Marta Domingo (née Ornelas) is a Mexican opera soprano, stage director and designer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she performed as a lyric soprano in Mexico and Israel. Since the 1990s, she has directed operas in Europe and North America. She is the wife of popular Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo, who has credited her with helping to guide his career.
Marta Ornelas was born in Mexico. She studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City.
She started her career as an opera soprano for Opera Belles Artes in Mexico City. She then joined the Israel National Opera in Israel, where she was a lead soprano for two and a half years. During that period, she had leading roles in Così fan tutte, The Barber of Seville, Die Fledermaus, Carmen, Faust, Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, La bohème, and Pagliacci.
After she retired as soprano to raise her children, she returned to opera as a director and designer. Beginning in 1991, she directed Samson et Dalila for the Teatro de la Ópera in Puerto Rico. The following year, in 1992, she directed Tosca at La Maestranza Theater in Seville, Spain.Rigoletto was her next project for the Los Angeles Opera in Los Angeles, California in 1993. She returned to Puerto Rico in 1994, where she directed The Barber of Seville.La Rondine, directed for the Oper der Stadt Bonn in Bonn followed in 1995 It was also presented by The Washington Opera in Washington, D.C. in the 1997-1998 season, and shown on the PBS television channel. Marta Domingo directed La Traviata in 1988 at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Belgium, and it was also given at the Los Angeles Opera in the 1998-1999 season. That same season, she also directed Sly, an opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, for The Washington Opera, a production which was also presented by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City four years later, in 2002.
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Marta is a 1971 Spanish thriller film directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde. The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Marta Vieira da Silva (born 19 February 1986), commonly known as Marta, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for FC Rosengård in the Swedish Damallsvenskan and the Brazil national team as a forward. With 15 goals, she holds the record for most goals scored at FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments, surpassing Birgit Prinz's previous record of 14 with a goal against South Korea in Brazil's first match of the 2015 edition in Canada.
Marta is regarded as the best female player of all time, coveting the nickname Pele with skirts by Pele himself. She was named FIFA World Player of the Year five consecutive times between 2006 and 2010. She was a member of the Brazilian national teams that won the silver medal at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also awarded the Golden Ball (MVP) at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, and won both the Golden Ball award as the best player and the Golden Boot award as the top scorer in the 2007 Women's World Cup.
In January 2013 she was named as one of the six Ambassadors of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, alongside Amarildo, Bebeto, Carlos Alberto Torres, Ronaldo and Mario Zagallo. She also appeared in the Sveriges Television television documentary series The Other Sport from 2013.
well i wouldn't say no
to a glass of beer
'cause i'm in the mood
'cause i'm mister rollercoaster
gonna grab my telecaster
and play the clown
so give a damn give a damn boys
so give a dime give a dime boys
and i'll show you my style
and i'll give you my life
let's go
don't you call me a queer
if i show you my rear
in a place like here
because i'm mister rollercoaster
fell better than ever
fell better than ever tonight
so give a damn give a damn boys
so give a dime give a dime boys
and i'll give you my life
and i'll give you my life
oh boys i'm gonna stumble
yeah boys i'm gonna get in trouble
now i can only mumble
please let me take my bow