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569:Joseph Ward
561:Ruth Packer
530:Harold Gray
502:Heddle Nash
478:Cio-Cio-San
476:, who sang
470:Parry Jones
462:World War I
330:prima donna
244:Joseph Maas
240:Alice Barth
236:Fanny Moody
228:Minnie Hauk
156:Rose Hersee
102:Early years
1335:Categories
1324:The Mikado
1311:The Mikado
990:0413697401
825:Adams 1904
673:References
520:(1942–44)
474:Eva Turner
448:Tannhäuser
301:Tannhäuser
232:Alice Esty
130:Manchester
60:Background
1271:143835503
1160:Carl Rosa
1104:The Times
1080:The Times
1068:The Times
1056:The Times
1044:The Times
1002:The Times
658:La bohème
653:operettas
435:La bohème
406:Satanella
382:in 1887 (
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307:La bohème
295:Lohengrin
260:Cherubini
185:Donizetti
112:Entr'acte
75:Carl Rosa
45:Carl Rosa
34:Carl Rosa
1297:Archived
1205:(1969).
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1143:Archived
931:Archived
809:Archived
739:Archived
645:West End
482:Santuzza
412:(1860).
402:Maritana
310:(1897).
298:(1880);
292:(1879);
268:(1875);
125:Maritana
1322:Rosa's
1181:Sources
583:Berlioz
573:Puccini
430:Puccini
410:Lurline
379:Nordisa
376:), and
358:Colomba
339:Pauline
175:at the
150:, with
134:Glasgow
83:Leipzig
79:Hamburg
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472:, and
289:Rienzi
275:Carmen
160:Wagner
142:Mozart
114:, 1887
1267:S2CID
1259:JSTOR
1246:Tempo
1215:81272
678:Notes
1211:OCLC
986:ISBN
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