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Ten operas rewritten in international language (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

esperanto

'international language' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'ten operas rewritten' is the wordplay.
'rewritten' is an anagram indicator.
'ten'+'operas'='tenoperas'
'tenoperas' is an anagram of 'ESPERANTO'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for esperanto that I've seen before include "contrived language" , "Language invented by Dr Zamenhof" , "Universal language" , "Artificial speech-form" , "artificial tongue" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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