Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.

Callas devotees will have good reason to do their customary cart wheels over a new and complete stereo version of the Bellini opera.

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.

* A chamber opera version of Carmilla appeared in 1970 ( Carmilla: A Vampire Tale, music by Ben Johnston, script by Wilford Leach ).

On 12 April 2008, a version of Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera directed by Johann Kresnik opened at the Erfurt Theater.

Joey gets cast in a part in a fictional version of the soap opera Days of our Lives, but his character is killed off after conflicts with the show ’ s writers, claiming that he writes many of his own lines.

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

This version was in two acts ; after its disastrous premiere, Puccini withdrew the opera, revising it for performances in the USA and Paris.

In 1907, Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version, which has become known as the " standard version ".

Today, the standard version of the opera is the version most often performed around the world.

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 ).

Born Aikaterini ( Catherine ) Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer, and appeared in the operatic version of Maeterlinck's " Sister Beatrice ," with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos, but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929.

** The Medium ( 1951 film ), a film version of the opera directed by Menotti

The story was the basis of André Ernest Modeste Grétry's opera Richard Coeur-de-Lion and seems to be the inspiration for the opening to Richard Thorpe's film version of Ivanhoe.

Beaumarchais's earlier play The Barber of Seville had already made a successful transition to opera in a version by Paisiello.

A few weeks later he published another version of his opera, entitled De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome ( Abridgement of the Structure of the Human Body ) more commonly known as Epitome, with a stronger focus on illustrations than text, so as to help readers easily understand his findings.

** English composer Benjamin Britten ’ s chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.

Complete concert version of the opera, the first to be televised ( on the NBC television network ), conducted by Toscanini with Herva Nelli as Aida and Richard Tucker as Radamès.

The opera ( in the revised version ) was first performed in Vienna on 4 May 1855 in Italian.

Finally, stagings and recordings of the original five-act French version of the opera have become more frequent, performances having been given at the Teatro alla Scala in 1970 featuring Plácido Domingo with Katia Ricciarelli, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996, with Roberto Alagna as Don Carlos ( which has been released on CD and DVD ), and at the San Francisco Opera in 1986 and 2003.

Mozart's opera includes a Westernized version of Turkish music, based very loosely on the Turkish Janissary band music that he had employed in earlier work.

* Transit of Venus ( opera ), a 2007 operatic adaptation of the 1992 play

* Love in Transit ( chamber opera )

It is occasionally considered the first genuine English opera, though that title is usually given to Blow's Venus and Adonis: as in Blow's work, the action does not progress in spoken dialogue but in Italian-style recitative.

About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first true English-language opera.

Indeed, the opera bears some striking resemblances with the novel, and, in short, tells the story of a medieval ( and historically real ) singer, whose art is so beautiful that he causes Venus, the goddess of love herself, to fall in love with him, and to offer him eternal life with her in the Venusberg.

* Venus ( Tannhäuser opera ), leading role in Wagner's opera Tannhäuser

Pastoral opera remained popular throughout the 17th-century, and not just in Italy, as is shown by the French genre of pastorale héroïque, Englishman Henry Lawes's music for Milton's Comus ( not to mention John Blow's Venus and Adonis ), and Spanish zarzuela.

The Roman prima donna, Marianna Bulgarelli, who played Venus in this opera, spared no pains until she had discovered its author.

A one-act comedy, Le Café, failed in 1694, and he was not much happier with a more ambitious play, Le Flatteur ( 1696 ), or with the opera Venus et Adonis ( 1697 ).

But no matter how obvious it is that the child is guilty, Trudy always finds in favor of them ( even defending them by making up reasons as to why the child did the incident ) and delivers ridiculous sentences to the adults ( some of them occurring if the defendant doesn't have the fine money ) such as trapping a defendant in a rocket and sending him to Venus, having the defendant being chased by an unpredictable man in a gorilla suit, having the defendant be thrown into a leopard cage, having the defendants participate in a cage match with two professional wrestlers, crushing the defendant with a boulder, unleashing two hungry leprechauns to chew on the defendants, placing a nest of deranged woodpeckers on the defendant's head, having a defendant handcuffed to a sweaty opera singer, having the defendant trapped in a box with two contagious sick people, placing a defendant in a bathtub filled of cream and mushroom soup, having an old person doing a piggyback ride on the defendant, having the defendants play Dodgeball with three Marines, having the defendant being sold to the highest bidder in the courtroom, giving the defendant a little shot itself, opening a trap door beneath the defendants, confiscating the defendant's clothes, having the Bailiff spinnthe defendant until the defendant is uncomfortable, and putting an angry chipmunk in the defendant's pants.

About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first true English-language opera.

The second act of his next opera Venus ( 1919 – 1921 ) employs interesting polyrhythmic and bitonal effects.

* The Capitoline Venus, opera in one act

In September 2005, the opera Waiting for the Barbarians by Philip Glass premiered in the opera house.

That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based on the book.

In July 2012 premiered the very first community opera at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

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

Just days later soap opera parody series Echo Beach premiered alongside its sister series, the comedy Moving Wallpaper.

The first daytime soap opera made by a Cyprus channel was LOGOs TV Odos Den Ksehno (' Don't Forget ' Street ) which premiered on January 1996 but was canceled by December the same year.

The success of the Prague production led to the commissioning of the next Mozart / Da Ponte opera, Don Giovanni, premiered in Prague in 1787 ; see Mozart and Prague.

The opera premiered April 26, 2012 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Illinois.

* 1711: Rinaldo, Handel's first opera for the London stage, premiered

* June 27 – The gothic soap opera Dark Shadows premiered on ABC.

* January 26 – Mozart's opera " Cosi Fan Tutte " premiered in Vienna.

The opera was premiered in Vienna on 30 September 1791 at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden.

The first production of the opera actually produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mario Ancona as Marcello.

L ' amico Fritz, Mascagni's second most successful opera, was premiered October 31 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

The latter opera was premiered on April 30, 1917 in Rome.

Early in following year, while composing Elena da Feltre ( which premiered in January 1839 ), Mercadante wrote to Francesco Florimo laying out his ideas about how opera should be structured, following the " revolution " begun in his previous opera:

However, it was outshone by Puccini's opera of the same name and on the same subject, which was premiered in 1896.

Mozart also made a strong impression on the manager of the theater, Count Franz Xaver Rosenberg-Orsini, when in the home of Mozart's friend and patroness Maria Wilhelmine Thun the Count heard him play excerpts from his opera Idomeneo, premiered with great success the previous year in Munich.

It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga ( now called the Estates Theatre ) on October 29, 1787.

It premiered to critical and popular success on 4 February 1836 at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, and was given many additional performances that season, although Ashbrook notes that there would have been more had the opera not been presented so late in the season.

The opera premiered on 26 September 1835 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

The opera was premiered at the Opéra National de Paris in 2005 and Viola's video work was subsequently shown as LOVE / DEATH The Tristan Project at the Haunch of Venison Gallery and St Olave's School, London, in 2006.

Schickele was commissioned to " discover " this opera by the Minnesota Opera, where the piece premiered on April 27 and 28, 1984.