Felice Romani
Bellini's 'Zaira': Misunderstood Melodrama
...to have everything going for it. It was based on Zaire, a tragedy by Voltaire. The libretto was by Felice Romani, who had already collaborated with Bellini on the two hits at La Scala.
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...can imagine any serious opera-lover wanting to avoid Donizetti's comic - in my view, absolute - masterpiece. Felice Romani's libretto may spin an implausible yarn about the...
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Roberto Devereux
...of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The plot of Roberto Devereux was hardly original, mainly derived from Felice Romani's libretto Il Conte d'Essex of 1833, originally set by Saverio...
Norma (opera)
Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio (Norma, or The Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet. First...
Anna Bolena
...is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's...
Bianca e Fernando
...Naples, on 30 May 1826. The second version, Bianca e Fernando (1828) has a modified libretto by Felice Romani, who was to become Bellini's collaborator on seven of his operas. The...
Beatrice di Tenda
...is a 'tragedia lirica', or tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, after the play of the same name by Carlo Tedaldi-Fores. The composer chose the...
Felice Romani
...of his interest in French literature, he refused to work in Paris. As a rule, Romani did not create his own stories; he kept up with what was happening in the Paris theatre and adapted...
Parisina (opera)
...(also known as Parisina d'Este) is an opera (tragedia lirica), in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's 1816 poem Parisina. The...
Zaira (opera)
...is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini (1829), from a libretto by Felice Romani based on the tragedy Zaire (1732) by Voltaire. Set in the time of the...
Gianni di Parigi
...is a melodramma or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1839) from a libretto by Felice Romani, which had been previously used by Francesco Morlacchi (1818) for an opera of the same...
I Capuleti E I Montecci, Royal Opera House, London
Anna Netrebkom was riveting in Pier Luigi Pizzi's classic At least Bellini's librettist Felice Romani didn't have the affront to call the opera "Romeo and Juliet". Bad enough that the...
