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People and things that failed.

  1. The Ford Edsel
  2. Lysenkoism
  3. War on Drugs
  4. Hitler & the Third Reich
  5. Beta tape format
    6.The Light That Failed
  6. the Microsoft Zune
  7. The media polls of the 2016 election
  8. William Jennings Bryan, three times
  9. Heaven’s Gate
  10. The Broadway musical version of “Carrie”
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People and things that failed.

  1. The Ford Edsel
  2. Lysenkoism
  3. War on Drugs
  4. Hitler & the Third Reich
  5. Beta tape format
    6.The Light That Failed
  6. the Microsoft Zune
  7. The media polls of the 2016 election
  8. William Jennings Bryan, three times
  9. Heaven’s Gate
  10. The Broadway musical version of “Carrie”
  11. The London musical version of “Jeeves”
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People and things that failed.

  1. The Ford Edsel
  2. Lysenkoism
  3. War on Drugs
  4. Hitler & the Third Reich
  5. Beta tape format
    6.The Light That Failed
  6. the Microsoft Zune
  7. The media polls of the 2016 election
  8. William Jennings Bryan, three times
  9. Heaven’s Gate
  10. The Broadway musical version of “Carrie”
  11. The London musical version of “Jeeves”
  12. The Broadway musical version of “Spider-Man”

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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

Bored me to tears.

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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi

First opera I ever saw, at the gorgeous Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires

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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s*** Faust ***
    Loved it
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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado

Far and away my favorite G&S. I was in a high school production (in the chorus and carrying the Mikado’s banner), and have seen it twice since.

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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
  7. Aktuh and Melota
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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
  7. Aktuh and Melota
  8. Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

LOL, I have to find out more about Aktuh and Melota, great video clip!

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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
  7. Aktuh and Melota
  8. Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
  9. Verdi, Il Trovatore, P. Domingo and M. Caballe
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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
  7. Aktuh and Melota
  8. Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
  9. Verdi, Il Trovatore, P. Domingo and M. Caballe
  10. Verdi’s Don Carlos
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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
  7. Aktuh and Melota
  8. Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
  9. Verdi, Il Trovatore, P. Domingo and M. Caballe
  10. Verdi’s Don Carlos
  11. Lehár’s The Land of Smiles

A very rare performance of this operetta, in NYC. My then-partner fell asleep, in full view of the singers.

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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
  7. Aktuh and Melota
  8. Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
  9. Verdi, Il Trovatore, P. Domingo and M. Caballe
  10. Verdi’s Don Carlos
  11. Lehár’s The Land of Smiles
  12. Mozart, The Magic Flute

Amazingly, nobody has mentioned the 6 most frequently performed operas; The Magic Flute is number 7 on the list in the link

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Not much is known, alas: Aktuh and Maylota | Memory Alpha | Fandom

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Operas you have seen.

  1. Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges
  2. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
  3. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
  4. Die Fledermaus by Johan Straus II
  5. Gounod’s Faust
  6. Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
  7. Aktuh and Melota
  8. Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
  9. Verdi, Il Trovatore, P. Domingo and M. Caballe
  10. Verdi’s Don Carlos
  11. Lehár’s The Land of Smiles
  12. Mozart, The Magic Flute
  13. OK, #2 Carmen, sung in Polish, in Warsaw

Next: Country of origin of the last ancestor who immigrated to your country of birth.

  1. Russia (Russian controlled Lithuania)
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Next: Country of origin of the last ancestor who immigrated to your country of birth.

  1. Russia (Russian controlled Lithuania)
  2. Ireland (me mither’s maternal grandfather)
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Country of origin of the last ancestor who immigrated to your country of birth.

  1. Russia (Russian controlled Lithuania)

I have no idea what this means. Maybe it’s just me?

How does an ancestor move back to where I was born?

ETA: Maybe it doesn’t work for me because I’m an immigrant to Canada from my birthplace of Scotland.

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Next: Country of origin of the last ancestor who immigrated to your country of birth.

  1. Russia (Russian controlled Lithuania)
  2. Ireland (me mither’s maternal grandfather)
  3. Canada (both parents and two siblings)
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Consider where you wire born. Then count backwards through your parents, gransparents, until you find one that immigrated from another coun Name the country from which that ancestor came to your country of birth.