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Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque (born 1944)

singer, composer, poet, playwright, jazz musician, guitarist, actor, recording artist

  • Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo

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Budapest
Leite derramado
Terra
Turbulence
Benjamin
Spilt milk
Chico Buarque de Hollanda
Calabar
Embrouille
Benjamim
A banda
Court-circuit
Tantas palavras
Ópera do malandro
Budapeste
A imagem do som de Chico Buarque
Leche derramada
El hermano alemán
Chapeuzinho amarelo
Calabar
Roda-viva
O irmão alemão
Estorvo
Gota d'água
A bordo do Rui Barbosa
Quand je sortirai d'ici
Budapest
Gota d'água de Chico Buarque, Paulo Pontes
Roda-viva (comédia musical em dois atos)
Fazenda Modelo
Veneno antimonotonia : os melhores poemas e canções contra o tédio
Veneno antimonotonia : os melhores poemas e canções contra o tédio
Estorbo
Essa história está diferente
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)

film actor, playwright, voice actor, television actor, stage actor, singer, spokesperson, script doctor, film producer, actor

  • Sarah Lawrence College, Central School of Speech and Drama

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Delusions of grandma
The Best Awful
Surrender the pink
The Best Awful There Is
Postcards From the Edge
Untitled on Star Wars
Surrender the Pink
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
Wishful drinking
Surrender the Pink (Spec Sales)
Postales del Abismo
No Te Vayas, No Me Olvides
Untitled 2
Hollywood lovers
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859)

salonnière, composer, illustrator, singer

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Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde
Die Günderode
Aus meinem Leben
The life of High Countess Gritta von Ratsinourhouse =
"Die Welt umwälzen, denn darauf läufts hinaus"
Correspondence of Fräulein Günderode and Bettine von Arnim ..
Romantisme et révolution
Goethe's correspondence with a child
Tagebuch
Die Leidenschaft ist der Schlussel zur Welt
Bettina von Arnim
Du bist mir Vater und Bruder und Sohn
Bettine und Arnim
Ist dir bange vor meiner Liebe?
Lieber Kronprinz! Liebe Freundin!
Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde
Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns
Dies Buch geho rt dem König
Gespräche mit Daemonen
Bettina von Arnims Armenbuch
Bettine
Goethe's Correspondence with a Child; Volume 2
Geschichten
Dies Buch Gehört dem König
Clemens Brentanos Frühlingskranz
Correspondance de Bettina et de Goethe
In allem einverstanden mit Dir
--und mehr als einmal nachts im Thiergarten
Goethe's Correspondence with a Child : for His Monument
Die Gunderode
Der Briefwechsel Bettine von Arnims mit den Brüdern Grimm, 1838-1841
Clemens und Bettina
Ein Lesebuch
