He was a pioneer of televised broadcast of opera, commissioning such works as Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Maria Golovin, Norman Dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, and Bohuslav Martinů's The Marriage ; Jack Beeson's My Heart's in the Highlands, Thomas Pasatieri's The Trial of Mary Lincoln and Hans Werner Henze's La Cubana.

She appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition alongside Maria Kirilenko and Tatiana Golovin in a pictoral entitled Volley of the Dolls.

In her first Tour grass court main draw at Birmingham, Golovin reached her first Tour singles final, which she lost to Maria Sharapova in 3 sets.

In the semifinal, Golovin overcame a 5 – 1 deficit and four match points while down 5 – 3 in second set versus Maria Sharapova, pushing the match to a third set before she sprained her left ankle and retired at 3 – 6 7 – 6 ( 5 ) 3 – 4.

At the Zürich Open, Golovin reached the second round, defeating Nicole Vaidišová ( 6 – 2, 6 – 0 ) in the first, before retiring with a foot injury against Maria Kirilenko while leading 4 – 2 in the fist set.

Maria Golovin is an English language opera in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti.

In her junior career, she beat several players who went on to become notable professionals such as Maria Sharapova, Anna-Lena Grönefeld, Tatiana Golovin, Shahar Pe ' er, and Maria Kirilenko.

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

The tower is decorated with monograms of Jesus ( JHS ), Maria ( M with the ducal crown ) and Joseph ( JHP ), made ​​ of ceramic pieces that stand out golden on the green background that covers the facade.

* Juan Maria Solare's piano ballad " Jura ser anomalía " ( literally " he / she swears to be an anomaly ") is an anagram of the composer's full name.

Of the cenotaphs and funeral monuments the most splendid is the monument to the archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, consisting of nine figures.

Ani DiFranco (; born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970 ) is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter.

All Quiet on the Western Front () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

However, according to The Jewish Alchemists, Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses ' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.

Franz Schubert is also something of a transitional figure, as are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Mauro Giuliani, Friedrich Kuhlau, Fernando Sor, Luigi Cherubini, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Carl Maria von Weber.

2011 also saw the arrival of Frank Foster who was a sexual predator, the first flash of malevolence we see is when Maria Connor visits his home to finalise a deal.

After a bit of flirting Frank thinks Maria is playing hard to get and decides he is getting what he wants there and then, Maria is frightened by this and manages to escape.

After Maria tells Carla Connor, Carla is furious and tries to get Maria to go to the police, however Maria wants to forget all about it and tells Carla to continue doing business with Frank to save the factory.

Umm-ul-Momineen ( Mother of Muslims ) Maria Qibtia is reported to be another concubine gifted to Muhammad by the King Maqooqas in response to his letter inviting him towards Islam.

In Santa Maria, Azores, dill ( endro ) is the most important ingredient of the traditional Holy Ghost soup ( sopas do Espírito Santo ).

Dill is found practically anywhere in Santa Maria, and curiously rare in the other Azorean Islands.

Recent international aid has allowed the asphalting of a few roads, such as part of the highway between Tarrafal and Praia on Santiago and the dual carriageway between Santa Maria and Espargos on Sal.

Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf note that celery leaves and inflorescences were part of the garlands found in the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun ( died 1323 BC ), and celery mericarps dated to the seventh century BC were recovered in the Heraion of Samos.

In chapter 10 of the first part of the novel, Don Quixote says he must take the magical helmet of Mambrino, an episode from Canto I of Orlando, and itself a reference to Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando innamorato.

At Chatsworth High, he starred in the school's senior production of The Sound of Music, playing the part of Captain Georg von Trapp, opposite Mare Winningham's character, Maria.

He subsequently took his mother's maiden name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Men at Work performed three songs for the 1985 Oz for Africa concert ( part of the global Live Aid program )-" Maria ", " Overkill ", and an unreleased song called " The Longest Night ".

Under heavy guard, Alexander III and Maria made periodic trips from Gatchina to the capital to take part in official events.

Superimposed on this classical picture, however, are quantum-mechanical effects, which can be described using the nuclear shell model, developed in large part by Maria Goeppert-Mayer.

His projects in Rome included: the church and piazza at Santa Maria della Pace ; the Via del Corso, Piazza Colonna and associated buildings ; reworking of the Porta del Popolo, the Piazza del Popolo and Santa Maria del Popolo ; Piazza San Pietro, the Scala Regia and interior embellishments in the Vatican Palace and St Peters ; Sant ' Andrea al Quirinale ; part of the Palazzo del Quirinale ; the obelisk and elephant in Piazza della Minerva.

He was born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, capital of Bohemia ( then part of Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic ).

With the arrival of Governor Cesare Maria De Vecchi on 15 December 1923, things began to change for that part of Somaliland.

At the dance, after introductions, the teenagers begin to dance ; soon a challenge dance is called (" Dance at the Gym "), during which Tony and Maria ( who aren't taking part in the challenge dance ) see each other across the room and are drawn to each other.

This was part of a series of trials that also passed sentences on his various associates, as well as his wife Maria.

Having in September 1548 married his cousin Maria, daughter of Charles V, he acted as the emperor's representative in Spain from 1548 to 1550, returning to Germany in December 1550 in order to take part in the discussion over the imperial succession.

** Carrizaleños ( lived exclusively in Chihuahua, between the presidios of Janos in the west and Carrizal and Lake Santa Maria in the east, south toward Corralitos, Casas Grandes and Agua Nuevas north of Chihuahua, controlled the southern part of the Guzmán Basin, and the mountains along the Casas Grandes, Santa Maria and Carmen River, likely called Tsebekinéndé-‘ Stone House People ’ or ‘ Rock House People ’, southeastern local group )

Maybe St. Maria ad Gradus was an unfinished work of Richeza's brother and completed by Anno II, who wanted to secured part of the Ezzonen patrimony in this way.

Lead and silver were discovered in the southern part of the Groom Range in 1864, and the English Groome Lead Mines Limited company financed the Conception Mines in the 1870s, giving the district its name ( nearby mines included Maria, Willow and White Lake ).

This historicizing aspect of Stone ’ s work was in part influenced by his second wife, Maria Elena Torchio, whom Stone met, fell in love with, and proposed marriage to on a transatlantic flight.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

In 1969, Italian motion picture director Luchino Visconti allegedly attempted to bring Garbo back to the screen with a small part, Maria Sophia, Queen of Naples, in his adaptation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Gauguin was born in Paris, France, to journalist Clovis Gauguin and Alina Maria Chazal, daughter of the proto-socialist leader Flora Tristan, a feminist precursor whose father was part of an influential Peruvian family.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.