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The article traces the history of the idea for, and the creation and reception of, Delibes’s Galician opera Kassya (based on Leopold Sacher-Masoch’s story 'Frinko Balaban') , beginning with an information-gathering trip the composer took in 1885 to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and ending with the premiere of his completed work in 1893.
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This page is a summary of: Dancing the Kolomyika at the Opéra-Comique: Léo Delibes's Galician Opera Kassya, Austrian History Yearbook, April 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0067237814000149.
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