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Several of Giuseppe Verdi's operas drew inspiration from Spanishculture. Based on the chivalric drama "El Trovador" by Antonio GarciaGutiérrez, "Il Trovatore", together with "Rigoletto"...
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When, in 1900, Giacomo Puccini attended David Belasco’s play "Madame Butterfly" in London, he found it to be ideal material for an opera. Although...
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Based on the theatre of our compratiot Michel de Ghelderode, Ligeti’sopera evoces the fantastic and demonic world of Jeroen Bosch and JamesEnsor.
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‘This opera will win me a martyr’s crown’, wrote Beethoven about"Fidelio". The difficulties encountered by the main opera characters ontheir way to freedom was...
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With The Merry Widow the Austrian-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár wrote THE succes operetta of the 20th century. This winner, written in...
