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An opera in two acts, The Magic Flute is famous for being Mozart’s last work, which he composed just a few months before his death in 1791.This is the story of Prince Tamino, the three ladies of the Queen of the Night and the birdcatcher Papageno.Mo

Die Entführung aus dem Serail, or The Abduction from the Seraglio is a "singspiel" opera, a musical comedy featuring dialogue alternated with songs. One of the most widespread versions is the 1859 translation created for the Opéra de Paris, which ma

Giuseppe Verdi's opera, entitled Attila was created at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice on March 17th 1846, and is composed of a prologue and three acts. Attila was king of the Huns in the fifth century AD, a great enemy of the Roman Empire.The opera

This opera, created at the Teatro Apollo in Rome in 1859, almost didn't see the light of day: the first version of the libretto described the assassination of Gustav III of Sweden during a masked ball. As Frederick II and Napoleon III had undergone

"Don Carlos" is the story (partly based on fact) of a King of Spain who married his son's fiancée. It features such interesting characters as an infante who's political struggle causes bleak depressions, a Queen whose marriage is an exile, a sly wom

Verdi the patriot, politician and defender of a free Italy could hardly remain unmoved by Schiller's Don Carlos. At the cost of some historical detail, the German writer breathed a libertarian energy into his subject matter which attracted Verdi str