- ...that Bernardo De Pace {pictured), an Italian immigrant, started his own opera company and eventually performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York?
- ...that Otar Taktakishvili's opera Mindia was based on Vazha-Pshavela's epic poem The Snake-eater and premiered in 1961, the centenary of the poet's birth?"
- ....that in Telemaco, one of Alessandro Scarlatti's last operas, Minerva enters in a chariot which holds a string orchestra with trumpets?
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