Enrico di Borgogna

Enrico di Borgogna (Henry of Burgundy) is an opera eroica or "heroic" opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Bartolomeo Merelli wrote the Italian libretto after Der Graf von Burgund by August von Kotzebue. Enrico di Borgogna was the third opera composed by Donizetti, but the first to be performed. It premiered on November 14, 1818 at the Teatro San Luca in Venice.

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  • Nov 14, 1818
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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore (1832)...
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