Petra Haden used a four-track recorder to produce an a cappella version of The Who Sell Out including the instruments and fake advertisements on her album Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out in 2005.

She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005 for her contributions to the entertainment industry.

The central office of the National Trust in Swindon was named ' Heelis ' in 2005 in her memory.

The Lodge has been in the news periodically since 2005, because the Queen often spends the first few days of her summer holiday in the lodge.

In 2002 and 2005 a stage show of Bagpuss songs toured UK folk festivals and theatres with original singers Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner, along with Kerr's daughter Nancy Kerr and her husband, James Fagan.

Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled " Loser Dust ", during her time in rehab in 2005.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

Kane made her Wicked debut on the 1st National Tour, playing the role from March 9 through December 19, 2005.

In Buffalo, he divorced Dr. Rae-Venter and married his student, Claire M. Fraser, remaining married to her until 2005.

Parton released Those Were The Days ( 2005 ), her interpretation of hits from the folk-rock era of the late 1960s through the early 1970s.

Parton earned her second Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for " Travelin ' Thru ," which she wrote specifically for the feature film Transamerica ( 2005 ).

She also returned to number one on the country charts later in 2005 by lending her distinctive harmonies to the Brad Paisley ballad, " When I Get Where I'm Goin '".

She has given live performances on various television shows, events and ceremonies ( her most recent appearance was in Gaoth Dobhair in the summer of 2005, which coincided with a tribute event to the Brennan family that took place in Letterkenny ), but she has yet to do a concert.

In 2005, author Anne Rice became involved in a flamewar of sorts on the review boards of online retailer Amazon. com after several reviewers posted scathing comments about her latest novel.

Coleman's final will, signed in 2005, names Gray as executor, and awards his entire estate to her.

On September 19, 2005, Gaynor was honored twice when she and her music were inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame.

The Bollywood movie Black ( 2005 ) was largely based on Keller's story, from her childhood to her graduation.

She was therefore relisted in the April 2005 FIDE rating list, gaining a few rating points for her better-than-par performance at Corus.

This brought her to her highest ever rating, 2735, in the July 2005 FIDE list and enabled her to retain her spot as the eighth ranked player in the world.

Concentrating on her two children left Polgár with little time to train and play competitively and her ranking dropped from eighth in 2005 to the mid-50s in 2009.

In 2005, Charles joined the principal cast of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running TV soap opera, playing philandering taxicab driver, Lloyd Mullaney.

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

In 2005 a performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel stirred up the local press since the performance contained suggestions of pedophilia and incest.

Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ): An opera in two acts, about Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb.

She is a key character in the opera La conquista ( 2005 ) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero.

She also composed the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner ( 2005 ), based on the life and trial of an enslaved woman who escaped with her family across the river.

It was replaced by the new soap opera Erotas ( Love ) which ran from 2005 to 2008.

The opera was presented in January 2005 by the North Carolina School for Arts

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.

Of the latter there has been the 1990 opera Ulrike Meinhof by Johann Kresnik, the 1993 play Leviathan by Dea Loher, the 2005 play La extraordinaria muerte de Ulrike M. by Spanish playwright Carlos Be and the 2006 play Ulrike Maria Stuart ( de ) by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek.

* 2004-Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes-verse adaptation ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 ; ISBN 978-0-374-53007-5 ), also adapted as an opera in 2008

* German band Corvus Corax recorded Cantus Buranus, a full-length opera set to the original Carmina Burana manuscript in 2005, and released Cantus Buranus Werk II in 2008.

Pedro de Alvarado is a character in the opera La conquista ( 2005 ) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero, which depicts the major episodes of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521 and the subsequent destruction of the Aztec civilization.

* Press release about the 2005 premiere of this opera in Brussels

In late 2005 Byrne and Fatboy Slim began work on Here Lies Love, a disco opera or song cycle about the life of Imelda Marcos, the controversial former First Lady of the Philippines.

On September 1, 2005, Torres debuted in an American soap opera, playing a small role on The Young and the Restless.

In 2005 his opera Aladino e la lampada magica ( Aladdin and the Magical Lamp ), with Cosmin Ifrim in the title role, was performed in German translation at the Vienna State Opera and released on DVD.

In January 2005, Jerry Springer-The Opera, a satirical musical / opera based upon The Jerry Springer Show, was broadcast on BBC Two, following a highly successful West End run for several years, and as a prelude to the show's UK Tour.

* Porgy and Bess NPR webcast of full opera, staged November 12, 2005 at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

Later London credits include My Fair Lady, South Pacific ( at the Royal National Theatre ), The Woman In White, Othello and Acorn Antiques The Musical ( 2005 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rock ' n ' Roll and Porgy and Bess in 2006 at the Savoy Theatre ( an abridged version with dialogue instead of recitatives, unlike Nunn's first production of the opera ).

This opera was revived only in 2005 at the Montpellier Festival.

Family Affairs is a British soap opera that was broadcast on Channel 5, from 30 March 1997 to 30 December 2005.

In January 2005, the Washington National Opera premiered Democracy: An American Comedy, an opera by Scott Wheeler and Romulus Linney based upon Henry Adams ' book.

* In Zhang Yimou's 2005 film Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, a nuo opera performance of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles ( with reference to Guan Yu's fictional story of slaying six generals and crossing five passes ) forms a major part of the film's narrative.