• "In questa reggia" ("In this palace") is an aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni...
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    Turandot (category Operas set in China)
    explains ("In questa reggia" – "In this palace") that her ancestress of millennia past, Princess Lo-u-Ling, reigned over her kingdom "in silence and...
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    Giacomo Puccini (category Deaths from esophageal cancer in Belgium)
    his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-19th-century Romantic Italian opera, he later developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of...
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    O mio babbino caro (category Compositions in A-flat major)
    love in contrast with the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, double-dealing, and feuding in medieval Florence. It provides the only set-piece in the through-composed...
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    Madama Butterfly (category IMDb title ID not in Wikidata)
    (Italian pronunciation: [maˈdaːma ˈbatterflai]; Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by...
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    La rondine (category Operas set in France)
    La rondine (The Swallow) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner...
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    Un bel dì, vedremo (category Compositions in G-flat major)
    It is the most famous aria in Madama Butterfly, and one of the most popular pieces in the entire soprano repertoire. Early in act 2, three years after her...
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    set to different text in the 1st revision of his work La rondine called "Parigi è la città dei desideri" which is sung by Ruggero in the 1st act. Besides...
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  • Nessun dorma (category Compositions in G major)
    the aria at three subsequent FIFA World Cup Finals, in 1994 in Los Angeles, 1998 in Paris, and 2002 in Yokohama. Since 1990, many crossover artists have...
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  • in and was, for four years, one of BBC One's top-rated comedy programmes, winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003. Ancona also starred in the...
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    La bohème (category Operas set in Paris)
    La bohème (/ˌlɑː boʊˈɛm/ LAH boh-EM, Italian: [la boˈɛm]) is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto...
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    Tosca (category Operas set in Italy)
    an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14...
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  • "Musetta's Waltz", is a soprano aria, a waltz in act two of Puccini's 1896 opera La bohème. It is sung by Musetta, in the presence of her bohemian friends, hoping...
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    Gianni Schicchi (category Operas set in Florence)
    in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's...
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  • Vissi d'arte (category Compositions in E-flat minor)
    "Vissi d'arte" Sung in 1914 by Emmy Destinn (3:11) Problems playing this file? See media help. "Vissi d'arte" is a soprano aria from act 2 of the opera...
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    E lucevan le stelle (category Compositions in B minor)
    by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung in act 3 by Mario Cavaradossi (tenor), a painter in love with the singer Tosca, while he waits for his...
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    permission in 1920 to The Royal Opera, London, "for Tabarro and Schicchi without Angelica". He reluctantly agreed that the two operas could be given in a programme...
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    Manon Lescaut (Puccini) (category Operas set in France)
    Manon Lescaut (Italian: [maˈnɔn leˈsko]) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi...
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    Suor Angelica (category Operas set in Italy)
    Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera...
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  • Che gelida manina (category Compositions in D-flat major)
    tenors. The scene takes place on Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Rodolfo, a struggling poet, is in his room when he hears someone knocking at...
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    La fanciulla del West (category Operas set in the United States)
    Korea Herald. Retrieved 2023-02-01. "La Fanciulla del West de Giacomo Puccini în premieră la Opera Națională Română din Cluj-Napoca". Actual de Cluj. May 4...
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  • The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala (category Events in New York City)
    Adami and Renato Simoni after Turandot (1762) by Carlo Gozzi 3 (6:57) "In questa reggia", with Éva Marton (Turandot), conducted by James Levine Wolfgang Amadeus...
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  • Fans is the second album by Malcolm McLaren, released in 1984. It was an attempt at fusing opera with 1980s R&B and contains adaptations of pieces from...
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  • O soave fanciulla (category Arias in Italian)
    number in act 1 by Rodolfo (tenor) and Mimì (soprano) where they realise they have fallen for each other. The duet, between 5 and 6 minutes in length...
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    Il tabarro (category Operas set in Paris)
    Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold [nl]'s play La houppelande...
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    Edgar (opera) (category Operas set in Belgium)
    dramma lirico in three acts (originally four acts) by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, freely based on the play in verse La Coupe...
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    Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet Giselle. The opera, in its original one-act version...
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  • Robert-temple.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017. "Professor Simon Shorvon – Professor in Clinical Neurology and Consultant Neurologist". Shorvon.edu. Retrieved 23...
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    until 1952 (first in Chicago and then in Naples). However, he re-used some of its themes in other works, such as the Agnus Dei in his opera Manon Lescaut...
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  • Recondita armonia (category Arias in Italian)
    playing this file? See media help. "Recondita armonia" is the first romanza in the opera Tosca (1900) by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by the painter Mario...
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