Clemens Brentano's Frhlingskranz/ Die Gnderrode
Goethe's Correspondence with a Child Vol. 1
Bettina von Arnim
Günderode
Werke und Briefe
Bettina schaut, erlebt, verkündet
Clemens Brentano's Frühlingskranz aus Jugendbriefen ihm geflochten, wie er selbst schriftlich verlangte
Werke
Die Andacht zum Menschenbild
Goethes Briefwechsel Mit Einem Kinde
Bettine von Arnim und Friedrich Wilhelm IV
Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde
Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Nachlaß Bd. 4 : Aus
Clemens Brentanos Frühlingskranz
Drei Mährchen
Julius Pamphilius und Di Ambrosia
Tagebuch zu Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Bettine Brentano und Max Prokop von Freyberg
Jlius Pamphilius und die Ambrosia. T. 1-2; I
Novellen, Band 1
Der Briefwechsel zwichen Bettina Brentano und Max Prokop von Freyberg
"Wer ein schön Gesicht hat--"
Correspondència amb Goethe
Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta Von Rattenzuhausbeiuns
Briefe Goethe's an Sophie Von la Roche und Bettina Brentano
Goethes Briefwechsel
Correspondència amb Goethe
Correspondència amb Goethe
Werke und Briefe in drei Bänden
Lebenspiel
Das bunte Band des Lebens
Ilius Pamphilius und Die Ambrosia, Zweiter Band
Bettina von Arnims sämtliche werke
Correspondència amb Goethe
Die Günderode, Zweiter Theil
Goethes Briefwechsel Mit Einem Kinde
Die Günderode
"Dies Buch gehört dem König!"
Goethe's Correspondence with a Child
Correspondence of Fräulein Günderode and Bettine Von Arnim
Lebensspiel
Novellen, Band 2
Bettine Von Arnim und Friedrich Wilhelm Iv
Die Günderode. Zweiter Theil
Märchen
Tagebuch
Meine Seele ist eine leidenschaftliche Tänzerin
Die Günderode. Zweiter Theil
Goethe's Correspondence with a Child; Volume 1
Dies Buch gehört dem König. T. 1
Correspondence of Fräulein Günderode and Bettine Von Arnim
Günderode
Das bunte Band des Lebens. Die märkische Heimat und der Neubeginn im Kupferhaus
Ilius Pamphilius und die Ambrosia
Lieben, das allein ist meine Kunst
Die Günderode
Die Frau Rat erzählt. Von der Fahrt ins Kirschenwäldchen
Bettinas Briefwechsel mit Goethe
Goethe's briefwechsel mit einem kinde
Goethes briefwechsel mit einem kinde herausgegeben
Bettinas leben und briefwechsel mit Goethe
Ungedruckte Briefe und Aktenstücke
Bettina's [v. Arnim] sam̈mtliche schriften
Zwei Briefe Bettinas
Bettinas Briefwechsel mit Goethe
Dies Buch gehört dem König
Gespräche mit Dämonen
Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns
The Life of High Countess Gritta von Ratsinourhouse (European Women Writers)
Lebensspiel
Bettina schaut, erlebt, verkündet
Dies Buch gehört dem König
Letzte Liebe
Die Günderode
Werke und Briefe, 3 Bde., Ln, Bd.3, Politische Schriften
Das Liebestagebuch
Bettine von Arnims Briefwechsel mit ihren Söhnen
Die Sehnsucht hat allemal Recht
Lebensspiel
Mathias Malzieu
Mathias Malzieu (born 1974)

