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Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:38:10 -0500
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Janos Gereben wrote:

>... you'll get arias from "Lucio Silla," "Zaide," and - ready? - "Ascanio
>in Alba." After all these years-in-opera, I never heard a note from that
>last one.  (1771, a gift for the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand.)

A *commission*, not a gift.  No professional composer would give away a
full-length opera.

-Margaret Mikulska

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