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Mozart wrote his first opera, Bastien und Bastienne, a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s operatic intermezzo Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer), when he was only 12 years old.
“Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.” - Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes
Jack Cole, Lester Horton, Katherine Dunham, Bob Fosse, and Martha Grahm were famous Jazz dancers.
Richard Strauss’ 1905 opera Salome (“zahl-oh-may”) about Salome and John the Baptist was so graphically violent that it was banned at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for decades.