Although it did not win, Le Villi was later staged in 1884 at the Teatro Dal Verme and it caught the attention of Giulio Ricordi, head of G. Ricordi & Co. music publishers, who commissioned a second opera, Edgar, in 1889.

* Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 )

* Puccini: Le Villi ( Scotto, Domingo, Nucci ; Maazel, 1979 ) CBS / Sony

* Le Villi, Italian opera

The modern cimbasso is most commonly used in opera scores by Giuseppe Verdi from Oberto to Aida, and by Giacomo Puccini in Le Villi only, though the word also appears in the score of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, which premiered in 1831.

His short story Les Willis was the basis of Giacomo Puccini's opera Le Villi.

Edgar, Puccini's second opera, was composed on a commission from the publisher Ricordi after the successful reception of his first stage work, Le Villi.

Notice in Gazzetta Musicale di Milano ( 1884 ) announcing Ricordi's publication of Le Villi and their contract with Puccini to write a second opera.

Le Villi is Puccini's first stage work.

Le Villi was also performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on 15 January 1888.

The UK premiere occurred on 24 September 1897 in Manchester and the US premiere of Le Villi came on 17 December 1908 at the New York Metropolitan Opera conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

The front cover of the first printed libretto of Le Villi.

Likewise, there is no record of a narrator having been used at the first performance of Le Villi at the Metropolitan opera in 1908.

Key contributors of technical achievements that pushed the practical application of turbomachinery forward include: Denis Papin, Kernelien Le Demour, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, John Smeaton, Dr. A. C. E. Rateau, John Barber, Alexander Sablukov, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, Ægidius Elling, Sanford Alexander Moss, Willis Carrier, Adolf Busemann, Hermann Schlichting, Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain.

In the end two parties landed, one party consisting of six craft carrying approximately 120 men under Captain R. L Willis landed on the beach opposite Le Petit Berneval to the east of the battery — Yellow I — while the other, consisting of only one craft of 20 men from No. 6 Troop under Captain Peter Young landed to the west at Yellow II.

WisCon Guests of Honor have included Eleanor Arnason, Iain M. Banks, Lois McMaster Bujold, Emma Bull, Pat Cadigan, Avedon Carol, Terry Carr, Suzy McKee Charnas, Buck & Juanita Coulson, Samuel R. Delany, Charles de Lint, Beverly DeWeese, Gardner Dozois, L. Timmel Duchamp, Suzette Haden Elgin, Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, Jeanne Gomoll, Nicola Griffith, Andrea Hairston, Barbara Hambly, David Hartwell, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nalo Hopkinson, Ellen Klages, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Elizabeth A. Lynn, R. A. MacAvoy, Katherine MacLean, George R. R. Martin, Maureen McHugh, Vonda N. McIntyre, Patricia A. McKillip, Judith Merril, China Miéville, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, Trina Robbins, Mary Doria Russell, Geoff Ryman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Pamela Sargent, Melissa Scott, Nisi Shawl, Stu Shiffman, Sheri S. Tepper, John Varley, Joan D. Vinge, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Howard Waldrop, Connie Willis, Terri Windling, Don & Elsie Wollheim, Susan Wood, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

A musical version with music by Chris Andrews and Book and Lyrics by Jack and Joan Maitland was presented at the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End in 1971 with Keith Chegwin, Roy Dotrice, Simon Le Bon, Tony Sympson, Richard Willis and Dougal Rose.

The book follows the trajectory of Morgaine ( often called Morgan Le Fay or Morgan of the Fairies in other works ), a priestess fighting to save her matriarchal Celtic culture in a country where patriarchal Christianity threatens to destroy the pagan way of life.

* Chevalier Charles-Joseph de Mayer gathered the best Fairy Tales of the times and released a forty-one volume anthology entitled Le Cabinet des Fées (" The Fairies ' Cabinet "), published in Amsterdam and Geneva between 1785 and 1789 — the first specialized fantasy imprint ever published.

Her repertoire with the Company includes Mathilda Kchessinska and the Tsarina in Anastasia, Gamzatti and a Shade in La Bayadère, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Swanilda in Coppélia, Medora in Le Corsaire, Kitri and Mercedes in Don Quixote, Myrta and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Cerrito in Pas des Déesses, the Siren in Prodigal Son, Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet, the Fairies of Benevolence and Temperament, the Lilac Fairy and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Coupava in The Snow Maiden, the pas de trois and Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, leading roles in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, and Études and a featured role in Push Comes to Shove.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

* 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.

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

Unlike McCaffrey's black crystal transceivers, Le Guin's ansibles are not mated pairs: it is possible for an ansible's coordinates to be set to any known location of a receiving ansible.

Brigitte Bardot is supporting Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French Presidential Election.

In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale ( ; The National Celebration ) and commonly Le quatorze juillet ( ; the fourteenth of July ).

The Pra Loup resort is 7 km from Barcelonnette ; Le Sauze is 5 km away.

Bodmin is twinned with Bederkesa in Germany ; Grass Valley, in California, United States ; and Le Relecq-Kerhuon ( Ar Releg-Kerhuon in Brittany, France.

Le Karthala ( 2316 m ) on Grande Comore is an active volcano.

cyclones possible during rainy season ( December to April ); Le Kartala on Grande Comore is an active volcano

After the documentary Le Mystère Koumiko in 1965, Marker made Si j ' avais quatre dromadaires, an essay-film that, like La jetée, is a photomontage of over 800 photographs that Marker had taken over the past 10 years from 26 countries.

The film's original French title is Le fond de l ' air est rouge, which means " the air is essentially red ", or " revolution is in the air ", implying that the socialist movement existed only in the air.

** Note: This was edited by Marker essentially, this film is a 27-minute postscript to Le Joli Mai assembled from leftover footage and organized around a new commentary ( Film Comment ).

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

The story is presented by Le Fanu as part of the casebook of Dr Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature.

Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:

Although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than the generally-considered master work of that genre, Dracula, the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's short story.

* Grand Pas Classique, derived from music taken from the opera-ballet Le dieu et la bayadère, ou La courtisane amoreuse.

The opera-ballet Le chêne et le tilleul ( after La Fontaine ) of 1960 is the climax of the composer ’ s output with harmonies in the style of Debussy contrasting with the Bacchic frenzy of wild dances with pungently rhythmic, virile accompaniment.