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| (1860-1904)short stories author and playwright Th Cherry Orchard,Three Sisters, The segaull |
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| (1821-1884) Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment |
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| (1899-1977) wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita |
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| (1890-1960) was not permitterd by USSR to accept the Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago |
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| (1799-1837) the greatest poet,novelist, Evgenij Onegin |
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| (born 1918) Nobel Prize of Literature THough his writings he made the world awareGulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system - particularly The Gulag and Archpelago One day in the Life of Irvan Denisovich, his two best-known works. He was awrded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970 |
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| Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
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| (1828-1910) War and Peace, Anna Karenina |
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| (Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Ghislanzoni 1871) an ethiopian princess who is held captive in Eygept SHe falls in love with Egyptian general Radames and convinces him to run away with her; unfortunaly , he is caught by the high priest Ramphis and a jealous Egyptian princess Amneris. Radames is buried alive, but finds that she has snuck into the tomb to join him. COmissioned to commemorate the opening of the suez canal but it was finished late |
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| (Georges Bizet, Henri Melhac and Ludvic Halevy,1875) Young Gypsy who works in a cigarett factory in seville. she is arrested by the corporal Don Jose for fighting, but cajoles him into letting her escape. They meet again at an inn where she tempts him into challenging his captian; that treason forces him to join a group of smugglers. in the final act, the ragtag former older encounters her at a bull fight where her lover Escamillo is competing and stabs her. The libretto was based on a novel of prosper Merimee |
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| (Mozart,LOrenze Da Ponte,1786)Figaro & Susanna are servants of count Almaviva who plan to marry, but this plan is coplicated by the older Marcellina who wants to wed Figaro, the Count who has made unwanted advances to Susanna, and Don Bratolo who has a loan that Figaro has sworn he will repay before he marries. The issues are resolved with a series complicated schemes that involve impersonateing other characters includeing the page Cherubino. |
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| (Rossini,Sterbini,1816) Count Almaviva loves Rosina, the ward of Dr. Baratolo. Figaro promises to help him win the the girl. He tries the guise of the poor student Lindoro, a drunken soldier, and then a replacement music teacher. all of which are penetrated by Dr Bartolo. Eventually the succeded by climbing in with a ladder and briding the notary who was to marry Rosina to Dr. Bartolo himself. This opera is also based on a work of pierre de Beaumarchais and is a prequel to THe marriage of Figaro. |
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| (Rossini,1829) a 14th century Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austria's domination of his country. In the first act he helps Leuthold,a fugitive, escape the Austrian govener, Gessler. In the third act, gessler has placed his hat on a poll and orderd the men to bow to it. when Tell refuses, gessler takes his son, jemmy, and forces tell to shoot an apple off his son's head. tell succeds but is aressted |
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