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    King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age...
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    Lear is an opera in two parts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King...
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  • Look up Lear, lear, or léar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up leir, leír, léir, or lèir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lear or Leir may...
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    Evelyn Shulman Lear (January 8, 1926 – July 1, 2012) was an American operatic soprano. Between 1959 and 1992, she appeared in more than forty operatic...
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    completed operas.    Revision of earlier opera, including translations with material musical changes. Re Lear (King Lear), 1856. Librettist Antonio Somma worked...
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  • A Thousand Acres (category Works based on King Lear)
    premiered as an opera by the Des Moines Metro Opera during their 2022 season. The novel is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on...
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  • Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (category Television soap opera parodies)
    the title character's name stated twice, is a reference to Lear's observation that soap opera dialogue tended to be repeated. In 2004 and 2007, Mary Hartman...
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  • starring Paul Scofield Lear (1978 opera), an opera by Aribert Reimann King Lear, a 1982 production of BBC Television Shakespeare King Lear (1983 film), a UK...
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  • Fernwood 2 Night (category Television series created by Norman Lear)
    program was created by Norman Lear and produced by Alan Thicke as a spin-off and summer replacement for Lear's satirical soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman...
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    Kuningas Lear (King Lear) is an opera in two acts by Aulis Sallinen, with a libretto by the composer, based on the play by William Shakespeare and premiered...
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  • All That Glitters (American TV series) (category Television series created by Norman Lear)
    series creator Norman Lear's attempt to duplicate his success with the syndicated soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Lear described the premise...
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    Vision of Lear is the first opera by Toshio Hosokawa which premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1998. The opera in two acts is an adaptation of Shakespeare's...
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  • works such as William Shakespeare's King Lear, James Goldman's The Lion in Winter and the 1980s soap opera Dynasty. Also in 2015, E! introduced The Royals...
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  • Olsen Lear (March 27, 1915 – December 5, 2001) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist who was the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear. Moya Marie...
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    Toshio Hosokawa (category Japanese opera composers)
    'becoming' that is animated in itself." Hosokawa's first opera, the Shakespeare adaptation Vision of Lear, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1998. It includes...
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    two in A), three trombones, ophicleide, timpani and strings. Le roi Lear (King Lear), Op. 4. Composed in Nice in 1831 during Berlioz's journey back to...
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    & Woodland Fungi Lear 2007, p. 125, p.482nn58 Lear 2007, pp. 30–1 Lear 2007, p. 95. She liked to memorise his plays by heart. Lear 2007, p. 35. Beatrix...
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    Lear (Italian pronunciation: [ˌre lˈli(ːa)r]; King Lear) is an Italian operatic libretto in four acts written by Antonio Somma for the Italian opera composer...
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    Timothy West (category English male soap opera actors)
    he played Gloucester in the BBC television production of King Lear, with Ian Holm as Lear. From 2001 to 2003, he played the grumpy and frequently volatile...
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    (Volksbühne Berlin and Odeon Theatre Paris) 2016: "Lear (opera)" directed by Calixto Bieito (Opera of Paris) "Volksbühne Berlin". www.volksbuehne-berlin...
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    Aribert Reimann (category German opera composers)
    accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
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  • for The History of King Lear, his 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, and for his libretto for Henry Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas. Nahum Tate...
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    appeared as the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear with The Porters of Hellsgate, alongside Larry Cedar as King Lear. In 2018, he appeared in a small but significant...
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    Richmond stage since 1856; often playing the title roles in tragedies like King Lear and Henry V. Together, the Booth brothers starred in several Shakespeare...
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    All in the Family (category Television series created by Norman Lear)
    British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, All in the Family was produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. It starred Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers...
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    of Newsweek, People, and Rolling Stone. In his biography, producer Norman Lear said that the casting of Lasser took less than a minute after Charles H....
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    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and in King Lear in 2007, playing the Fool to Ian McKellen's Lear, a performance which made use of McCoy's ability...
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  • This is the last opera that Rossini composed in Italy. 1825 La dame blanche (François-Adrien Boieldieu). Boieldieu's most successful opéra comique was one...
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    Henri Meilhac (category French opera librettists)
    Palais-Royal in 1856) 1868: Fanny Lear, comedy in 5 acts (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre du Gymnase, 13 August 1868: La Périchole, opéra bouffe in 2 acts (with Ludovic...
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    if he was not given more screen time, and Norman Lear let him out of his contract. Actor and opera singer Damon Evans (no relation to Michael) then took...
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