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Der Cid

opera by Cornelius

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In Peter Cornelius
He wrote two other operas, Der Cid (1865; libretto adapted by him from the play by Pierre Corneille) and Gunlöd (libretto adapted from the Edda), which was completed after his death by Carl Hoffbauer and Eduard Lassen and produced in 1891.
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