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Opera is so strange a medley of the arts that some people think it ought not to exist ; but the paradox of opera is this , that it may invoke the aid of many arts but must live by one alone . Opera is just opera in musica .
Opera is so strange a medley of the arts that some people think it ought not to exist ; but the paradox of opera is this , that it may invoke the aid of many arts but must live by one alone . Opera is just opera in musica .
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The story was familiar in many versions , from ' El Burlador de Sevilla ' of Tirso de Molina to ' Le Festin de Pierre ' of Molière ; but we may be sure that Da Ponte did no more than borrow from other opera - books , two of which ...
The story was familiar in many versions , from ' El Burlador de Sevilla ' of Tirso de Molina to ' Le Festin de Pierre ' of Molière ; but we may be sure that Da Ponte did no more than borrow from other opera - books , two of which ...
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the crown - jewel among light operas . Indeed , Mozart's last Italian opera may be called every Italian opera , for in the impudently absurd story , with its transparent conspiracies , disguises , and misunderstandings , and in the ...
the crown - jewel among light operas . Indeed , Mozart's last Italian opera may be called every Italian opera , for in the impudently absurd story , with its transparent conspiracies , disguises , and misunderstandings , and in the ...
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