Opera Characters
In various versions of "Othello", she's smothered, strangled or stabbed to death.
Desdemona
Ophelia
Seraphina
Desdemona
The School of Fontainebleau is named for one of these built by Francis I in the 1530s.
Fountain
Palace
Manor
Palace
A woman facing the guillotine, 1793:
"Farewell, my children, I go to rejoin your father".
Charlotte Corday
Madame du Barry
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
Goat Island splits Niagara Falls into the American Falls & this waterfall on the Canadian side.
Horseshoe Falls
Montmorency Falls
Howick Falls
Horseshoe Falls
This detective was 18 when she began her career in "The Secret of the Old Clock", so she's 98 in 2010.
Trixie Belden
Nancy Drew
Cherry Ames
Nancy Drew
Yum-Yum, who is due to marry Ko-Ko, falls in love with the minstrel Nanki-Poo in this operetta.
The Gondoliers
Ruddigore
The Mikado
The Mikado
"First Steps" is by Jozef Israels of this country's traditionalist Hague School.
the Netherlands
Denmark
Luxembourg
the Netherlands
A composer, 1827:
"I shall hear in heaven".
Mahler
Beethoven
Brahms
Beethoven
In 1846 Neptune was discovered in this constellation, the 10th sign of the zodiac.
Taurus
Virgo
Capricorn
Capricorn
In this Dashiell Hammett novel, Effie Perine describes her boss' client by saying, "She's a knockout".
The Maltese Falcon
Red Harvest
The Glass Key
The Maltese Falcon
A one-act opera based on an episode in "Great Expectations" is called this woman's "Wedding night".
Mrs. Joe Gargery
Miss Havisham
Bertha Mason
Miss Havisham
The Stroganov School in Russia specialized in these exquisite artworks for private devotions.
Faberge Eggs
Hardstone Carvings
Icon Paintings
Icon Paintings
A Mexican bandito, 1923:
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something".
Emiliano Zapata
Alvaro Obregon
Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa
In "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Pierre Gringoire rescues this gypsy girl's goat from a mob.
Christine
Eponine
Esmeralda
Esmeralda
This Agatha Christie spinster first appeared in print in the 1926 short story "The Tuesday Night Club".
Miss Silver
Mrs. Pollifax
Miss Marple
Miss Marple
This widower & hunchback is the court jester to the Duke of Mantua.
La Traviata
Otello
Rigoletto
Rigoletto
While part of the Avignon School, Simone Martini met this poet & painted a portrait of his beloved Laura.
Alighieri
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Petrarch
An Irish writer, 1900:
"My wallpaper & I are fighting a duel to the death. One... of us has to go".
George Bernard Shaw
Bram Stoker
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
The backward-curving horns of the Siberian species of this goat may be nearly 5 feet long.
Ibex
Mouflon
Chamois
Ibex
Inspector Kurt Wallander solves mysteries in this country, homeland of his creator Henning Mankell.
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Characters in this John Adams opera include Chou En-lai, Chairman Mao & Henry Kissinger.
Doctor Atomic
Nixon in China
Powder Her Face
Nixon in China
The school named for this big city began in the 1940s & mutated into Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, etc.
London
New York City
Tokyo
New York City
An admiral, 1805:
"Thank God, I have done my duty".
Chester Nimitz
Michiel de Ruyter
Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson
Crippled beggar Sammy Smalls, who traveled in a goat cart, inspired a title character of this opera set on Catfish Row.
Regina
Porgy and Bess
Carmen Jones
Porgy and Bess
This John D. MacDonald shamus living in the Fort Lauderdale Marina considers himself to be a "salvage consultant".
Travis McGee
Dave Robicheaux
Harry Bosch
Travis McGee