manon Rhéaume was married to Gerry St-Cyr, a roller hockey player and minor league hockey player in June 1998, whom she later divorced.

Rhéaume formed the Manon Rhéaume Foundation in 2008 as a way to give back to the community and to the game of ice hockey.

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In 1992, goaltender Manon Rhéaume played in a preseason game for the Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first woman to suit up for a male pro sports team in North America.

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* Manon Lescaut, libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva ( premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1893 )

When Manon died of polio at age 18, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her ( it is inscribed " to the memory of an angel ").

They had a daughter together, Manon Gropius ( 1916 – 1935 ), who died of polio at the age of 18.

The composer worked at the score of Manon at his country home outside Paris and also at a house at The Hague once occupied by Prévost himself.

With the disruption of the fire at the Opéra-Comique and Massenet's work on other operatic projects ( especially Esclarmonde ), it was put to one side, until the Vienna Opera, pleased with the success of Manon, asked the composer for a new work.

Carl's earlier love, Manon, is another entertainer at the cafe, who has mixed feelings about Sarah (" If Love Were All ").

In 1997, Fleming portrayed the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and her first Manon at the Opéra Bastille, receiving glowing reviews.

In 2001, Fleming sang Desdemona in Otello with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Manon with the Paris Opera, the Marschallin with both the San Francisco Opera and the Met, and Arabella at both the Bavarian State Opera and the Met.

In 2005, Fleming sang the title role in Massenet's Manon at the Met, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello at Covent Garden, and Thaïs in Vienna.

In 2006, Fleming performed a solo concert at the Lyric Opera of Chicago with Sir Andrew Davis, sang Violetta in Verdi's La traviata with Los Angeles Opera, and returned to the Met to sing Manon and Rodelinda.

Mainstays of the repertory at the Opéra-Comique during its history have included the following works which have each been performed more than 1, 000 times by the company: Cavalleria Rusticana, Le chalet, La dame blanche, Le domino noir, La fille du régiment, Lakmé, Manon, Mignon, Les noces de Jeannette, Le pré aux clercs, Tosca, La bohème, Werther and Carmen, the last having been performed more than 2, 500 times.

From the fall of 1962 through the spring of 1963 she toured Mexico, at one point singing the title role in Massenet's Manon at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

She performed at The Metropolitan Opera for seventeen seasons in roles such as Lucia, Gilda, Adina, Mimi, Liù, Nedda, Pamina, Marguerite, Juliette, Manon, Mélisande, Périchole, the four heroines of Les contes d ' Hoffmann, etc.

Other important roles she has sung include Zerbinetta, Gilda, Violetta, Lucia, Konstanze, Manon and Oscar ; she sang Donna Anna at La Scala in 1987, Marie in La fille du régiment in 1987, Semiramide in 1992 at Zürich, Queen Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux in Vienna in 1990.

After receiving lessons in Paris from the renowned teacher Mathilde Marchesi, who gave her her stage name, Alda made her debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1904 in Massenet's Manon.

Muzio made her operatic début in Arezzo ( 15 January 1910 ) in the title-role of Massenet's Manon, and despite her youth she made rapid progress in the opera-houses of Italy, leading to débuts at La Scala in Milan in 1913 ( as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello ), in Paris ( as Desdemona ) and in London at Covent Garden ( as Puccini's Manon Lescaut ) in 1914 ; she stayed on in London to sing other roles including Mimì and Tosca ( both with Caruso ).

Rhéaume was signed to the Trois-Rivières Draveurs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, one of Canada's top junior ice hockey leagues, for the 1991-1992 season, becoming the first woman ever to play in a men's Junior A hockey game.

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