question: Doctor Ox's Experiment was first performed at a coliseum designed by what architect?
answer: Frank Matcham
context: Title: Doctor Ox's Experiment (opera)
  Passage: Doctor Ox's Experiment is an opera in two acts by Gavin Bryars.  It has an English-language libretto by Blake Morrison after the novella of the same name by Jules Verne.  It was first performed on 15 June 1998 at the London Coliseum by English National Opera (ENO) who co-commissioned the opera with BBC Television.
  Title: Faraday's ice pail experiment
  Passage: Faraday's ice pail experiment is a simple electrostatics experiment performed in 1843 by British scientist Michael Faraday that demonstrates the effect of electrostatic induction on a conducting container.  For a container, Faraday used a metal pail made to hold ice, which gave the experiment its name.  The experiment shows that an electric charge enclosed inside a conducting shell induces an equal charge on the shell, and that in an electrically conducting body, the charge resides entirely on the surface.  It also demonstrates the principles behind electromagnetic shielding such as employed in the "Faraday cage".  The ice pail experiment was the first precise "quantitative" experiment on electrostatic charge.  It is still used today in lecture demonstrations and physics laboratory courses to teach the principles of electrostatics.
  Title: Trouton–Rankine experiment
  Passage: The Trouton–Rankine experiment was an experiment designed to measure if the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction of an object according to one frame (as defined by the luminiferous aether) produced a measurable effect in the rest frame of the object, so that the ether would act as a "preferred frame".  The experiment was first performed by Frederick Thomas Trouton and Alexander Oliver Rankine in 1908.
  Title: Dr. Ox's Experiment
  Passage: "Dr. Ox's Experiment" (French: "Une fantaisie du docteur Ox" , "A Fantasy of Doctor Ox") is a short story by the French writer and pioneer of science-fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872.  It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene.  A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town of Quiquendone.  As the town bore no charges, the offer is gladly accepted.  The hidden interest of Dr. Ox is however not lighting, but large scale experiment on effect of oxygen on plants, animals and humans.  He uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen.  The latter is being pumped to the city causing accelerated growth of plants, excitement and aggressiveness in animals and humans.  The story ends up by destruction of the oxygen factory of Dr. Ox – by accident, oxygen and hydrogen got mixed causing a major explosion.  Jules Verne acknowledges in the epilogue that the described effect of oxygen is a pure fiction invented by him.
  Title: Homestake experiment
  Passage: The Homestake experiment (sometimes referred to as the Davis experiment) was an experiment headed by astrophysicists Raymond Davis, Jr. and John N. Bahcall in the late 1960s.  Its purpose was to collect and count neutrinos emitted by nuclear fusion taking place in the Sun.  Bahcall did the theoretical calculations and Davis designed the experiment.  After Bahcall calculated the rate at which the detector should capture neutrinos, Davis's experiment turned up only one third of this figure.  The experiment was the first to successfully detect and count solar neutrinos, and the discrepancy in results created the solar neutrino problem.  The experiment operated continuously from 1970 until 1994.  The University of Pennsylvania took it over in 1984.  The discrepancy between the predicted and measured rates of neutrino detection was later found to be due to neutrino "flavour" oscillations.
  Title: Delayed choice quantum eraser
  Passage: A delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, first performed by Yoon-Ho Kim, R. Yu, S. P. Kulik, Y. H. Shih and Marlan O. Scully, and reported in early 1999, is an elaboration on the quantum eraser experiment that incorporates concepts considered in Wheeler's delayed choice experiment.  The experiment was designed to investigate peculiar consequences of the well-known double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics, as well as the consequences of quantum entanglement.
  Title: Doctor Ox
  Passage: Doctor Ox (French: "Le Docteur Ox" ) is a collection of short stories by Jules Verne, first published in 1874 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.
  Title: Der Rosenkavalier
  Passage: Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.  It is loosely adapted from the novel "Les amours du chevalier de Faublas" by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac".  It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt, Ernst von Schuch conducting.  Until the premiere the working title was "Ochs von Lerchenau".  (The choice of the name Ochs is not accidental, for in German Ochs means ox, which depicts the character of the Baron throughout the opera.)
  Title: London Coliseum
  Passage: The London Coliseum (also known as the Coliseum Theatre) is a theatre in St. Martin's Lane, central London, built as one of London's largest and most luxurious "family" variety theatres. Opened on 24 December 1904 as the London Coliseum Theatre of Varieties, it was designed by the theatrical architect Frank Matcham for the impresario Oswald Stoll.  Their ambition was to build the largest and finest music hall, described as the "people's palace of entertainment" of its age.
  Title: A Drama in the Air
  Passage: "A Drama in the Air" (French: ""'Un drame dans les airs'"" ) is an adventure short story by Jules Verne.  The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families.  A Voyage in a Balloon" ("La science en famille.  Un voyage en ballon") in "Musée des familles" with five illustrations by Alexandre de Bar.  In 1874, with six illustrations by Émile-Antoine Bayard, it was included in "Doctor Ox", the only collection of Jules Verne’s short stories published during Verne’s lifetime.  An English translation by Anne T. Wilbur, published in May 1852 in "Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature", marked the first time a work by Jules Verne was translated into the English language.
citations: London Coliseum Doctor Ox's Experiment (opera)