Svetla Vassileva (opera singer) Svetla Vassileva (opera singer) Svetla Vassileva (), born on September 9, 1965 in Dobrich, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian opera singer, soprano. Her repertoire includes Desdemona in Otello, Leonora in La forza del destino, Violetta in La traviata, Alice Ford in Falstaff (Verdi), the title role in Madama Butterfly, La rondine, Suor Angelica and Manon Lescaut, Liu in Turandot (Puccini), the title role in Rusalka (Dvorak), Lisa in Pique Dame, Tatiana in Yevgeni Onegin (Tchaikovsky), the title role in Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninov) and in Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai), Nedda in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Zemfira in Aleko (Rachmaninoff), and many others. She
Culture of the Republican era in China metaphors and allusion. The popular words include, "Red Candles" (1923), and "Dead Water" (1929). Drama in this period can be called as 'New theatre', 'New drama', or 'Civilised drama'.The beginning of modern Chinese China was triggered by the inspiration from the western world similarly to Chinese poetry. The initial effort began by the foundation of Spring Willow Society in Japan in 1907. They began by translating the plays such as "La Dame aux Camelias". One element of this Civilised drama was the 'spoken drama' contradicting to the traditional 'singing drama'. This form was adopted by Ti-ien Han. The purpose of