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Written for the Venice carnival season in 1668, Cavalli's Eliogabalo was censored before reaching the stage, owing to the subject matter of its eponymous teenaged cross-dressing emperor, who plots to murder his cousin Alessandro. The hedonistic sun-worshipping emperor is ultimately killed by his own henchmen, dragged through the streets of Rome and tossed into the Tiber...
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