About his Antigonae ( 1949 ), Orff said specifically that it was not an opera, rather a Vertonung, a " musical setting ", of the ancient tragedy.

In 1949, the play was adapted for an opera entitled Regina by Marc Blitzstein.

In 1949 the opera The Olympians by Arthur Bliss, to a libretto by Priestley, was premiered.

Warren's novel was the basis of two motion pictures, a 1949 film and a more recent 2006 film, and the 1981 opera Willie Stark by American composer Carlisle Floyd.

In 1949 the play was adapted into an opera by Marc Blitzstein, under the title Regina.

* Megan McTavish ( b. 1949 ), soap opera writer ; Daytime Emmy winner ( All My Children, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, General Hospital )

The opera opened the 1949 – 50 Covent Garden season.

* July 13-Florence Perry, opera singer ( d. 1949 )

His first opera was Slow Dusk, to his own libretto ( as was to remain his custom ), and was produced at Syracuse in 1949.

* Regina ( 1949 ) — opera — composer and orchestrator, librettist

* Troubled Island, opera, produced 1949 ( 1937 – 39 )

* An opera by Hooper Brewster-Jones, an Australian composer ( Orroroo, S. Australia, 1887-Adelaide, 1949 ) The Nightingale and the Rose, 1927 ( after Wilde of which only an orchestral suite survives.

From 1949, the company served as the state opera of East Germany.

* Giants in the Earth, opera ( 1949 – 50, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951 )

From 1927 to 1949, Beijing was known as Beiping, and Peking opera was known as Pingxi or Pingju ( 平劇 ) to reflect this change.

After the retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan in 1949, Peking opera there took on a special status of " political symbolism ", in which the Kuomintang government encouraged the art form over other forms of performance in an attempt to claim a position as the sole representative of Chinese culture.

In the fall of 1949, the NYCO revived Prokofiev's comic opera The Love for Three Oranges, which had not been seen in America since its unsuccessful Chicago premiere in 1921.

Ma Perkins ( sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins ) is an American radio soap opera which was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960.

** 3rd class ( 1951 ) – for the opera Tormide rand (" The Coast of Storms "; 1949 )

The opera was abandoned in the United States until 1949 when the New York City Opera resurrected it.

He soon won the attention of Ferenc Fricsay, who engaged him for the Salzburg Festival where Haefliger's world career started in 1949 with the role of Terasias in Carl Orff's opera Antigonae.

Jaime Lyn Bauer ( born Norma Marvhne Bauer on March 9, 1949 in Phoenix, Arizona ) is an American soap opera actress.

The first post Second World War presentation was in Palermo in 1949 ( in the presence of the librettist ), after which some years passed before the opera was seen again.

Jerry verDorn ( born November 23, 1949 ) is an American actor, best known for his role as Ross Marler on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light.

" The United States and China since 1949: A Troubled Affair.

The first world premiere at the house was William Grant Still's Troubled Island in 1949.

* William Grant Still – Troubled Island ( 1949 )

He portrayed several more roles with the NYCO over the next seven years, including Dessalines in William Grant Still's Troubled Island ( 1949 ), the four villains in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1949 ), Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen ( 1949 ), Tchelio in Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges ( 1950 ), Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ( 1950 ), Timur in Giacomo Puccini's Turandot ( 1950 ), Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana ( 1950 ), The Messenger in the world premiere of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk ( 1951 ), the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto ( 1951 ), King Balthazar in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors ( 1952 ), Colline in Puccini's La bohème ( 1952 ), the title role in Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ( 1953 ), Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro ( 1954 ), Joe in Show Boat ( 1954 ), Germont in Verdi's La Traviata ( 1955 ), and Diomede in the New York premiere of William Walton's Troilus and Cressida ( 1955 ) among others.

The Maritimes were among the strongest supporters of prohibition ( Prince Edward Island lasting until 1949 ), and some predominantly rural communities maintain " dry " status, banning the retail sale of alcohol to this day as a vestige of the original temperance movement in the region.

* 1949: Best Short Subject, Two-reel: Seal Island ( 1948 )

The colonies of Prince Edward Island and British Columbia joined over the next six years, and Newfoundland joined in 1949.

* Atkinson, Robert Island going to the remoter isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the north-west corner of Scotland, William Collins, 1949.

They married in Riverhead, Long Island, New York in 1949, and divorced the following year.

The Prout Brothers, Roland and Francis, experimented with catamarans in 1949 and converted their 1935 boat factory in Canvey Island, Essex ( England ), to catamaran production in 1954.

Later participants were Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Alberta and Saskatchewan ( created as provinces from the Northwest Territories in 1905 ), and finally Newfoundland ( now Newfoundland and Labrador ) in 1949.

* Atkinson, Robert, Island going, William Collins, 1949.

* Jack Reed ( politician ) ( born 1949 ), American politician from Rhode Island

Deeply troubled by the conflict between his pacifism and his training for war, he spoke at length with his company commander, Captain Edward Courtney Bullock Danforth ( 1894 – 1973 ) of Augusta, Georgia and his battalion commander, Major Gonzalo Edward Buxton ( 1880 – 1949 ) of Providence, Rhode Island, a devout Christian himself.

* Edith Derby Williams, historian, granddaughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt, lived on Vashon Island from 1949 until her death in 2008.

* Prionailurus bengalensis alleni ( Sody, 1949 ) — Hainan Island ;

The first Filipino-owned plantation was established on Malamawi Island by Don Juan S. Alano, originally of Malolos, Bulacan, who served as Representative of the entire Moro Province ( Mindanao ) during the Commonwealth Era ( 1936 – 1942 ), and the first Congressman of Zamboanga Province ( now comprising Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga City and Basilan ) in the Republic's first Congress ( 1946 – 1949 ).

In 1949, the Communist Party of China seized power in mainland China and declared the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), claiming to have replaced the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China and the ROC government retreated to the island of Taiwan ( which it gained control of in 1945 at the end of WWII ), Quemoy Island, and the Matsu Islands.

He was given supporting roles in MGM films over the next few years, including On an Island with You ( 1948 ), Easter Parade ( 1948 ), Little Women ( 1949 ) and Royal Wedding ( 1951 ).

Construction of the Monkey Island exhibit, the first major exhibit ever built, was started in 1949 with an opening date of June 1, 1950.

After World War II, Hodges continued command of First Army at Fort Jay at Governors Island, New York until his retirement in March 1949.

Mac McDonald ( born Terence McDonald, 18 June 1949, in Long Island, New York, USA ) is an American actor.

In the United States, the island was designated Saint Croix Island National Monument by the United States Congress in 1949.

* July 20-In the first bout for the world Jr. Lightweight title since 1949, Harold Gomes of Rhode Island wins the vacant title by decisioning Paul Jorgensen over fifteen rounds at Providence.

The concept was invented by science fiction writer Raymond F. Jones, who wrote the original novel This Island Earth beginning as a series of three sci-fi short stories now known as “ The Peace Engineers Trilogy ” appearing in the sci-fi pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories from 1949 to 1951.

The other seven boats were small fishing boats lost between April 1949 and October 1953 somewhere between Miyake Island and Iwo Jima, a distance of 750 miles.

Between 1949 and 1970, Timaru was serviced by the South Island Limited, one of the former New Zealand Railways Department's most prestigious trains.