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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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    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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    Anne Boleyn), Maria Stuarda (about Mary, Queen of Scots) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters – Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart and Elizabeth...
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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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    which both preceded and followed Anna Bolena. They were Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth, based on Scribe's Leicester and Hugo's Amy Robsart (given...
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    1829 opera Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth is loosely based on Scott's novel. Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse's Festen paa Kenilworth in 1836, to...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor – Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia – Gennaro Donizetti: Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth – Warney Donizetti:...
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    L'assedio di Calais (The siege of Calais) is an 1836 melodramma lirico, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, his 49th opera. Salvatore Cammarano...
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    Maria di Rohan is a melodramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Salvadore Cammarano, after...
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    regina di Golconda (1828) Gianni di Calais (1828) Il paria (1829) Il giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto...
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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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    regina di Golconda (1828) Gianni di Calais (1828) Il paria (1829) Il giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto...
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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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    regina di Golconda (1828) Gianni di Calais (1828) Il paria (1829) Il giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto...
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    Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (The Madman on the Island of San Domingo) is a "romantic melodramma" in two acts by the composer Gaetano Donizetti...
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    Adelaide Tosi. The composer borrowed this aria di sortita (entrance aria) from his earlier Il castello di Kenilworth and changed the words in "Ah, se d'amor...
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    Enrico di Borgogna (Henry of Burgundy) is an opera eroica or "heroic" opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Bartolomeo Merelli (who later, as Intendant...
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    despite his secret marriage to Maria. Meanwhile, Maria's father, Don Ruiz di Padilla, appears at the court. Believing that she is merely Don Pedro's mistress...
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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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