Caterina Cornaro (opera)
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Caterina Cornaro ossia La Regina di Cipro is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giacomo Sacchero wrote the Italian libretto after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint
Gaetano Donizetti, lithography by Roberto Focosi
Catherine Cornaro
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Catherine Cornaro was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, also holding the titles of Queen of Jerusalem and Queen of Armenia. She became queen consort of Cyprus by marriage to James II of Cypru
Caterina Cornaro (opera)
…wrote the Italian libretto after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre (1841). It is based on the life of Caterina Cornaro (1454 - 1510), Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489. It premiered at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples on 12 January 1844. Following the success of Linda di…
Portrait of Catherine Cornaro by Gentile Bellini, c. 1500
Posthumous portrait 1542 by Titian, of Catherine Carnaro as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine's tombstone
Her funerary monument