Portal:Opera/DYK/19

...that Catherine the Great (pictured) wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg?
...that the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855, burned down in 1955, and was rebuilt in 1963?
...that although opera contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink had a son fighting with the German Kaiserliche Marine, she toured the U.S. to raise money for American forces in World War I?

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