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- ↑ Annals of Opera 1943 p602 Tasca : A SANTA LUCIA Berlin , Kroll's . Text by E. Golisciani and G. Cognetti . Two acts . Tasca's best opera . Produced at Berlin in Italian , and revived there at the Th.d.W. 10.xi. 1905 , again in Italian .