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...that Signor Brocolini (pictured), the original Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, took his stage name in honor of Brooklyn, where he grew up?
... that the Royal Opera House in Mumbai is India's only surviving opera house?
... that in the John Gay version of Achilles, the hero is introduced as a cross-dresser?

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