La fiera di Venezia

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Operas by Antonio Salieri
Armida (1771) La fiera di Venezia (1772) Europa riconosciuta (1778) La scuola de' gelosi (1778) Der Rauchfangkehrer (1781) Il ricco d'un giorno (1784) Les Danaïdes (1784) Les Horaces (1786) Prima la musica e poi le parole (1786) Tarare (1787) Axur, re d'Ormus (1788) La cifra (1789) Palmira, regina di Persia (1795) Falstaff (1799)
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La fiera di Venezia is an opera buffa, described as a commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri, set to an itallian libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini.

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The opera premiered with great success on January 29, 1772 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.^[1] La fiera di Venezia turned out to be one of Salieri's best regarded works and during his lifetime was staged more than thirty times throughout Europe. ^[2]