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    Il crociato in Egitto (The Crusader in Egypt) is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at...
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  • Naxos (Strauss) Erda, Das Rheingold, Siegfried (Wagner) Felicia, Il crociato in Egitto (Meyerbeer) Madame Flora (Baba), The Medium (Menotti) Fidès, Le...
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    forerunner was Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer, who eventually became the acknowledged king of the grand opera genre. In Il crociato, which was produced...
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    Aureliano in Palmira (1813) and Armando in Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto (1824). He made his London debut in 1825 in Il crociato in Egitto. The crowds...
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    himself to opera, spending several years in Italy studying and composing. His 1824 opera Il crociato in Egitto was the first to bring him a Europe-wide...
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    Maria Malibran (category Deaths by horse-riding accident in England)
    turco in Italia, La Cenerentola, and Semiramide (both Arsace and the title role). She also sang in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto in Paris in September...
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    (Manon) Umberto Giordano Mese mariano (Carmela) Il re (Rosalina) Giacomo Meyerbeer Il crociato in Egitto (Palmide) Robert le diable (Isabelle) Tommaso Traetta...
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    performed the last operatic castrato role ever written: Armando in Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer (Venice, 1824). Soon after this they were replaced...
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  • Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto. Also in 2007, Maniaci returned to Glimmerglass Opera to perform the title role in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. In 2008, Maniaci...
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  • Lulu Giacomo Meyerbeer – Il crociato in Egitto Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret ("The mountain adventure") Nicola Vaccai Pietro il grande (première January...
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