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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
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W.S. Gilbert
British playwright
Cimarosa, Domenico
Domenico Cimarosa
Italian composer
Clement IX
Clement IX
pope
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell
American actress
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Demyan Bedny
Soviet poet
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Stephen Storace
British composer
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Sir A. P. Herbert
English writer and politician
Ade, George
George Ade
American playwright
Lortzing, Albert
Albert Lortzing
German composer
George Colman, the Younger, engraving by T.G. Lupton after a painting by John Jackson
George Colman, the Younger
English playwright
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Italian composer
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Isaac Bickerstaffe
Irish dramatist
Promotional poster for Alice Nielsen.
Alice Nielsen
American singer
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
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Amadeo Vives
Spanish composer
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Otto Nicolai
German composer
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Hermann Götz
Swiss composer

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