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Leonara Di Alberti
Leonora or Leonara may refer to: People *Leonora (given name), a feminine given name *Leonora of Castile (other) *Leonora of England (1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile *Leonora (singer) (born 1998), Danish singer representing her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 *John Leonora (1928–2006), research scientist, Loma Linda University Places *Leonora, Guyana *Leonora, Western Australia *Shire of Leonora, a local government area of Western Australia Arts and entertainment *''Leonora'' (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera ''Fidelio'', in which the heroine is named Leonora (or ''Leonore'' in German) *''Leonora'' (opera) by William Henry Fry (the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845) *Leonora (opera), ''Leonora'' (opera), the 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer based on the same source as the work by Beethoven *Leonora, heroine of the opera ''Il trovatore'', the 1853 ...
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Leonora (given Name)
Leonora is a feminine given name which is a variation of Eleanor. It was relatively common in the 19th century in Western countries, ranking as the 314th most popular female given name in the United States in 1880. The name has declined in popularity but remains in use. Sixty-four newborn American girls were given the name in 2020. People * Leonara Elizabeth Grant (1931–2016), New Zealand actress, known as Lee Grant * Leonora Baroni, seventeenth century musician and composer * Leonora Braham, English opera singer and actress * Leonora Carrington, Mexican surrealist painter * Leonora Christina (other), Danish princess * Leonora Duarte, Flemish musician and composer * Leonora Beck Ellis (1862-1951), American educator, author, poet, social reformer *Leonora Hornblow (1920–2005), American novelist, children's writer and socialite * Leonora Jakupi, singer from Kosovo * Leonora Jiménez, former Miss Asia Pacific International *Leonora King, Canadian physician * Leonora Je ...
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La Forza Del Destino
' (; ''The Power of Fate'', often translated ''The Force of Destiny'') is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, ' (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's '' Wallensteins Lager'' (''Wallenstein's Camp''). It was first performed in the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 29 November 1862 O.S. (N.S. 10 November). ' is frequently performed, and there have been a number of complete recordings. In addition, the overture (to the revised version of the opera) is part of the standard repertoire for orchestras, often played as the opening piece at concerts. Performance history Revisions After its premiere in Russia, ''La forza'' underwent some revisions and made its debut abroad with performances in Rome in 1863 under the title ''Don Alvaro''. Performances followed in Madrid (with the Duke of Rivas, the play's author, in attend ...
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696 Leonora
696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observatory United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense. Established in 1830 as the Depo ..., who computed the orbit for the planet, after his wife, Mary Leonora Snow. References External links Lightcurve plot of 696 Leonora Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2005) Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) query form) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Google books – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend – Minor Planet Center * * Meliboea asteroids Leonora Leonora XC-type asteroids (Tholen) 19100110 {{beltasteroid-stub ...
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Joseph Andrews
''The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams'', was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. Inspirations The novel embodies a fusion of two competing aesthetics of 18th-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical (and, by extension, aristocratic) approach of Augustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, and the popular, domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson. The novel draws on various inspirations. Written "in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, the author of ''Don Quixote''" (see title page on right), the work owes much of its humour to the techniques developed by Ce ...
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. The sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day. Born into a modest but upwardly mobile family in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, Bennett was intended by his father, a solicitor, to follow him into the legal profession. Bennett worked for his father, before moving to another law firm in London as a clerk, aged 21. He became assistant editor and then editor of a women's magazine, before becoming a ful ...
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Leonora (Arnold Bennett Novel)
Leonora or Leonara may refer to: People *Leonora (given name), a feminine given name * Leonora of Castile (other) *Leonora of England (1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile *Leonora (singer) (born 1998), Danish singer representing her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 * John Leonora (1928–2006), research scientist, Loma Linda University Places *Leonora, Guyana * Leonora, Western Australia *Shire of Leonora, a local government area of Western Australia Arts and entertainment *''Leonora'' (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera ''Fidelio'', in which the heroine is named Leonora (or ''Leonore'' in German) *''Leonora'' (opera) by William Henry Fry (the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845) * ''Leonora'' (opera), the 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer based on the same source as the work by Beethoven *Leonora, heroine of the opera ''Il trovatore'', the 1853 opera by Gius ...
