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Royal Academy of Music – Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio

La cambiale di matrimonio (The Marriage Contract) was the 18-year-old Rossini’s second opera, but his first to be staged (in 1810) since the earlier Demetrio e Polibio didn’t receive its premiere until 1812. It was the first of five farces commissioned by the small Venetian theatre of San Moisè, and already pre-empts the great operatic comedies which the …

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