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... that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance (stage set pictured) until more than 40 years after his death?
... that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas?
... that 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?

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