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    narrates. King Pedro, being apprised of the fervent love borne him by Lisa Puccini, who thereof is sick, comforts her, and forthwith gives her in marriage...
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    rarefied courtly and knightly context in the Decameron: the tale of Lisa Puccini's love for King Peter of Raona (Aragon). Her family initially experienced...
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  • Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis) CD Philips 00289 475 7567 Puccini: Suor Angelica (Joan Sutherland, Christa Ludwig, Anne Collins, Isobel Buchanan...
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    La bohème (category Operas by Giacomo Puccini)
    boh-EM, Italian: [la boˈɛm]) is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe...
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    (Shepherd), Tannhäuser (Wagner) Lisa, Gräfin Mariza (Kálmán) Lisa, The Grand Duke (Gilbert and Sullivan) Lisette, La rondine (Puccini) Marie, Der Waffenschmied...
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    included Margarete Haeser. She made her operatic debut in the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Solothurn-Biel Municipal Theater in 1940. She joined...
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    City Opera, singing in Puccini's La bohème (Mimi and Musetta), Leoncavallo's Pagliacci (Nedda), Verdi's Il trovatore, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Tchaikovsky's...
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    Lisa Hunt is an American Byron Bay-based soul singer. Hunt rose to fame in Italy as an associated act and backup singer of Zucchero Fornaciari, touring...
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  • Giacomo Puccini; performed by Peter Dvorský "The Loveliest Night of the Year" – performed by Mario Lanza "Sono Andati" from La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini; performed...
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  • Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. The film is a reworking of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, in which the tragic heroine is obsessed with an...
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  • Jonathan Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished...
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    lirico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles. Born in Burgas, Bulgaria, she...
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  • who originated the concept of the rock opera Rent, which was based on Puccini's opera La bohème. He attended Lower Merion High School, Princeton University...
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    Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore. Freni is associated with the role of Mimì in Puccini's La bohème, which featured in her repertoire from 1957 to 1999 and which...
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  • which won two Grammy Awards. His first role in Germany was Des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Oper Frankfurt. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Guerrero...
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  • 1980s and early 1990s. She particularly excelled in the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Among her signature roles were Tatyana in Pyotr Ilyich...
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  • by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs, The Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and by a Bob Harrington Backstage Bistro Award. In recognition...
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    Dweezil Zappa (category Lisa Loeb)
    Nice Guy album) 1997 – Guitar on the song "Quando M'en Vo" from Giacomo Puccini, in the musical project "Angelica" 2000 – Guitar on Dixie Dregs's California...
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  • Jacqueline Lisa Dark (also Jacqueline Moran; 1967 or 1968 – 3 October 2023) was an Australian operatic mezzo-soprano who appeared mainly with Australian...
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov) La Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart) Liù (Turandot, Puccini) Lisa (Picque Dame, Tchaikovsky) Fevronia (The Legend of the Invisible City...
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    Magda in Puccini's La rondine Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly Mimi in Puccini's La bohème Liu in Puccini's Turandot Lauretta in Puccini's Gianni...
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    Suor Angelica and Manon Lescaut, Liu in Turandot (Puccini), the title role in Rusalka (Dvorak), Lisa in Pique Dame, Tatiana in Yevgeni Onegin (Tchaikovsky)...
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  • recording, and the sequel, Love Never Dies. In 1987, the heirs of Giacomo Puccini charged in a lawsuit that a recurring two-bar passage in "Music of the...
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  • David Raksin, was inspired by a sequence in the first act love duet from Puccini's opera Tosca, beginning with Cavaradossi singing "Quale occhio al mondo...
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    Lisa Roma (1892–1965) was an American soprano who toured in the United States with composer Maurice Ravel in 1928. She was chair of grand opera in the...
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    Wooden Shoes", intending to adapt it for an opera. His friend Giacomo Puccini became interested in the story and began a court action, claiming that...
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    Bartoletti. Reprised at: Venice – Basilica Di San Giorgio Maggiore. Turandot (Puccini) – Florence – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Boboli Gardens. Role: Liú. Cast:...
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  • her portrayals of heroines from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini. She is living in Belgrade, Serbia for more than 25 year now. Smiljanić...
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    Beckerman, Hannah (21 September 2015). "Jojo Moyes: 'I'd like to be the Puccini of fiction'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 November 2017...
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    given solo sets in the concerts, singing "Nessun dorma" from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot. Bocelli signed with the Sugar Music label in Milan after...
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