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 ).

In 1384 a Castilian army invested Lisbon, but encountered a heroic resistance, and after five months an outbreak of plague compelled them to raise the siege, John I of Castile, discovering or alleging that Leonora had plotted to poison him, imprisoned her in a convent at Tordesillas, where she died in 1386.

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.

According to historian Cecil Roth, Spanish political intrigues had earlier promoted the anti-Jewish policies which culminated in 1391, when Regent Queen Leonora of Castile gave the Archdeacon of Écija, Ferrand Martinez, considerable power in her realm.

But during her mature prime in the 1870s and ' 80s, Patti had been a more enterprising singer, proving to be an effective actress in those lyric roles that required the summoning forth of deep emotions, such as Gilda in Rigoletto, Leonora in Il trovatore, the title part in Semiramide, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Violetta in La traviata.

Lorenzo had siblings Leonora Abigail Snow ( 1801 – 1872 ), Eliza R. Snow ( 1804 – 1887 ), Percy Amanda Snow ( 1808 – 1848 ), Melissa Snow ( 1810 – 1835 ), Lucius Augustus Snow ( born 1819 ) and Samuel Pearce Snow ( born 1821 ).

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.

The novel opens with the famous line, “ This is the saddest story I have ever heard .” Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham ( the “ good soldier ” of the book ’ s title ) and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.

He married his first wife, Gillian Leonora Strutt, with whom he had three children, John, David and Zara, they divorced however in 1959.

His father's sister, Leonora Cannon, had married Latter Day Saint Apostle John Taylor and was baptized in 1836.

At the 2006 census, Leonora had a population of 401, about a third of whom are of Aboriginal descent.

By 1897 a residential and business area had been established, and the town was gazetted as Leonora in 1898.

Leonora had a single track passenger tramway linking the town and nearby Gwalia, from 1901 to 1921.

He had an older brother, Louis, and a younger sister, Leonora.

In 1637 Ulfeldt married the king's daughter Leonora Christina, who had been betrothed to him from her ninth year.

In a message from the League, dated 30 July 1973, the result of the election, in which a total of 30 members had taken part, was announced: Paulo Amorim Cardoso ( Brazil ), Roan Orloff-Stone ( USA ), Habib Taherzadeh ( Israel / Bahá ' í World Centre, Adalbert Mühlschlegel ( Switzerland ), Badiollah Samimy ( Iran ), Manuel de Freitas ( Portugal ), S. C. Gupta ( India ), Chagzin Kim ( Korea ), Leonora Stirling Armstrong ( Brazil ).

* Lady Leonora Mary Grosvenor ( b. 1 February 1949 ), married Thomas Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield and had issue.

With the false imputation that his present wife María had been unfaithful to him, transmitted by Leonora through John Alfonso, Infanta John became so enraged that he stabbed her in Coimbra.

Infante John, realizing he had been ensnared by the machinations of Leonora, retired to the Douro and then to Castile, avoiding the persecution that was encouraged by the cunning Leonor.

His father, Francisco de Valenzuela, was a gentleman from Ronda who had been compelled to flee from Spain as a consequence of a brawl, and who enlisted as a soldier in Naples, where he married Leonora de Encisa.

Such a powerful, long and expressive voice as Rysanek's allowed her to sing many Verdi leads, notably Desdemona in Otello, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Leonora in La forza del destino, and Aida.

In contrast his wife Leonora Christina has been admired because of her long time as a prisoner after his death.

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

She was born on Tuesday 19 May 1474 at nine o ' clock in the evening in Ferrara, to Ercole I d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara and Leonora of Naples.

Two women, Janice Smith and Leonora Holmes, prepare to depart on a rocket to Mars, to find husbands or lovers waiting for them there.

He met Leonora Cannon from the Isle of Man while attending a Toronto Methodist Church and, although she initially rejected his proposal, married her on January 28, 1833.

Rutherford was born on November 8, 1869 to James Calvin Rutherford and Leonora Strickland and raised in near-poverty in a Baptist farm family.

Corelli made his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera on 27 January 1961 as Manrico in Il trovatore, opposite soprano Leontyne Price as Leonora who was also making her house debut at the Met that evening.

