Major opera companies have begun presenting their performances in local cinemas throughout the United States and many other countries.

* Caractacus is referenced in a line of the " Modern Major General's Song ", the well-known libretto from Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

Major opera houses throughout the world often have highly mechanized stages, with large stage elevators permitting heavy sets to be changed rapidly.

Major developments of poetry during the Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 – 1368 ) included the development of types of poetry written to fixed-tone patterns, such as for the Yuan opera librettos.

The opera Leo, the Royal Cadet ( 1889 ) by Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann and George Frederick Cameron includes a character " Battalion Sergeant Major at the Royal Military College of Canada " and song " The Royal Cadet-The Battalion Sergeant Major ".

: Features reports on an infestation of wild horses in the London underground, the BBC's new soap opera The Bureau ( replacing the Nine O ' Clock News ), a fight between Queen Elizabeth and John Major ( and an emergency broadcast related to the event ), and an " air jam ".

It was originally from the opera William Tell by Rossini, but was transcribed to the pipes in 1854 by Pipe Major John MacLeod after he heard it played by a Sardinian military band when serving in the Crimean War with his regiment, the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders.

Major Cantonese opera artists include:

Internationally known New Zealand opera singers to previously record and perform " Pokarekare Ana " are Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major.

Major works include The White Canoe, an opera seria for hand puppets to the libretto by Edward Gorey, six string quartets, Figure & Ground for string trio, Field Study for vn, tb, ban, gui, Decoherence for x orchestras of x players, Twoity fl, pf and A Beckett Gray Code for wind quintet.

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Among the songs and movements that were played in the serial were Handel's " Air con Variazioni " from Suite No. 5 in E Major HWV 430 and " Slumber, Dear Maid " from his opera Xerxes, Mozart's " Rondo Alla Turca ", " Voi Che Sapete " and other music from his operas The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Andante Favori, the second movement from Muzio Clementi's Sonatina No. 4 and the traditional folk song " The Barley Mow ".

Thomas Hardy's novel provided the source of Alun Hoddinott's opera The Trumpet Major, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, first performed in Manchester on 1 April 1981.

Major productions include The Master and Margarita ( 2011 / 12 ) A Dog's Heart ( 2010 ) with De Nederlandse opera and ENO, Endgame ( 2009 ), Shun-kin ( 2008 ), A Disappearing Number ( 2007 ), Measure for Measure ( 2004 ), The Elephant Vanishes ( 2003, 2004 ) ( performed in Japanese, adapted from the work of the writer Haruki Murakami ), The Noise of Time ( 2000 ) ( about the Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich, title from the 1925 memoir and collected essays by the poet Osip Mandelstam, published in English in 1993 ); Mnemonic ( 1999 ); and The Street of Crocodiles ( 1992 ) ( inspired by the life and works of Bruno Schulz ).

Major Canadian opera companies such as the Canadian Opera Company have nurtured the talents of Canadian opera singers such as Maureen Forrester, Ben Heppner, and Jon Vickers.

Major renovations from 1980-1982 completed its transformation into an opera house.

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.

One of the companies was named the ' Major Attlee Company ' in his honour.

Major U. S. companies operating in the country include ACS, CMS Energy, Coca Cola, S. C. Johnson, Ralston Purina, Star-Kist, A. H. Robins, Sterling, Pfizer, IBM, 3M, Motorola, Stewart & Stevenson, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and National Cash Register ( NCR ).

Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

Major companies are now found in Germany ( Seydel, Bushman, Hohner-the dominant manufacturer in the world ), Japan ( Suzuki, Tombo-the manufacturer of the popular Lee Oskar harmonica, and Yamaha also made harmonicas until the 1970s ), China ( Huang, Johnson, Leo Shi, Suzuki, Hohner, Swan, AXL ), and Brazil ( Hering, Bends ).

* Major companies are considered to have an adjusted annual mining-related revenue of more than US $ 500 million, with the financial capability to develop a major mine on its own.

Major international oil companies use sophisticated technology to produce GTL.

In the UK this culminated in the 1993 privatization of British Rail under Thatcher's successor, John Major ; British Rail having been formed by prior nationalization of private rail companies.

Major changes in trust law, combined with modern investment strategies, new tax factors and complex family and financial advisor dynamics, have created demands that traditional trusts and trust companies are not well equipped to handle.

Major banks and companies pressured the president, Rutherford B. Hayes, against the Act, and he vetoed it, but Congress overrode the veto.

Three companies were placed under the command of Major Marcus Reno ( A, G, and M ); and three were placed under the command of Capt.

Major companies such as Viewsonic and Toshiba stopped producing new Pocket PCs.

Major industrial companies in Mysore include Bharat Earth Movers, J. K. Tyres, Wipro, Falcon Tyres, Larsen & Toubro, Theorem India and Infosys.

Major companies in the county have included JVC, Mercedes-Benz USA International, Uniroyal-Goodrich, and Phifer Inc.

The following year, Brevet Major George Birch and two companies of the 7th Infantry Division followed the " Dawson Road " to the aforementioned site.

Major Barton-area coal companies in the 19th century:

Major companies in Penfield include Paychex, Nalge Nunc International, Birds Eye Foods, and Wegman's.

On 8 September 1849, the garrison party of several companies of the 3rd U. S. Infantry, commanded by Major Jefferson Van Horne, found only four small and scattered settlements on the north side of the Rio Grande.

These companies, led by Major Allen Peck, " made a brave stand " in Dalirig on 9 May 1942 to cover the withdrawal of the Philippine Army 62d Infantry Regiment during their retreat from defenses near the Del Monte airfield.

Major companies are Suchard ( chocolate ) and Fohrenburger ( beer, 5, 2 % alcohol ).

* Major private, government or dedicated telecommunications networks, such as those used for internal communication and monitoring by major infrastructure companies, by governments, by the military or by emergency services, as well as national research and education networks

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Major composers have usually composed anthems in response to commissions and for special occasions.

Statistics have been kept for professional baseball since the creation of the American League and National League, now part of Major League Baseball.

In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.

A number of ministers were then revealed to have committed sexual indiscretions, and Major was forced by media pressure to dismiss them.

This was criticised more harshly than may otherwise have been the case as Major had frequently pushed his Back To Basics agenda ( see above ), which was taken by the media as a form of moral absolutism.

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.

Major Croatian advances in foreign relations during this period have included:

Major international credit rating organizations have dropped Colombian sovereign debt below investment grade, primarily as a result of large fiscal deficits, which current policies are seeking to close.

Major cities in Australia have suburban railway systems in their metropolitan areas.

Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.

The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.

This was approved by Major League Baseball and would have enabled the Cubs to host games 1 and 2, along with games 6 and 7 if necessary.

The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era ( 1901 – present ), while all 18 of the Cardinals ' have been won since 1901.

The Florida Marlins were the first Major League Baseball team to have cheerleaders.

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On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

The Prophet's sayings on the subject have been traditionally divided into Major and Minor Signs.

The Red Sox have sold out every home game since May 15, 2003 ; in 2008, the park sold out its 456th consecutive Red Sox game, breaking a Major League Baseball record.

As of July 17, 2012, the Red Sox have had 760 consecutive sellouts, which is the longest such streak in Major League Baseball history ; the club, however, includes all tickets distributed ( paid or free ) when reporting attendance.

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).