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Signa (opera)

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Signa is an opera originally conceived in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Gilbert A. A'Beckett, with revisions by H.A. Rudall and Frederic Edward Weatherly after Ouida, with an Italian translation by G.A. Mazzucato, first performed in a reduced three act version at the Teatro dal Verme, Milan on 12 November 1893. It was later given in a two act version at Covent Garden, London on 30 June 1894.


References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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