* 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan ; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

* 1827 – Bellini's third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano

* May 16 – Twenty-two years after the start of construction, Teatro Massimo opens in Palermo, the largest opera theatre in Italy and the third largest in Europe.

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

In 1897 ( 27 November ), the Teatro Lirico in Milan saw the première of Cilea's third opera L ' Arlesiana, based on the play by Alphonse Daudet, with a libretto by Leopoldo Marenco.

* Terpsichore is also found in the third version ( HWV 8c ) of Handel's opera Il pastor fido ( 1712 ).

The following portions of the third and final act were fully scored: the first 268 bars ; the instrumental interlude between scenes 1 and 2 ; and the finale of the opera, beginning with the monologue of Countess Geschwitz.

That same evening Smetana's third opera, Dalibor, was premièred at Prague's New Town Theatre.

In the view of German critic William Ritter, Smetana's creative powers reached their zenith with his third opera, Dalibor.

The different style of his third opera, Dalibor, closer to that of Wagnerian music drama, was not readily understood by the public and was condemned by critics who believed that Czech opera should be based on folk-song.

The most immediate impact was on the shaping of the libretto for his third opera, The Knot Garden.

The third period, the 1960s and early ' 70s, is in stark contrast, and is characterised by abrupt statements and simplicity of texture, as in the opera King Priam, the Concerto for Orchestra and the Second Piano Sonata.

The ' Siegfried ' leitmotif from Act III of Wagner's opera, the third of his ' Ring ' cycle ; the theme is broader and more richly orchestrated than its earlier appearances ( see above ), suggesting the emergence of Siegfried's heroic character Richard Wagner is the earliest composer most specifically associated with the concept of leitmotif.

Together they produced Cynara ( a setting of words by Ernest Dowson ), A Late Lark ( a setting of W. E. Henley ), A Song of Summer, a third violin sonata, the Irmelin prelude, and Idyll ( 1932 ), which reused music from Delius's short opera Margot la rouge, composed thirty years earlier.

3, is also Opera in Three Acts with text and music by Siegfried Wagner ; his third opera and it was completed in 1903.

The work is filled with quotes of other pieces by Shostakovich: the first movement quotes his Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 5 ; the second movement uses a Jewish theme first used by Shostakovich in his Piano Trio No. 2 ; the third movement quotes the Cello Concerto No. 1 ; and the fourth movement quotes the 19th century revolutionary song " Tormented by Grievous Bondage " and the aria " Seryozha, my love " from Shostakovich's opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

Gioachino Rossini's opera La Cenerentola makes this economic basis explicit: Don Magnifico wishes to make his own daughters ' dowry larger, to attract a grander match, which is impossible if he must provide a third dowry.

More European chart entries were achieved with Tobias Sammet's metal opera project Avantasia releasing their third album.

Chinese opera ( Chinese: 戏曲 / 戲曲 ; Pinyin: xìqǔ ) is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back as far as the third century CE.

The Grand adage ( a. k. a. the Love Duet ) from the second scene of Swan Lake was fashioned from an aria from that opera, as was the Valse des fiancées from the third scene.

As a prison, it was also the setting for the third act of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca from whose ramparts the eponymous heroine of the opera leaps to her death.

Later in the run, she also played Lauretta in the third opera of the triptych, Gianni Schicchi.

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

Drifting through a third illness, apparently without any provision for the handling of a major national emergency other than a talk with the vice-president, Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality of his thinking.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

That third year he wrote plays with a fury.

In the third Push-Pull Super-Set the `` push '' exercise is the widegrip Pushup Between Bars, while the `` pull '' exercise is the Moon Bench Lateral Raise with bent arms.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

Called the Marmara Gazinosu, it is on the third floor, with signs pointing the way there, and has a terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

Spectra were also obtained from a third sample of Af which had been diluted to three times its original volume with powdered, anhydrous alundum ( Af ).

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

Resentment welled up yesterday among Democratic district leaders and some county leaders at reports that Mayor Wagner had decided to seek a third term with Paul R. Screvane and Abraham D. Beame as running mates.

however, the first belief stood for entire revision with a new third point added to the list.

The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate.

The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.

Chico Ruiz made a spectacular play on Alusik's grounder in the hole in the fourth and Wert came up with some good stops and showed a strong arm at third base.

In the third Frank Robinson hammered a long home run deep into the corner of the bleachers in right center, about 400 feet away, with two men on.

Momentarily the Reds were back in the ball game, trailing only 6-3, but the drive fizzled when John Edwards fouled out with men on second and third and two out.

When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.

The Government reported last week that the index of prices received by farmers rose in the month ended at mid-September for the third consecutive month, reaching 242% of the 1910-14 average compared with 237% at mid-July.