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... that Italian mezzo-soprano Flora Perini (pictured) originated the role of the Princess in the world premiere of Puccini's Suor Angelica at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918?
... that Isaac Albéniz's opera Pepita Jiménez has been adapted several times by numerous people into different constructs and languages?
... that the first performance of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) was conducted by Catterino Cavos, who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?

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