Luciano Mariani (1801 – 10 June 1859) was an Italian operatic bass.
 Amongst the several roles he created were Rodolfo in Bellini's "La sonnambula" [Milan, Teatro Carcano, 1831], Alfonso d'Este in Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia" and Oroe in Rossini's "Semiramide".
 His elder sister, Rosa Mariani, was also an opera singer (contralto) and sang Arsace in the premiere of "Semiramide".
 They toured Italy singing together in many operas.
 Mariani sang in Lisbon at the Teatro São Carlos from 1839 to 1840, where he appeared in several Portuguese premieres of Italian operas, as well as the world premieres of Antonio Luís Miró's opera "Virginia" and Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos's opera "Inês de Castro".
 Mariani was born in Cremona and died in Castell'Arquato, aged 58.
Cordwood Pete is a fictional character who was the younger brother of legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
 While Paul Bunyan is said to have been a giant of a man, his younger brother Peter Bunyan was a mere 4 ft in height.
 Pete's growth was apparently stunted by the fact that he could never get enough flapjacks at the breakfast table because Paul ate everything in sight.
La sonnambula "(The Sleepwalker)" is a ballet by the co-founder and ballet master of New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including "La Sonnambula", "Norma", "I Puritani" and "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" (1830–35) and with costumes by Karinska.
 The premiere took place with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on Wednesday, 27 February , at City Center of Music and Drama, New York; the City Ballet premiere was on 6 January 1965.
Tenore di grazia , also called leggero tenor ("graceful" and "light" tenor, respectively), is a lightweight, flexible tenor voice type.
 The tenor roles written in the early 19th-century Italian operas are invariably leggero tenor roles, especially those by Rossini such as Lindoro in "L'italiana in Algeri", Don Ramiro in "La Cenerentola", and Almaviva in "Il barbiere di Siviglia"; and those by Bellini such as Gualtiero in "Il pirata", Elvino in "La sonnambula" and Arturo in "I puritani".
 Many Donizetti roles, such as Nemorino in "L'elisir d'amore" and Ernesto in "Don Pasquale", Tonio in "La fille du régiment", are also "tenore di grazia" roles.
 One of the most famous leggero tenors of that period was Giovanni Battista Rubini, for whom Bellini wrote nearly all his operas.
La sonnambula ("The Sleepwalker") is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the "bel canto" tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a "ballet-pantomime" written by Eugène Scribe and choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer called "La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur".
 The ballet had premiered in Paris in September 1827 at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism.
Paul Bunyan is a 1958 animated musical short film released by Walt Disney Studios It was based on the North American folk hero and lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
 The film was directed by Les Clark, a member of Disney's Nine Old Men of core animators.
 Thurl Ravenscroft starred as the voice of Paul Bunyan.
 Supporting animators on the project included Lee Hartman.
Paul Bunyan Land is an amusement park located in Brainerd, Minnesota, on This Old Farm.
 Its trademark is the 26 ft animated and talking statue of Paul Bunyan.
 As children enter, Paul welcomes them by name.
 The amusement park has 27 rides for children and is surrounded by 30 buildings.
Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.
 It premiered at Columbia University on 5 May 1941, to largely negative reviews, and was withdrawn by the composer.
 Britten revised it somewhat in 1976 and subsequently it had numerous performances and two commercial recordings.
 The story is based on the folkloric American lumberjack, Paul Bunyan, with the music incorporating a variety of American styles, including folk songs, blues and hymns.
 The work is strongly sectional in nature, highly reminiscent of the 'Broadway musical' style of the period.
Log Chute, formerly known as Paul Bunyan's Log Chute, is a log flume attraction sponsored by Xcel Energy (formerly sponsored by Brawny) at Mall of America's Nickelodeon Universe in Bloomington, Minnesota.
 It opened on August 11, 1992 and is one of the mall's oldest surviving acquisitions from Knott's Camp Snoopy.
 The ride is based on the tall tale of Paul Bunyan and is set in a mountain lumber mill featuring two lift hills and two drops as passengers experience singing animatronics, including Paul Bunyan (modeled after the Brawny mascot) and Babe the Blue Ox.
Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger is an anthology of ten original Paul Bunyan tall tales: it was written and illustrated by Glen Rounds, and published by Holiday House in 1936.
 Upon its publication, Kirkus Reviews praised it, saying that "there's a harmony about this book -- the telling of familiar episodes from the Paul Bunyan legend, the homespun look of the paper, the virility of the line illustrations. . . . [A] book to read aloud."
 It was one of the seventeen books selected in the inaugural class of Lewis Carroll Shelf Award recipients in 1958.

Question: Are  Paul Bunyan and La sonnambula both Italian operas?
Answer: no