|
Zina Brozia
Zina Brozia born Ambrozine Baptiste (1876–1958) was a French operatic soprano who made her début at the Opéra Comique in 1905 and at the Opéra Garnier in 1908. Brozia also performed in Brussels, Parma and Boston. Biography Born on 29 June 1876 in Bourg-lès-Valence in south-eastern France, Ambrozine Baptiste was the daughter of Joseph Baptiste, a glazer, and Irma Chopin. (She later adopted the stage name of Zina Brozia, an anagram of Ambrozine.) She was the youngest of three sisters and one brother. She studied under the Romanian soprano Elena Theodorini. After an initial début as Marguerite in ''Faust'' at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels (1904–1905), on 13 September 1905, she made her Paris début at the Opéra Comique, playing Violetta in Verdi's ''La Traviata''. Still at the Opéra Comique, on 27 March 1906, she created the role of Séso in the première of Camille Erlanger's ''Aphrodite''. In 1907, she performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, first as Elena in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zina Brozias Thais
''Zināʾ'' () or ''zinā'' ( or ) is an Sharia, Islamic legal term referring to unlawful sexual intercourse. According to Fiqh, traditional jurisprudence, ''zina'' can include adultery, fornication, prostitution, rape, sodomy, incest, and bestiality. ''Zina'' must be proved by testimony of four Muslim eyewitnesses to the actual act of penetration, or a confession repeated four times and not retracted later. The offenders must have acted of their own free will. Rapists could be prosecuted under different legal categories which used normal evidentiary rules.A. Quraishi (1999), Her honour: an Islamic critique of the rape provisions in Pakistan's ordinance on ''zina'', ''Islamic studies'', Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 403–431 Making an accusation of ''zina'' without presenting the required eyewitnesses is called ''qadhf'' (), which is itself a ''hudud'' offense. There are very few recorded examples of the stoning penalty for ''zinā'' being implemented legally. Prior to legal reforms in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
