Arne's Olympic Flop: Piers Burton-Page on the story of Thomas Arne's setting of Metastasio's L'Olimpiade. The opera was lost and was the only known setting by an English composer. Show more
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Arne's Olympic Flop: Piers Burton-Page on the story of Thomas Arne's setting of Metastasio's L'Olimpiade. The opera was lost and was the only known setting by an English composer. Show more
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