Ann Ayars acted in a film adapted from an opera written by who?
Jacques Offenbach
Title: Partenope (Zumaya)
Passage: Partenope is an opera in three acts by Manuel de Zumaya.  Zumaya adapted the libretto himself from a Spanish translation of Silvio Stampiglia's Italian libretto which was first set for performance in Naples during 1699 with music by Luigi Mancia.  All told, Stampiglia's libretto was used by a variety of composers for more than a dozen operas that were produced all over Italy, including versions by Leonardo Vinci and George Frideric Handel.  Zumaya's version was commissioned by Viceroy Fernando de Alencastre Noroña y Silva and produced at the viceroyal palace in Mexico City on 1 May 1711.  The production is the earliest known full opera produced in North America and the first opera written by an American-born composer.  However, "Parténope" is not the earliest opera to be performed in the New World, as some sources have reported.  That distinction belongs to Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco's "La púrpura de la rosa", which premiered ten years earlier in Lima, Peru.
Title: Fiesta (1941 film)
Passage: Fiesta is a 1941 American Technicolor film directed by LeRoy Prinz that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners.  The film was the motion picture debut of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera star Anne Ayars.
Title: Pecan Summer
Passage: Pecan Summer is an opera written and composed by the indigenous Australian singer Deborah Cheetham, who also sang in every season.  It was orchestrated by Jessica Wells.  It is the first opera written by an indigenous Australian and involving an indigenous cast.  It is based on the February 1939 Cummeragunja walk-off, in which Cheetham's grandparents were involved.
Title: Ann Ayars
Passage: Ann Ayars (23 July 1918 – 27 February 1995) was an American soprano and actress.  Early in her career she acted in several TV series and non musical films.  Later, she sang with the New York City Opera (NYCO), and became known worldwide when she sang and acted the part of Antonia in the 1951 British film "The Tales of Hoffmann".
Title: Zenobia e Radamisto
Passage: Zenobia e Radamisto is an opera in 3 acts and nine scenes by composer Giovanni Legrenzi.  The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Ippolito Bentivoglio (1611-1685).  The third opera written by Legrenzi, the work premiered on 1 June 1665 at the Teatro Bonacossi in Ferrara in celebration of the marriage of Nicolò Santini and Maria Luisa Bonvisi.  The opera was subsequently mounted in Brescia (1666), Verona (1667), and Macerata (1669).
Title: Ottone
Passage: Ottone, re di Germania ("Otto, King of Germany", HWV 15) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, to an Italian–language libretto adapted by Nicola Francesco Haym from the libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino for Antonio Lotti's opera "Teofane".  It was the first new opera written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719)'s fourth season and had its first performance on 12 January 1723 at the King's Theatre, Haymarket in London.  Handel had assembled a cast of operatic superstars for this season and the opera became an enormous success.
Title: Apache Trail (film)
Passage: Apache Trail is a 1942 American Western film directed by Richard Thorpe, written by Maurice Geraghty, and starring Lloyd Nolan, Donna Reed, William Lundigan, Ann Ayars, Connie Gilchrist, and Chill Wills.  The picture was released on June 24, 1942, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Title: La liberazione di Ruggiero
Passage: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina ("En."  "The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina") is a comic opera in four scenes by Francesca Caccini, first performed 3 February 1625 at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale in Florence, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli, based on Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso".  It is the first opera written by a woman, and was long considered to be the first Italian opera to be performed outside of Italy.  It was performed to celebrate a visit from Prince Władysław of Poland during Carnival 1625, and it had a revival in Warsaw in 1628.  The work was commissioned by Regent Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, wife of Cosimo II de' Medici, for whom Caccini worked.  "Ruggiero" was printed under the protection of Maria Magdalena in 1625, only five years after the first printed opera in Italy.  It is the only opera by Francesca Caccini to survive.
Title: The Tales of Hoffmann (film)
Passage: The Tales of Hoffmann is a 1951 British Technicolor film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company, The Archers.
Title: Don Juan Triumphant
Passage: Don Juan Triumphant is the name of a fictional opera written by the title character in the novel "The Phantom of the Opera".  In the 1986 musical "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the concept is expanded as an opera within a musical and the performance of it plays a major role in the storyline.  The fictional piece draws major inspiration from the Mozart's famous work "Don Giovanni" yet the Phantom's opera is depicted as far more bleak and dark.
The Tales of Hoffmann (film) Ann Ayars