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    Risorgimento! is an opera in one act by Lorenzo Ferrero set to an Italian-language libretto by Dario Oliveri, based on a scenario by the composer. It...
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    (Italian: Unità d'Italia, Italian: [uniˈta ddiˈtaːlja]), also known as the Risorgimento (/rɪˌsɔːrdʒɪˈmɛntoʊ/, Italian: [risordʒiˈmento]; lit. 'Resurgence'),...
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    Giuseppe Verdi (category Italian opera composers)
    works significantly influenced him. In his early operas, Verdi demonstrated sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy...
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    The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is an opera house in Bologna, Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April...
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    Aida (redirect from Aida (opera))
    Aida (or Aïda, Italian: [aˈiːda]) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom...
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  • List of works for the stage by Lorenzo Ferrero (category Lists of operas by composer)
    Osmond-Smith, David (1997). 'Ferrero, Lorenzo' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-522186-9...
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    the Unification of Italy ("Risorgimento"): the Central Museum of the Risorgimento (Italian: Museo Centrale del Risorgimento) with an adjoining study institute...
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    Va, pensiero (category Opera excerpts)
    dei cori operistici nel Risorgimento" ['Edizioni distrutte' and the Significance of Operatic Choruses during the Risorgimento]. Il Saggiatore musicale...
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    fact that made him a symbol of the Risorgimento, the process that led to the unification of Italy. After a first opera that was never performed (Rocester...
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    fastidious critics" and Budden ("...the heaviest and noisiest of the Risorgimento operas, blunt in style, daubed in thick garish colours") refer to some of...
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    of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.    Revision...
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    Rigoletto (redirect from Rigoletto (opera))
    Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse...
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    Conquista, and his 2011 Risorgimento! Other 20th-century Italian opera composers are: Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973) whose 19 operas include L'Orfeide...
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    Norma (Italian: [ˈnɔrma]) is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after the play Norma, ou L'infanticide...
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    the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento in Bologna, the Museum of the Risorgimento in Imola and the Museum of the Risorgimento in Piacenza. The National...
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    Don Carlos is an 1867 five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the...
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    Falstaff (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfalstaf]) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was...
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  • La donna è mobile (category Opera excerpts)
    Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851). The canzone is famous as a showcase for tenors. Raffaele Mirate's performance of the bravura aria at the opera's 1851 premiere...
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  • The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer...
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  • marked appearance in Verdi's operas, where its stirring, frankly vulgar sound accorded well with the general Risorgimento feeling of such early works as...
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    Otello (redirect from Othello the opera)
    an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, first...
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    This is a list of historical figures who have been characters in opera or operetta. Historical accuracy in such works has often been subject to the imperatives...
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  • This is a list of individual opera composers and their major works. The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in...
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    Luchino Visconti (category Italian opera directors)
    name about the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy at the time of the Risorgimento, where the change of times becomes visible in two of the main characters:...
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    Nabucco (category Opera world premieres at La Scala)
    [naˌbukoˈdɔːnozor, -donoˈzɔr]; English: "Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by...
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  • Anvil Chorus (category Opera excerpts)
    "Anvil Chorus", is a chorus from act 2, scene 1 of Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera Il trovatore. It depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn –...
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    The Gadfly (category British novels adapted into operas)
    revolution, romance, and heroism. The book, set during the Italian Risorgimento, is primarily concerned with the culture of revolution and revolutionaries...
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    Tu che le vanità (category Opera excerpts)
    aria for soprano from the first scene of the final act of Verdi's 1867 opera Don Carlo. It was composed to a French text and later translated into Italian...
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    La traviata (category Opera world premieres at La Fenice)
    La traviata (Italian: [la traviˈaːta, -aˈvjaː-]; The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco...
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    (French pronunciation: [le vɛːpʁ sisiljɛn]; The Sicilian Vespers) is a grand opera in five acts by the Italian romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi set to a French...
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