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    all'isola di San Domingo (in its first performance at La Scala), the title role in Fausta, Pia in Pia de' Tolomei, Eleonora in L'esule di Roma, ossia...
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    Madama Butterfly (category Opera world premieres at La Scala)
    version of the opera, in two acts, had its premiere on 17 February 1904 at La Scala in Milan. It was poorly received, despite having such notable singers as...
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    conducted by Victor de Sabata, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7, 1952 Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording...
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    La Gioconda (opera) (category Opera world premieres at La Scala)
    Benois's production remained in La Scala's repertoire through 1997; although with different performers. La Scala was also responsible for the first complete...
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    La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino...
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    Anna Moffo (category Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni)
    Giuseppe Di Stefano and Rolando Panerai. The following year (1957) saw her debut at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, at La Scala in Milan...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts...
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  • Franco Corelli (category Burials at the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano)
    houses both in Italy and internationally. He made his first appearance at La Scala in Milan in 1954, as Licinio in Spontini's La vestale opposite Callas's...
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    The Useless Precaution (Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione [il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa liˈnuːtile prekautˈtsjoːne])...
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    version with an intermezzo between the acts, Le Villi was performed at La Scala in Milan, on 24 January 1885. However, Ricordi did not publish the score...
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    In 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan. Upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck...
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    Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366)...
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    di Chioggia. In April she also sang in the premiere of Francesco Pollini's cantata Il Trionfo della pace. It was given a gala performance at La Scala...
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  • The original version of the opera premiered on February 17, 1904, at La Scala in Milan. Notes Recordings of Madama Butterfly on operadis-opera-discography...
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    Reale, 9 May 1884) Marion Delorme (Amilcare Ponchielli – Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 17 March 1885) Cimbelino (Niccolò van Westerhout – Naples, private performance...
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    Mario Petri, Marcello Cortis - La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (1954, Milan) Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia - Robert Merrill, Roberta...
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    (Oberlin College Press), ISBN 0-932440-01-0 Posthumous 1981: Prime alla Scala, music criticism, edited by Gianfranca Lavezzi; Milan: Mondadori 1981: Lettere...
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    La cambiale di matrimonio ([la kamˈbjale di matriˈmɔnjo]; English: The Bill of Marriage or The Marriage Contract) is a one-act operatic farsa comica by...
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    leading basses of his generation. He sang throughout Italy, making his La Scala debut in 1941. After the war he began appearing abroad, notably at the Royal...
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  • century. His work, such as the Scala Philosophorum, is referenced in quotations and extracts in subsequent sources. Di Montanor was a follower of the...
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  • Puccini's Tosca for HMV (also featuring Giuseppe Di Stefano and Tito Gobbi along with the La Scala orchestra and chorus). This production is widely regarded...
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    abilities.: 208  Hanussen performed a mind reading and hypnosis act at La Scala in Berlin that catapulted him to stardom.: 209  At his height, he enjoyed...
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    De Lucia, Maddalena; Ottaiano, Mena; Limoncelli, Bianca; Parlato, Luigi; Scala, Omar; Siviglia, Vittoria (2010). "The Museum of Vesuvius Observatory and...
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    Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello); La Scala (15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta...
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    Arezzo and his work are frequent namesakes. The controversial mass Missa Scala Aretina (1702) by Francisco Valls takes its name from Guido's hexachord...
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  • accompanying the DVD. Sources Gruber, Paul, ed. (2003). The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03444-5....
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    not conduct it as Puccini had planned—Toscanini was fully engaged at La Scala in Milan. Leopoldo Mugnone was appointed to conduct. The accomplished (but...
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    Gianfranco Cecchele as Turiddu, Giangiacomo Guelfi as Alfio and Anna di Stasio as Lucia. (La Scala, Milan conducted by Herbert von Karajan.) The 1982 film directed...
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    Norman Kelley playing the role of the magician Nika. For the opera's La Scala debut in January 1951, Powers and McKinley reprised their roles, and Clara...
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    (2000). The Puccini Companion: Essays on Puccini's Life and Music. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32052-9. Weaver, William (1992). Manon Lescaut: Puccini's...
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