Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, 3rd Duke of Rivas was a Spanish poet, dramatist and politician who was Prime Minister of Spain in 1854. He is best known for his play Don Álvaro o la fuerza d
Ángel de Saavedra; by Gabriel Maureta y Aracil (1832–1912)
La forza del destino
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La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino, by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke
Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas
…inasmuch as it established the new French romanticism in Spain. The play was used as the basis of Francesco Maria Piave's libretto for Verdi's opera La forza del destino (1862). As a poet, Rivas's best-known work is Romances históricos (1841), adaptions of popular legends in ballad form. He married María de la Encarnación…
c. 1870 poster by Charles Lecocq
First edition (1862) of the libretto of La forza del destino, Saint Petersburg, with bilingual Italian and Russian text
Verdi in 1859
Francesco Maria Piave, librettist of the opera