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    1784. Pygmalion was the subject of Gaetano Donizetti's first opera, Il Pigmalione. Fromental Halévy wrote an opera Pygmalion in the 1820s, but it was not...
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    for Dame Joan Sutherland) and is a technically and expressively demanding piece. Donizetti wrote it in F major, but it is often transposed down a tone (two...
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    song. The Marquise sits down at the piano and attempts to work through the piece with Marie, who becomes more and more distracted and, along with Sulpice...
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    Genoa. The Metropolitan Opera New York performed a new production of the piece in 2016, starring Sondra Radvanovsky, who also appeared the same season...
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  • "my friend". There are only other six Italian stories — "Zio Paperone Pigmalione" ("Uncle Scrooge Benefactor") by writer Caterina Mognato and artist Sandro...
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    where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, which may never have been performed during his lifetime. An offer in...
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    Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on "a piece of Gothic horror", La nonne sanglante by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Julien...
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    at Her Majesty's in 1847. New Orleans' Théâtre d'Orléans first saw the piece on 9 February 1843 in French (followed by a performance in New York by the...
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    Didone, scena drammatica. Ottava edizione (1772) Opere Diverse (1773) Pigmalione (1773) Riflessioni filosofiche-morali (1773) Lettere turche (1776) Le...
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    bonheur de vivre au village S 61, WoO 29 – Die Messenier S 62, WoO 33 – Pigmalione S 63, WoO 23 – Bassoon Concerto in F major S 64 – Ja der Himmel (incomplete)...
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