singer, guitarist, film director

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The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart
Una sirena en París / A Mermaid in Paris
The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart
Tunes
Métamorphose en bord de ciel
Maintenant qu'il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi
La Mcanique Du Coeur
La mecànica del cor
Le plus petit baiser jamais recensé
La Mécanique du coeur
Le Plus Petit Baiser Jamais Recense (French Edition)
Journal d'un vampire en pyjama
Métamorphose en bord de ciel
La mecánica del corazón
Diary of a Vampire in Pyjamas
Une sirène à Paris
Una sirena en París
The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart
Le guerrier de porcelaine
La alargada sombra del amor
El beso más pequeño
Una sirena en París
Diario de un vampiro en pijama
Diario de un vampiro en pijama / Diary of a Vampire in Pajamas
Tr©i Tim Kh©þng ¡c Y©®u
Metamorfosis en el cielo
Mecanica del corazon (Spanish Edition)
El soldado de porcelana
El soldado de porcelana
Tunes
Alargada sombra del amor / Enlarged shadow of Love
La alargada sombra del amor
Mechanizm Serca
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938)

playwright, poet, singer

  • MSU Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University

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There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband, and he hanged himself
Rasskazy o l︠i︡ubvi
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
The time--night
Zhiznʹ ėto teatr
Cinzano, and, Smirnova's birthday
Paradoski
Nine of Russia's foremost women writers
The girl from the Metropol Hotel
Immortal love
Gorod sveta
Through the Wall Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
There once lived a mother who loved her children, until they moved back in
Most Vaterloo
Kvartira Kolombiny
Kvartira Kolombiny
Schastlivye koshki
Bal poslednego cheloveka
Malenʹkai͡a devochka iz "Metropoli͡a"
The time-- night
Chernoe palʹto
Sobranie sochineniĭ v pi͡ati tomakh
Dom devushek
Devi͡atyĭ tom
Chernai︠a︡ babochka
Kak t︠s︡vetok na zare
Sobranie sochinenii v piati tomakh
Dikie zhivotnye skazki
Sluchaĭ v Sokolʹnikakh
Po, Li Bo i Ki︠u︡i
Moskovskiĭ khor
Takai︠a︡ devochka
Rekviemy
Malenʹkai︠a︡ devochka iz "Metropoli︠a︡"
Dom devushek
Cinzano
The Time
Devi︠a︡tyĭ tom
Po doroge boga Ėrosa
Sluchaĭ v Sokolʹnikakh
Porosënok Pëtr edet v gosti
Three girls in blue
Kolybnelʹnai͡a ptichʹeĭ rodiny
Nas ukrali. Istorii︠a︡ prestupleniĭ
Stranstvii︠a︡ po povodu smerti
Rekviemy
Dom devushek
Chernoe palʹto
Po, Li Bo i Ki︠u︡i
Bogini͡a parka
Volshebnye istorii
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, until They Moved Back In
Pesni XX veka
Nomer Odin, ili, V sadakh drugikh vozmozhnosteĭ
Naĭdi meni͡a, son
Dva t︠s︡arstva
Izmenennoe vremi︠a︡
Zagadochnye skazki
Li︠u︡bovʹ, ili Puskaĭ smei︠u︡tsi︠a︡ deti
Porosënok Pëtr edet i mashina
Karamzin Derevenskiĭ dnevnik
Porosënok Pëtr i magazin
Ne sadisʹ v mashinu, gde dvoe
Nastoi͡ashchie skazki
Gde i͡a byla
Taĭna doma
There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby
Brachnai︠a︡ nochʹ, ili 37 mai︠a︡
Istorii iz moeĭ sobstvennoĭ zhizni
Vremi︠a︡ nochʹ
Devochki, k vam prishel vash malʹchik
Kidnapped
Dikie zhivotnye skazki
There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby
Detskiĭ prazdnik
Chërnoe palʹto
Four
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby
The New Adventures of Helen
Zhila-byla zhenshchina, kotora︠i︡a khotela ubitʹ sosedskogo rebenka
Through the Wall
Nikomu ne nuzhna. Svobodna
There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby
Sanatorium
Prin︠t︡sessa Belonozhka, ili Kto l︠i︡ubit, nosit na rukakh
Ot pervogo li︠t︡sa
Chemodan chepukhi
Zhila-byla zhenshchina, kotorai︠a︡ khotela ubitʹ sosedskogo rebenka
Puteshestvii͡a v raznye storony
Koroleva Lir. Adaptirovannyi tekst
Bogini︠a︡ parka
Spasibo!
Noël Coward
Noël Coward (1899-1973)

actor, composer, film producer, playwright, lyricist, singer, theatrical director, film score composer, stage actor, film actor, film director, television director, SOE agent, producer

  • Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts

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Contemporary Drama. Eleven Plays. American - English - European
The Noël Coward diaries
Present laughter
Three plays
Present indicative
Design for living
Private lives
Star Quality
Hay fever
Future indefinite
Songs
Private lives, an intimate comedy in three acts
Blithe spirit
The Lyrics of Noel Coward
Sir Noel Coward - His Words And Music
Suite in three keys
Plays, One
The Noel Coward diaries
Fallen Angels
"I'll leave it to you"
Brief encounter
A last encore
Short stories
Oh Coward!
Noel Coward Plays 1
The collected stories of Noël Coward
Pomp and circumstance
The Vortex
Post-mortem
Ways and means
Nude with violin
Nol̈ and Gertie
Play parade
Cowardy custard
Masterpieces
Collected verse
The lyrics of Noël Coward
Present Laughter a Light Comedy in Three Acts
Plays One
The wit of Noel Coward
Terribly Intimate Portraits
Plays, four
Noel and Gertie
Fumed oak
Noël Coward
Bon voyage
Noel Coward Autobiography
The Phoenix
Collected plays
My Life with Noel Coward
The complete stories of Noël Coward
Noel Coward: Revues and Sketches
Oedipus the King (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection) (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections)
Quadrille
The lyrics
Bitter sweet
Brief Encounter
Noel Coward Plays 2
Plays, three
Oh Coward!
Semi-monde
The Noel Coward diaries
Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward
The astonished heart
Hay fever
Autobiography
Still life
Noel Coward in His Own Words
Plays
The Letters of Noel Coward
Noel Coward Plays 4
Noel Coward Plays 3
The sayings of Noël Coward
Spangled unicorn
Noel Coward Plays 7
Middle East diary
Masterworks of the British cinema
Noel Coward Collected Verse
The lyrics
Hands across the sea
Peace in our time
After the ball
The Noël Coward reader
Coward Plays : Nine
Present indicative
A Noël Coward gala
To step aside
Present Indicative
Red peppers
Peace in our time
The Noël Coward reader
Noël Coward
Waiting in the wings
Hands across the sea
Relative values
Noel Coward
Waiting in the wings
The Astonished Heart: a play in six scenes (from tonight at 8:30)
Collected Short Stories
The Complete Lyrics of Noel Coward
Relative values
Coward
The Collected Short Stories of Noël Coward
" This was a man"
The letters of Noël Coward
Joan Sutherland sings Noël Coward
Collected verse
Noel and Gertie
Present indicative
The Letters Of Nol Coward
Present Laughter
Present indicative
Noel and Cole - The Sophisticates
Private Lifes
Conversation piece
Sir Noël Coward, his words and music
Family album
A song at twilight
A withered nosegay
The lyrics of Noel Coward
Come into the garden Maud
The last bassoon
Bon voyage
Cavalcade
I'll Leave It to You
Noel Coward Plays 5 (World Dramatists)
Tonight at 8:30
Easy virtue
The Noel Coward CD Audio Collection Selections
Australia visited, 1940
Noel Coward Collected Short Stories
Red Peppers
Masterworks of the British Cinema
Shadows of the evening
This happy breed
Bitter sweet
Blithe spirit
The Letters Of Nol Coward
Hay fever
Future Indefinite
Noël Coward in two keys
Spangled unicorn, an anthology
Come into the garden Maud
South sea bubble
Operette
Point Valaine
Tonight at 8:30
Nude with violin
Present laughter
Come into the garden Maud
"Peace in our time"
Coward Plays : 2
Blithe Spirit
Future indefinite
The plays of Noel Coward
This happy breed
Terribly Intimate Portraits
Quadrille
Coward Plays : 8
Present indicative
To-night at 8
Terribly Intimate Portraits
Australia visited, 1940
The Young idea
Coward Plays : 7
Private lives
Pretty Polly
Palmen, Pomp und Paukenschlag
Noel Coward Rediscovered
Noel Coward Collected Verse
Pictures by Sir Noel Coward
Star quality
The Best of Noel Coward
Coward Plays : 3
PLAY PARADE
The complete verse of Noël Coward
Poste restante
La encantadora familia Bliss
Relative valves
Hay fever
Not yet the dodo, and other verses
Fallen angels
Private lives
To-night at 8.30
Design for living
The collected plays of Noel Coward
Coward Plays : 4
Pomp and circumstance
Collected sketches and lyrics
Coward Plays : Nine
Peace in our time
Noel Coward Reading His Poems
A song at twilight
Play parade
Still life
As ong at twilight
Hay Fever
The rat trap
The complete stories of Noël Coward
Cavalcade
Wit of Noël Coward
Nude with violin
Not yet the dodo
A withered nosegay
Coward Plays : 1
Future indefinite
Second Play parade
Look after Lulu!
Present laughter
Play parade
Spangled unicorn
South sea bubble
The queen was in the parlour
Blithe Spirit
Coward Plays : 3
Plays 4
Look after Lulu
Pacific 1860
Spamgled unicorn
Tonight at 8.30
Shadow play
