In 1706 he was elected to the Arcadian Academy, along with Pasquini and Corelli, and in the following year, he presented two operas in Venice: Il trionfo della liberta, and our featured work, Il Mitridate Eupatore. Venice, being the citadel of Italian opera, did not enjoy these operas, and both were deemed as failures. After failing in Venice, he was forced to return back to Rome, where he became the senior post of S Maria Maggiore. ... Laodice is ecstatic about the false nature of his brother's impending death, and they both gather a large group and continue on to the kingdom. ... Queen...

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Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, was known as the greatest Italian musical dramatist. Verdi was born in Roncole, Italy, a small town of few inhabitants in 1813. He was from peasant stock. His father, Carlos, was an innkeeper, and his mother a spinner. From a very young age, Gius...

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Don Giovanni forms the climax of Mozart's operatic work. The music depicts a libertine who offends the prevailing moral code but who is capable of deep passion. Don Giovanni was written for the Prague opera, after Figaro. The 31 years old Mozart conducted the premiere himself. Lorenzo da Ponte had...

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