I Lombardi alla prima crociata

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I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade) is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi. First performance: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 11, 1843.

The opera was revised as Jérusalem to a French libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz. First performance: Académie Royale de Musique, Paris, November 26, 1847.

Verdi dedicated the score to Maria Luigia, the Habsburg Duchess of Parma, who died a few weeks after the premiere.

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