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- ↑ The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864 0838638457 Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Letellier - 1999 Spontini, Nurmahal, oder Das Rosenfest von Caschmir, opera in two parts (C. A. Herklots, based on Spicker's German translation of Moore's Lalla Rookh; Berlin, Court Opera, 27 May 1 822). This was Spontini's first German opera, revived in ...
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