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'''''Jone, ossia L'ultimo giorno di Pompei''''' is an opera in four acts by [[Errico Petrella]]. The Italian-language [[libretto]] was by ...ed in the repertory for close to 50 years, being last given in [[Caracas]] in 1981. This performance has been recorded and issued both on LP and CD. ...

[[File:Polyeuctus of Meletine in Armenia (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|thumb|300px|right|Painting depicting t ...Boutique|access-date=}}</ref> It was finished in December 1642 and debuted in October 1643. It is based on the life of the martyr [[Saint Polyeuctus]] ( ...

}}'''''Cléopâtre''''' is an opera in four acts by [[Jules Massenet]] to a French [[libretto]] by [[Louis Payen]] ''Cléopâtre'' is one of three operas by Massenet to be premiered posthumously; the others are ''[[Panurge (opera ...

...gypt]], daughter of [[Ptolemy IX Lathyros|Ptolemy IX]], the main character in another Handel opera, ''[[Tolomeo]]''. ...aldo (opera)|Rinaldo]]''. An enormous success, ''Rinaldo'' created a craze in London for Italian ''[[opera seria]]'', a form focused overwhelmingly on so ...

...felici'' (1695). The story, set in [[Ancient Greece]] at the time of the [[Ancient Olympic Games|Olympic Games]], is about amorous rivalry and characters' tak ...y subsequently have prompted Metastasio's ''[[La Nitteti]]'', a twin drama in several respects. ...

...ibrettist was [[Paolo Antonio Rolli]]. Handel composed ''Scipione'' whilst in the middle of writing ''[[Alessandro (opera)|Alessandro]]''. It is based on ...1937 and at the annual [[Handel Festival, Halle|Handel Festival]] in Halle in 1965.<ref name="Dean">Dean, Winton, "Handel's ''Scipione'' (October 1967). ...

| caption = The composer in 1875 '''''Djamileh''''' is an ''[[opéra comique]]'' in one act by [[Georges Bizet]] to a [[libretto]] by [[Louis Gallet]], based o ...

| image = Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 13 in Verona, 1770.jpg ...hoses]]''. Interpreting this work, [[Rufinus Widl]] wrote the [[libretto]] in Latin. ...

...[Giovanni Paolo Colonna]] at [[San Petronio Basilica]] in Bologna (perhaps in 1680 or 1681).<ref name=GroveOnline>{{cite Grove|last=Bennett|first1=Lawren ...dedicated a set of vocal duets (Op. 8) to [[Emperor Leopold I]] and played in the orchestra of the [[papal legate|Cardinal Legate]] of Bologna, [[Benedet ...

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| image = Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 13 in Verona, 1770.jpg ...ˈsilla|lang}}), [[Köchel catalogue|K.]] 135, is an Italian [[opera seria]] in three acts composed by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] at the age of 16. The [[ ...

{{Short description|Historic church in Rome, Italy}} | name = Sant'Agnese in Agone ...

| caption = [[Caroline Branchu]] in the title role of Julia, on a poster for the premiere ...a]].<ref>Holden, pp. 1003–1004; Wagner conducted ''La vestale'' in Dresden in 1844 (source: Del Teatro).</ref> ...

'''''Fausta''''' is a [[melodramma]], or [[opera seria]], in two acts by [[Gaetano Donizetti]]. The Italian [[libretto]] was partly writ ...in Naples, and was written with prima donna [[Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis]] in mind; she was rumored to be the king's mistress.{{citation needed|date=Nove ...

| birth_place = [[Rome]] ...sions, particularly after his appointment as Director of the Brera Academy in 1897. ...

...was one of the great European [[literary cycle]]s that figured repeatedly in [[medieval literature]]. ...el]], author of the ''[[Chanson de Saisnes]]'', a ''[[chanson de geste]]'' in which he wrote: ...

...to 55. He was considered a [[usurper]] and [[tyrant]], who was overthrown in a rebellion supported by the [[Parthian Empire]].<ref>Crévier, p. 286</ref> ...he had reconciled with his father, and returned to Iberia to set war plans in motion. Meanwhile Pharasmanes had invented a pretext for war: when he was ...

| death_place = [[Rome]], Italy ...ion = Writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer, composer ...

| death_place = [[Rome]], Italy ...tors [[Luigi Zampa]] in Italy, and [[Yves Allégret]] and [[Jean Delannoy]] in France. ...

{{Short description|Opera in three acts by Handel}} ...]]. Handel had originally entitled the opera after the character of Emilia in the opera.<ref name="Dean">[[Winton Dean|Dean, Winton]], "A Handel Tragicom ...