Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? video game entitled "Carmen Sandiego Junior Detective." Its theme tune bears a close resemblace to the chorus 'Singt der großen Bassa Lieder' ('Sing songs of the great Pasha') from Mozart's opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" ("The abduction from the Seraglio") The script for every "Earth" episode had to meet the approval of Brøderbund Software, which created and, at the time, owned the "Carmen" franchise. Their cause for concern was the level of the violence on other FOX children's shows such as "X-Men" and "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." Brøderbund did not require this of the creators of the "World" and
Donald Shanks (bass-baritone) "Norma" with Dame Joan Sutherland, "La bohème" with Luciano Pavarotti, and Banquo in "Macbeth" with Sherrill Milnes. Other roles he became associated with were Zaccharia in "Nabucco", Rocco in "Fidelio", Osmin in "The Abduction from the Seraglio", Boris in "Boris Godunov", Timur in "Turandot", Ramphis in "Aida", Pistol in "Falstaff", Kekal in "The Bartered Bride", Baron Ochs in "Der Rosenkavalier", Nourabad in "The Pearl Fishers", the Commendatore in "Don Giovanni", and a major role in Leoš Janáček's "The Cunning Little Vixen". He created the role of The Maestro in Alan John's 1995 opera "The Eighth Wonder" at the Sydney Opera