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Word: auletta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that musicologists are not even sure of its history. The theater was equally ancient. But last week this antique combination made the liveliest show in Sweden. II Maestro di Musica, a broadly farcical opera buffa (a pastiche partly based on a 1737 comic opera by Pietro Auletta), filled the Drottningholm Court Theater, built in 1766 during the reign of Queen Lovisa Ulrika. U.S. and European visitors to Stockholm's talent-packed summer music festival learned at first hand why the Swedes are making a new mark for themselves in opera as they already have in movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sleeping Beauty | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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