L'Ange de Nisida
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L'Ange de Nisida is an opera semiseria in four acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, from a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz.
Gaetano Donizetti, 1842 portrait
A souvenir libretto from La favorita
A view of Nisida
Gaetano Donizetti
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Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer of the early Romantic era, best known for his over 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of t
L'Ange de Nisida
…L'Ange de Nisida (The Angel of Nisida) is an opera semiseria in four acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, from a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz. Parts of the libretto are considered analogous with the libretto for Giovanni…
Portrait by Francesco Coghetti, 1837
Donizetti as a schoolboy in Bergamo
Johann Simone Mayr, c. 1810
Donizetti as a schoolboy