Le due duchesse, ossia La caccia dei lupi explained

Le due duchesse, ossia La caccia dei lupi is an 1814 opera in 2 acts, a dramma semiserio per musica, by Johann Simon Mayr to a libretto by Felice Romani after Edgar ou La chasse aux loups by Louis-Charles Caigniez premiered 7 November 1814 Milan, Teatro alla Scala. The plot is based on a French melodrama set in Saxon England during the reign of King Edgar the Peaceful.[1]

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  1. Gerald Abraham, Jack Allan Westrup The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830 1982 - Page 397 Le due duchesse (1814), on a French melodrama set in Saxon England during the reign of ...