Yet Phaethon set the world ablaze in good King Louis’s glorious days…
237. Phaéton (Lully)
Category: 17th century opera
227. Niobe, regina di Tebe (Steffani)
“Niobe, all tears…”
147. Eliogabalo (Cavalli)
Where is the black stone of Emesa?
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