Opera Babes Opera Babes The Opera Babes are a crossover classical music duo, consisting of Karen England (born 1974), mezzo-soprano, and Rebecca Knight (born 1970), soprano. The duo came to wide attention when they sang "Un bel dì vedremo" (from the opera "Madame Butterfly") on television sports programmes, beginning in 2002. In addition to performing with major orchestras in Britain and touring with their own shows, they released their first album, "Beyond Imagination" in 2002 and their second album, "Renaissance", in 2006. The Opera Babes met in Cambridge while performing Mozart's "The Magic Flute" in a touring opera company. England studied at
Giacomo di Grassi the opponent's face to limit his vision and to parry his weapon closer to its pivot point where it is weakest in its movement. Giacomo di Grassi Giacomo di Grassi was an Italian fencing master who wrote the fencing treatise "Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'Arme, si da offesa come da difesa" in 1570..The text was later translated into English and published again in 1594, as " Di Grassi, His True Arte of Defence". The translation of Di Grassi was one of the three premiere fencing texts known from Elizabethan England. His main teachings were that weapons of the same length