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Ambleto
Ambleto is an opera in three acts by Francesco Gasparini with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati. It was first performed at Teatro San Cassiano in Venice for the carnival in 1706. It was possibly one of the earliest operas written on the subject of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, but uninfluenced by it, and the first in Italian.
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Ambleto is an opera in three acts by Francesco Gasparini with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati. It was first performed at Teatro San Cassiano in Venice for the carnival in 1706. It was possibly one of the earliest operas written on the subject of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, but uninfluenced by it, and the first in Italian.
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