In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin.

The opera had its premiere in Leipzig in March 1930 and played in Berlin in December of the following year.

The opera was immediately stopped, and the orchestra played Chopin's Funeral March for the stunned audience.

His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture – such as " La donna è mobile " from Rigoletto, " Va, pensiero " ( The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco, " Libiamo ne ' lieti calici " ( The Drinking Song ) from La traviata and the " Grand March " from Aida.

On 22 March 1884, he gave Gilbert and Sullivan contractual notice that a new opera would be required in six months ' time.

Marietta Alboni ( 6 March 1826 – 23 June 1894 ) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer.

When Channel 5 began in March 1997 it came with its own soap opera, Family Affairs, which debuted as a five-days-a-week soap.

The first big soap opera hit in Australia was the sex-melodrama Number 96 which began in March 1972, screening on Network Ten in a nighttime slot.

* March 15 – Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts.

* March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert ( i. e. no scenery or costumes ), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center.

* In late March 1976, the first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U. S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell.

* March 4 – Leonard Warren, American opera singer ( b. 1911 )

* March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer who established opera in France ( b. 1632 )

* March 1 – Pierre-Jean Garat, opera singer ( b. 1764 )

* March 9 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan ; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

* March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.

The opera was soon mounted at major opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Regio di Parma ( 20 April 1872 ), the Teatro di San Carlo ( 30 March 1873 ), La Fenice ( 11 June 1873 ), the Teatro Regio di Torino ( 26 December 1874 ), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 30 September 1877, with Giuseppina Pasqua as Amneris and Franco Novara as the King ), and the Teatro Costanzi ( 8 October 1881, with Theresia Singer as Aida and Giulia Novelli as Amneris ) among others.

The first performance of the opera was on 6 March 1853 at the La Fenice opera house in Venice.

The opera was first performed in Milan at La Scala on 25 March 1868, and prestige productions in most other Italian opera houses followed, but it did not become a popular success.

The opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on 3 March 1875, and was not at first particularly successful ; its initial run extended to 36 performances.

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

* March 23 – Moses Malone, American basketball player

* Kirk A. Triplett-PGA golfer-Born in Moses Lake 29 March 1962

Robert Moses " Lefty " Grove ( March 6, 1900 – May 22, 1975 ) was a professional baseball pitcher.

Foxville became the official name of the settlement on March 21, 1837, when the first post office was created, with Moses Smith as the first postmaster.

Irving Layton was born on March 12, 1912 as Israel Pincu Lazarovitch in Târgu Neamţ, a small town in Romania, to Jewish parents, Moses and Klara Lazarovitch.

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (; 1830 – March 9, 1884 ) was a Jerusalem antiquities dealer and purveyor of fake Biblical artifacts.

* NIF project director Moses says facility is ready to go, SPIE Newsroom, March 23, 2009

This season Vehicle Use Fees will be collected at Robert Moses State Park starting on March 31st, 2012 on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth ( September 2, 1894 – May 27, 1939 ), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March ( 1932 ) about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and for his novel of Jewish life, Job ( 1930 ) as well as the seminal essay ' Juden auf Wanderschaft ' ( 1927 ; translated into English as The Wandering Jews ), a fragmented account about the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.

She has produced an award winning Family Film entitled The Derby Stallion, starring Zac Efron, Bill Cobbs, William R. Moses and herself that was released on Video on Demand March 8, 2007.

* Donald E. Houghton, " Vernon Louis Parrington's Unacknowledged Debt to Moses Coit Tyler ," New England Quarterly 43: 1 ( March 1970 )

Myers was born in Kensington, London on 13 March 1873, the eldest son of Wolf Myers, a merchant, and his wife, Esther Eugenie Moses.

Moses Stuart ( March 26, 1780 – January 4, 1852, age 71 ), an American biblical scholar, was born in Wilton, Connecticut.

Moses Eugene Malone ( born March 23, 1955 in Petersburg, Virginia ) is a retired American Hall of Fame basketball player who starred in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association.

* Grandma Moses in the 21st Century ( March 15, 2001 – June 10, 2001 )

He had his name legally changed, in early March 2006, from his birthname of Jamal Michael Barrow to Moses Michael Levi to reflect his grandmother's Jewish heritage.

Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz ( February 27, 1844 – March 4, 1910 ), also known as Moishe Hurvitz, Moishe Isaac Halevy-Hurvitz, etc., was a playwright and actor in the early years of Yiddish theater.

The 1973 film version featured many notable actors besides Lee Marvin, including Fredric March as Harry, Robert Ryan as Larry, Jeff Bridges as Don, George Voskovec as General Wetjoen and Moses Gunn as Joe.

* 8 March – Moses Kottler, sculptor, dies in Johannesburg at the age of 81

* March – Moses Mabhida dies of a heart attack following a stroke while in exile in Maputo

Moses Robinson ( March 22, 1741 – May 26, 1813 ) prominent Vermont political figure who served as governor during the Vermont Republic, and helped steward Vermont's transition to U. S. statehood.

** George H. Moses ( R ), elected March 6, 1925

Moses Soave was an Italian Hebraist ; born in Venice March 28, 1820 ; died there November 27, 1882.

Kelly remained silent after his wife's death in March 2005, but then Exile Editions then re printed " A Dream Like Mine " in its Canadian Classics series with an introduction by native writer Daniel David Moses.