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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Italian composer

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Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin

Russian writer and composer

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Arthur Sullivan

British composer

Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.

Johannes Ewald

Danish poet

Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill

German-American composer

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W.S. Gilbert

British playwright

Offenbach, Jacques

Jacques Offenbach

French composer

Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt

American singer

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Emmerich Kálmán

Hungarian composer

John Philip Sousa.

John Philip Sousa

American composer

Marie Tempest

Marie Tempest

British actress

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Antônio José da Silva

Portuguese writer

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Ludovic Halévy

French author

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Pauline Viardot

French singer

Strauss, Johann, the Younger

Johann Strauss II

Austrian composer

Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Charles Dibdin

British composer, author, actor and manager

Victor Herbert, 1906

Victor Herbert

American composer

Fay Templeton, 1895.

Fay Templeton

American singer and actress

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Sigmund Romberg

American composer

Rudolf Friml, c. 1932

Rudolf Friml

American composer

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