Nation was the subject of an eponymous opera by composer Douglas Moore which premiered in 1966.

Wuornos has been the subject of a television movie, a feature documentary, an opera and an Off Off Broadway play.

Švejk is the subject of films, plays, an opera, a musical, comic books, and statues-even the theme of restaurants in a number of European countries.

The songwriter, labor organizer and folk hero Joe Hill has been the subject of poems, songs, an opera, books and movies.

The story was also the subject of an opera by Italian composer Adriano Lualdi, premiered in 1925.

Ilkka was the subject of an opera by Jorma Panula, composed between 1977 and 1978.

Bek was the subject of an opera, David Beg, composed by Armen Tigranian.

The Resurgence is the subject of an opera, Risorgimento!

Mercadante first suggested Virginia as the subject of an opera to La Fenice in 1839, but the idea was rejected.

Kennedy still rules the supermarket tabloids; Nixon was the subject of an opera; Oliver Stone has done movies about both.