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...that Teresa Saporiti (pictured), the soprano who created the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, lived to be 106?
...that The Amber Witch, an opera by William Vincent Wallace, was based on a popular Gothic novel of the same name, first published in Britain in 1844?
... that although La princesse jaune is the third opera that Saint-Saëns’ composed, it was his first opera to actually be mounted on the stage?

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