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    Alessandro (HWV 21), is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli's libretto is based on the story...
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  • Alessandro is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Alessandro may also refer to: Alessandro (opera), a 1726 opera by Handel Alessandro, California...
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    Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas...
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    Alessandro Stradella is a romantic opera (Romantische Oper) in three acts composed by Friedrich von Flotow to a German libretto by "Wilhelm Friedrich"...
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  • This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725). Scarlatti wrote 45 drammi per musica, also 7 melodrammi...
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    Alessandro Safina (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro saˈfiːna]) is an Italian operatic pop tenor. Born in Siena, Italy, Safina has sought to combine...
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    Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed...
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    Alessandro Juliani (born 6 July 1975) is a Canadian actor and singer. He is notable for playing the roles of Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta on...
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    operatic comedy, Il Trespolo tutore, by Alessandro Stradella, in 1679. Opera buffa was a parallel development to opera seria, and arose in reaction to the...
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    Alessandro Moreschi (11 November 1858 – 21 April 1922) was an Italian chorister of the late 19th century and the only castrato to make solo recordings...
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    example in the operas of Mozart, who wrote in Vienna near the century's close. Leading Italian-born composers of opera seria include Alessandro Scarlatti,...
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    Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (9 December 1728 – 19 November 1804) was an Italian opera composer of the classical period. Guglielmi was born into the Guglielmi...
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    considered a precursor of this type of opera is Alessandro Stradella, despite the fact that he composed most of his operas in Genoa: Trespolo tutore (1677)...
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    Il re pastore (category Opera seria)
    King) is an opera, K. 208, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Metastasio, edited by Giambattista Varesco. It is an opera seria. The...
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  • This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728–1804). Ninety-five works are listed below. This does not...
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    Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his mother being Moorish, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine...
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    genre of French opera (or tragédie en musique) was preferred. Acclaimed composers of opera seria included Antonio Caldara, Alessandro Scarlatti, George...
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    Berenice (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a 1709 Antonio Salvi libretto, Berenice, regina d'Egitto, or Berenice, Queen...
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  • Alessandro Striggio the Younger (ca. 1573 – 8 June 1630) was an Italian librettist, the son of the composer Alessandro Striggio. The younger Striggio is...
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    alternative to weightier opera seria (17th-century Italian opera based on classical mythology). Il Trespolo tutore (1679) by Alessandro Stradella was an early...
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    Alessandro nelle Indie (Alexander in India) is an opera seria in two acts by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola and Giovanni Schmidt...
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    1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (US: /kɑːlˈjɔːstroʊ, kæl-/ ka(h)l-YAW-stroh, Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro]), was an Italian...
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    summary is based on the setting by Carl Heinrich Graun in his 1774 opera, Alessandro e Poro. The Indian camp after Porus' defeat At the end of the overture...
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    Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli (/ˌbɒtɪˈtʃɛli/ BOT-ih-CHEL-ee; Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli])...
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    Indians", HWV 28) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Alessandro nell'Indie by Metastasio...
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  • and 18th-century Italy, which includes: Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725), Baroque composer known for operas and chamber cantatas, father of Domenico...
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  • Doriclea (Stradella) (category Operas by Alessandro Stradella)
    La Doriclea is a 1672 opera in three acts by Alessandro Stradella, first performed in Rome. It was Stradella's first opera. The libretto is probably by...
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    The art form known as opera originated in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though it drew upon older traditions of medieval and Renaissance...
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    Italian), Bari edition, 25 May 2011, p. 16; Alessandro Cammarano, "Venezia – Teatro La Fenice: Norma", OperaClick (in Italian), 20 May 2015. Remigio also...
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    Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒuˈzɛppe alesˈsandro eˈspɔːzito]; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best...
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