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The Armourer of Nantes is an opera in three acts, with music by Michael William Balfe and libretto by J. V. Bridgman. The opera is based on Victor Hugo's...

including The Armourer of Nantes (1863), and wrote hundreds of songs, such as "When Other Hearts", "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" (from The Bohemian...

Duchess of Padua. The play was adapted into an opera at least twice. J. V. Bridgeman adapted it in English for Balfe's The Armourer of Nantes (1863). Emilio...

gitanilla. The best-known aria from the piece is "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" in which the main character, Arline, describes her vague memories of her...

Desert Flower and Pascal in The Armourer of Nantes, both in 1863, and in John Liptrot Hatton's Rose, or Love's Ransom (1864). The couple remained at Covent...

L'Étoile de Séville (The Star of Seville) is a grand opera in four acts composed by Michael William Balfe to a libretto by Hippolyte Lucas based on Andrés...

The Rose of Castille (or Castile) is an opera in three acts, with music by Michael William Balfe to an English-language libretto by Augustus Glossop Harris...

opera was also called The Power Of Love, a 19th-century hit with very Broadway-style dialog and songs." Satanella (Balfe): Scores at the International Music...

The Maid of Artois is an opera by Michael William Balfe, written in 1836 to a libretto by Alfred Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London...

Opera, however, appearing in the Lily of Killarney, Dinorah, and Balfe's The Armourer of Nantes. In defence of his decision to move to Italian opera,...

1838, came the last premiere of Rubini's career, that of Fenton in Michael Balfe's Falstaff. It was the fiftieth role creation for the forty-four-year-old...

Duchess of Guise sent her masons, including Nicolas Roy, miners and an armourer. She had a French painter, Pierre Quesnel, to decorate her palaces. Her...

well as the fate of the establishment after dissolution, and the current status of the site. Formal name or dedication is the formal name of the establishment...

looting royal stores, gunsmiths and armourers' shops for weapons and gunpowder. The commander of the Bastille at the time was Bernard-René de Launay, a...

of metal-workers: the farriers, knife-makers, locksmiths, chain-forgers, nail-makers, often formed separate and distinct corporations; the armourers were...

(1783–1821), an English armourer who spent three years as a captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people on the Pacific coast of what is now Canada...

1322 – The Armourers' Guild is instituted. 1326 – 15 October: Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter and Lord High Treasurer, is murdered by the London...