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Opera:
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Tabarro,
Il - (Il Trittico)
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Orig. Language:
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Italian
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Composer:
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Puccini
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Librettist:
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Giuseppe Adami
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Description:
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Opera in I Act
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Notes:
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Giuseppe Adami after Didier Gold
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Time:
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Early 20th Century
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Place:
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The Seine, in Paris
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Premiere Date:
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December 14, 1918
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Premiere Location:
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New York.
Metropolitan Opera
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Michele
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Baritone
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L
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Luigi
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Tenor
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L
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Giorgetta
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Soprano
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L
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Talpa
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Bass
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F
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Frugola
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Mezzo-Soprano
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F
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Tinca
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Tenor
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S
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A Song Vendor
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Tenor
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B
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Two Lovers
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Soprano & Tenor
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B
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Minimum Chorus:
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18
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Divisi:
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SSTBrBs
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Description:
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Notes:
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Text based on the story by Elizabeth Enright
from her collection “The moments before the rain”.
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Time:
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The present:
a winter Sunday afternoon.
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Place:
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In the main, the living-room of Tracy &
Laura Gates.
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Premiere Date:
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1957
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Premiere Location:
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Tanglewood
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Laura Gates
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Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano
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L
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Tracy Gates
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Baritone
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L
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Florentine Noblewoman
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Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano
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F
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Scottish Farm Girl
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Soprano
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F
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German Soldier
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Tenor
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F
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The Doctor
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Speaking
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S
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Karl (German Soldier’s young brother, dead,
is then re-born. Mute
Bit, if performed by an Actor)
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Minimum Chorus:
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8 (if performed by chorus)
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Divisi:
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Notes #2:
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**Composer’s Note:
(chorus remains unseen) but heard at the beginning and end
sections, and visible during the narrative and introductions to
each miracle. Choral
Part is generally written unison throughout; its size and
gender is left to the discretion of the director.
This Part might conceivably be sung by One Singer, provided the voice is sufficiently amplified.
Recommended classification for One Solo Singer (Chorus) = SUPPORTING.
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Opera |
TAMERLANO |
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Orig. Language: |
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Composer |
George
Frederich Handel |
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Librettist |
Nicola
Francesco Haym's adaptation of Agostino Piovene's "Tamerlano, Tragedia
per musica" |
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Description: |
A Musical Drama
in III Acts |
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Time |
1400AD,
beginnings of the Ottoman Empire |
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Place: |
Prusa, Bithynia |
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Premiere Date: |
October
31, 1724 |
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Premiere Location: |
First
Performance at the King's Theater, Haymarket, London |
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Role |
Voice Part |
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Tamerlano |
Alto/Countertenor |
L |
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Bajazet |
Tenor |
L |
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Asteria |
Soprano |
L |
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Andronico |
Mezzo-Soprano |
L |
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Irene |
Contralto |
F |
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Leone |
Bass |
S |
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Minimum Chorus: |
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No Chorus |
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Opera:
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Taming
of the Shrew, The
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Orig. Language:
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English
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Composer:
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Giannini
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Librettist:
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Vittorio Giannini and Dorothy Fee
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Description:
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Opera in III Acts
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Notes:
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Based on Shakespeare’s Play.
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Time:
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16th Century
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Place:
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Padua
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Premiere Date:
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1953 and April 13, 1958.
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Premiere Location:
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Cincinnati (1953)
NYCO (1958) Kansas
City (1969)
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Katerina
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Soprano
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L
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Petruchio
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Baritone
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L
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Baptista
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Bass
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F
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Bianca
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Soprano
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F
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Lucentio
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Tenor
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F
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Hortensio
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Baritone
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S
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Gremio
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Tenor
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S
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Vincentio
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Bass
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S
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Tranio
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Baritone
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S
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Biodello
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Bass
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S
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Grumio
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Tenor
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S
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Curtis
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Bass
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B
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A Peasant
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Tenor
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B
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Tailor
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Tenor
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B
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Minimum Chorus:
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???
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Divisi:
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Opera:
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Tancredi
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Orig. Language:
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Italian
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Composer:
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Rossini
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Librettist:
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Gaetano Rossi
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Description:
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Opera seria in III Acts,
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Notes:
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Text after Tasso and Voltaire's tragedy
"Tancrede"
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Time:
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In the year 1005
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Place:
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Syracuse, Sicily
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Premiere Date:
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February 6, 1813
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Premiere Location:
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Venice, Teatro la Fenice
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Role
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Voice Part
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Classification
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Arigirio
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Tenor (Primo)
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L
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Tancredi
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Contralto
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L
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Amenaide
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Soprano (Prima)
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L
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Orbazzano
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Bass (Primo)
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F
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Isaura
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Mezzo Soprano
(Seconda)
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F
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Roggiero
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Contralto
(Secondo)
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F
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Minimum Chorus:
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18
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Divisi:
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TTBB
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Noblemen, Cavaliers, People, Saracens,
Esquires, Pages, etc.
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Opera:
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TannhÄUser
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Orig. Language:
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German
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Composer:
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Wagner
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Librettist:
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Wagner
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Description:
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Opera in III Acts
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Notes:
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Time:
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Early 13th Century
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Place:
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