A Night at the Opera
Wikimedia disambiguation page
A Night at the Opera may refer to:
A Night at the Opera (film) (1935), a Marx Brothers comedy film
A Night at the Opera (Queen album) (1975), by rock band Queen
A Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album) (2002), by power metal band Blind Guardian
A Night at the Opera (chess), a famous chess game played during an opera, in which Paul Morphy defeated Duke Karl II of Brunswick and Count Isouard
"A Night at the Opera" (Never the Twain), a 1981 television episode
"A Night at the Opera", a TV special stand-up comedy show by comedian Jackie Mason.
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