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Rodrigo| Opera in three acts by Handel (libretto after Francesco Silvani's Il duello d'Amore e di Vendetta), produced at the Teatro del Cocomero, Florence, in 1707. The opera was revived, with recently discovered Act 3 material, by the Handel Opera Society in 1985. The story concerns Rodrigo, who gains the throne of Aragon by murder but eventually abdicates. |
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‘Cid, El cantar’
Alchemist, The
Betrothed, The
Borja Cevallos, Rodrigo
Castillejo, Cristóbal de
Ciudad Rodrigo
Devlin, Michael
El Cid
Esquivel Barahona, Juan de
Farncombe, Charles
| Fuentes d'Onoro, Battle of
Ginastera, Alberto Evaristo
Lloyd Webber, Julian
Pia de'Tolomei
promessi sposi, I
Rendall, David
Rozario, Patricia
Seaton, John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton
Zabaleta, Nicanor
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| They shout and gesticulate tremendously but cannot agree, and Rodrigo is about to bear away the exhausted Zara, when the timid servant enters with a letter and a bag from Hagar, who has mysteriously disappeared. When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters, though he be a stranger, the duke or governor exclaims, A man of impure life, and a brazen face, asking Roderick if there were any serpent in his breast, he told him that there was, and of the same species that once tortured Don Rodrigo, the Goth. |