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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    & 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Timothy D. Stickney (category American male soap opera actors)
    2007, Timothy appeared as Oswald in the Public Theater's production of King Lear and also as Prince Escalus in their "Shakespeare in the Park" production...
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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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    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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    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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  • erotica genre novels. These novels are published under the pen name James Lear. A third name, Rupert James, is used for books aimed at a female audience...
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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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    1969 at the Nottingham Playhouse. Her early roles included Cordelia in King Lear, both in Nottingham and at The Old Vic. She made her Broadway debut in March...
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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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    1995, chamber opera) and King Lear (2000). Einojuhani Rautavaara was mostly devoted to symphonic music, but made a foray into opera with Apollo v. Marsyas...
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