* Kristian Alfonso, American soap opera actress.

* Another World ( TV series ), an American soap opera

* Alexandra Brooks DiMera, aka Lexie Carver, character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives

On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.

* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

He installed new irrigation works, introduced American cotton, and built a soap factory and an ice factory.

Category: American soap opera actors

Category: American soap opera actors

* Oil, the original title of the 1980s American soap opera Dynasty

* " The Phoenix ", an alias of Stefano DiMera, a villain on the American soap opera Days of our Lives

* Patch, a. k. a. Steve Johnson ( Days of our Lives ), fictional character on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives

An exception is soap operas which are either on all year round ( for example EastEnders and Coronation Street ), or are on for a season similar to the American system.

In 1976, Time magazine described American daytime television as " TV's richest market ," noting the loyalty of the soap opera fan base and the expansion of several half-hour series to a full hour in order to maximize ad revenues.

Along with game shows, reruns of situation comedies, and talk shows, the soap opera was traditionally a fixture in the American broadcast networks ' daytime schedules.

Helen Wagner played Hughes family matriarch Nancy Hughes on American soap As the World Turns from its April 2, 1956 debut through her death in May 2010.

American daytime soap operas feature stylistic elements that set them apart from other shows:

The soap opera's distinctive open plot structure and complex continuity was increasingly incorporated into American prime time television programs of the period.

Due to the economics of television production in Canada, relatively few daily soap operas have been produced on English Canadian television, with most Canadian stations that do air soap operas airing American or British ones.

In the 80s, German networks successfully added American daytime and primetime soap operas to their schedule before Das Erste introduced its first self-produced weekly soap with Lindenstraße, which was seen as a German counterpart to Coronation Street.

The Carol Burnett Show ( 1967 – 78 ) featured a recurring skit, " As the Stomach Turns ", that spoofed the American soap opera As the World Turns.

* 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.

) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* 1941 – Paul Plishka, American opera singer

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

* 1911 – Leonard Warren, American opera singer ( d. 1960 )

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

In 2010, American Idiot became the first punk rock opera to make it to Broadway where it has garnered two Tony Awards.

Category: American opera singers

* 1920 – Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano ( d. 2002 )

Some contemporaries also criticized the opera for failing to achieve an " American " tone.

* 1934 – Marilyn Horne, American opera singer

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, founded in 1970, offers one American contemporary opera production during its annual season consisting of either four or five productions.

* 1907 – Rose Bampton, American opera singer ( d. 2007 )

With over 16, 800 episodes, it is both the world's longest running radio soap and, since the cancellation of the American soap opera Guiding Light in September 2009, the world's longest running soap opera in any format.

The next platform – The Guiding Principles of Reform Judaism (" The Columbus Platform ") – was published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis ( CCAR ) in 1937.

In 2002, Collins returned to soap operas in a limited run on the American daytime soap Guiding Light.

The American Evaluation Association has created a set of Guiding Principles for evaluators.

* Michael O ' Leary ( actor ) ( born 1958 ), actor in the long-running American soap opera Guiding Light

* Guiding Light, an American soap opera

Phelps has been the executive producer of six American television daytime dramas, a record in this industry, including Santa Barbara ( 1987 – 1991 ), Guiding Light ( 1991 – 1995 ), Another World ( 1995 – 1996 ; resigned August 4, 1996 ), One Life to Live ( 1997 – 2001 ), General Hospital ( January 2001 – January 2012 ), and as of now, The Young and the Restless ( October 2012 – Present ).

General Hospital ( commonly abbreviated GH ) an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest-running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns.

Wendy Moniz ( born January 19, 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri, U. S .) is an American actress of Portuguese descent, best known for her role as Dinah Marler on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light ( 1995-1999, 2000, 2002 ) and primetime dramas Nash Bridges ( 2000-2001 ) and The Guardian ( 2001-2004 ).

* From the American television series Guiding Light

She is known for her roles as Meg Pryor in American Dreams, Daisy Lemay in Guiding Light, Kate Spencer in John Tucker Must Die, Naminé in the video game Kingdom Hearts II, Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray, Donna Keppel in Prom Night and Jenna Backstrom in the NBC legal drama Harry's Law.

Her mother, Lisa Loverde, was an American scriptwriter who once wrote for the TV soap opera, Guiding Light.

In 2004, American tire business giant Michelin gave Cidon their " Estrella de la Guia Michelin " award (" Michelin Guiding Star "), given by that company to Spain's top business achievers.

As a child performer, she also appeared in several American daytime television dramas, including a stint as the first " Robin Lang " on The Guiding Light from May 1956 to April 1958.

Jerry verDorn ( born November 23, 1949 ) is an American actor, best known for his role as Ross Marler on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light.

Newman is best known for his role as Joshua Lewis on the American soap opera Guiding Light, a role he played from 1981 to 1984, and again from 1986 to 1991, and 1993 to Guiding Light series finale in September 2009.

Michael D. Laibson is an American television producer and theatre director who is notable for producing soap operas such as As the World Turns ( 1986 – 1988 ), Another World ( AW ) ( 1988 – 1993 ), All My Children ( Senior Producer ) and Guiding Light ( 1995 – 1996 ).

Pamela K. Long ( born 1953 or 1954 ) is an American actress and writer, most known for her stints writing the CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light, from 1983 to 1986 and from 1987 to 1990.

The Golden Eagle ( 1916 – 1980 ) was originally the highest award achievable, but this was technically a Girl Guiding award and no American girl ever earned it.

Josh and Reva played by Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer Joshua " Josh " Lewis and Reva Shayne Lewis are fictional characters and the signature supercouple from the American CBS daytime drama Guiding Light.

Scrushy was interviewed by Mike Wallace for a 60 Minutes segment called " Cooking The Books ", began hosting a Christian television show with his wife called Viewpoint, backed a city-wide 40 day prayer movement referred to as " City, thou art loosed ", and joined the predominantly African American Guiding Light Church.