What is opera? -- Giovanni Francesco Busenello and Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea (Venice, 1643) -- Nicola Francesco Haym and George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto (London, 1724) -- Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (Vienna, 1786) -- Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto (Venice, 1851) -- Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, and Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème (Turin, 1896).
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