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They successfully premiered the first opera in Euskera: Txanton Piperri

125
years ago

06 January 1899,

a successful debut of the first Basque opera: Txanton Piperri. The first action took place at the San Sebastian Catholic Centre and the libretto was printed in the German city of Leipzig. Toribio Alzaga's words accompanied the music adapted by Buenaventura Zapirain. It soon became a great nationalist song. In 2012 ESAIT named him a hymn from the Basque Team.

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