The pirate Bully Hayes was shipwrecked on Kosrae on March 15, 1874, when his ship the Leonora was caught in Lelu harbor during a storm.

She would go on to portray Tosca, Countess Almaviva, Leonora, Giorgetta, and Madama Butterfly in some of the world ’ s most renowned houses.

One Monday night in early October, Leonora Daniels (" Lennie ") is brutally murdered on her way home from a PTA meeting.

With that story told, Dowell moves on to tell the story of Edward and Leonora ’ s relationship, which appears normal but which is a power struggle that Leonora wins.

Leonora comes to resent Edward ’ s philandering as much for its effect on her life as on her marriage and asserts more and more control over Edward until he dies.

By early 1849 they managed to charter a ship, the Leonora, and on February 4, 1849, they set sail for San Francisco, arriving on July 5.

* Leonora ( opera ), an 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer, based on the same source as the work by Beethoven

She went on to appear regularly at La Scala, performing nineteen roles between 1957 and 1983, including Leonora in La forza del destino, Elisabetta in Don Carlos, Aïda, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Norma, Ottavia in L ' incoronazione di Poppea, and Alceste.

She began her career as a chorister with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and steadily took on larger roles such as Kate Pinkerton and the lead role of Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Micaela in Carmen, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Freia in Das Rheingold, Elsa in Lohengrin, Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Leonora in La forza del destino, Leonora in Fidelio, Eva in Die Meistersinger, and the title roles in Aida, Tosca and Thaïs.

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The Leonora was wrecked on 15 March 1874 during a storm while in Lelu harbour at Kosrae at what is now the Utwe-Walong Marine Park on Kosrae.

After arriving in Apia, Samoa, on 2 January 1877 the Lotus sailed to Kosrae, the atoll on which Leonora was wrecked, where Hayes intended to collect coconuts left at the time of the wreck.

Six months later Ferdinand died, and in accordance with the terms of the treaty Leonora became regent until the eldest son of John I and Beatrice should be of age.

It has been noted that Sarandon is often at odds with her mother, Leonora Tomalin, in regard to her political beliefs as Tomalin is a staunch Republican, a supporter of George W. Bush and the Iraq War.

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.

Leonora was the first to join the church and she persuaded Taylor to continue his studies with Pratt.

A nobleman native of Florence, Concini went to France with Maria de Medici, wife of Henri IV, and married the queen's lady-in-waiting, Leonora Dori, known as " Galigaï ".

' 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.

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.

Her greatest triumphs followed with more works of Barrie, including The Little Minister, Quality Street, What Every Woman Knows, A Kiss for Cinderella, The Legend of Leonora, and Peter Pan ; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, the latter being the role with which she was most closely identified and which she often reprised.

She returned to Philadelphia in 1967 to sing the title roles in Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly and to the Met to sing three Verdi heroines: Leonora in Il trovatore opposite Richard Tucker as Manrico, Desdemona in Otello opposite James McCracken in the title role, and Violetta in La traviata with Tucker and George Shirley alternating as Alfredo.

In 1970, Caballé made her " official " debut at La Scala in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia, sang Leonora in Philadelphia, and returned to the Met as Amelia in a critically acclaimed production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera with Plácido Domingo as Riccardo, and Reri Grist as Oscar.

Interestingly enough, many of these were recorded in her " mezzo period ", in the 1960s ( including excerpts of La forza del destino in German, with Bumbry as Leonora and Nicolai Gedda as Alvaro ).

Florence ’ s affair with Edward leads her to commit suicide when she realizes that Edward is falling in love with his and Leonora ’ s young ward, Nancy Rufford, the daughter of Leonora's closest friend.

Frequently and increasingly, Dowell presents Leonora ( as well as Florence, who is forgotten barely half-way through the novel ) as the villain of the piece, since she obeys not natural or heartfelt impulse, but a manipulative version of propriety that for Dowell is closely linked with her Catholicism.

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 ).

When Charles V issued an edict to expel the Jews from Naples, Benvenida, with the assistance of Leonora, intervened in their behalf so effectively that the decree was revoked.