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He worked as a conductor and impresario in local theatres, taught music and married the proficient soprano and interpreter of his works, Isabella Giatrà. At the same time he composed his first nationwide opera, the four-act Marco Bozzari (1858–60), as well as quite a few artwork songs in Greek lyrics, among which the celebrated klephtiko, ‘Ho Gero Dēmos’ [Old man Dēmos]. This song, written in the Greek traditional fashion of dēmoticà, was integrated within the above-mentioned opera. Marco Bozzari, after a sequence of misadventures, attributable to its patriotic and anti-Ottoman content, opened in Patras in April 1861. It is considered…