Opera in four acts by Puccini to a libretto by F. Fontana after A. de Musset's verse-drama La coupe et les lèvres (1889, Milan); Puccini revised it, reducing it to three acts (1892, Ferrara), and made a final version (Buenos Aires, 1905).
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