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Rescue operas
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BBD a10009474
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MT Music terms
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A type of opera (more strictly, Opera comique), very popular in France during the years after the 1789 revolution, in which the hero or heroine is delivered at the last moment from a tyrant or from some great natural catastrophe (or both), not by a "deus ex machina" but by heroic human endeavor (New Grove)
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MUSIC TERMS
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Dungeon scenes
 
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