Gillian Knight to her end, like all the best Carmens, with an almost heroic insolence." The role brought her to international attention, and she performed it opposite Plácido Domingo. She also performed at Covent Garden in "Arabella"; "The Bartered Bride"; "The Cunning Little Vixen"; "Eugene Onegin"; "Falstaff"; "The Fiery Angel"; "The Golden Cockerel"; "Iphigénie en Tauride"; "Jenůfa"; "Die Meistersinger"; "Rigoletto"; the "Ring" cycle; "Der Rosenkavalier"; "Semele"; "La traviata"; "Il trovatore"; "Otello"; and "Wozzeck". Among modern operas at Covent Garden, Knight appeared in Peter Maxwell Davies's "Taverner"; Hans Werner Henze's "We Come to the River"; Nicholas Maw's "Sophie's Choice"; Michael Tippett's "King Priam";
Jessie Little Doe Baird Jessie Little Doe Baird Jessie Little Doe Baird (also Jessie Little Doe Fermino, born 18 November 1963) is a linguist known for her efforts to revive the Wampanoag language. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010. She has a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied with Dr. Kenneth L. Hale. Jessie resides in Mashpee, Massachusetts. According to Wampanoag prophecy, a Wampanoag woman would leave her home to bring back the language and "the children of those who had had a hand in breaking the language cycle would help heal it." In 1993, Baird began teaching