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- ↑ The Meyerbeer Libretti: Italian operas 2 - Page xii 2009 · Snippet view "Mayr set this plot as Elena as recently as 1814 as an opera - semiseria , re - adapted for La Scala in the autumn of 1816 where Meyerbeer may well have heard it .
- ↑ Lorraine Byrne Bodley Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues 2017 p 238 "In Act Two of Elena, an opera by old Mayr of Bergamo,251 there is said to be a very effective sextet; it is said to be based on a popular Bohemian melody...
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