The young Ackté studied singing under her mother's tutelage until 1894 when she entered the Paris Conservatory, studying under Edmond Duvernoy and Alfred Girodet.

Ackté ended her international travels in 1914 and returned to Finland, where she gave her farewell performance in 1920.

* Aino Ackté and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland.

Aino Ackté and other prominent opera singers founded the Finnish Opera in 1911.

Ackté also began a festival in Savonlinna the following year ; this was the precursor of the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which was started in the 1960s, shortly before the new Finnish opera became famous in the 1970s.

At roughly the same time, Aarre Merikanto composed the opera Juha to the libretto by Aino Ackté, who rejected it and asked Leevi Madetoja to compose another version instead ; Merikanto's Juha was first performed after the composers death in 1958, and is now known as one of the best Finnish operas.

However, Helsingin Sanomat suggested in October 2008 that Castafiore was modelled after Aino Ackté, a Finnish soprano.

A group of notable social and cultural figures, led by the international star soprano Aino Ackté, founded the Domestic Opera in 1911.

Aino Ackté ( originally Achte ; 23 April 18768 August 1944 ) was a Finnish soprano.

Ackté was born in Helsinki.

Aino Ackté married a doctor, Heikki Renvall, in 1901 and gave birth to a daughter, Glory Leppänen, the same year.

In 1904 Ackté was engaged by the New York Metropolitan Opera where she remained until 1906.

After parting ways with the National Opera, Ackté organized an international Savonlinna Opera Festival beginning on 3 July 1912 ; it was held 1912-14, 1916 and 1930.

Jean Sibelius dedicated his tone poem Luonnotar to Ackté and she premiered the work on 10 September 1913 at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester, England.

Her old summerhouse, Villa Aino Ackté, located in Helsinki is being rented by the city for cultural activities and meetings.

Ackté is most likely the original model for the opera diva character Bianca Castafiore in comics books of " Adventures of Tintin " by Belgian Hergé.

Attending a nationalist meeting in Olavinlinna Castle in 1907, the Finnish soprano Aino Ackté, already famous at opera houses the world over and an ardent patriot, immediately spotted the potential of the castle as the venue for an opera festival.

Aino Ackté directed the festival for five summers, staging four Finnish operas.

The only opera by a non-Finnish composer was Charles Gounod ’ s Faust, with Ackté herself in the leading female role of Marguerite.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

For example, London is considered the pre-eminent centre for litigation of admiralty cases.

They are the first recorded Africans to arrive in London at the time, and were considered luxury servants.

When Elizabeth I of England died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as James I, Charles was not considered strong enough to make the journey to London due to his fragile health.

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

He wrote: " It is a matter of great regret that the throwing of bombs by zeppelins on London was denounced as a most savage act and the bombardment of places of worship and sacred spots was considered a most abominable operation.

Reform of the local government arrangements in the County of London and its environs was again considered by the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London.

The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in London, is considered to have been the first general-interest magazine.

#: Allied troops were to withdraw immediately from Tehran and that further stages of the withdrawal of troops from Iran should be considered at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held in London in September, 1945.

After Tabu, Flaherty was considered finished in Hollywood, and Frances Flaherty contacted John Grierson of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit in London, who assigned Flaherty to the documentary Industrial Britain ( 1933 ).

The Waltz was first imported to England around 1810, but it was not considered socially acceptable until continental visitors at the post-Napoleonic-Wars celebrations danced it in London — and even then it remained the subject of anti-waltz diatribes, caricatures, and jokes.

More was educated at St Anthony's School, considered one of the finest schools in London at that time.

* The cities of Oxford, Cambridge and London are sometimes considered as a tricity of scientific excellence connected by good rail or road connections.

Pound had travelled to London at least partly to meet the older man, whom he considered " the only poet worthy of serious study.

** In London, Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the murder of his adoptive parents, sister and twin nephews, and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation by the trial judge that he should serve at least 25 years before being considered for parole.

" In 1901 Gibbs received what was then considered the highest honor awarded by the international scientific community, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London, " for his contributions to mathematical physics.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

She soon became pregnant and, to legalise the first wedding considered to be unlawful at the time, there was a second wedding service, also private in accordance with The Royal Book, which took place in London on 25 January 1533.

" The Borough " to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered Cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only Cockney area south of the Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge.

The creation of the residence was considered after the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ), but construction did not commence until 1739.

Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf were sisters, and their brothers, the older Thoby and the younger Adrian, can also be considered original members of the group, ( as were some other Cambridge figures-indeed, to some, " Bloomsbury was really Cambridge in London ").

To the second impression of the Third Folio ( 1664 ) he added seven plays, including Pericles, Prince of Tyre and six others not now considered authentically Shakespearean: Locrine, The London Prodigal, The Puritan, Sir John Oldcastle, Thomas Lord Cromwell, and A Yorkshire Tragedy.