La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott.
This opera was the first to be based on Sir Walter Scott's romantic works. By 1840, barely 20 years after La donna del lago, there were 25 Italian operas based on Scott (the most famous being Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor), and others in German, French and English).
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La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott.
This opera was the first to be based on Sir Walter Scott's romantic works. By 1840, barely 20 years after La donna del lago, there were 25 Italian operas based on Scott (the most famous being Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor), and others in German, French and English).
It received its premiere at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples on 24 October, 1819. The debut cast included Isabella Colbran (Elena), Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni (Malcolm) and Giovanni David (King James). It was performed in London in February 1823 and had its American debut in New Orleans in June 1829. The work went virtually unperformed for a century until a revival in Florence in 1958. It was performed at the Camden Festival, London, in 1969, with Kiri Te Kanawa in the lead role.
In 1981, after an absence in America of almost 150 years, a production was mounted by the...
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