Puccini's second opera, Edgar, based on a verse drama by the French writer Alfred de Musset, had been performed at La Scala in 1889, and it was a failure.
Love, Simon, directed by Greg Berlanti (who has about 4,512 TV shows on the air right now, including those based in The CW's DC Comics-based "Arrow-Verse") and based on a novel from Becky Albertalli entitled Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, is a conventional rom-com save for the fact that its protagonist (Nick Robinson's Simon) is gay.
"Sylvia," based on a sixteenth-century verse play, "Aminta," by Torquato Tasso, is a pastoral.
At the Foundation for Pluralism, we have crystallized the definition of pluralism as "Respecting the otherness of others" based on many verses from Qur'an, but particularly verse 109 6 translation by Yusuf Ali, "To you be your Way, and to me mine".
The script, in Manipuri, is based on a Hindi poem in blank verse by the 20th-century poet S. H. Vatsyayan, known popularly as Ajneya.
A French high schooler has allegedly bioengineered DNA based on verses from the Bible and Quran and injected it into his own leg.
Walt Whitman Currently selling iPad Airs, in a "Your Verse" campaign entirely based on a Whitman quote in Dead Poets Society.
(I sleep, but my heart waketh, ) and (Thou hast ravished my heart ..., ) are based on verses from the Song of Songs.
The two songs share a chugging 2/4 country dance beat, a similar verse structure, and a chorus based on a three-syllable girl's name: I-da-Red.
In a series of seven paintings based on a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, Douglas successfully breathed cultural life into work inspired by cubism and African sculpture motifs.
