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Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Italian opera composer (1797–1848)
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian Romantic composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
La fille du régiment
1840 opéra comique by Gaetano Donizetti
La fille du régiment is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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