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Answer
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The first opera, about a doomed husband and wife (Peri)
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Euridice
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The second opera, about the same hapless couple (Monteverdi)
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L'Orfeo
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Opera about a European who travels to North Africa to meet Papatacci (Rossini)
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L'italiana in Algeri
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Comedy Singspiel about marriage into a medical family (von Dittersdorf)
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Doktor und Apotheker
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Commissioned for the opening of the Suez Canal (Verdi)
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Aida
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Farcical love in the 18th century (Cimarosa)
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Il Matrimonio Segreto
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Farcical love in the 19th Century (Donizetti)
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Don Pasquale
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She makes cigarettes and flirts (Bizet)
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Carmen
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Not Faust, but son of the devil who dances with dead nuns (Meyerbeer)
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Robert le Diable
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Takes place in a Turkish Harem with an irritable drunken guard (Mozart)
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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A midsummer night's dream (Purcell)
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The Fairy Queen
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A midsummer night's dream (Weber)
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Oberon
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A midsummer night's dream (Britten)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Four friends who live in a Paris garret, one dies of tuberculosis (Puccini)
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La Boheme
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A french courtesan who is asked to leave her lover by her father. She dies of tuberculosis (Verdi)
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La Traviata
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The Faust Legend (Gounod)
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Faust
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The Faust Legend (Berlioz)
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La Damnation de Faust
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The Faust Legend (Boito)
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Mefistofile
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His only opera is about medieval knights in Belgium, like Lohengrin without the swan (Schumann)
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Genoveva
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A politician makes a remarkable trip to normalise relations (Adams)
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Nixon in China
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She does a racy dance for her father, then has them bring her the head of John the Baptist. Her father thanks her by having her crushed to death. (Strauss)
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Salome
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He can only be saved from sailing the seas by a woman who shows true love (Wagner)
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Der fliegende Holländer
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Summertime is the best known tune (Gershwin)
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Porgy and Bess
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Premiered in Prague, written in a week, with the overture finished the day before the premiere (Mozart)
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Don Giovanni
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Beethoven's only opera, he changed the name and wrote four overtures (Beethoven)
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Fidelio
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The first science fiction performed on stage (Haydn)
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Il Mondo della Luna
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Ask my name and I'm outta here! Oh look there's the 1:30 swan to Brabant (Wagner)
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Lohengrin
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A girl playing a boy dresses as a girl to avoid being sent to the army (Mozart)
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Le nozze di Figaro
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Charlton Heston starred in the non-musical remake (Massenet)
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Le Cid
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He came riding into Europe and pillaged (Verdi)
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Attila
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Wild Boars and Witches in the Wolf's Glenn on Walpurgisnacht (Weber)
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Der Freischütz
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He goes mad after seeing the ghost of the prince he murdered (Musorgsky)
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Boris Godunov
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