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Zaide

Unfinished opera by Mozart (libretto in German, by J A Schachtner). Begun in 1779, it was first produced in Frankfurt on 27 January 1886. In the story, Sultan Soliman's favourite Zaide escapes with the prisoner Gomatz but they are recaptured.



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Other mothballed rarities such as Lo sposo deluso, L'oca del Cairo and Zaide were presented in over-priced, Euro-trash productions.
Scholars have speculated that Mozart left Zaide unfinished (it lacks an overture, a libretto and a finale) because it was, in essence, a self-portrait of the composer as a very young man.
 
 
 
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