12:02, 26 December 2021Smerustalkcontribs created page Les Éclairs(←Created page with '((italictitle)) '''''Les Éclairs''''' (''The Lightnings'') is an opera in four acts to a libretto by Jean Echenoz with music by Philippe Hersant. It was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 2 November 2021.<ref name=OC> [https://www.opera-comique.com/en/shows/les-eclairs Les Éclairs], Opéra-Comique website, accessed 26 December 2021 </ref> Based on a novel in verse by Echenoz, the opera is a fantasised biography of the inventor...')
16:17, 1 September 2021Smerustalkcontribs created page User:Smerus/wae(←Created page with ''''William Ashton Ellis''' (20 August 1852 - 2 January 1919) was an English translator, biograspher and enthusiast of the composer Richard Wagner. His English translations of Wagner's prose essays have remained a standard source, even though Ellis's tortuous phrasing (faithful to Wagner's original style) can make them had work.. Bron in London, the son of the surgeon Robert Ellis (1823-1877), he was originally intended to follow a medical career. His...')