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Hazel Holt
Hazel Holt (nee Young, 3 September 1928 – 23 November 2015) was a British novelist. She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, England, and then Newnham College, Cambridge. She went on to work at the International African Institute in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym, whose biography she later wrote. She also finished one of Pym's novels after Pym died. Holt has published ''My Dear Charlotte'', a story that uses the actual language of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra to construct a Regency murder mystery. Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties, and was a leading crime novelist. She is best known for her Sheila Malory series. She was also a regular contributor to ''The Stage'' for some years.'''' She married Geoffrey Louis Holt (1924-2010) in 1951; their son is novelist Tom Holt Thomas Charles Louis Holt (born 13 September 1961) is a British novelist. In addition to fiction published under his own ...
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Leonora (Hazel Holt Novel)
Leonora or Leonara may refer to: People *Leonora (given name), a feminine given name * Leonora of Castile (other) *Leonora of England (1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile *Leonora (singer) (born 1998), Danish singer representing her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 * John Leonora (1928–2006), research scientist, Loma Linda University Places *Leonora, Guyana * Leonora, Western Australia *Shire of Leonora, a local government area of Western Australia Arts and entertainment *''Leonora'' (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera ''Fidelio'', in which the heroine is named Leonora (or ''Leonore'' in German) *''Leonora'' (opera) by William Henry Fry (the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845) * ''Leonora'' (opera), the 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer based on the same source as the work by Beethoven *Leonora, heroine of the opera ''Il trovatore'', the 1853 opera by Gius ...
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Leonora (film)
''Leonora'' is a 1985 Australian sex film about a couple who have an open marriage Open marriage is a form of non-monogamy in which the partners of a dyadic marriage agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without this being regarded by them as infidelity, and consider or establish an open relatio ....David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990, p. 137 Plot Ex motor ace Simon Erickson pushes his wife Leonara into an open marriage. She has an affair with Mark Trainer. Release The movie was not released theatrically and went straight to video.Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford University Press, 1996 p. 99 References External links * * 1985 films Australian erotic thriller films 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ...
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Leonora (novel)
''Leonora'' is a novel written by Maria Edgeworth and published in 1806. Although Edgeworth is known for having her novels (''Castle Rackrent'', ''The Absentee'') address issues of nationalism in an Anglo-Irish context, ''Leonora'' instead privileges English manners over French ones. The plot of the novel centres on the newly married Leonora and her decision to bring back to England a woman who had been exiled to France. The woman, Olivia, is known as a "coquette," and her controversial behaviour with regard to her marriage had driven her to France, where she cultivated an aristocratic, "French" sensibility that exists apart from conventional morality. The novel is written in an epistolary style, which means all of the action is mediated through personal letters and the letter-writers' points-of-view. By having the main characters tell the story through their own perspectives, the reader gets to read full articulations of competing sensibilities and philosophies, although the ...
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Lenore (ballad)
"Lenore", sometimes translated as "Leonora", "Leonore" or "Ellenore", is a poem written by German author Gottfried August Bürger in 1773, and published in 1774 in the ''Göttinger Musenalmanach''. "Lenore" is generally characterised as being part of the 18th-century Gothic ballads, and although the character that returns from its grave in the poem is not considered to be a vampire, the poem has been very influential on vampire literature. William Taylor, who published the first English translation of the ballad, would later claim that "no German poem has been so repeatedly translated into English as 'Ellenore. Background In the 18th century there were more than eighteen hundred different German-speaking political entities in Central Europe. During this period, due to influences from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Latin and French dominated over the German language, and German literature had mostly been modelled after French and Italian literature. These factors led fe ...
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Il Trovatore
''Il trovatore'' ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''El trovador'' (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was García Gutiérrez's most successful play, one which Verdi scholar Julian Budden describes as "a high flown, sprawling melodrama flamboyantly defiant of the Aristotelian unities, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incident." The premiere took place at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 19 January 1853, where it "began a victorious march throughout the operatic world," a success due to Verdi's work over the previous three years. It began with his January 1850 approach to Cammarano with the idea of ''Il trovatore''. There followed, slowly and with interruptions, the preparation of the libretto, first by Cammarano until his death in mid-1852 and then with the young librettist Leone Emanuele Bardare, which gave the composer the opportunity to propose signifi ...
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