Rita
Rita or Deux hommes et une femme (Two Men and a Woman), is an opéra comique in one act, composed by Gaetano Donizetti to a French libretto by Gustave Vaëz.
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The opera, a domestic comedy consisting of eight musical numbers connected by spoken dialogue, was completed in 1841. Never performed in Donizetti's lifetime, it premiered posthumously at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 7 May 1860.
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Performance history in South Africa
1967: Presented by CAPAB Opera
1973: Presented by NAPAC Opera as a lunch hour performance for schools.
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 Unpublished Masters thesis.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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