• Alceste may refer to: Alcestis (play), a 438 BC play by Euripides Alceste, a character in The Legend of Good Women by Chaucer Alceste, a character in...
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    Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. The libretto (in Italian) was written by Ranieri...
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    Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The French-language libretto is by Philippe...
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  • Alceste Madeira Almeida do Nascimento (22 March 1944 – 15 December 2021) was a Brazilian politician. A member of the Republicans, he served in the Chamber...
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  • of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alceste, after Alcestis, a character in Greek mythology: HMS Alceste (1793) was a 32-gun fifth rate captured from...
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    Alceste De Ambris (15 September 1874 – 9 December 1934) was an Italian journalist, socialist activist and syndicalist, considered one of the greatest...
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    Alceste is an opera in German in five acts by Anton Schweitzer with a libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland. It was commissioned by Abel Seyler for the...
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    HMS Alceste was built at Rochefort in 1804 for the French Navy as Minerve, an Armide-class frigate. In the spring of 1806, prior to her capture, she engaged...
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    differs from other farces of the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the flat caricatures of traditional social satire...
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    Alceste ("Alcides"; HWV 45, HG 46b, HHA I/30) is a masque, semi-opera or incidental music by George Frideric Handel (or Georg Friederich Händel in German)...
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    Alcestis (/ælˈsɛstɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκηστις, Álkēstis) or Alceste, was a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her husband. Her life story...
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    Alceste Campriani (11 February 1848 – 1933) was an Italian painter noted for his landscapes, especially of the Neapolitan countryside. He was born in...
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  • Bicycling with Molière (French: Alceste à bicyclette) is a 2013 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Philippe Le Guay. In January 2014, the...
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    Alceste was a Magicienne class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1780, that the British seized at the Siege of Toulon. They transferred her to the...
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  • Alceste Anastasie Hortense Cœuriot, also known under the stage name Madame Ismaël, (born 1823 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; died 1893 in Colombes, France)...
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    he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by Euripides.[citation needed] This treatise on Alceste initiated the Quarrel of the...
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    series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for...
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    1980 We, the Accused Paul Pressett Miniseries; 5 episodes The Misanthrope Alceste Television film 1981–2008 Horizon Narrator Television documentary 1982...
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    revolutionary syndicalists had announced their support of intervention, including Alceste De Ambris, Filippo Corridoni, and Angelo Oliviero Olivetti. The Italian...
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  • sansepolcrismo. The Manifesto was co-authored by national syndicalist Alceste de Ambris and the futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. “Italians! Here...
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  • Erebidae erected by George Hampson in 1926. Its only species, Micranthops alceste, was first described by Herbert Druce in 1890. It is only found in Panama...
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    when the frigate Boudeuse attacked and captured the Sardinian frigate Alceste off Fréjus on 8 June, but three days later Martin was forced to retreat...
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  • entry into World War I. It absorbed the Comitato sindacale italiano of Alceste De Ambris and the Unione Sindacale Milanese of Edmondo Rossoni. It was...
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  • 27, 2009). "Music Review: Collegiate Chorale: Onstage, an Alceste-Like Struggle (as Alceste)". The New York Times. Retrieved May 27, 2009. Stearns, D...
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    stage career, playing Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Peer in Peer Gynt, Alceste in The Misanthrope and Faust in Urfaust. In his company were Gunnar Björnstrand...
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    Coram Boy Otis Gardner Imperial Theatre, Broadway 2007 The Misanthrope Alceste New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway 2007 4 Beckett Shorts Performer...
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    founded in 1914 by Benito Mussolini, and active mainly in 1915. Sponsored by Alceste De Ambris, Mussolini, and Angelo Oliviero Olivetti, it was a pro-war movement...
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    of the Community Karsten Bernick National Theatre 2009 The Misanthrope Alceste Comedy Theatre 2015 American Buffalo Teach Wyndham's Theatre 2017 The Goat...
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    nel core" "Va tacito e nascosto" Incidental music The Alchemist Comus Alceste Oratorios Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno / Il trionfo del Tempo...
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    Sansepolcrismo, with the founding of the Italian Fasces of Combat. In 1919, Alceste De Ambris and futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti created...
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