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 * ...that Catherine the Great (pictured) wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg?
 * ...that the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855, burned down in 1955, and was rebuilt in 1963?
 * ...that although opera contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink had a son fighting with the German Kaiserliche Marine, she toured the U.S. to raise money for American forces in World War I?

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