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La donna è mobile. " La donna è mobile " ( pronounced [la ˈdɔnna ˌɛ mˈmɔːbile]; "Woman is fickle") is the Duke of Mantua's canzone from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Rigoletto (1851). The canzone is famous as a showcase for tenors. Raffaele Mirate 's performance of the bravura aria at the opera's 1851 premiere was ...
Mehedinți County. / 44.63; 22.88. Mehedinți County ( Romanian pronunciation: [meheˈdint͡sʲ] ⓘ) is a county ( Romanian: județ) of Romania on the border with Serbia and Bulgaria. It is mostly located in the historical province of Oltenia, with one municipality ( Orșova) and three communes ( Dubova, Eșelnița, and Svinița) located in ...
The Mobila were a tribe of Native Americans that inhabited Mobile Bay and the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. It is believed they are descended from the inhabitants of the village of Mabila destroyed by Hernando De Soto in 1540.
Vodafone Romania S.A. is a Romanian mobile phone network operator. It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania.. Before acquisition by Vodafone, it was known as Connex, after which it was rebranded Connex-Vodafone and in April 2006, the Connex name was dropped, the operator being simply known as Vodafone Romania, aligning itself with the global Vodafone brand.
Manele (from Romanian, fem. sg. manea; pl. manele, the plural form being more common) is a genre of pop folk music from Romania . The manele can be divided into "classical manele" and "modern manele". The "classical manele" are a Turkish -derived genre performed by Romani musicians called lăutari in a lăutărească manner, [1] while the ...
La sonnambula. ("I did not believe you would fade so soon, oh flower"). La sonnambula ( Italian pronunciation: [la sonˈnambula]; The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime written by Eugène ...
Isaac and Émile Pereire. Émile Pereire (3 December 1800, Bordeaux - 5 January 1875, Paris) and his brother Isaac Pereire (25 November 1806, Bordeaux – 12 July 1880, Gretz-Armainvilliers) were major figures in the development of France's finance and infrastructure during the Second French Empire. [1] The Pereire brothers challenged the ...
Traditional Irish music. Form. Ballad. Language. Irish. Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile or Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile ( [ˈoːɾˠoː ʃeː d̪ˠə ˈvʲahə ˈwalʲə]) is a traditional Irish song that came to be known as a rebel song in the early twentieth century. Óró is a cheer, whilst sé do bheatha 'bhaile means "you are welcome home".