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L'ange de Nisida (The Angel of Nisida) is an opera semiseria in four
acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (pictured), from a libretto
by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz. Parts of the libretto are
considered analogous with the libretto for Giovanni Pacini's Adelaide e
Comingio, and the final scene is based on the François-Thomas-Marie de
Baculard d'Arnaud play Les Amants malheureux, ou le comte de Comminges.
Donizetti worked on the opera in the autumn of 1839—its final page is
dated 27 December 1839. Because the subject matter involved the
mistress of a Neapolitan king, and may thus have caused difficulties
with the Italian censors, Donizetti decided that the opera should be
presented in France. However, the theater company Donizetti contracted
went bankrupt. L'ange was never performed and was reworked as La
favorite in September 1840. (more...)
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