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| | NPR World Of Opera |
 | | In fact, Faliero's story was such an operatic "natural," that Donizetti didn't have to change much. |
 | | He just confirmed that the bad-guy, Steno, actually did insult Faliero's wife, and that the insult was, indeed, a public accusation that she was fooling around on the Doge. |
 | | And, to add an unusual twist, it's the cuckolded husband, Faliero, who winds up dead by the end of the opera -- beheaded by the Council -- while the unfaithful wife survives all the way to the final curtain. |
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