Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino wrote the text for the comic opera "Calandro" by Giovanni Alberto Ristori, which was first staged in 1726 at the castle of Pilnitz near Dresden, and then in Moscow in 1731 when it was the first opera ever performed in Russia. He later composed the libretto for the five-act opera seria "Alfonso" (1738) by Johann Adolf Hasse. He was also known for his translations of Horace's Odes, Epistles and Satires. Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino (21 March 1672, Padua – 16 April 1742, Dresden) was an Italian poet and opera librettist. He was the son of the composer Carlo
Carmen Novoa a charitable cause which was a major highlight in 2001, the Mildura military base hospital auction in which just over thirty thousand dollars was spent on hospital good that were later sent to Uruguay. Carmen Novoa Carmen Ibis Novoa (born 21 August 1941) is a Latin American artist, painter, award winning writer and poet from Uruguay. Novoa was born in El Cerro, a suburb of Montevideo and immigrated to Melbourne in 1978 where she currently resides. Carmen was the first person to organise an exhibition in Parliament House, Melbourne building. Julia Gillard who is a former Australian Prime Minister officially