A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Oca del Cairo, L'

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From volume 2 of the work.

1754005A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Oca del Cairo, L'

OCA DEL CAIRO, L'. Opera buffa in 2 acts; libretto by Varesco, music by Mozart, 1783.

Mozart left it unfinished, being dissatisfied with the text. It was completed by Andre with pieces from other operas of Mozart's, was adapted to new French words by Victor Wilder, and performed at the Theatre des Fantaisies Parisiennes June 6, 1867; at Vienna 1868; at Drury Lane, in Italian, May 12, 1870.

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