His best-known works are the operas L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1832 ), Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 ), and Don Pasquale ( 1843 ), all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment ( both from 1840 ).

" Lucia " has always been by far the best-known of Donizetti's tragic operas and has never fallen out of the standard repertory.

However, his best-known orchestral pieces are still occasionally performed, and his light operas Merrie England and Tom Jones continue to receive productions, at least by amateur companies, and professional recordings, including a 2009 Naxos recording of Tom Jones.

Somehow, they still managed to make 12 films during this period, the best-known being Carmen ( 1933 ) and Papageno ( 1935 ), both based on popular operas ( Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte ).

The best-known of his five operas is Sigurd ( 1884 ); it was quite popular in France during its initial production there ( it had its premiere in Brussels at the Théâtre de La Monnaie in January 1884 ), and is sometimes ( although rarely ) revived.

Although other " supercouples " preceded them, Luke and Laura are the best-known outside of the soap opera realm, and are credited with defining the term " supercouple ", which inspired other soap operas to copy the successful formula.

With the same end in view he executed translations of many German songs, and wrote new French libretti for the best-known operas of Mozart, Weber and others.

Almost all his works after 1723, amongst them many of his best-known operas, oratorios and ceremonial music, were composed and partially rehearsed in the house, which contained a variety of keyboard instruments, including harpsichords, a clavichord and a small chamber organ.

Arditi's best-known operas are: I Briganti, II Corsaro, and La Spia, (" The Spy ").

Some of his best-known titles include El Grande, Tikal, Princes of Florence, and Torres.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

His best-known works include the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which " Dance of the Knights " is taken – and Peter and the Wolf.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).

His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Vizzini in The Princess Bride ( 1987 ), and Rex the toy dinosaur in the Toy Story animated film series.

His best-known works include Ripostes ( 1912 ), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( 1920 ), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos ( 1917 – 1969 ).

Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles ; Experience Music Project in Seattle ; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis ; Dancing House in Prague ; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany ; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto ; the Cinémathèque française in Paris ; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.

Some of the best-known remains from the period include the " peat bog corpses ", among them the well-preserved bodies of two people deliberately strangled: Tollund Man and Haraldskær Woman.

Some of his best-known major motion films include: Tron ( and its sequel ), Fearless, Iron Man,, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds,, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Seabiscuit, Arlington Road, and The Big Lebowski.

His best-known paintings include early seascapes such as " Manawydan's Glass Door " and later works on legendary subjects, such as Trystan ac Esyllt ( Tristan and Iseult ).

The best-known epiphytic plants include mosses, orchids, and bromeliads such as Spanish moss ( of the genus Tillandsia ), but epiphytic plants may be found in every major group of the plant kingdom.

His best-known plays include Anna Christie ( Pulitzer Prize 1922 ), Desire Under the Elms ( 1924 ), Strange Interlude ( Pulitzer Prize 1928 ), Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1931 ), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness !, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been.

The best-known tracks include " Volunteers ," " We Can Be Together ," " Good Shepherd ," and the post-apocalyptic " Wooden Ships ," which Paul Kantner co-wrote with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and Crosby, Stills & Nash also recorded on their debut album.

Some of Murakami's best-known works include Norwegian Wood ( 1987 ) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ( 1994 – 1995 ).

Boston's best-known works include the songs " More Than a Feeling ", " Peace of Mind ", " Foreplay / Long Time ", " Rock and Roll Band ", " Smokin '", " Don't Look Back " and " Amanda.

The three best-known of these include the 1950s / 1960s TV series titled The Untouchables, which starred Robert Stack as Ness and which Walter Winchell narrated, and Brian De Palma's Oscar-winning film of the same title, The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner as Ness and also featured Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.

Some of their best-known comedy routines and songs include " Earache My Eye ", " Basketball Jones ", " Santa Claus and His Old Lady ", and " Sister Mary Elephant ".

The memorial takes the form of a giant filmstrip, the illuminated cut metal panels illustrating scenes from some of Sir Cedric's best-known roles, which include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Things to Come, and The Ghost of Frankenstein.

His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas.

Scott's best-known compositions include " Climax Rag ", " Frog Legs Rag ", " Grace and Beauty ", " Ophelia Rag " and " The Ragtime Oriole ".

This is the best-known species of Stegosaurus, mainly because its remains include at least one complete articulated skeleton.

His best-known works include the Magnalia Christi Americana, the Wonders of the Invisible World and The Biblia Americana.

His best-known compositions include " Werewolves of London ", " Lawyers, Guns and Money ", " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner " and " Johnny Strikes Up The Band ", all of which are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy ( 1978 ).

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594 ) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

* Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best-known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea.

In his best-known book, The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages ( 1971, with numerous reprints ), Lopez argued that the key contribution of the medieval period to European history was the creation of a commercial economy, centered at first in the Italo-Byzantine eastern Mediterranean, but eventually extending to the Italian city-states and over the rest of Europe.

