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    Il fortunato inganno (The Happy Deception) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Composed in 1823...
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    has remained a staple of the operatic repertoire. An aria from the opera, "Il dolce suono", is featured in the film The Fifth Element. The instrumentation...
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  • 571. Weinstock 1963, pp. 188—189 Dom Sebastian von Portugal. OCLC 79789205. Il duca d'Alba. OCLC 174363469. Allitt, John Stewart (1991), Donizetti: in the...
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    zingara". It received only one performance, while his two-act farsa, Il fortunato inganno, given in September at the Teatro del Fondo, received only three...
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    his friend Orsini. Orsini leads the party in a brindisi or drinking song ("Il segreto per esser felici") and they drink. Lucrezia enters and announces that...
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    "Per dio! Se questo Napoletano continua a cantare così, farà parlare di sè il mondo intero" (Heavens! If this Neapolitan continues to sing like this, he...
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    supposedly supports Pasquale, he is amazed at this apparent betrayal (Mi fa il destino mendico – "Fate has made a beggar of me"). Ernesto determines to elope...
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    Roberto Devereux (in full Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex, Italian: [roˈbɛrto deveˈrø osˈsiːa il ˈkonte di ˈɛsseks]; "Robert Devereux, or the Earl...
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    Alphonse Royer u. Gustave Vaëz]. Dato alla luce per la 1. volta a Parigi sotto il nome La favorita [!] ed ora liberamente trad. dal francese per cura di Francesco...
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    However, they tell him that she is about to leave with her aunt (Marie, aria: Il faut partir / "I must leave you!"). In a choral finale, she leaves with the...
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