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La Fenice, the Glossary

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  1. 82 relations: Aldo Rossi, Alessandro Pepoli, Antonio Canova, Apollo, Attila (opera), Austria, Austria-Hungary, Ballet Royal de la Nuit, BBC News, Beatrice di Tenda, Bel canto, Belisario, Benjamin Britten, Carlo Goldoni, Carnival, Comedy, Congress of Vienna, Corriere della Sera, Dante Alighieri, Death at La Fenice, Divine Comedy, Donna Leon, Ernani, First French Empire, Gaetano Donizetti, Gian Antonio Selva, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Battista Meduna, Giovanni Paisiello, Giuseppe Borsato, Giuseppe Verdi, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, I giuochi d'Agrigento, Igor Stravinsky, Il Tempo, John Berendt, Kingdom of Italy, Kitsch, La Repubblica, La Scala, La traviata, Lamberto Tronchin, Lauro Corniani Algarotti, Lion of Saint Mark, List of theatres and opera houses in Venice, Louis XIV, Luchino Visconti, Luciano Berio, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Nono, ... Expand index (32 more) »

  2. 1790s establishments in Italy
  3. 1792 establishments in Europe
  4. Music venues completed in 1792
  5. Music venues completed in 1837
  6. Music venues completed in 2003
  7. Opera houses in Venice
  8. Opera world premieres at La Fenice
  9. Rebuilt buildings and structures in Italy
  10. Theatres completed in 1792
  11. Theatres completed in 1837
  12. Theatres completed in 2003

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design.

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Alessandro Pepoli

Alessandro Pepoli (1757–1796), was an Italian librettist and author of tragedies.

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Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures.

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Attila (opera)

Attila is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the 1809 play (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner. La Fenice and Attila (opera) are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Ballet Royal de la Nuit

The Ballet Royal de la Nuit (Royal Ballet of the Night), Ballet Royal de la Nuict in its original spelling and often referred to simply as the Ballet de la Nuit, is a ballet de cour with a libretto by Isaac de Benserade and music by Jean de Cambefort, Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Michel Lambert and possibly others, which premiered on February 23, 1653, at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beatrice di Tenda

Beatrice di Tenda is a tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, after the play of the same name by. La Fenice and Beatrice di Tenda are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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Bel canto

paren)—with several similar constructions (bellezze del canto, bell'arte del canto, pronounced in English as)—is a term with several meanings that relate to Italian singing. The phrase was not associated with a "school" of singing until the middle of the 19th century, when writers in the early 1860s used it nostalgically to describe a manner of singing that had begun to wane around 1830.

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Belisario

Belisario (Belisarius) is a tragedia lirica (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. La Fenice and Belisario are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (also,; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.

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Carnival

Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

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Comedy

Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.

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Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Corriere della Sera

Corriere della Sera ("Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023.

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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Death at La Fenice

Death at La Fenice (1992), the first novel by American academic and crime-writer Donna Leon, is the first of the internationally best-selling Commissario Brunetti mystery series, set in Venice, Italy.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.

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Donna Leon

Donna Leon (born September 28, 1942) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.

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Ernani

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. La Fenice and Ernani are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas.

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Gian Antonio Selva

Gian Antonio Selva (2 September 1751 - 22 January 1819) was an Italian neoclassical architect.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Giovanni Battista Meduna

Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Meduna (11 Jun 1800 – 27 April 1886), knight and Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, was an Italian architect from Venice.

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Giovanni Paisiello

Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s.

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Giuseppe Borsato

Giuseppe Borsato (14 February 1771 in Venice – 15 October 1849 in Venice) was an Italian painter, primarily of vedute.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues) is an Italian opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. La Fenice and i Capuleti e i Montecchi are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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I giuochi d'Agrigento

I giuochi d'Agrigento is an opera by Giovanni Paisiello to a libretto by Count Alessandro Pepoli with which the rebuilt La Fenice in Venice was inaugurated on 16 May 1792.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).

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Il Tempo

Il Tempo (meaning Time in English) is a daily Italian newspaper published in Rome, Italy.

