| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Donizetti, like Rossini and Bellini before him, had done well at a Paris theater that regularly gave Italian opera, the Th????tre des Italiens. (Rossini, as a matter of fact, had been music director there.) But the Op??ra and the Op??ra-Comique were theaters that produced strictly French forms of music theater, carefully adhering to certain conventions.
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