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- ...that the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers (pictured) to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
- ...that the 19th century Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California?
- ...that composer Michael Arne's obsession for alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone led him into serious financial problems resulting in his arrest and confinement in a Dublin sponging-house?