La forza del destino

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La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave.

The original text

Based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino, by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1971: Presented by PACT Opera.

1976: Presented by PACT Opera.

Sources

Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow. 2003. The career of South African soprano Nellie du Toit, born 1929. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Stellenbosch.

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