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Opera |
EDGAR |
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Orig. Language: |
Italian |
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Composer |
Giacomo
Puccini |
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Librettist |
Ferdinando
Fontana |
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Description: |
Lyric Drama in
III Acts |
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Notes: |
Based on
Alfred de Musset’s La coupe et les lèvres |
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Time |
1302 |
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Place: |
Flanders |
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Premiere Date: |
April 21, 1889 |
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Premiere Location: |
Milan, Teatro La Scala |
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Role |
Voice Part |
Classification
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Edgar |
Tenor |
L |
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Fidelia |
Soprano |
F |
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Tigrana |
Mezzo-Soprano |
F |
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Frank |
Baritone |
F |
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Gualtiero |
Bass |
S |
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Minimum Chorus: |
36 |
Divisi
( + children’s chorus)
Peasants,
Courtiers, Guests, Soldiers, Monks, Servants |
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Opera:
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Elektra
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Orig. Language:
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German
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Composer
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R. Strauss
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Librettist
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Description:
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Opera in I Act
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Notes:
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Text after Sophocles
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Time
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Antiquity
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Place:
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Mycenae
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Premiere Date:
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January 25, 1909
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Premiere Location:
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Dresden (Court Opera)
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Klytemnestra
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Mezzo Soprano
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L
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Elektra
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Soprano
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L
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Chrysothemis
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Soprano
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L
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Orest
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Baritone
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F
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Aegisth
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Tenor
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F
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Tutor (Guardian) of Orest
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Bass
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S
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5th Maidservant
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Soprano
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S
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The Overseer
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Soprano
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S
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Four Maidservants
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Contralto, Mezzo-Soprano (2), Soprano
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B
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The Trainbearer of Klytemnestra
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Soprano
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B
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An Old Servant (Slave)
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Bass
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B
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A Young Servant (Young Slave)
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Tenor
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B
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The Confidante of Klytemnestra
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Soprano
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B
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6 Additional Maidservants
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Sopranos & Altos
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CB
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Minimum Chorus:
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32
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Divisi:
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SSAATTBB - Off-Stage Voices
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Opera:
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Elisir
D’Amore, L’
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Orig. Language:
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Italian
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Composer
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Donizetti
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Librettist
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Felice Romani
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Description:
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Opera in II Acts
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Notes:
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Text after Eugène Scribe's " Le Philtre"
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Time
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19th Century
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Place:
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A small Italian village
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Premiere Date:
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May 12, 1832
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Premiere Location:
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Milan. Teatro
della Canobbiana
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Adina
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Soprano
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L
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Nemorino
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Tenor
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L
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Sergeant Belcore
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Baritone
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L
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Dulcamara, a quack doctor
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Bass
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L
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Giannetta, a peasant girl
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Soprano
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S
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Minimum Chorus:
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24
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Divisi:
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Description:
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Opera in two parts
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Notes:
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Poem by Colette
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Time
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Place:
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A room in a Normandy house, which opens into
a garden
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Premiere Date:
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March 21, 1925.
February 1, 1926
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Premiere Location:
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Monte Carlo (1925).
Paris. Opéra-Comique
(1926)
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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The Child
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Mezzo-Soprano
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L
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*The Princess/Fire/Nightingale
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Soprano
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L
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The Mother/Chinese Cup/Dragonfly/Shepherd
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Contralto
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F
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*The Little Old Man (Arithmetic)/The Tree
Frog
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Tenor
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F
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The Teapot (black Wedgewood)
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Tenor
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F
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The Comtoise (Grandfather) Clock/The Black
Cat (Tom Cat)
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Baritone
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F
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The Armchair/The Tree
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Bass
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F
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The White Cat/Squirrel/Shepherdess
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Mezzo-Soprano
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F
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Louis XV Bergere/Bat/Screech-Owl
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Soprano
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S
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The Bergere (alone)
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B
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The Bat (alone)
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B
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The Screech-Owl (alone)
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CB
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***Four Soli of Animals
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Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
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CB
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The Cinder
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Mime
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Minimum Chorus:
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24
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Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Tree Frogs,
Animals, Trees
Children’s Chorus = The Bench, The Sofa,
The Stool, The Wicker Chair
Children’s Chorus = The Numbers
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Divisi:
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SSAATTBB
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Notes #2:
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* Roles
with one Asterisk MUST, according to the score, be sung by the
same singer.
***According to instructions in the score,
“The Soli of Animals”, in the scene before the last, should be
sung by the Leading Roles.
(In this case, Feature included)
Ballet .. little people (Shepherd and
Shepherdesses), Moths, Bats, Dragonflies, Sheep, Goats, Dogs,
Squirrels, etc.
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Opera:
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Entführung
Aus Dem Serail, Die
(The
Abduction From The Seraglio)
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Orig. Language:
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German
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Composer:
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Mozart
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Librettist:
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Gottlieb Stephanie
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Description:
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Opera in III Acts
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Notes:
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Text from a play by Bretzner
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Time:
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16th Century
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Place:
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Turkey
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Premiere Date:
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July 16, 1782
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Premiere Location:
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Vienna.
Burgtheater
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Constanze, a Spanish Lady
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Soprano
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L
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Blonde, her English maid
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Soprano
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L
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Belmonte, a Spanish nobleman
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Tenor
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L
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Pedrillo, his servant
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Tenor
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L
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Osmin, overseer of his harem
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Bass
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L
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Pasha Selim
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Speaking
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F
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Klaas, boatsman
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Speaking
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CB
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Guard
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Speaking
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CB
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