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“The music’s fun, but doesn’t Rossini repeat himself?”
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“The music’s fun, but doesn’t Rossini repeat himself?”
Please forgive the lateness of this week’s howler, which in any event is something more of a squeaker anyway.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s only opera for Rome was written to an existing libretto by the great Pietro Metastasio, L’Olimpiade, which had already been set by Vivaldi the year previously.
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