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Critical SPR investigations into purported mediums and the exposure of fake mediums led to a number of resignations in the 1880s by Spiritualist members, but the Society continued to investigate mediums, studying Leonora Piper and Eusapia Palladino among others.
This gave the composer the opportunity to propose significant revisions, which were accomplished under his direction by the young librettist Leone Emanuele Bardare, and they are seen largely in the expansion of the role of Leonora.
The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paer ( a score of which was owned by Beethoven ).
Leonora had long carried on a relationship with the count of Ourém, who engaged in various intrigues with England and Castile, and who's influence was resented by the leaders of the aristocracy, while her tyrannical rule also aroused Rebellion of bitter opposition.
The performance was hampered by an off night for Leonora Braham as Rose Maybud and by George Grossmith's usual first night jitters, a week after which he fell dangerously ill and had to be replaced by his understudy, Henry Lytton, for almost three weeks.
* 1927: Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
Félix was painted by many artists, including Diego Rivera, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Stanislao Lepri, Bridget Tichenor and Antoine Tzapoff.
The cienega itself is managed by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden as the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve.
' Art e Scienza ' exhibition with works by Eric Bainbridge, Alastair Brotchie, Anthony Caro, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg, Neil Cummings, Brian Eno, Barry Flanagan, Jeremy Gardiner, Eric Gidney, Jocelyn Godwin, Anthony Gormley, Paul Hayward, Allen Jones, Liliane Lijn, Peter Lowe, Kyeran Lyons, Conroy Maddox, Thomas Major, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Alastair Morton, Hugh O ' Donnell, Andrew Owens, Digital Pictures, Mike Punt, Bridget Riley, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Sedgley, Jeffrey Steele, Paul Thomas, Philip West, and Alison Wilding.
She has recorded Tosca ( also made into a film in 2001, directed by the French director Benoît Jacquot ) and Leonora in Il trovatore for EMI and sang in her first Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2006.
Khnopff accepted this commission but destroyed the work later because the famous soprano Rose Caron was offended by the imaginary portrait of Leonora d ' Este that Khnopff had designed to adorn the cover and in which Caron believed to recognise her own face.
" by Leonora Davidson Cohen Rosenfield
Edward and Leonora have a loveless, imbalanced marriage broken by his constant infidelities ( both of body and heart ) and Leonora ’ s attempts to control Edward ’ s affairs ( both financial and romantic ).
Once Leonora knows that Edward intends to keep his passion for Nancy chaste, but only wants Nancy to continue to love him from afar, Leonora torments him by making this wish impossible — she pretends to offer to divorce him so he can marry Nancy, but informs Nancy of his sordid sexual history, destroying Nancy ’ s innocent love for him.
Leonora Ashburnham: Edward ’ s wife by a marriage that was more or less arranged by their fathers.
Leonora da Tolletto, Centro de Musique Ancienne di Genevra / Studio di Musica Rinascimentale di Palermo / Schola " Jacopo da Bologna ", conducted by Gabriel Garrido, ( TACTUS TC 500301 ).

Leonora and William
She was also an older maternal half-sister to William IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and John of England.
It also figures in William Makepeace Thackeray's short story " The Bedford-Row Conspiracy " as the musical center piece of a political feast pitting the Whigs against the Torys and in Arnold Bennett's novel " Leonora " as music considered more suitable for a ball by the older gents to the likes of the Blue Danube Waltz.
Through the maternal line, Mackintosh claimed to be close kin to Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, one of whose sisters was called Leonora, and one of whose half-aunts, Elizabeth Raffles, married William Carter, Esq., of Jamaica.

