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1) Le Willis
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Language
Italiano
Description
"Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet Giselle. The opera, in its original one-act version, was first performed at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, on 31 May 1884. Le Villi is Puccini's first stage...
Language
Italiano
Description
As Casella's only full-scale opera, its fantastic plot based on Carlo Gozzi's renowned fairy tale that perpetually alternates between tragedy and comedy, expressed in neo-Classical music that skilfully portrays the sinister and ethereal world of the fairies as well as the intense emotions of the human realm.
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