Parisina (Donizetti)
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This article is about the opera by Donizetti. For the opera by Pietro Mascagni, see Parisina (Mascagni). For the historical character on whom the opera is loosely based, see Parisina Malatesta.
Parisina (also known as Parisina d'Este) is an opera (tragedia lirica), in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's 1816 poem Parisina.
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Opera by Gaetano Donizetti | |
Librettist | Felice Romani |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Byron's Parisina |
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The characters of Parisina and Duke Azzo in both Byron's poem and Donizetti's opera are very loosely based on the historical figures of Parisina Malatesta (the daughter of Andrea Malatesta) and Niccolò III d'Este.
Parisina premiered on 17 March 1833 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. A performance at the Teatro Argentina in Rome is the setting for a key scene in chapter 34 of the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.