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Why did Florence Foster Jenkins sing Mozart's Queen of Night aria in Italian rather than in German? Was Italian considered preferable to German for American audiences in 1944, or had an alternative Italian libretto been in use for some time already?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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