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...that soprano Erminia Frezzolini (pictured) created the title role in Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco at La Scala in 1843 opposite her husband, Antonio Poggi, as Charles VII of France?
...that Mircea Florian, seen as one of the four leading protest singers in Communist Romania in his folk rock years, pioneered minimal music in his career as a computer scientist?
...that as a blindfolded child, opera singer Pauline Joran (pictured) could identify absolute pitch and the notes of chords?
...that Ayu Ting Ting became popular in 2011 with a song released four years earlier?

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