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Laheys Tramway or Canungra Pine Creek Tramway was a private timber railway in South East Queensland, Australia. It connected at Canungra on the Canungra line and consisted of a miles ( km) 'main line' to Upper Coomera and two branches. [2] Its tunnel was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 April 2005.
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of ...
Performed. 22 May 1911. ( 1911-05-22) Scoring. soprano. 2 altos. choir. orchestra. Le Martyre de saint Sébastien is a five-act musical mystery play on the subject of Saint Sebastian, with a text written in 1911 by the Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio and incidental music by the French composer Claude Debussy (L.124).
24 May 1899. ( 1899-05-24) Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris. Cendrillon ( Cinderella) is an opera —described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn based on Perrault 's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale. It had its premiere performance on 24 May 1899 in Paris .
Not much is known of Massanet's early life, but he is trusted to have been born in Majorca. After traveling to New Spain, Massanet was one of the Franciscan priests who founded the College of Santa Cruz in what is present day Querétaro, Mexico, in 1683. He would later establish Mission San Bernardino de la Caldera near the Coahuila – Nuevo ...
Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 14,125 islands, with the five main islands being Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto .
Grisélidis. Grisélidis is an opera (described as a ' conte lyrique ') in three acts and a prologue by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand. It is based on the play by the same authors first performed at the Comédie-Française on 15 May 1891, which is drawn from the medieval tale of 'patient Grissil'. [1]
Manon. Manon ( French pronunciation: [manɔ̃]) is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets ...