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 * ...that following the London premiere of Fabio Campana's opera Esmeralda in 1870 (Adelina Patti pictured in the title role), The Saturday Review pronounced it "irredeemably bad"?"
 * ...that Patience and Sarah has been called the first lesbian opera?
 * ...that the two leading sopranos in the 1711 world premiere of Handel's Rinaldo, Isabella Girardeau and Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti, were bitter rivals?

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