...did collaborate, on this opera, about which more in this essay. (In German, so you'll have to employ Google.) Incidentally, that was the French original version. Salieri later had Da Ponte write him an Italian libretto and presented that version in Vienna - it's the very opera he's premiering after Figaro in Amadeus, the one causing Mozart's "what can one say but: Salieri!" snark.
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Salieri and Beaumarchais
Date: 2019-12-03 08:24 am (UTC)