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La favorite (The Favourite, sometimes referred to by its Italian title: La favorita) is a grand opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play Le comte de Comminges by Baculard d'Arnaud with additions by Eugène Scribe based on the story of Leonora de Guzman. [1]
[see also La favorite] opera semiseria: 4 parts: Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz: 18 July 2018 Completed 27 December 1839 [24] Royal Opera House, London Lucrezia Borgia [rev] dramma per musica: prologue & 2 acts: Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo: 11 January 1840: Milan, La Scala: Les martyrs [rev of Poliuto, in French] grand opéra: 4 acts
Advertisement in the May 9, 1910 edition of the Tbilisi-based Kavkaz: The Artistic Society Theater to a Gonsalez (Italian) Opera Company performance of La favorita, four-act opera with music by Donizetti. Singers listed include baritone Giuseppe Danise.
La favorite premiered on 2 December 1840. [17] Ashbrook has compared the surviving autograph scores of L'Ange de Nisida and La favorite to determine precisely how much material it provided for the latter. While the events in L'Ange are set in 1470 in Nisida and Naples, La favorite is set in Santiago de Compostela and Castile, both in Spain ...
La Juive (Fromental Halévy) 1835: 534: 1934; revived in 2007 Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) 1836: 1120: 1936; revived in 2018 Stradella (Niedermeyer) 1837: 1840 (in 3-act form) Guido et Ginevra (Halévy) 1838: revived in 1840 (in 4-act form); revived again in 1870 Le lac des fées (Auber) 1839: 30 [1] La favorite (originally titled L'ange de Nisida ...
Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
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Alphonse Royer, (10 September 1803 – 11 April 1875) was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written (with his regular collaborator, Gustave Vaëz) the librettos for Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem.