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Also Known As light opera

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Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais
Arthur Sullivan
British composer
Thomas Chatterton.
Thomas Chatterton
British poet
W.S. Gilbert
British playwright
Cimarosa, Domenico
Domenico Cimarosa
Italian composer
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell
American actress
Clement IX
Clement IX
pope
Demyan Bedny
Soviet poet
Stephen Storace
British composer
George Colman, the Younger, engraving by T.G. Lupton after a painting by John Jackson
George Colman, the Younger
English playwright
Ade, George
George Ade
American playwright
Sir A. P. Herbert
English writer and politician
Lortzing, Albert
Albert Lortzing
German composer
Promotional poster for Alice Nielsen.
Alice Nielsen
American singer
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Italian composer
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
English composer and conductor
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Irish dramatist
Otto Nicolai
German composer
Ethel Smyth.
Dame Ethel Smyth
British composer
Amadeo Vives
Spanish composer

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