Some of his best-known films are Fifa e Arena, Totò al Giro d ' Italia, Totò Sceicco, Guardie e ladri, Totò e le donne, Totò Tarzan, Totò terzo uomo, Totò a colori ( the first Italian color movie, 1952, in Ferraniacolor ), I soliti ignoti, Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina, La legge è legge.

His Art of Playing the Violin published in London ( 1751 ) is the best-known summation of the 18th century Italian method of violin playing, and is an invaluable source for study of late Baroque performance practice, giving detailed information on vibrato, trills, and other violin techniques.

His best-known books are about Toscanini: Conversations with Toscanini ( 1959 ), a personal reminiscence and the closest thing to a series of interviews with the publicity-shy Toscanini that has ever been published, and The Toscanini Musicians Knew ( 1967 ), a series of interviews with musicians who played or sang under the venerable Italian maestro.

The serval was the symbol of the Tomasi family, princes of Lampedusa, whose best-known member was Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of one of the most famous Italian novels of the 20th century, Il Gattopardo.

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Pisa are Italian Presidents Giovanni Gronchi and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ; Haitian President René Préval ; Nicaraguan President Adan Cardenas ; Pope Clement XII ; Italian Prime Ministers Sidney Sonnino, Giuliano Amato and Massimo D ' Alema ; Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi ; Italian political leaders Carlo Sforza, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Alessandro Natta, Enrico Letta, Marcello Pera, Fabio Mussi and Sandro Bondi ; Italian Constitutional Court Judge Sabino Cassese ; Roman Catholic Cardinals Pietro Accolti, Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Francesco Barberini, Francesco Martelli and Bandino Panciatici ; Roman Catholic Archbishop Giovanni Battista Rinuccini ; Nobel Laureate in Literature Giosuè Carducci ; Nobel Laureates in Physics Enrico Fermi and Carlo Rubbia ; anatomist Atto Tigri ; art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ; author Antonio Tabucchi ; civil engineer Henry Willey Reveley ; computer scientist Roberto Di Cosmo ; diplomats Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo and Marcello Spatafora ; director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli ; economist Luigi Bodio ; egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini ; electron microscopist Clara Franzini-Armstrong ; geneticist Guido Pontecorvo ; historians Camillo Porzio and Carlo Ginzburg ; intellectual Adriano Sofri ; international civil servant Francesco Cappè ; journalists Lando Ferretti and Tiziano Terzani ; jurists Piero Calamandrei, Francesco Carrara and Antonio Cassese ; linguists Stefano Arduini and Luigi Rizzi ; manager Pier Francesco Guarguaglini ; mathematicians Bonaventura Cavalieri, Giovanni Ceva, Enrico Betti, Guido Fubini, Vito Volterra and Luigi Fantappiè ; neuroscientist Emilio Bizzi ; philosophers Giovanni Gentile and Anna Camaiti Hostert ; physicians Francesco Redi, Vincenzo Chiarugi and François Carlo Antommarchi ; physicists Adolfo Bartoli, Luigi Puccianti, Antonio Pacinotti, Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti, Franco Rasetti and Luca Gammaitoni ; playwright and librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini ; racing car and engine designer Carlo Chiti ; surgeon Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri ; tenor Andrea Bocelli ; writer Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Florence are Italian President Alessandro Pertini ; Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini ; Italian political leaders Giorgio La Pira, Leonardo Domenici and Matteo Renzi ; astrophysicist Margherita Hack ; botanist Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli ; immunologist Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli ; philosopher Giacomo Marramao ; poets Margherita Guidacci and Mario Luzi.

Wooster Square is known as a bastion of Italian American culture and cuisine, and is home to some of New Haven's, and the world's, best-known pizza ( specifically, apizza ) eateries, including Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and Sally's Apizza.

He was one of the best-known Italian piano virtuosos of his generation, and together with Arturo Bonucci ( cello ) and Alberto Poltronieri ( violin ), he formed the Trio Italiano in 1930.

His best-known work for the cinema was the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job.

Oliviero Toscani ( born 1942 ) is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000.

Among the best-known people who have attended Sapienza University of Rome are Somali President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke ; Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti ; Italian political leaders Franco Frattini and Antonio Tajani ; Italian Constitutional Court President Leopoldo Elia ; Roman Catholic Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe ; Nobel Laureate in Physics Emilio Segrè ; actors Carlo Verdone and Christian De Sica ; archaeologist Carlo Fea ; architects Pietro Belluschi, Romaldo Giurgola and Massimiliano Fuksas ; astronaut Umberto Guidoni ; civil servant Mario Catania ; diplomat Sergio Balanzino ; economists Paolo Leon, Mario Draghi and Ignazio Visco ; footballers Valerio Fiori and Andrea Stramaccioni ; mathematicians Ennio De Giorgi and Gaetano Fichera ; microbiologist Clelia Giacobini ; physicists Domenico Pacini, Piero Giorgio Bordoni, Giovanni Ciccotti and Giorgio Parisi ; writers Daria Galateria and Cristina Ali Farah

Battista " Pinin " Farina ( later Battista Pininfarina ) ( 2 November 1893-3 April 1966 ) was an Italian automobile designer, the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars.