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Lucrezia Borgia (opera)
Opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti.
Lucrezia borgia donizetti edita gruberova biography
Felice Romani wrote the Italianlibretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on 26 December at La Scala, Milan.
Performance history
19th century
Because of its scandalous subject matter, Lucrezia Borgia was taken up slowly in Italy[1] and presented in many Italian theatres with altered titles and, in some cases, altered character names.[2] It was given in Florence, beginning on 12 November , as Eustorgia da Romano, in Trieste in the autumn of as Alfonso Duca di Ferrara, in Ferrara on 14 April as Giovanna I di Napoli, and in Rome on 26 December as Elisa da Fosco.[2]
The first London production was at Her Majesty's Theatre on 6 June with Giulia Grisi and Mario.[1] When the opera was s