L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
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L'ajo nell'imbarazzo is a melodramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, after the 1807 play by Giovanni Giraud. At its premiere a
Donizetti as a young man
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'ajo nell'imbarazzo
…L'ajo nell'imbarazzo (The Tutor Embarrassed or The Tutor in a Jam) is a melodramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, after the 1807 play by Giovanni Giraud. At its premiere at the Teatro Valle, Rome, on 4 February…
Portrait by Francesco Coghetti, 1837
Donizetti as a schoolboy in Bergamo
Johann Simone Mayr, c. 1810
Donizetti as a schoolboy