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... that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti (pictured), because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?
... that Julian Konstantinov, the brother of Bulgarian volleyball team captain Plamen Konstantinov, is an opera singer?
... that in exchange for shutting down the Manhattan Opera Company and refraining from producing opera in the United States for ten years, Oscar Hammerstein I received over a million dollars from the Metropolitan Opera?

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