His wife ( Lady Macbeth ) has gained fame along the way, lending her Shakespeare-given title to a short story by Nikolai Leskov and the opera by Dmitri Shostakovich titled Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

The popularity of Peyton Place prompted the CBS network to spin off popular As the World Turns character Lisa Miller into her own evening soap opera, Our Private World ( originally titled " The Woman Lisa " in its planning stages ).

At around this point there was a change in the style of Lansky's music that made it sound slightly more modern, and 1997 heralded a one-hour computer opera titled Things She Carried, a musical portrait about an unnamed woman in a series of eight movements.

* Charles Villiers Stanford wrote an opera titled Savonarola, which had its premiere in Hamburg on 18 April 1884.

In 2008, Jones wrote and directed an opera titled Evil Machines.

At the time, Piave and Verdi had titled opera La maledizione ( The Curse ), and this unofficial title was used by Austrian censor De Gorzkowski in an emphatic letter written in December 1850 in which he definitively denied consent to its production calling it " a repugnant of immorality and obscene triviality.

Eino Tamberg composed another opera titled Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974, to a libretto by Jaan Kross, based on Rostand's play.

* Harry Partch composed an opera based on The Bacchae titled Revelation in the Courthouse Park.

" In 1768 in Vienna, Johann Adolph Hasse composed a serious opera on the tale, titled Piramo e Tisbe.

* In November 2007, an opera, also titled Elmer Gantry, by Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein premiered in the James K. Polk Theater in Nashville.

In later years, after graduating from Stanhope College, she changes careers several times, holding jobs in student counseling, news reporting, and acting in a TV soap opera titled Secret Hearts.

After shooting the first season of Edgemont ( a teenage soap opera set at a Vancouver-area high school ) and getting herself an agent, Kreuk landed the lead role of Snow White in a TV movie titled Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.

* In May 2012 it was announced that trumpeter Terence Blanchard and playwright Michael Cristofer are working on an opera titled Champion based on Griffith's story which will premiere at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in June 2013

Adapted into a play, it was titled Camile in English and became the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata, Duplessis undergoing yet another name change, this time to Violetta Valery.

His next literary venture was an account of his travels in Italy, which was followed by an opera libretto titled Rosamund.

The Colbys ( originally titled Dynasty II: The Colbys ) is an American prime time soap opera, which originally aired on ABC from November 20, 1985 to March 26, 1987.

She also had a cameo role on the Australian soap opera Neighbours on the episode titled " What's a Spice Girl Like You ...?

A rock opera titled A Place in the Sun was created and performed by Utah country band Grain in 1997.

* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera involving Koschei, titled Кащей бессмертный — Kashchey the Deathless.

Laurel and Hardy starred as " Stanlio " and " Ollio " in the 1933 feature film The Devil's Brother ( sometimes titled as Fra Diavolo ) based on Auber's opera.

Probably the best-known example of the whistle register in European classical music is in the " Queen of the Night " aria ( properly titled " Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen ") from the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte ; it calls for pitches up to F6.

The Kennedy Center presented three of McNally's plays that focus on his works involving opera, titled Nights at the Opera in March 2010.

In 2007, Heggie composed a chamber opera, Three Decembers, based on original text by McNally titled Some Christmas Letters ( and a Couple of Phone Calls, Too ), with libretto by Gene Scheer.

He is working with Terry Riley on a collaborative opera to be titled Bastard, the First.

In 1995 he premiered a one-man " opera " Failing Kansas, based on the same story as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and in 2000 he produced an entire film with music by himself, rather pointedly titled Funding.

`` La Gioconda '', like it or not, is a singer's opera.

She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie, and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.

A complete opera composed in 1769 ( presumably as a culminating study ) La vestale ( The Vestal Virgin ) has also been lost.

However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

In 1783 the Italian opera company was revived with singers partly chosen and vetted by Salieri during his Italian tour, the new season would open with a slightly re-worked version of Salieri's recent success La scuola de ' gelosi.

) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.

In 2004, the opera Europa riconosciuta was staged in Milan for the reopening of La Scala in Milan, with soprano Diana Damrau in the title role.

From about 1697 onwards ( La caduta del Decemviri ), influenced partly perhaps by the style of Giovanni Bononcini and probably more by the taste of the viceregal court, his opera arias become more conventional and commonplace in rhythm, while his scoring is hasty and crude, yet not without brilliance ( L ' Eraclea, 1700 ), the oboes and trumpets being frequently used, and the violins often playing in unison.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

* La Cleopatra, a 1789 opera seria by Domenico Cimarosa

The following is the process that was used when rescuing frescos in La Fenice, a Venetian opera house, but it is the same process for similarly damaged frescoes.

* 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.

In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice ( K. 51 ) for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne ( K. 50 ), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place.

Through the friendly interposition of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La cambiale di matrimonio ( The Marriage Contract ), was produced at Venice when he was a youth of 18 years.

The opera La Cenerentola was as successful as Barbiere.

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.

The production by Milan's La Scala of his first opera, Oberto in November 1839 achieved a degree of success, after which Bartolomeo Merelli, La Scala's impresario, offered Verdi a contract for three more works.

Its mixture of political satire and grand opera parody mimicked Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and La belle Hélène, which ( in translation ) then dominated the English musical stage.

Not long afterwards, Richard D ' Oyly Carte was managing the Royalty Theatre, and he needed a short opera to be played as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole.

With Sullivan's brother, Fred, as the Learned Judge, the opera was a runaway hit, outlasting the run of La Périchole.

* 1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.

It is also true that none of Cocteau's works has inspired as much imitation: Francis Poulenc's opera La Voix humaine, Gian Carlo Menotti's " opera bouffa " The Telephone and Roberto Rosselini's film version in Italian with Anna Magnani L ' Amore ( 1948 ).