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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
