libretto, by Pierre Duplessis, is based on Voltaire's tragedy Alzire, ou Les américains (1736). Its subject is the Spanish conquistador and conqueror...
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Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the 1736 play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire. The first performance was at the Teatro San Carlo...
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Voltaire (redirect from Arouet le Jeune)
(1732), inspiration for Zaira, opera by Vincenzo Bellini (1829) Alzire, ou les Américains (1736), inspiration for Alzira, opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1845)...
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Queen (1665) and Voltaire's play (also inspired by the Dryden), Alzire, ou les Américains (1736) Two songs were written, Procession of Virgins and Ode to...
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melodramma eroi-comico 4 January 1806 Gli americani (after Voltaire's Alzire, ou Les Américains) Johann Simon Mayr; Nicola Antonio Manfroce (1810) as Alzira;...
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