"characteristically rousing Risorgimento chorus" -- "Si ridesti il leon"

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Viva LA Liberta!: Politics in Opera - Page 103
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Anthony Arblaster - 1997 - 340 pages - Preview


It is a scene of muttering conspiracy and dramatic oath-swearing, which climaxes in the famous chorus 'Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia'. In this characteristically rousing Risorgimento chorus, the plotters present themselves as the ...

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