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"But have you heard, all of you, that there is a third horse in the field?" said the Marchese Faraoni whose palazzo was close to the house in which the Conte Leandro lived; "there is another candidate for the galleys. Has nobody heard that our poet was arrested before he was out of bed this morning?" "What! Leandro?" "The Conte Lombardoni?" "No!" "You don't mean that?"
"Think of the cantos of verse he will make on it." "He will die singing, like a swan." "But do you know anything about it, Faraoni? Have you any idea how he has come to be implicated in the matter?" "I learnt at his own lodging that he did not come home to bed the night of the ball, but was absent from home at the time the murder must have been committed.
In "Mosé," Rossini carried out still further than ever his innovations, the two principal rôles Mosé, and Faraoni being assigned to basses. On the first representation, the crossing of the Red Sea moved the audience to satirical laughter, which disconcerted the otherwise favorable reception of the piece, and entirely spoiled the final effects.
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