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Michele Carafa (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer.
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Carafa's music is marked by a certain lightness of melody and mediocre orchestration, in a period dominated by Rossini, Bellini, Auber, Halévy, who were all his friends. – Wikipedia
Several of his operas were eclipsed by others dealing with the same subject matter: Masaniello by Auber's La muettte de Portici (1828); Le Nozze di Lamermoor by Donizetti's Lucia di Lamermoor (1835); La Grande Duchesse by Offenbach’s La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein (1867). – Wikipedia
Carafa, to his great distress,
Had others step on his success.
He sought to put up on the stage
Subjects that were all the rage,
But when he found a plot to set he
He had bad luck with his libretti.
Alas, these plots were used again
With better tunes by better men,
And seeing thus his titles doubled
It is no one wonder he was troubled.
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