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„Scenes that are brightest“
Aria from three-act opera Maritana by William Vincent Wallace

The work is often cited as an inspiration for a plot device in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Yeomen of the Guard in which a man weds a woman while awaiting execution in prison, escapes and, while he is disguised, the couple falls in love

First performed 1845 (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)


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