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Empire costume: dress in the style of the First Empire (Napoleonic era, c. 1800–1815), characterised by high waist, thin fabric, and figure-revealing lines. ↩
Italians: the Théâtre-Italien, Paris's Italian opera company. ↩
Simon Boccanegra: opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1857), revised for La Scala in 1881; the revised version was first given in Paris on 27 November 1883 (French vocal score, Bibliothèques de Paris record). ↩