Puccini had eloped with his former piano student, the married Elvira Gemignani, and Ricordi's associates were willing to turn a blind eye to his life style as long as he was successful.

In 1906 Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini.

In 1909, Puccini's wife Elvira publicly accused Doria Manfredi, a maid working for the Puccini family, of having an affair with the composer.

Because of a payment to the Manfredi family by Puccini, Elvira was spared having to serve the sentence.

He was the son of Raymond IV of Toulouse by his third wife, Elvira of Castile, was born in the castle of Mont-Pelerin, Tripoli, in today's Lebanon.

His troops were able to recover the coras ( provinces ) of Jaén and Elvira, while a cavalry detachment was sent to free Málaga from ibn Hafsun's siege.

Diego de Almagro was born in the Spanish city signified by his last name, being the illegitimate son of Juan de Montenegro and Elvira Gutiérrez.

By the time of their break up, Elvira was pregnant, leading her family members to conceal her pregnancy until she gave birth to Diego in 1479.

The opera was first presented in Brazil at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus on 2 July 1901 with Elvira Miotti as Mimì, Mabel Nelma as Musetta, Michele Sigaldi as Rodolfo, and Enrico De Franceschi as Marcello.

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She was cast as cocaine-addicted trophy wife Elvira Hancock.

Lorre was born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904, as the first child of Jewish couple Alajos Löwenstein and Elvira Freischberger, in the Austrian-Hungarian town of Ružomberok in present-day Slovakia, then known by its Hungarian name Rózsahegy.

He was the son of Bermudo II by his second wife Elvira García of Castile.

His first wife was Elvira Mendes

The earliest recorded instance of the form is in the Council of Elvira ( c. 306 ), and thereafter it became the common method of cutting off heretics ; for example, the Synod of Gangra ( c. 340 ) pronounced that Manicheanism was anathema.

Roger's first marriage was in 1117 to Elvira of Castile, a daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile.

In another scene, Elvira returns to the orphanage where she was raised by nuns and hears the brutal story of her childhood.

In 1991, Alan Cox wrote AberMUD IV ( unrelated to AberMUD 4 ) and then AberMUD V, which was also used, with graphical extensions, in the Elvira game by Horror Soft, a trading name of Adventure Soft.

It was named for Elvira Merrick, the maiden name of the wife of territorial legislator Henry W. DePuy, who introduced the bill creating the county.

He was married to his cousin Ana Elvira Carrion, mother of four of his children.

Cassandra was born in Manhattan and later was involved in The Elvira Show, a 1993 CBS television pilot revolving around two witches ( played by Elvira and Katherine Helmond ) who move to Manhattan with their talking cat.

In the aftermath of these wars, the Berber general Ziri ibn Manad established an independent kingdom for himself, with Elvira as its capital.

The Councils of Elvira ( 306 ), Ancyra ( 314 ) and in Trullo ( 692 ) imposed certain ecclesiastical penances for devil-worship and this mild approach represented the view of the Church for many centuries.

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Cassandra Peterson is an actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

At the end of the year Shiels, Moore and Bridgeman briefly reunited for a series of gigs, and a 1975 line-up of Shiels ( guitar / vocals ), Bridgeman, Jimi Slevin ( lead guitar / vocals, ex-Alyce, ex-Peggy's Leg ) ( born June 1950, Dublin ), Timmy Creedon ( second drummer / vocals ) and Johann Brady ( bass ) recorded the Skid Row single " The Spanish Lady " / " Elvira ".

" Comedian Elvira Kurt contributed the term " fellagirly " as a description for queer females who are not strictly either femme or butch, but a combination.

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A prominent example being that of Rabi ibn Zayd, a palace official who, sometime between 961 and 976, wrote the famous Calendar of Córdoba for Abd ar-Rahman III, undertook various diplomatic missions in Germania and Byzantium and was rewarded with the bishopric of Elvira ( present Granada ).

Her stage credits include Elvira in Blithe Spirit, Margaret in Absurd Person Singular, Helena in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Helen in Half a Sixpence, Angelica in Love for Love, and Erica in Prisoner Cell Block H: The Stage Play.

Hercules is then endowed with super-strength, and goes forth for several brief episodes to do battle with nemeses such as Daedalus, an evil wizard who is the chief villain ( sometimes accompanied by his pet cat Dydo ); as well as others such as Wilhemine the Sea Witch ( accompanied by her pet bird Elvira ); and Murtis ( aka The Mask of Vulcan ), who was invulnerable due to his wearing of an iron helmet, itself known as the Mask of Vulcan.

He then goes to visit Elvira ( Raymond ’ s half-sister and the mother of Antonia ) to ask for permission to court Antonia.

Ambrosio is approached by Antonia, who asks him to provide a confessor for Elvira, her dying mother, and is immediately attracted to her.

He prays for Elvira, who begins to improve, and so agrees to come to visit them often, for the simple purpose of being with Antonia and hopefully seducing her.

" Antonia ’ s mother Elvira could hardly have chosen a worse companion for her daughter than her sister Leonella, for Leonella ’ s indiscretion and absurdity contribute directly to the misfortunes that later befall Antonia.

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It starred Richard Chamberlain as Charles, Blythe Danner as Elvira, Judith Ivey as Ruth and Geraldine Page, who received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, as Madame Arcati.

In Don Rosa's Duck family tree he is included as a member of the Coot Kin and more specifically as son of Casey Coot and his wife Gretchen Grebe, which makes him a nephew of Elvira Coot, a brother of Fanny Coot, a first cousin of Quackmore Duck, a first cousin once removed of Donald Duck and an uncle of Gus Goose.

There have been twelve more presidents in its history: Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer, Helen Almira Shafer, Julia Josephine Thomas Irvine, Caroline Hazard, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Mildred H. McAfee ( later Mildred McAfee Horton ), Margaret Clapp, Ruth M. Adams, Barbara Wayne Newell, Nannerl Overholser Keohane ( later the president of Duke University from 1993 – 2004 ), Diana Chapman Walsh and H. Kim Bottomly.

Further performances in New York included four appearances as Valentine ( a role she also performed on tour in Louisville, Albany, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Boston ), three as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, three as Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, one more as Gilda, one as Desdemona, one as Elsa, as well as a single appearance as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.

In classical music, many Armenian singers have gained worldwide recognition: sopranos Gohar Gasparyan, Sona Ghazarian, Arpine Pehlivanian, Melania Abovian, Arax Mansourian, Lucine Amara, Cathy Berberian, Ellada Chakhoyan, Hasmik Papian, Elvira Uzunian and, more recently, Isabel Bayrakdarian and Anna Kasyan, tenors Tigran Levonyan, Gegham Grigoryan, and Vahan Mirakyan ; basses Ara Berberian, Shara Talian, Avag Petrosian, and Henrik Alaverdian, as well as the bass-baritone Barsegh Toumanian.

As a result, Tony becomes more paranoid and violent, and Elvira becomes bored and distant.

She returned to that house ten more times over the next decade in such roles as Elvira in Verdi's Ernani and the title parts in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Rossini's Semiramide, and Puccini's Tosca among others.

After more than ten years, Box of Horrors was the return of Elvira hosting horror movies as she did with Movie Macabre.

In the second season, with new host Elvira Kurt, the stories concentrate more on the couples than the wedding planning process.