The Marquise
Home chat
Star quality
The astonished heart
The Unknown Noel
The wit of Noël Coward
The young idea
Private Lives
Collected sketches and lyrics
Coward Plays : 5
Blithe spirit
Coward Plays
Coward Plays : 6
Present Laughter
Complete Verse of Noël Coward
Australia visited, 1940
Plays 3
Second play parade
The queen was in the parlour
Future Indefinite
Private lives
Plays
Letters of Noël Coward
Private Lives
Lyrics of Noël Coward
Second Play parade
The complete stories of Noel Coward
Private lives
Unknown Coward
Private lives
Collected plays
Noel Coward
Shadows of an evening
Pretty Polly Barlow and Other Stories
Brief Encounter
Week end
Not yet the Dodo and other verse
Easy virtue
Post-mortem
Collected sketches and lyrics
Coward Revue Sketches
Hay Fever
Out in the Midday Sun
Pretty Polly Barlow
Waiting in the wings
Hay fever
Nude with violin
Present Indicative Vol. 1
Noel Coward Duologues
Complete Verse of Noel Coward
The Marquise
Pomp and Circumstance
Ways and means
This Was a Man
Home Chat
Coward Plays : 2
The Noel Coward diaries
Family album
Star Quality
We Were Dancing
A song at twilight
Shadow play
Play parade, vol. VI
The lyrics of Noël Coward
Post-mortem
Cavalcade
Plays, five
Ways and means
Chelsea buns
Design for Living
The young idea
"This was a man" ...
Cavalcade
Present indicative
Post-mortem
Conversation piece
The essential Noël Coward compendium
This happy breed
Tonight At 8. 30
The collected short stories of Noël Coward
This is a changing world
Second play parade
Design for Living
Shadows of the evening
Shadow play
Present indicative
The marquise
Point Valaine
Noël Coward Screenplays
Coward Plays : 6
We were dancing
Look after Lulu
Semi-Monde
Curtain calls
Terribly Intimate Portraits
Bon Voyage and Other Stories
Fumed oak
The Noel Coward Song Book
Coward Plays : 5
"I'll leave it to you;"
The collected plays of Noel Coward
Star Chamber
Set to music
Private lives
Songs to Amuse
To-night at 8:30 :bplays
Private lives, an intimate comedy in three acts
Words and music
Not yet the dodo and other verses
Cavalcade
Play parade
Hay fever
Family album
Fallen angels
Fumed oak
Wakage no ayamachi
Come into the garden Maud
Point Valaine
Tonight at 8:30
'I'll leave it to you'
Play parade
Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives
Blithe Spirit - starring Shirley Knight, Ian Ogilvy, Judy Geeson, Rosalind Ayres (Audio Theatre Series)
Pretty Polly Barlow, and other stories
Present laughter
We were dancing
Noel Coward Gala His Words and Music/00312108
Song Book
Ways and means
Curtain calls
Ḳadaḥat aviv
Future indefinite
Family album
Pomp and circumstance
Bitter sweet, and other plays
Hay fever, a light comedy in three acts
ענין של סגנון
Noel Coward and Margaret Leighton performing Noel Coward's Brief encounter, Blithe spirit, act II, sc. 1 [and] Present laughter, act II, sc. 1
Vaya una persecución!
Still Life: a play in five scenes (from "Tonight at 8:30")
ʻInyan shel signon
A song at twilight
Bitter sweet
This happy breed
Hands across the sea
Poems
On with the dance
Post-mortem, a play in eight scenes
Future indefinite
Fumed oak
Playlets, additional sketches and early pieces
To step aside
Short stories, short plays, and songs
The Selected Works of Noel Coward
South Sea Bubble
We were dancing
This year of grace!
The rat trap
Still life
Hilulat refaʼim
Easy virtue
Nude with violin
Private Lives and Present Laughter
Qi dui
Hands across the sea
Play parade, v. I
Cavalcade
Collected sketches and lyrics
The astonished heart
Curtain calls
Look after Lulu!
חיים פרטיים תכניה
Not yet the dodo and other verses
Present laughter
Operette
Waiting in the wings
Bon voyage and other stories
Relative values
Home chat
Red peppers
'Red peppers'
Sirocco
The astonished heart
Shadow play
Semi-monde
The young idea
Shadows of the evening
Play parade
Present Laughter, a light comedy in three acts
The rat trap
The cream of Noel Coward
Present laughter
Still life
A Noël Coward gala
Hay fever
London calling!
Blithe spirit
חיים פרטיים
Suite in three keys
Blithe spirit, an improbable farce in three acts
Hands Across Sea
Collected short stories
Charles B. Cochran's production of Bitter sweet
We were dancing
Sigh no more
Quadrille, a romantic comedy in three acts
Charles B. Cochran's 1931 revue
Blithe spirit, with two other plays, Private lives [and] Hay fever
Blithe spirit
The third little show
'This was a man'
Maria Tănase
Maria Tănase (1913-1963)

singer, actor, recording artist

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Tatʹi︠a︡na Snezhina
Tatʹi︠a︡na Snezhina (1972-1995)

composer, poet, singer

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