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 * ... that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance (stage set pictured) until more than 40 years after his death?
 * ... that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas?
 * ... that 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?

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