For the Glyndebourne Festival Opera he directed Werther in 1966 and La Boheme in 1967.

However, there is a significant tradition in French-language operas of the 19th Century to give the leading female role to mezzos, as for example in Béatrice et Bénédict, La Damnation de Faust, Don Quichotte, La Favorite, Mignon, Samson et Dalila, Les Troyens, and Werther as well as Carmen.

In the late part of her career, Scotto took on the roles of Fedora ( Barcelona, 1988 ), Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier ( Charleston Spoleto Festival, 1995 and Catania ), Kundry in Parsifal ( Schwerin, 1995 ), Elle in La Voix Humaine ( Florence, 1993 ; Amsterdam and Barcelona, 1996 ; Torino, 1999 ), Marie in The Medium ( Torino, 1999 ) and Klytemnestra in Elektra ( Baltimore, 2000 and Sevilla, 2002 ).

Mainstays of the repertory at the Opéra-Comique during its history have included the following works which have each been performed more than 1, 000 times by the company: Cavalleria Rusticana, Le chalet, La dame blanche, Le domino noir, La fille du régiment, Lakmé, Manon, Mignon, Les noces de Jeannette, Le pré aux clercs, Tosca, La bohème, Werther and Carmen, the last having been performed more than 2, 500 times.

Bonynge then gradually added also middle Verdi ( La traviata, Rigoletto, Il trovatore ), Offenbach ( Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ), then also Massenet ( Esclarmonde and Werther ).

He also sang in The Barber of Seville, La Basoche, Carmen, Lakmé, Louise, Madame Bovary, Madame Butterfly, Werther and Pelléas et Mélisande.

She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie, and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.

Cilea's last opera, premièred at La Scala in Milan on 15 April 1907 under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, was the 3-act tragedy Gloria, again with a libretto by Colautti, based on a play by Victorien Sardou.

This was followed by another cinematic success: The Human Beast ( La Bête Humaine ) ( 1938 ), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin.

This work was followed by La voix humaine ( 1958 ), a lyric tragedy based on Cocteau's play.

The murder of Mustafa in 1533 was the subject of the 1561 French tragedy La Soltane by Gabriel Bounin.

Among his other works are the Paroles de Salomon ( 1868 ), Épîtres rustiques ( 1861 ), Sonnets capricieux, and a tragedy played with great success at the Odéon in 1848, La Fille d ' Eschyle.

He attempted tragedy in Callisthene ( 1730 ), Gustave Vasa ( 1733 ) and Fernand Cortes ( 1744 ), but none of these succeeded, and Piron returned to comedy with La Metromanie ( 1738 ), in which the hero, Damis, suffers from the verse mania.

Before the rise of Racine, Sainte-Beuve found La Harpe to the best critic of the French school of tragedy.

This form of irony is important in Greek tragedy, as it is in Oedipus Rex and in the Duque de Rivas ' play that Verdi transformed into La Forza del Destino (" The Force of Destiny ") or Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, or in Macbeth's uncannily-derived knowledge of his own destiny, which in spite of all his actions does not preclude a horrible fate.

Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d ' Angleterre, although Devereux was the subject of at least two other French plays: Le Comte d ' Essex by Thomas Corneille and Le Comte d ' Essex by La Calprenede.

Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée ( born 14 February 1692 in Paris ; died 14 May 1754 in Paris ) was a French dramatist who blurred the lines between comedy and tragedy with his comédie larmoyante.

* Darwin, F. D. S. ( 1936 ) Louis d ' Orléans ( 1372-1407 ): a necessary prologue to the tragedy of La Pucelle d ' Orleans.

Because of this tragedy, González had to return to La Serena to help his family.

Divided into seven books, a number symbolic of the author's ultimate, apocalyptic intent, the Tragiques incorporates literary influence from classical sources, such as tragedy and satire, palpable in the first three books (" Les Misères ," " Les Princes " and " La Chambre Dorée " respectively ), before resorting to influence from genres like ecclesiastical history, martyrology and apocalypse in the creation of the remaining books ("," "" "" and "").

Ji Waya La Lachhi Maduni is a tragedy song about a newly-married couple.

This was followed by another one of Renoir's great successes: La Bête Humaine ( The Human Beast ), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Gabin and Simone Simon, as well as Le Quai Des Brumes ( Port of Shadows ), one of director Marcel Carné's most acclaimed films.

Possibly his best known play is La Pasión según Antígona Pérez ( The Passion of Antigona Perez ), a tragedy based on the life of Olga Viscal Garriga.

Sánchez's best known play is La Pasión según Antigona Pérez ( The Passion of Antigona Perez ), a tragedy set in present-day Latin America, suggested by Sophocles ' Antigone.

La Viuda de Padilia ( 1814 ), a tragedy modelled upon Alfieri, was less acceptable to the Spanish public.

** Sophonisbe, AKA La Cathaginoise, AKA La Liberté ( tragedy ) 1596

** La Reine d ' Ecosse, AKA L ' Ecossaise ( tragedy ) 1601

** La Sophonisbe ( tragedy ) 1634

** La Mort de Seneque ( tragedy ) 1644

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

La Russell's run in `` Skylark '', debuting next week at Drury Lane, already is a sellout.

`` La Gioconda '', like it or not, is a singer's opera.

BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

at the supreme delights to be found in one of the world's finest restaurants, La Bonne Auberge, which is situated on the seacoast twenty miles west of the Nice airport ; ;

According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

The image is the combination of the 2. 2-metre MPG / ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0. 4-meter amateur telescope.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

La Grande Chartreuse is a Carthusian abbey north of Grenoble, France

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

* A scale model of Casa Milà ( La Pedrera ) is exhibited at the Catalunya en Miniatura park.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* Earliest date on which La Tomatina can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Wednesday in August.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

* 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.

The theme is likely folk derived and is known as La Folia.