The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one " unauthorized " release in the early 1980s on the Voce Label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

However, not long after the second performance, the opera became so successful that the fame of Paisiello's opera was transferred to Rossini's, to which the title The Barber of Seville passed as an inalienable heritage.

Although it did not win, Le Villi was later staged in 1884 at the Teatro Dal Verme and it caught the attention of Giulio Ricordi, head of G. Ricordi & Co. music publishers, who commissioned a second opera, Edgar, in 1889.

It was while he was working on his second opera, Un giorno di regno, that Verdi's wife died.

Sullivan and Burnand's second opera, The Contrabandista ( 1867 ) was not as successful.

The Romanian composer George Enescu uses the musical saw at the end of the second act of his opera Œdipe to express the death of the sphinx killed by Oedipus.

In the second half of the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach created operetta with witty and cynical works such as Orphée aux enfers, as well as the opera Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust ; and Bizet composed Carmen, which, once audiences learned to accept its blend of Romanticism and realism, became the most popular of all opéra comiques.

* Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in Patria, first performed in 1640, is an opera by Monteverdi based on the second half of Homer's Odyssey.

" There is a waltz in the second act finale of the opera " Una Cosa Rara " written by Martin y Soler in 1786.

It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy.

As of 2007, the Metropolitan Opera alone has given more than 1, 100 performances of the opera, making it the second most frequently performed work by the company behind La bohème.

Rossini's opera recounts the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy, by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

In July, Casa Sonzogno announced in the Teatro Illustrato its second competition for a one-act opera.

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

The encouragement of Rossini led him to compose for the opera, where he won considerable success with his second such work ( Violenza e Constanza ), in 1820.

Both men died after collapsing while conducting the second Act of the opera.

Two authors believe that the second and subsequent performances of the 1926 La Scala season, which included the Alfano ending, were conducted by Ettore Panizza and Toscanini never conducted the opera again after the first performance.

Alfano's second ending has been further redacted as well: Turandot's aria " Del primo pianto " was performed at the premiere but cut from the first complete recording ; it was eventually restored to most performances of the opera.

Today the composer ( past or present ) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein, who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts.

In 1875, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, who was then managing the Royalty Theatre for Selina Dolaro, brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their second show, a one-act opera entitled Trial by Jury.

Gioachino Rossini quotes " La Marseillaise " in the second act of his opera Semiramide ( 1823 ).

In July 1863, Sabina had delivered the libretto for a second opera, a light comedy entitled The Bartered Bride, which Smetana composed during the next three years.

He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.

In 1950, John Dickson Carr produced a novel called The Bride of Newgate, set at the close of the Napoleonic Wars, possibly the second full-length historical whodunnit.

The second story says that Henrietta Fitzhugh, wife of one of the town founders, Henry Fitzhugh, named the town after the hero in Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor ( 1819 ).

The second highest at 7, 654 metres on the NE side ( Chogolisa II ) is the one named Bride Peak by Martin Conway in 1892.

During an interview on November 4, 2009, Guttenberg mentioned that Disney was developing a second sequel to Three Men and a Baby, entitled Three Men and a Bride.

The film was the second to be dedicated to his memory, after Corpse Bride.

The set included the entire second season, the Married episodes ( AKA Bride of the Incredible Hulk ), and preview episode ( Homecoming ) from season three.

In 2005, a second edition of the book was published as a trade paperback, and it was updated to include information from King Kelson's Bride.

** Featured in a 2007 episode of HBO's Entourage during the second part of the third season's ( 3B ) episode " The Prince's Bride ".

Many in The Message adhere to a teaching that The Message of the Hour was God declaring He had come down in Spirit form before the second coming ( the " Rapture ") and that the literal presence of God's Spirit was necessary to prepare the true Christian Church ( the Bride ) for their " rapturing " away from the earth before the tribulation.

Turn Loose the Swans was the second album by the British doom metal band My Dying Bride.

It is the second of four My Dying Bride compilation albums, following 1995's Trinity and followed by Meisterwerk 2 later the same year and " Anti-Diluvian Chronicles " in 2005.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

At the beginning of the second meditation, having reached what he considers to be the ultimate level of doubt — his argument from the existence of a deceiving god — Descartes examines his beliefs to see if any have survived the doubt.

These pulsar planets are believed to have formed from the unusual remnants of the supernova that produced the pulsar, in a second round of planet formation, or else to be the remaining rocky cores of gas giants that somehow survived the supernova and then decayed into their current orbits.

" However, Beckingham and Huntingford have a much higher opinion of Álvares testimony, stating that not only is it " incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived ; it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Muslim Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

Even so, his reputation for honesty and good character survived the troubles of his second term.

The train driver, second man, and the motorists driving on the fallen bridge all survived.

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

She was survived by her son don Martín, who would be raised primarily by his father's family, and a daughter doña María who would be raised by Jaramillo and his second wife doña Beatriz de Andrada.

Contrary to mainstream Islam, the Ahmadis do not believe that Jesus is alive in heaven, but that he survived the crucifixion and migrated towards the east where he died a natural death and that Ghulam Ahmad was only the promised spiritual second coming and likeness of Jesus, the promised Messiah and Mahdi.

He was survived by his second wife Dorothy ( Blanchard ) Jacobson ( m. May 13, 1929 ) and his three children, William Hammerstein and Alice Hammerstein Mathias by first wife Myra Finn, and James Hammerstein by Blanchard.

The adult birds that survived the slaughter attempted second nestings at new sites, but were killed by professional hunters before they had a chance to raise any young.

There was another outbreak of measles in 1843 and it was noted that none of those who survived the 1807 outbreak contracted the disease a second time.

A small number of Saluki kennels survived the war, and along with fresh imports belonging to a second wave of soldiers returning from the Middle East, the slow process of re-establishing the breed began again.

In 897, a Zaidi ruler, Yahya al-Hadi ila ' l Haqq, founded a line of Imams, whose Shiite dynasty survived until the second half of the 20th century.

Knox was survived by his five children and his second wife.

The Watcher was generally acknowledged to be the second or third most powerful sorcerer in living memory, and when Tyr fell, he and The Deceiver fought a Dream Duel, which The Watcher barely survived.

This first edition is now lost ; a second edition was issued in 534 and is the text that has survived.

Troughton was married three times and he is survived by his second partner Ethel Margaret ' Bunny ' Troughton.

A second person survived an unprotected trip over the Horseshoe Falls on March 11, 2009 and when rescued from the river, was reported to be suffering from severe hypothermia and a large wound to his head.

On August 24, 1792, the Black Poor or Old Settlers of the second Granville Town were incorporated into the new Sierra Leone Colony but remained at Granville Town. Post of the Month: FreetownThe colony of Freetown in 1856 It survived being pillaged by the French in 1794, and was rebuilt by the Nova Scotian settlers.

Gwynne was survived by his second wife, Deborah, and four children.

The second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark, Anne married James in 1589 at age 14 and bore him three children who survived infancy, including the future Charles I.

He was survived by his second wife, Dorothy Herzka, and by his sons, David and Mitchell, from his first marriage.

Divorced from Monelle Valentin, he was survived by his second wife, Nicole Lançon, and four children.

All seven of the brothers survived even the complete rout of their forces at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, but three of the brothers — Caranthir, Curufin, and Celegorm — died in the second sacking of Menegroth.