Opera has been present in Cuba since the latest part of the 18th century, when the first full-fledged theater, called Coliseo, was built. Since then to...
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The first theatre in Havana opened in 1776. The first Cuban-composed opera appeared in 1807. Theatrical music was hugely important in the 19th century...
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Opera in Latin America, Opera in Cuba e. g.). Among the main centres in Europe were the court operas based in Warsaw (since 1628), Munich (founded in...
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opera Albanian opera Opera in Azerbaijan Opera in Canada Opera in Cuba Opera in Latin America Opera in Scotland Opera in Venezuela Western opera in Chinese...
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(LGBTQ) rights in Cuba have significantly varied throughout modern history. Cuba is now considered progressive, with vast improvements in the 21st century...
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Cecilia Valdés (category Novels set in Cuba)
manners, love and revenge, in colonial Cuban society of the early 19th century. World premiere: Havana, Cuba 1932 Metropolitan Opera premiere: July 17, 1965...
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the Paris opera Ballet. Cuba has ballet schools across the country. The Cuban National Ballet School (Escuela Nacional Cubana de Ballet) in Havana, with...
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Odalys García (category Cuban soap opera actresses)
October 23, 1975) is a Cuban actress, model, singer and television presenter. García, born in Havana, Cuba, started by participating in dance demonstrations...
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Cuba was the first Latin American country to begin television testing in December 1946 when station CM-21P conducted an experimental multi-point live broadcast...
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Havana (redirect from Havana, Cuba)
Cristo Redentor in Rio de Janeiro. The Great Theatre of Havana: is an opera house famous particularly for the National Ballet of Cuba, it sometimes hosts...
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Ignacio Cervantes (category Cuban opera composers)
brought a lull in conflict. He returned in 1878 and left again in 1895 when the Cuban War of Independence started. Cervantes wrote one opera (Maledetto,...
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Holguín (redirect from Holguin, Cuba)
municipality-city in Cuba. After Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Camagüey, it is the fourth largest city in Cuba. Before Columbus, the Taino people settled in huts made...
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Tania León (category Cuban opera composers)
organizations. She was born Tania Justina León in Havana, Cuba, of mixed French, Spanish, Chinese, African, and Cuban heritage. It was her grandmother who recognized...
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Albisu Theatre (category Opera houses in Cuba)
a Spanish opera house and one of the main stages in Havana, Cuba. On December 17, 1870, Teatro Albisu opened its doors as a Spanish opera venue. The...
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Tacón Theatre (category Opera houses in Cuba)
and named after Miguel Tacón y Rosique, Governor of Cuba from 1834 to 1838. In 1847 Bottesini's opera Cristoforo Colombo premiered there. By 1855, so many...
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opera directed by Robert Wilson entitled Revolution of Forms (named after John Loomis' book) written by Charles Koppleman. In January 1961, the Cuban...
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Eva Tamargo (category American entertainers of Cuban descent)
free Cuba dies at 82: Agustin Tamargo..." The Miami Herald. Retrieved September 25, 2009. Weinraub, Bernard (March 22, 2004). "Love Fest for Soap Opera Fans...
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Gonzalo Roig (category Cuban opera composers)
zarzuela, Cecilia Valdés, a typical example of the Cuban lyric theatre. In 1938, he founded the National Opera in Havana, which he directed for a few years. He...
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María Remolá (category 20th-century Cuban women opera singers)
Arrieta's opera Marina. Remolá returned to Barcelona after decades of living in Cuba to spend time with her dying mother. She later settled in Santo Domingo...
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Alicia Alonso (category Cuban ballerinas)
– 17 October 2019) was a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer whose company became the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1955. She is best known for...
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Carlos Acosta (category British people of Cuban descent)
National Ballet of Cuba, Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. He was a permanent member of The Royal Ballet from 1998 to 2015. In 2003, he was promoted...
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Gaspar Villate (category Cuban opera composers)
9 October 1891) was a Cuban composer who produced abundant and wide-ranging work, mostly centered on opera. Villate was born in Havana. After writing...
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Marta Pérez (singer) (category 20th-century Cuban women opera singers)
August 1924 in Havana, Cuba - 19 August 2009 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban-American mezzo-soprano and the first Cuban woman to sing in Milan's famed...
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David Fumero (category American entertainers of Cuban descent)
Mike Sandoval on Power. David Fumero was born on December 29, 1972, in Havana, Cuba. He is a former United States Marine. On December 9, 2007, Fumero married...
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Chalía Herrera (category 19th-century Cuban women opera singers)
of Opera and Oratorio of Emilio Agramonte. Later on she studied violin with Laureano Fuentes Matons in Santiago de Cuba. In 1895 she appeared in the...
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Francesco Dominici (tenor) (category Italian emigrants to Cuba)
Dominici (1885, Havana, Cuba – 3 February 1968, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban Italian operatic tenor particularly admired for his acting in comedic roles. He made...
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Gran Teatro de La Habana (category Opera houses in Cuba)
Gran Teatro de La Habana is a theater in Havana, Cuba, home to the Cuban National Ballet. It was designed by the Belgian architect Paul Belau and built...
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Hannia Guillen (category Cuban soap opera actresses)
Hannia Guillen (born 1982 in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba) is a Cuban-American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Paloma Lopez-Fitzgerald on the...
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Fulgencio Batista (category 1940s in Cuba)
January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power...
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Karla Cossío (category Cuban emigrants to Mexico)
(Spanish pronunciation: [koˈsi.o]; born June 22, 1985, in Cuba) is a Mexican actress. Born in Cuba and brought to Mexico when she was only three months...
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