She tackled a more disturbing subject in her book Witness.

She tackled the role of her namesake, Joan of Arc, in a 1954 stage production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, but she left the play after a nervous breakdown and battles with director Harold Clurman.

She later described how Butler tackled the sanitation issues.

She never tackled ' Siegfried ' or ' Götterdämmerung ' Brünnhilde, as she recalls in Rasponi's The Last Primadonnas.

She tackled previews with the aid of a crutch.

She also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel where she tackled Ryan Seacrest, The Steve Harvey Show The Wayne Brady Show, CBS Early Show, David Letterman and many more.

She also lent a hand in helping her son to follow his heart when he tackled if he would propose to Gwen Hotchkiss or Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

She looked more like twenty-five or six.

She passed the entrance examinations to the University of Illinois, but during the year at Urbana felt more important events transpired at the University of Chicago.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

She is more like her full brother, Taraday Hanover, but larger.

She would have been taking more than a fair risk of being seen and recognized during her travels.

She named 48 items, and said there were `` many more things which it would take too long to write ''.

She urged the importance of more thorough preparation for admission.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

She wanted to make a more equitable distribution of it among the groups that would benefit the most ; ;

She found herself wishing an old wish, that she had told Doaty she was running away, that she had left something more behind her than the loving, sorry note and her best garnet pin.

She stood, once more listening.

She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.

She was even more miserable than me.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

She appears briefly in Disney's Hercules, but has a more dominant role in the television series.

She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.

She supported the argument that the death penalty would have deterrent value, as within five years of its abolition the national murder rate had more than doubled.

She has donated more than $ 140, 000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300, 000.

She did not believe in the theory of symbiosis proposed by Simon Schwendener, the German mycologist as previously thought, rather she proposed a more independent process of reproduction.

She subsequently withdrew it realising that some of her samples were contaminated, but continued her microscopic studies for several more years.

She herself died in 1558, and in 1559 Elizabeth I reintroduced the 1552 book with a few modifications to make it acceptable to more traditionally minded worshippers, notably the inclusion of the words of administration from the 1549 Communion Service alongside those of 1552.

She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini.

She has sung a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.

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.

3 / 5 " Serenade " ( Janáček Quartet ); Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings ( soloist Peter Pears, Dennis Brain ; Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten ); Henry Purcell, " When I am laid in earth " (" Dido's Lament "), from Dido and Aeneas ( soloist Victoria de los Ángeles ; English Chamber Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli ); Joseph Haydn, " She never told her love " ( Canzonetta ) ( soloist Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten )-picked as Grigson's favourite ; Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D major ( Tátrai Quartet ); Georges Bizet, Jeux d ' enfants ( Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon ); Benjamin Britten, " Death be not proud " ( from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne ), soloist Peter Pears, Zorian String Quartet, conductor Benjamin Britten ; Giuseppe Verdi, " Va, pensiero, sull ' ali dorate " ( Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco ( La Scala Chorus and Orchestra ).

She concentrated on four composers-Mozart, Richard Strauss, Verdi, Puccini.

She sang Herodias again just a month later at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi and also gave a lauded performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, accompanied by Charles Wadsworth at the Teatro Caio Melisso that summer.

She has also performed the Verdi Requiem with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as well as with Helmuth Rilling at the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn.

She performed the bel canto roles of Bellini, Gioacchino Rossini, Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Vivaldi, Mercadante, etc.

She went on to achieve international fame in a repertoire which also embraced the great dramatic Verdi roles including Abigaile in Nabucco, Lady Macbeth, Leonora in Il trovatore, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, and Elena in I vespri siciliani.

She also claims to have studied singing under Verdi.

She also appeared that year in Luisa Miller by Verdi at the Opéra National de Lyon.

She is best known for her performances of the Italian spinto repertoire and in particular her portrayals of Verdi and Puccini heroines.

She immediately became a favorite singer at that house portraying mostly Verdi heroines and the Met became her principal home from that point up until 1978.

She returned to both companies a number of times during the 1970s as Verdi heroines and in parts like the title roles in Puccini's Tosca and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.

She remained very busy in the world's major opera houses through 1979 singing mostly Verdi, Puccini, and Strauss heroines and other roles from the lirico-spinto repertoire.

She left when it was clear that the Met director Rudolf Bing did not appreciate her, and went on to become a mainstay of the world's other great opera houses, especially in Germany, in Wagner and Strauss but also several Verdi and other roles.