* February 28 – Rosina Brandram, D ' Oyly Carte singer and actress, 61

Rosina Brandram as Queen Elizabeth I in Merrie England ( opera ) | Merrie England

Gold appeared in the 1985 film Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, as the reporter, Miss Sullivan, and the 2000 film Topsy-Turvy, as Rosina Brandram, one of the original Gilbert and Sullivan performers, who plays Katisha in The Mikado during the course of the story.

Rosina Brandram | Brandram as BlanchePrincess Ida is the only Gilbert and Sullivan work with dialogue entirely in blank verse and the only one of their works in three acts ( and the longest opera to that date ).

Gilbert had paired the title character with contralto Rosina Brandram, causing Sullivan to suggest some different pairings of the characters, but Gilbert and the Cartes disagreed ; Mrs. Carte went so far as to caution Sullivan that his ideas would upset the casting.

Three years later, Rosina published Cheveley, or the Man of Honour ( 1839 ), a near-libellous fiction bitterly satirising her husband's hypocrisy.

* Maria Malibran makes her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville.

In 1898 he married fellow Moscow Conservatory student Rosina Bessie, also a pianist and winner of the Gold Medal for piano in her year, and the two began to give concerts together, a practice that lasted until his death.

Rosina Lhévinne recalled that Hofmann heard her husband Josef Lhévinne play Liszt's Lorelei, a piece Hofmann had never heard but went on to play it " just like my Josef ( Lhevinne )" for an encore at his concert later that day.

Fleming was originally not scheduled to make her Met debut until the next season, but ended up making it earlier than expected by stepping in to replace Felicity Lott who had become ill. She returned to the Met later that year to sing Rosina in the world premiere of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles.

James Hinton, Jr. ( Opera magazine ) described her work in the 1954 Met Barbiere di Sivilgia in terms which praised her characterisation of Rosina as achieved by a curious means: "... she — almost literally – does nothing at all that is in the conventional sense ' effective '.

In 1959, Berganza made her first appearances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, which became one of her signature roles.

In 1968, Gruberová made her operatic debut in Bratislava as Rosina in The Barber of Seville.

She performed the part of Rosina in the Barber of Seville for her graduation exam.

In that same year she left Zurich to fulfill her contract at the Vienna State Opera debuting in the role of Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and remained with the company for 2 years.

She made her debut at the age of sixteen, at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, as Rosina in The Barber of Seville, which would become her best-known role.

Following her debut, de Hidalgo was quickly engaged for Paris, where she sang Rosina opposite Feodor Chaliapin as Don Basilio.

In 1916, she made her debut at La Scala, Milan, as Rosina, and returned there in 1921.

A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and her subsequent release a few weeks later.

Perhaps her particular starring role at this time was Rosina in The Barber of Seville.

Stan and Ollie, after consorting with Seymore " Sy " Roberts, an old prospector, have been entrusted to deliver the deed to a gold mine the prospector discovered to the man's daughter, Mary Roberts ( Rosina Lawrence ), a poor young woman living in Brushwood Gulch who is consistently victimized by her cruel guardians, saloon owner Mickey Finn ( James Finlayson ), and his equally-cruel saloon-singer wife, Lola Marcel ( Sharon Lynne ).

Back in Europe by the end of the First World War she was invited to Rome, where she started the Rossini revival that made her world-famous – as Angelina in La Cenerentola, Isabella in L ' italiana in Algeri and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, in the original keys.

Nicolaus's possessions were liquidated to help pay the debt, and his remaining family ( Anna Maria's mother and her older sister Maria Rosina, born 24 August 1719 ) lapsed into poverty.

In 1874, he then married her sister, Rosina Payson Jones ( d. 1924 ), a widow who had also been an actress under the name Rosina Ranoe.

In 1970 when Amazon was founded by Rosina Richter Christy and Julie Morse Quist, it was far from a full-fledged bookstore.

When the Kendals moved from the Court Theatre in Chelsea to the St. James's Theatre in the West End, Thomas went with them and remained in their company playing small roles until 1885, when he joined Rosina Vokes's company as its leading man on an American tour that lasted into the middle of 1886.

His writing and political work strained their marriage while his unfaithfulness embittered Rosina ; in 1833 they separated acrimoniously and in 1836 the separation became legal.

When her teacher became ill, a family friend suggested that she continue her studies with Josef Lhévinne, a talented student at the Moscow Imperial Conservatory, five years older than Rosina.

Joining Rosina Vokes's theatrical company in 1885, he went on tour in the provinces and in America.

The role of Rosina, although written for a coloratura contralto and most frequently sung by a coloratura mezzo-soprano, has, in the past and occasionally in more recent times, been sung in transposition by coloratura sopranos such as Marcella Sembrich, Maria Callas, Roberta Peters, Gianna D ' Angelo, Victoria de los Ángeles, Beverly Sills, Lily Pons, Diana Damrau, Kathleen Battle and Luciana Serra.

Contraltos sometimes are assigned feminine roles like Angelina in La Cenerentola, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Olga in Eugene Onegin, but more frequently they play female villains or assume trouser roles originally written for castrati.

Prior to the Madame X scandal of 1884, Sargent had painted exotic beauties such as Rosina Ferrara of Capri, and the Spanish expatriate model Carmela Bertagna, but the earlier pictures had not been intended for broad public reception.

Sargent is known for his series of portraits featuring local model Rosina Ferrara.

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Barrett was born in Ynyshir, Rhondda to Rosina and Donald Booth, a retired coalminer, and went to Porth County School for Girls.

Recoba scored his first goal for the club in the second match of the season, a 1 – 1 draw with Palermo, after a good combination between himself and Alessandro Rosina .< ref >

The film includes two famous songs, firstly " Trail Of The Lonesome Pine " sung by Laurel and Hardy except for a few lines by Chill Wills and Rosina Lawrence, lip-synched for comedic effect by Laurel.

Just prior to her death in 1976, Robert K. Wallace published a book about the Lhévinnes entitled A Century of Music-Making: The Lives of Josef and Rosina Lhévinne, for which she was extensively interviewed.

Sarah Hallowell and Bertha Palmer had commissioned two large murals Primitive Women and Modern Women from Mary Fairchild Macmonnies and Mary Cassatt respectively, for each end of the Women's Building, but Wheeler complemented these large works with smaller murals by her daughter, Dora Wheeler Keith, Rosina Emmet Sherwood and Lydia Field Emmett as well as two by Amanda Brewster Sewell and Lucia Fairchild.

She treated him as, a year or so before, she had treated his elder sister Rosina, as she would likewise treat, in three years ’ time, his younger brother, Leonidas, all with the best results.

By this time his taste was gradually settling on the period with which it has since become almost exclusively associated ; and the spirit of the 18th century was revived in " The Ballad of Beau Brocade " and in " The Story of Rosina ", as nowhere else in modern English poetry.