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The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
The original Japanese edition was released in three parts, which make up the three "books" of the single volume English language version. Book of the Thieving Magpie (泥棒かささぎ編, Dorobō kasasagi hen) Book of the Prophesying Bird (予言する鳥編, Yogen suru tori hen) Book of the Bird-Catcher Man (鳥刺し男編, Torisashi otoko hen)
La Pie voleuse, the French-language title of the 1987 American-Canadian film Burglar; La gazza ladra, an 1817 opera by Rossini; La gazza ladra, 1934 short by Corrado D'Errico; La gazza ladra (animated film) , 1964 Italian animated film about a "real" thieving magpie with soundtrack based on Rossini's opera
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"The Magpie's Advice" or "The Magpie's Counsel" (Welsh: Cyngor y Biogen or Cyngor y Bioden) is a poem in the form of a cywydd by the pre-eminent Welsh-language poet, [1] Dafydd ap Gwilym. The poet portrays himself as an overage lover who bemoans his romantic woes as he wanders through the woods, and is rebuked by a magpie who bids him concern ...
Thieving Magpie (Russian: Сорока-воровка) is a 1958 Soviet drama film directed by Naum Trakhtenberg , based on the novel with the same name by Alexander Herzen. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film takes place in Russia in the first half of the 19th century.
that a worm swallowed the poem of a some person, a thief in darkness, a glorious statement and its strong foundation. The thieving stranger was not a whit more wise that he swallowed those words. A moth ate words. I thought that was a marvelous fate, that the worm, a thief in the dark, should eat
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".