In 1927 he succeeded Zemlinsky as opera director of the German Theater at Prague.

* 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

The Italian opera buffa company was therefore replaced by a German language Singspiel troupe.

Salieri also had never truly mastered the German language, and he now felt no longer competent to continue as assistant opera director.

Salieri's Chimney Sweep and Mozart's work for the same company in 1782, Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ) would be the only two major successes to emerge from the German singspiel experiment, and only Mozart's opera would survive on the stage beyond the close of the 18th century.

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

* 1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, German opera composer and conductor ( d. 1798 )

The German title of the book by Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols, written in 1888 and published in 1889, is Götzen-Dämmerung, a pun on the title of Wagner's opera.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Goebbels insisted that German high culture must be allowed to carry on, both for reasons of international prestige and to win the loyalty of the upper middle classes, who valued art forms such as opera and the symphony.

* 1929 – Hermann Prey, German opera singer ( d. 1998 )

Irmin Schmidt, founder of seminal German ' Krautrock ' group Can wrote an opera called Gormenghast, based on the novels ; it was first performed in Wuppertal, Germany, in November 1998.

* 1936 – Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer

Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute, a landmark in the German tradition.

The first German opera was Dafne, composed by Heinrich Schütz in 1627, but the music score has not survived.

Mozart's Singspiele, Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( 1782 ) and Die Zauberflöte ( 1791 ) were an important breakthrough in achieving international recognition for German opera.

Carl Maria von Weber established German Romantic opera in opposition to the dominance of Italian bel canto.

Other composers who made individual contributions to German opera in the early 20th century include Zemlinsky, Korngold, Schreker, Hindemith, Kurt Weill and the Italian-born Ferruccio Busoni.

This is carried out in detail in the Fach system of German speaking countries, where historically opera and spoken drama were often put on by the same repertory company.

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Many of the German religious houses that lodged women had been home to communities of women, such as Beguines, that became Dominican once they were taught by the traveling preachers and put under the jurisdiction of the Dominican authoritative structure.

Its 26-storey, 103-metre-high " Bahn Tower " is so named because it houses the corporate headquarters of Deutsche Bahn AG, the German state railway system.

* Spain becomes bankrupt, throwing the German banking houses into chaos.

John May's German Shepherd, Highball, who was leashed to a truck, began howling and barking, attracting the attention of two women who operated boarding houses across the street.

In 1872, the Prussian-dominated Imperial government closed down all German gambling houses.

In other German opera houses, the term generally refers to a deputy conductor reporting to the Generalmusikdirektor ( General Music Director, usually also the chief conductor ).

The museum also houses the Stout Collection of 18th century German porcelain.

Today, Sylt is mainly a tourist attraction, famous for its healthy climate, and the many German celebrities who own houses on the island.

The most beautiful houses in the New Town ( Śródmieście ) were mostly designed by Polish and German architects.

In the Flemish corner of France, Bible students who gathered in each other's houses to study secretly were called Huis Genooten (' housemates ') while on the Swiss and German borders they were termed Eid Genossen, or ' oath fellows ,' that is, persons bound to each other by an oath.

Where Greenberg used the German word kitsch to describe the antithesis of avant-garde culture, members of the Frankfurt School coined the term mass culture to indicate that this bogus culture is constantly being manufactured by a newly emerged Culture industry ( comprising commercial publishing houses, the movie industry, the record industry, the electronic media ).

In World War 2 the church was narrowly missed by a German bomb that destroyed houses in the nearby Hollyhock Square.

The underground press of France published books as well as newspapers through publishing houses such as Les Éditions de Minuit ( the Midnight Press ) which had been begun in order to circumvent Vichy and German censorship.

A German V-1 flying bomb destroyed a number of houses in Regina Road, killing the occupants.

* The Staatliches Museum Schwerin-Kunstsammlungen ( State Art Museum ) houses a remarkable collection of Dutch paintings from 16th centuries Dutch painter schools German art from medieval and renaissance masters up to the present day.

The Graphic cabinet houses rich collections of Dutch and German drawings and prints ( Jan van Goyen, Dürer, Cranach, Rembrandt, Merian etc.

Fierce fighting caused the front to move so the little village, of which most houses were shot in this period, was liberated to fall back in German hands, to be liberated again.

The Concordia Language Villages are located near Bemidji and this has, perhaps, been influential in the existence of several language conversational groups ( including French, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, and German ) that meet weekly in local coffee houses.

The German dominance of the region was almost complete by the 1870s, and most of the surviving farm houses and outbuildings are associated with that era.

Ten years later, Gottlieb Burian and his wife, German immigrants from Lower Silesia who owned taverns in downtown Seattle, arrived in Sunnydale, which was only a community of trails and small houses without roads or commercial buildings.

The building complex has been restores and houses a surprising collection of art by German artist Wolf Vostell, who was an important member of the fluxus movement.

Celle is the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath, has a castle ( Schloss Celle ) built in the renaissance and baroque style and a picturesque old town centre ( the Altstadt ) with over 400 timber-framed houses, making Celle one of the most remarkable members of the German Timber-Frame Road.

German sightseer Adolf Struck in 1898 describes Konstantia ( in Moglena ) as a big village with 300 houses and two panes, inhabited exclusively by Pomaks.

German aircraft returning from a night raid on Liverpool in 1940 jettisoned surplus bombs over the village, obliterating Church Row ( the houses have since been rebuilt ).

Hooglede houses one of the 4 German War Cemeteries in Belgium, the Hooglede German War Cemetery