Worried that their goodbye had been too low-key and had disregarded their home fans, the band performed the Farewell to the World concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on 24 November 1996, which raised funds for the Sydney Children's Hospital.

* MacMurray, Jessica M. and Allison Brewster Franzetti: The Book of 101 Opera Librettos: Complete Original Language Texts with English Translations, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1996.

* Il Guarany ( 1996, Washington National Opera )

Finally, stagings and recordings of the original five-act French version of the opera have become more frequent, performances having been given at the Teatro alla Scala in 1970 featuring Plácido Domingo with Katia Ricciarelli, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996, with Roberto Alagna as Don Carlos ( which has been released on CD and DVD ), and at the San Francisco Opera in 1986 and 2003.

* “ Drift ” in Space Opera ( 1996, edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough )

Opera Australia ( OA ) was formed by the merger of the Australian Opera and the Victoria State Opera ( VSO ) companies in 1996, following the financial collapse of the Melbourne based VSO.

* The Australian Opera, operas performed during 1970 – 1996

* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

* Famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman directed the Bacchae three times: as an opera ( 1991 ) for the Royal Swedish Opera, as a TV-film ( 1993 ) for Sveriges Television and as a staged play ( 1996 ) for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

On January 5, 1996 the opening night of a Metropolitan Opera production ended prematurely only a few minutes into Act 1 when tenor Richard Versalle, 63, suffered a heart attack while climbing the 20-foot ladder which was part of the set, fell, and died on stage immediately after singing Vitek's line: " Too bad you can only live so long ".

* Plantamura, Carol, The Opera Lover's Guide to Europe, Citadel Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8065-1842-1

Hester performed with Crowded House at the band's farewell concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996.

* Plantamura, Carol, The Opera Lover's Guide to Europe, New York: Citadel Press, 1996.

The first production was a version of Bertolt Brecht's " The Threepenny Opera " ( autumn 1994 and September 1995 ), followed by the Greek play " Penthesilea " ( March 1996 ), " We can't pay?

* The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera ( 1996 ) ( includes Carter's screenplays for adaptations of The Company of Wolves and The Magic Toyshop ; also includes the contents of Come Unto These Golden Sands: Four Radio Plays )

It was performed in 1996 as a joint commission and co-production of the SFO, Houston Grand Opera, and New York City Opera.

His Gilbert and Sullivan roles for Opera Australia include the featured comedic role of " Ko-Ko " in The Mikado ( 2004 / 2009 ), " Archibald Grosvenor " in Patience ( 1996 ), " Pirate King " in The Pirates of Penzance ( 2006-2007 / 2010 ) and in the 2005 double-bill of Trial by Jury ( as the " Learned Judge ") and H. M. S.

* " Patience " — Opera Australia production ( 1996 )

He was chairman of the Victorian State Opera from 1982 to 1995, president of the Victorian College of the Arts from 1982 to 1996 and a patron of the Public Transport Users Association from 1989.

In 1996, Fleming sang the title role in Rossini's Armida at the Pesaro Festival, the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Met, and the soprano solos in the Verdi Requiem with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Ca

DeLuise exhibited his comedic talents while playing the speaking part of the jailer Frosch in the comedic operetta Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera, playing the role in four separate revivals of the work at the Met between December 1989 and January 1996.

He frequently works with Venezuelan conductor Maria Guinand, who conducted the world premieres of Oceana ( commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival, 1996 ) and La Pasión según San Marcos ( Stuttgart's European Music Festival, 2000 ); classical and Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer ; and American soprano Dawn Upshaw, who performed premieres of his new opera, Ainadamar ( and Arias and Ensembles derived from it ) at the Santa Fe Opera Festival in 2005, London's Barbican Arts Centre in 2006 and Opera Boston in 2007.

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, alleging that the contras contributed to the rise of crack cocaine in California.

*" Dark Alliance ", by Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, August 1996.

A 2007 study looked at the introduction of Fox News into local U. S. markets between 1996 and 2000, and found that in the 2000 presidential election " Republicans gained 0. 4 to 0. 7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News ".

The college has been ranked among the top ten master's universities in the North by U. S. News & World Report every year since 1996.

In 1996, Tenneco initiated a spinoff of Newport News into an independent company ( Newport News Shipbuilding ).

Charles Porter's photograph of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.

The photo, taken by utility company employee Charles H. Porter IV, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, linking the origins of crack cocaine in California ( largely aimed at its African-American population ) to the CIA-Contra alliance.

For the original, together with Schneider's commentary on its misrepresentation, see also American Physical Society, APS News August / September 1996.

However, the network's parent company owns the Fox News Channel, which was launched in 1996 and is now available through virtually all cable and satellite providers in the United States.

After FNC launched in 1996, the network tried again in 1998 with Fox Files, hosted by Fox News anchors Catherine Crier and Jon Scott, as well as a team of correspondents.

" Defense News, ( 17 – 23 June 1996 )" 10.

" Defense News, ( 29 January-4 February 1996 ): 4.

" Defense News, ( 5 – 11 February 1996 ): 20.

" Defense News, ( 8 – 14 April 1996 ): 4.

In 1996, News Corporation, which launched the over-the-air general-interest Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986, entered a joint venture with TCI's Liberty Media and rebranded their Prime Network affiliates as " Fox Sports Net.

U. S. News and World Report, 25 November 1996.

Newport News, Hampton, Virginia | Hampton, Portsmouth, Virginia | Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia | Norfolk, Virginia from space, July 1996 ( Newport News is seen in the upper left quadrant )

The Thomasville News, established in 1996, ceased publication in 2006 when it merged with the Democrat-Reporter, based in Linden.

The Huntsville Times is the only other newspaper with a larger circulation in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area, and has been in circulation since 1996 to most area counties, when the Huntsville News closed.

Merton took a break from Have I Got News for You during the 11th series in 1996, making only one appearance as a guest on Hislop's team.