Lois McDonall from the Seraglio" by Mozart. In following seasons she performed Fiordiligi from "Così fan tutte", the Countess in "Le nozze di Figaro", Roselinda in "Die Fledermaus", Antonia in "The Tales of Hoffmann", Leonora in "Il trovatore", Freia in "Das Rheingold", Hanna in "The Merry Widow", the title role in Massenet's "Manon", Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier", Violetta in "La traviata", Miss Jessel in "The Turn of the Screw" and she created the title role in Iain Hamilton's "Anna Karenina". Lois McDonall spent 14 years as a resident artist with the English National Opera. In addition to her tenure at the ENO,
Il Neo Il Neo Il Neo (La Mouche) is an opera in 1 act, 3 tableaux ("novelletta musicale in 3 piccoli quadri" — musical novelette in 3 little tableaux) by Henrique Oswald to an Italian libretto by Eduardo Filippi after a novella "La mouche" by Alfred de Musset. Composed in 1900. Never published. It is the only of three operas by Oswald which definitely was staged. "Il Neo" is Oswald's second opera written some thirty years after his first (1872). The composer may have turned to this genre again because of the rapid development of opera in Brazil around 1900: the public