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...that in the late 1860s, the soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa (pictured) and her husband Carl Rosa founded the Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company, which introduced opera to places in the United States that had never staged it before?
...that composer Veniamin Fleishman was killed early in WWII before he could complete his opera Rothschild's Violin, but that his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad, and completed the opera?
...that the Balkan comic opera Ero the Joker was first performed on November 2, 1935?

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