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Floria fits music more easily than Flora, and given the bleak violence of the story, the obvious alternative - Gloria - could not have been less suitable. I dislike it for being fake Latin. And I've never attended a production of the opera, but I do know a wonderful story about it, which I can't vouch for: the plot deals with war, enemy armies coming closer, tension building up ... and at the very end the heroine (? The soprano, anyway) puts an end to herself by jumping off the battlements of wherever she is ... and one night for some reason a different mattress was in position for her to land on. Land on it, she did, and embarrassingly bounced so high that the audience had an extra glimpse of her, looking startled, and then vanishing again.