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No Such Thing As A Fish
The Importance of Time
Rossini was running out of time to finish the entire opera and didn't have an overture ready. He borrowed a pre-existing piece from one of his earlier operas called Elizabeth, Queen of England. The opera was only performed in full three times because it was five hours long.
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