Francesca di Foix is a melodramma giocoso (comic opera) in one act by Gaetano Donizetti with a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni based on one by Jean-Nicolas...
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Lucia di Lammermoor (Italian pronunciation: [luˈtʃiːa di ˈlammermur]) is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti...
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Valle, to be staged on Saint Stephen's Day. An existing libretto, Francesca di Foix, had unexpectedly been vetoed by the papal censor, leaving no time...
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media help. Then came a rapid series of operas from Naples including Francesca di Foix (May 1831); La romanziera e l'uomo nero (June 1831); and Fausta (January...
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located in the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo (Ashbrook 1982, pp. 580–581). L'ira di Achille: Donizetti set the first act and a duet from Act 2 scene v. The libretto...
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first opera set to a French text, and to stage the French version of Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucie de Lammermoor. La fille du régiment quickly became a popular...
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story – not to marry in old age – is revealed in a playful quartet (La moral di tutto questo – "The moral of all this"). Notes Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p...
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castello di Kenilworth (1829), Sela in Il diluvio universale (1830), Cristina in I pazzi per progetto (1830), the title role in Francesca di Foix (1831)...
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Devereux (in full Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex, Italian: [roˈbɛrto deveˈrø osˈsiːa il ˈkonte di ˈɛsseks]; "Robert Devereux, or the Earl of Essex")...
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that: "Per dio! Se questo Napoletano continua a cantare così, farà parlare di sè il mondo intero" (Heavens! If this Neapolitan continues to sing like this...
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(named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda...
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l'Incoronazione di Poppea, Maria Stuarda, Francesca di Foix, Elvida, Adelaide di Borgogna, Il Signor Bruschino, Semiramide, Rigoletto, Carlo di Borgogna, Alessandro...
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It was revived for an Italian premiere in Padua under the title of Leonora di Guzman in 1842 with baritone Achille De Bassini in the role of Alfonso, and...
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with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, Il castello di Kenilworth (1829), Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen...
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roi de Portugal (ORC33) Elvida (ORC29)* Emilia di Liverpool (ORC8)* Francesca di Foix (ORC28)* Gabriella di Vergy (ORC3)* Il diluvio universale (ORC31)*...
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Borgia family, and that the two of them would die together ("Nella fatal di Rimini"). Professing his boredom with Orsini's tale Gennaro wanders off and...
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two of his earlier operas, Lucie de Lammermoor (the French version of Lucia di Lammermoor) and La favorite. He asked Vaëz if he could provide a libretto...
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Lambertazzi (Bonifacio) 1831 Mercadante: Zaira (Orosmane) 1831 Donizetti: Francesca di Foix (il Re) 1831 Donizetti: La romanzesca e l'uomo nero (Filidoro) 1831...
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Emilia di Liverpool, Enrico di Borgogna, L'esule di Roma, Fausta, La favorite (La favorita), La fille du régiment, Francesca di Foix, Gabriella di Vergy...
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Il campanello (redirect from Il campanello di notte)
Il campanello or Il campanello di notte (The Night Bell) is a dramma giocoso, or opera, in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian...
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Il castello di Kenilworth (or, under its original name in 1829, Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth) is a melodramma serio or tragic opera in three acts...
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Linda di Chamounix is an operatic melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered...
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is now known as Poggioreale, but was once called monte di Leutrecco or Lo Trecco, using de Foix's Italian nickname. It was also later mangled into 'Trivice'...
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Fiancée du Tyrol, a translation of Donizetti's 1833 opera Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo. In October 1839, he wrote to a friend in Naples: "La Fiancée...
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in the long run, had "Donizetti poured music of the calibre of his Lucia di Lammermoor into the score of Belisario the shortcomings of its wayward plot...
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Emilia di Liverpool (Emilia of Liverpool; also given as L'eremitaggio di Liverpool) is a dramma semiserio, ("half-serious") dramatic opera, in two acts...
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Venice and began composing it in October 1836 before the premiere of L'assedio di Calais in Naples in November. In early December he left for Venice, but was...
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involvement with Parisian stage, after the tremendous success of his Lucia di Lammermoor at the Théâtre-Italien in December 1837, as Roger Parker and William...
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Zoraida di Granata (also Zoraide di Granata or Zoraïda di Granata) is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or 'heroic' opera), in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti...
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Philharmonic Orchestra, Antonello Allemandi, Opera Rara Donizetti: Francesca di Foix, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Antonello Allemandi, Opera Rara Ibert:...
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