Alzira (opera)
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Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the 1736 play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire.
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Alzira | |
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Opera by Giuseppe Verdi | |
Librettist | Salvatore Cammarano |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Voltaire's play, Alzire, ou les Américains |
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The first performance was at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on 12 August 1845. The contemporary reviews were mixed, and the first run of the opera received only four further performances.[1]