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    Les vêpres siciliennes (French pronunciation: [le vɛːpʁ sisiljɛn]; The Sicilian Vespers) is a grand opera in five acts by the Italian romantic composer...
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    after the 1850s was its handling by Giuseppe Verdi, whose Les vêpres siciliennes (1855), proved to be more widely given in Italy and other Italian-language...
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    librarianship, with no duties to discharge. In 1819 his play Les Vêpres Siciliennes was performed at the Odéon, then just rebuilt; it had previously been...
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    jusqu'à nos jours (1853) Épisodes de l'histoire d'Italie. Les Vêpres siciliennes, Nicolas Rienzi, la prise de Rome par le connétable de Bourbon, Masaniello...
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    concluded an agreement with the Opéra to write what became Les vêpres siciliennes, his first original work in the style of grand opera. In February 1852...
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    time", and in which he explained that "Falstaff provoked in me such a revolution of spirit that I can ... date [to the experience] the beginning of a new...
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    Giuseppe Verdi Mainfroid, a Sicilian, adherent of Procida / Les vêpres siciliennes / Giuseppe Verdi Philippe II / Don Carlos / Giuseppe Verdi Basilio /...
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  • Cherubini, Donizetti, Gounod and Verdi (for whom he wrote Les vêpres siciliennes). Scribe left behind the grand mythological themes of earlier French...
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    Charles Gounod La nonne sanglante (1854) – Charles Gounod Les vêpres siciliennes (1855) – Giuseppe Verdi Le trouvère (1857) – Giuseppe Verdi Tannhäuser...
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    Fritz Kreisler, an Austrian contemporary of Trowell, also forged his Sicilienne and Rigaudon composition under François Francœur's name. Recordings of...
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    Naïs (1749), Fernand Cortez (1809), Moïse et Pharaon (1827), Les vêpres siciliennes (1855), Roméo et Juliette (1867) Grétry, Spontini, Rossini, Verdi, Gounod...
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    lieti calici, also known as the "toast.". His next work was Les vêpres siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers, 1855), premiered in Paris, based on a libretto...
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    Count of Nola, Anglo-Italian condottiero Giuseppe Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes Thomas Moore, Irish poet, songwriter Virgil Thomson: Lord Byron Mordred...
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    the Centre Pompidou. In Venice he makes the cartoon movie « Les Pupi Siciliennes ». The characters are wooden puppets who tell the story of Charlemagne...
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    his frustrations two years earlier when working in Paris on Les vêpres siciliennes. The only project for which there was forward motion was towards accomplishing...
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  • one of the most famous vehicles for the soprano voice. 1855 Les vêpres siciliennes (Verdi). Verdi's opera displays the strong influence of Meyerbeer. 1858...
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    Cherubini, Donizetti, Gounod and Verdi (for whom he wrote Les vêpres siciliennes). Scribe left behind the grand mythological themes of earlier French...
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  • Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Ferrando in Il trovatore, Procida in Les vêpres siciliennes, and in a concert version Oberto and Don Ruy Gomez de Silva in Ernani...
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  • "Margherita, Tragedy & Nabucco" "Patriotism, I Lombardi & Ernani" "Giuseppina, Revolution & Rigoletto" "Independent Italy, La Traviata & Un Ballo" "Wagner, Teresa...
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    It was commissioned by Giuseppe Mazzini as a new battle hymn for the Revolution of 1848 when Italian nationalists sought independence from the Austrian...
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    Opera, in collaboration with Eugène Scribe. The result was Les vêpres siciliennes. Verdi complained that the Paris orchestra and chorus were unruly and...
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    followed in other cities where the names Victor Hugo and Hernani smacked of revolution." In Palermo in 1845 it became Elvira d'Aragona and in Messina in 1847...
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  • Lurieu and Francis, 1819 Les Vêpres odéoniennes, parody of the Vêpres siciliennes, with Antoine Jean-Baptiste Simonnin, 1819 Le Mariage à la husarde, ou...
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