Gaetano Donizetti – Roberto Devereux

Gaetano Donizetti – Roberto Devereux Recorded live at Teatro La Fenice, Venice on 10/02/1972 About this Opera: Roberto Devereux (or Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex [Roberto Devereux, or the Earl of Essex]) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot’s tragedy Elisabeth [...]

Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia

Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia Recorded in May 1966 at the RCA Italiana Studios, Roma About this opera: Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramma, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. [...]

Gaetano Donizetti – Maria Stuarda

Gaetano Donizetti – Maria Stuarda Recorded in 1976 About the Opera: Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera, tragedia lirica, in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Friedrich von Schiller’s 1800 play Maria Stuart. It received its premiere on December 30, 1835 at La Scala, Milan. The [...]

Gaetano Donizetti – Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian libretto after Angelo Anelli’s libretto for Stefano Pavesi’s Ser Marcantonio (1810).

Gaetano Donizetti – L’Elisir D’Amore

Gaetano Donizetti – L’Elisir D’Amore About the Opera: L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) is a melodramma giocoso in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Eugène Scribe’s libretto for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s Le philtre (1831). The premiere was at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan on 12 May [...]

Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia Di Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia Di Lammermoor Recorded in July-August 1965 at the RCA Italiana Studios, Roma About the opera: Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor.Very successful from creation, [...]