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Fatinitza
Fatinitza
Credit: Henry Atwell Thomas (publisher)
An 1879 poster for Franz von Suppé's operetta Fatinitza. The operetta's hero, Wladimir Samoiloff, is a young Russian Lieutenant who had an adventure in which he disguised himself as a woman whom he named Fatinitza and met with the hot-tempered elderly General Kantschukoff, who fell in love with "her". Complications ensue when Wladimir and Lydia, the General's niece, fall in love.