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    Il falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russie (The Livonian Carpenter, or Peter the Great, Tsar of the Russias) is an 1819 opera buffa...
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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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    of his efforts until the latter part of the year when he wrote Il falegname di Livonia from a libretto by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini. The opera...
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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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    dealing with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, Il castello di Kenilworth (1829), Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (named for Mary...
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    that: "Per dio! Se questo Napoletano continua a cantare così, farà parlare diil mondo intero" (Heavens! If this Neapolitan continues to sing like this...
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    Trieste in the autumn of 1838 as Alfonso Duca di Ferrara, in Ferrara on 14 April 1841 as Giovanna I di Napoli, and in Rome on 26 December 1841 as Elisa...
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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...
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  • Op. 72 Saverio Mercadante – L'Apoteosi d'Ercole Giovanni Pacini Il falegname di Livonia La sposa fedele Andreas Romberg – Die Großmut des Scipio Gioachino...
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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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    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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    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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    alla luce per la 1. volta a Parigi sotto il nome La favorita [!] ed ora liberamente trad. dal francese per cura di Francesco Zanetti [Francesco Jannetti]...
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  • he created in world premieres were Pietro il Grande (Peter the Great) in Donizetti's Il falegname di Livonia and The Caliph in Pacini's La schiava in Bagdad...
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    Devereux (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...
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    and has certain similarities to Donizetti's earlier 1-act farce Il falegname di Livonia. 19th century The opera premiered at the Teatro del Fondo in Naples...
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    supposedly supports Pasquale, he is amazed at this apparent betrayal (Mi fa il destino mendico – "Fate has made a beggar of me"). Ernesto determines to elope...
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    (1845) Clemenza d'Entragues Vittorio Trento (1819) Il falegname di Livonia Giovanni Pacini (1819) Il califo e la schiava Francesco Basili (1819) Gioachino...
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    L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto (The Exile from Rome, or the Proscribed Man) is a melodramma eroico, or heroic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti...
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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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    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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    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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    il Crudele Tsar Peter I "The Great" of Russia Gaetano Donizetti: Il falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russie Gaetano Donizetti: Il...
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    Il diluvio universale (The great flood) is an azione tragico-sacra, or opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni...
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    Gemma di Vergy is an 1834 tragedia lirica (tragic opera) in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti from a libretto by Giovanni Emanuele Bidera. It is based on the...
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    262-263 Weinstock 1963, pp. 354-355 Ashbrook and Hibberd, p. 239 "Maria di Rudenz". gbopera.it. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2018. Dervan, Michael...
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    Il Pigmalione (Pygmalion) is a scena lirica (lyric scene or opera) in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The librettist is unknown, but it is known that the...
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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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    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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    Routledge. ISBN 978-0-8153-2350-1 Giradi, Michele, "Donizetti e il grand-opéra: il caso di Les Martyrs" on www-5.unipv.it (in Italian) Harewood, Earl of...
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