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Graziani returned to the Théâtre-Italien for the 1854–1855 season to sing
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in the title role and
Fortini as the Duke of Ferrara. The following season he went to
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Graziani had also been a keen amateur chess player. He studied the game with
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Azucena. Verdi, who was in Paris at the time working on the
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in Bologna in 1865. He also performed in Vienna (1860).
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