Leonora and Henry
In order to placate the Castilian King he now agreed for his eldest son, the future Charles III of Navarre, to marry Henry of Trastámara's daughter Leonora in May 1375.
His marriage ( Burgos, before 17 September 1177 ) with Eleanor ( Leonora ), daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, brought him under the influence of the greatest governing intellect of his time.
In 1742, Henry Fielding published Joseph Andrews, and Sarah is often credited with having written the letter from Leonora to Horatio ( two of the characters in the book ).
Henry the young was crowned King of England in 1170 though he never actually ruled ; Richard the Lionheart became Duke of Aquitaine in 1172 ; Geoffrey became Duke of Brittany in 1181 ; John became Lord of Ireland in 1185 ; while Leonora ( born in 1161 ) was promised to Alfonso VII with Gascony as dowry during the campaign against Toulouse in 1170.

Leonora and first
Almost four years after her marriage in December 1493, Isabella gave birth to her first child out of an eventual total of eight ; it was a daughter, Eleonora, whom they called Leonora for short.
Leonora was the first to join the church and she persuaded Taylor to continue his studies with Pratt.
He was twice married: first, to Laura, daughter of James Keymer of Dartford ; and, secondly, to Leonora Eliza, daughter of Commander Blount, R. N.
Other operas performed in the Liceu during the first year were ( in chronological order ): I due Foscari ( Verdi ), Il bravo ( Mercadante ), Parisina d ' Este ( Donizetti ), Giovanna d ' Arco ( Verdi ), Leonora ( Mercadante ), Ernani ( Verdi ), Norma ( Bellini ), Linda di Chamounix ( Donizetti ) and Il barbiere di Siviglia ( Rossini ).
He married his first wife, Gillian Leonora Strutt, with whom he had three children, John, David and Zara, they divorced however in 1959.
In 1869, Windich was a member of John Forrest's first expedition, which searched without success for clues to the fate of the long-lost explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in the desert west of the site of the present-day town of Leonora.
She made her La Scala debut in 1839, replacing Antonietta Marini-Rainieri, who was found unsuitable in the work's premiere performance, as Leonora in the first production of Giuseppe Verdi's first opera Oberto.
Following their publication the first Bahá ' í permanent resident in South America, Leonora Armstrong, arrived in Brazil in 1921.
Indeed, in 1998, Anderson played her first Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera, in a cast including Richard Margison and Dolora Zajick.
And in the following issue, No. 10 ( January 1974 ), it was announced: " Here are the names of first managing committee of our dearly beloved Bahá ' í Esperanto League: Chairman: Adelbert Mühlschlegel ( Germany ), Vice-chairman: Habib Taherzadeh ( Israel ), Secretary: Paulo Amorim Cardoso ( Brazil ), Vice-secretary: Roan Orloff-Stone ( USA ), Treasurer: Manuel de Freitas ( Portugal ), Vice-treasurer: Leonora Stirling-Armstrong ( Brazil )".

Leonora and opera
* June 4-William Fry's opera Leonora debuts in Philadelphia.
Fry's most notable composition was the opera Leonora, which received mixed reviews upon its opening and was criticized for its debt to Vincenzo Bellini's bel canto style.
His other published complete opera recordings included La traviata with Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, and conductor Pierre Monteux, Pagliacci with Victoria de los Ángeles, Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill ; Tosca, Aida, and Il trovatore, each with Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling ; a second recording of Il trovatore with his friend and final tenor co-star, Richard Tucker, featuring a young Leontyne Price in her Met debut role of Leonora ; and Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek and Carlo Bergonzi.
* Leonora was the original title of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, in which the heroine is named Leonora ( or " Leonore " in German )
* Leonora ( opera ), an 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer, based on the same source as the work by Beethoven
His Leonor ( 1798 ) forms the basis for the libretto which Ludwig van Beethoven used for the opera Fidelio ; it was also set by Pierre Gaveaux as Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal, by Simon Mayr as L ' amor coniugale, and by Ferdinando Paer as Leonora.
He wrote the opera Leonora ( 1804 ), based on the same story as Beethoven's Fidelio, which was produced the following year.

Leonora and composed
Leonora belonged to many organizations composed of both working class and elite men and women.

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