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    Otto mesi in due ore ossia Gli esiliati in Siberia (Eight Months in Two Hours or The Exiles in Siberia) is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti...
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    Otto mesi in due ore (1833) was given in Livorno and Parisina (March 1833) was given in Florence. After the successful staging of Lucrezia Borgia in 1833...
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    Lucia di Lammermoor (category Operas set in Scotland)
    Arturo. Scene 2: A hall in the castle Arturo arrives for the marriage. Lucia seems distressed, but Enrico explains that this is due to the death of her mother...
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    L'elisir d'amore (category Operas set in Spain)
    The Elixir of Love) is a melodramma giocoso (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the...
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  • from 1816 to 1845. Pasticcio performed by Mayr's students The information in the table is taken from Smart and Budden 2001, unless otherwise noted. Operas...
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    pronunciation: [ˌdɔm paˈskwaːle]) is a Gaetano Donizetti opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts, with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini...
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  • roles on Italian stages, including in two of Donizetti's operas: Ivano in Otto mesi in due ore and Cesare Salzapariglia in Le convenienze ed inconvenienze...
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    opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, in its turn...
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    La fille du régiment (category Operas set in Switzerland)
    La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy...
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    Anna Bolena (category Operas set in London)
    Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's...
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    Roberto Devereux (category Operas set in England)
    Roberto Devereux (in full Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex, Italian: [roˈbɛrto deveˈrø osˈsiːa il ˈkonte di ˈɛsseks]; "Robert Devereux, or the...
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    Maria Stuarda (category Operas set in London)
    wording had been changed to gain that approval. In the end, the opening night performance was postponed due to Malibran's indisposition, but when it did...
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    La favorite (category Operas set in Spain)
    sometimes referred to by its Italian title: La favorita) is a grand opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer...
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    Gabriella di Vergy (category Operas set in France)
    original version were re-used by Donizetti in his other operas Otto mesi in due ore (Naples, 1827), L’esule di Roma (Naples 1828), Il paria (Naples 1829)...
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  • in his native city. In 1827 he portrayed Alterkan in the world premiere of Gaetano Donizetti's Otto mesi in due ore at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples. In...
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  • Nuovo, 1827 Otto mesi in due ore, opera romantica in 3 acts, Donizetti, Teatro Nuovo, 13 May 1827 Il borgomastro di Saardam, melodramma giocoso in 2 acts,...
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    Belisario (category Fiction set in the 6th century)
    place in 1969 at La Fenice, in 1970 at Bergamo, in 1972 in London, in 1973 in Naples, in 1981 in Buenos Aires, and in 1990 at Rutgers University in New...
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  • Alvarez in La zingara (1822), Ortenzio in Il fortunato inganno (1823), Claudio di Liverpool in Emilia di Liverpool (1824), Iwano in Otto mesi in due ore (1827)...
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    Linda di Chamounix (category Operas set in France)
    operatic melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered in Vienna, at the Kärntnertortheater...
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    Maria de Rudenz (category Operas set in Switzerland)
    singing this time won vigorous approval" in a production in Rome in 1841, and this was followed by one in Naples in 1848 at the Teatro Nuovo and three years...
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    Rita (opera) (category Operas set in Italy)
    was completed in 1841. Never performed in Donizetti's lifetime, it premiered posthumously at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 7 May 1860. In 1841, while Donizetti...
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    Il diluvio universale (category Operas set in the Levant)
    church censors in the form of an oratorio, since its planned production date was within the period of fasting. It was only allowed due to its being a...
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    Il castello di Kenilworth (category Operas set in England)
    Kenilworth (or, under its original name in 1829, Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth) is a melodramma serio or tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti...
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    Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (category Operas set in Italy)
    in Milan on 20 April 1831. 20th century and beyond Convenienze had its first major modern revival in 1963 in Siena, and has subsequently appeared in a...
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    Marino Faliero (opera) (category Operas set in Venice)
    Marino Faliero (or Marin Faliero) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giovanni Emanuele Bidera wrote the Italian...
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    (Caterina Cornaro or The Queen of Cyprus) is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giacomo Sacchero [it] wrote...
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    Maria di Rohan (category Operas set in Paris)
    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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    La zingara (category Operas set in Spain)
    La zingara (The Gypsy Girl) is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after La petite bohémienne...
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  • Maria Padilla, Maria Stuarda, Marino Faliero, Olivo e Pasquale, Otto mesi in due ore, Il Pigmalione, Parisina, Pia de' Tolomei, Pietro il grande, Poliuto...
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    Le duc d'Albe (category Operas set in the 16th century)
    opera was given in three acts, not four. However, there was a major revival of the Italian version at the 1959 Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, after...
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