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...Céleste Mogador (pictured) may have been the inspiration for the title character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen?
... that Berlin's Theater des Westens was the stage for Diaghilev{{'s}} Ballets Russes with Anna Pavlova, the premiere of Henze's opera König Hirsch, and the premiere in German of My Fair Lady?
... that Don Checco, composed by Nicola De Giosa, was one of the greatest successes in the history of Neapolitan opera buffa and a favourite of King Ferdinand II?

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