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    Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique (Hernán Cortés, or The Conquest of Mexico) is an opera in three acts by Gaspare Spontini with a French libretto...
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    to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention...
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    translated Hernán Cortés's letters into French, with the title Lettres de Fernand Cortès à Charles Quint sur la découverte et la conquête du Mexique (1896)...
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    educational resources Latin American studies center, material on Cortés Fernand Cortez opera by Gaspare Spontini, Jean-Paul Penin "Cortes, Hernando" Archived...
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    drama of the day. Other opera librettos followed, including Spontini's Fernand Cortez and Cherubini's Abencérages, but none obtained so great a success. From...
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    wrote: La petite maison Milton Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs La vestale Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique Pélage, ou Le roi et la paix Les dieux rivaux...
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    lyrical work, La vestale, had a considerable success. His next work, Fernand Cortez, was commissioned when Napoleon decided to invade Spain, and celebrated...
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  • for operas like Il turco in Italia by Rossini, Preciosa by Weber and Fernand Cortez by Spontini. Grut, Marina (2007). Royal Swedish Ballet: History from...
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    French grand opera. These include Spontini's La vestale (1807) and Fernand Cortez (1809, revised 1817), Cherubini's Les Abencérages (1813), and Rossini's...
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    (1802) Milton (1804) Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs (1805) La vestale (1807) Fernand Cortez (1809) Olimpie (1819) Nurmahal, oder Das Rosenfest von Kaschmir (1822)...
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