a `` Double-Figure '', which went to the Chicago Art Institute, and is considered by him the most successful of his abstracts ; ;

nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.

For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.

In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.

For example, even the most successful executive lives in a two-room apartment while ordinary people rent space in the stairwells of office buildings in which to sleep at night ; ;

That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career.

Moreover, the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature.

The Thrift Shop, with Mrs. Bernhard S. Blumenthal as president, is one of the city's most successful fund-raisers for the Federation of Jewish Agencies.

Highly successful in England before its transfer to New York, most of `` Roots '' is as relentlessly dour as the trappings of the small new theater are gaudy.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

The most successful of these patent anchors, the Trotman Anchor, introduced a pivot where the arms join the shank, allowing the " idle " arm to fold against the shank.

The experimental community was never successful, partly because most of the land was not arable.

In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.

From an artistic point of view, he was most successful in portrait-statues and groups of children, where he was obliged to follow nature most closely.

Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.

Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.

Future suicide hijackers most likely will encounter greater resistance from passengers and flight crews, making another successful hijacking more unlikely.

The most successful Zeppelin was the Graf Zeppelin.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life.

This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

In 2003, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli released The Salieri Album, a CD with 13 arias from Salieri's operas, most of which had never been recorded before.

Opera or other vocal music was the feature of most musical events, with concertos and " symphonies " ( arising from the overture ) serving as instrumental interludes and introductions for operas and church services.

During this decade Mozart composed his most famous operas, his six late symphonies which helped to redefine the genre, and a string of piano concerti which still stand at the pinnacle of these forms.

Between 1810 and 1813 at Bologna, Rome, Venice and Milan, Rossini produced operas of varying success, most notably La pietra del paragone and Il signor Bruschino, with its brilliant and unique overture.

Moreover, four of his best known overtures ( La cambiale di matrimonio, Tancredi, La Cenerentola and The Barber of Seville ) share operas apart from those with which they are most famously associated.

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

The latter was based on Alexandre Dumas, fils ' play The Lady of the Camellias, and became the most popular of all Verdi's operas, placing first in the Operabase list of most performed operas worldwide.

Today, these latter two operas are most often performed in their revised Italian versions.

Some feel that although masterfully orchestrated, it lacks the melodic lustre so characteristic of Verdi's earlier, great, operas, while many critics consider it Verdi's greatest tragic opera, containing some of his most beautiful, expressive music and some of his richest characterizations.

The most critically divisive pieces in Adams's collection are his historical operas.

Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his " reform " operas in the 1760s.

Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute, a landmark in the German tradition.

In the early 1850s, Verdi produced his three most popular operas: Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata.

Yet many of the major German composers of the time, including Handel himself, as well as Graun, Hasse and later Gluck, chose to write most of their operas in foreign languages, especially Italian.

Antonín Dvořák, most famous for Rusalka, wrote 13 operas ; and Leoš Janáček gained international recognition in the 20th century for his innovative works including Jenůfa, The Cunning Little Vixen, and Káťa Kabanová.

Among his most often performed operas are Hunyadi László and Bánk bán.

Although none of the major opera houses "... use traditional, Broadway-style sound reinforcement, in which most if not all singers are equipped with radio microphones mixed to a series of unsightly loudspeakers scattered throughout the theatre ", many use a sound reinforcement system for acoustic enhancement, and for subtle boosting of offstage voices, child singers, onstage dialogue, and sound effects ( e. g., church bells in Tosca or thunder effects in Wagnerian operas ).

* StageAgent – synopses & character descriptions for most major operas