Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo
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Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (The Madman on the Island of San Domingo) is a "romantic melodramma"[1] in two[2] acts by the composer Gaetano Donizetti. Jacopo Ferretti, who since 1821 had written five libretti for Donizetti and two for Rossini (including La Cenerentola), had proposed the unusual subject[3] and he was contracted to write the Italian libretto based on a five-act play of the same title by an unknown author in 1820, which "had been given in the same theatre [...] and which Donizetti had immediately loved".[4] However, as has been noted by Charles Osborne, the "ultimate derivation of both play and libretto is an episode in part 1 of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes's published in 1605" which is the story of Cardenio and Lucinda.[5]
Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo | |
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Opera by Gaetano Donizetti | |
Librettist | Jacopo Ferretti |
Language | Italian |
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The opera was premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome on 2 January 1833 and was very successful throughout Europe—being staged in over 100 locations—but it disappeared after 1889, not to be seen again until 1958.[5]