A Star Is Burns play in the opening moments of the episode is a parody of "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. The opening of Bart's film "The Eternal Struggle" is a reference to The Amazing Criswell's narration in "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Barney's film contains references to "Koyaanisqatsi", and the music of the film, which was composed by Philip Glass. Barney's film also features musical selections from the aria "Un bel di vedremo" from Act II, pt. 1 of Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly". In its original broadcast, "A Star Is Burns" finished 57th in the ratings for the week of February
Emma di Resburgo in Vienna in 2010, which was recorded. The opera is darker and more intensely dramatic than Meyerbeer's previous works. Impressive and monumental choral scenes such as the Chorus of Judges and funeral march in the last act are a feature of the work. Among solo arias, the final aria for the heroine Emma ("Il dì cadrà") with solo cor anglais, flutes, clarinets and horns, is especially notable. Recorded in 2010 Emma di Resburgo Emma di Resburgo (Emma of Roxburgh) is a melodramma "eroico" (a heroic, serious opera) in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. It was the composer's sixth opera and