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John Berendt

John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

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Kingdom of Italy

The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste.

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La Repubblica

(English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy. La Fenice and La Scala are 18th-century architecture in Italy and rebuilt buildings and structures in Italy.

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La traviata

La traviata (The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. La Fenice and la traviata are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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Lamberto Tronchin

Lamberto Tronchin (born 27 March 1964, Preganziol) is an Italian acoustician, engineer, theorist, musician, and professor of musical acoustics and environmental physics at the University of Bologna.

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Lauro Corniani Algarotti

Lauro Gaspare Corniani degli Algarotti (1767-1827) was an Italian writer of novels and librettos.

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Lion of Saint Mark

The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion, is an aspect of the Tetramorph.

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List of theatres and opera houses in Venice

The first commercial opera in Venice was set up in 1637, after which at one point the city had six opera houses.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter.

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Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza), and for his pioneering work in electronic music.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.

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Maria Malibran

Maria Felicia Malibran (24 March 1808 – 23 September 1836) was a Spanish singer who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts, and was one of the best-known opera singers of the 19th century.

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Melpomene

Melpomene (to sing' or 'the one that is melodious) is the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Nereids

In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides (Nērēḯdes;, also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, sisters to their brother Nerites.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theater building used for performances of opera.

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Phoenix (mythology)

The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. La Fenice and Rigoletto are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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Semiramide

Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. La Fenice and Semiramide are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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Senso (film)

Senso is a 1954 Italian historical melodrama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, based on Camillo Boito's novella of the same name.

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Simon Boccanegra

Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play El trovador had been the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, Il trovatore. La Fenice and Simon Boccanegra are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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St Mark's Campanile

St Mark's Campanile (Campanile di San Marco) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. La Fenice and St Mark's Campanile are rebuilt buildings and structures in Italy.

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Sylvano Bussotti

Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher.

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Tancredi

Tancredi is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or heroic opera) in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi (who was also to write Semiramide ten years later), based on Voltaire's play Tancrède (1760). La Fenice and Tancredi are opera world premieres at La Fenice.

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Teatro di San Carlo

The Real Teatro di San Carlo ("Royal Theatre of Saint Charles"), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro (di) San Carlo, is a historic opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. La Fenice and Teatro di San Carlo are 18th-century architecture in Italy and 19th-century architecture in Italy.

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Teatro San Benedetto

The Teatro San Benedetto was a theatre in Venice, particularly prominent in the operatic life of the city in the 18th and early 19th centuries. La Fenice and Teatro San Benedetto are opera houses in Venice.

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Terpsichore

In Greek mythology, Terpsichore (Τερψιχόρη, "delight in dancing") is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus.

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The City of Falling Angels

The City of Falling Angels (2005) is a non-fiction work by John Berendt.

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Theatre of Italy

The theatre of Italy originates from the Middle Ages, with its background dating back to the times of the ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, in Southern Italy, the theatre of the Italic peoples and the theatre of ancient Rome.

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Tommaso Meduna

Tommaso Meduna (1798–1880), knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, was an Italian engineer.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters.

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Tranquillo Orsi

Tranquillo Orsi (1771–1845) was an Italian painter, scenographer, and architect, who is known for his engravings and drawings of buildings.

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Treaty of Campo Formio

The Treaty of Campo Formio (today Campoformido) was signed on 17 October 1797 (26 Vendémiaire VI) by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzl as representatives of the French Republic and the Austrian monarchy, respectively.

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Veneto

Veneto or the Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the north-east of the country.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation.

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Venice New Year's Concert

The New Year's Concert of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice or Venice New Year's Concert is a traditional concert started in 2004 which takes place on 1 January of each year at the Teatro La Fenice.

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

1790s establishments in Italy

1792 establishments in Europe

Music venues completed in 1792

  • La Fenice

Music venues completed in 1837

Music venues completed in 2003

Opera houses in Venice

Opera world premieres at La Fenice

Rebuilt buildings and structures in Italy

Theatres completed in 1792

Theatres completed in 1837

Theatres completed in 2003

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice

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