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A thousand and one nights of opera
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Frederick Herman Martens - 1926 - 487 pages - Snippet view
Coincident with the revolt of Italy against Austrian rule, its ardent
choruses, such as "Si ridesti il leon di Castiglia" (Act III), raised
the patriotic enthusiasm of Italian audiences to fever pitch. When Victor Hugo saw what the librettist had done to his masterpiece, he almost collapsed.
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