Portal:Opera/DYK/20

...that although Thomas S. Hamblin (pictured) preferred ballet and opera, he staged low-brow melodrama, farce, and variety acts at the Bowery Theatre?
...that the painting The Face on the Barroom Floor, in Central City, Colorado, was inspired by a poem, and that it in turn inspired a chamber opera?
... that professional wrestler Antonio Pugliese was a fan of opera music and would sing opera before his matches?

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