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 * ...that Teresa Saporiti (pictured), the soprano who created the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, lived to be 106?
 * ...that The Amber Witch, an opera by William Vincent Wallace, was based on a popular Gothic novel of the same name, first published in Britain in 1844?
 * ... that although La princesse jaune is the third opera that Saint-Saëns’ composed, it was his first opera to actually be mounted on the stage?

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