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
Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù Xyndas, for example, wrote the Greek opera "O ypopsifios" ("The Parliamentary Candidate") which became the first opera composed on an exclusively Greek libretto and was performed at San Giacomo in 1867. The oral tradition held that operatic performers who found success at the theater were distinguished with the accolade "applaudito in Corfú" ("applauded in Corfu") as a tribute to the discriminating musical taste of the island audience. The theatre was replaced by the Municipal Theatre of Corfu in 1902. The Municipal Theatre and its historical archives, many of which belonged to Teatro di San Giacomo, were destroyed during a Luftwaffe