Key facts
- Librettist
- Felice Romani
- Language
- Italian
- Premiere
- 26 December 1830 ( 1830-12-26 ) , Teatro Carcano , Milan
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- opera
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Composer
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Narrative location
- London
- Librettist
- Felice Romani
- Image
- Disegno per copertina di libretto, disegno di Peter Hoffer per Anna Bolena (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON012415.jpg
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- Commons category
- Anna Bolena
- title
- Anna Bolena
- inception
- 1830-00-00
- date of first performance
- 1830-12-26
- number of parts of this work
- 2
- language of work or name
- Italian
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- opera
- location of first performance
- Teatro Carcano
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Encyclopedic overview
Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both recounting the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII.
It is one of four operas by Donizetti dealing with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, Il castello di Kenilworth (1829), Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen of Scots, it appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835), and Roberto Devereux (1837, named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England). The leading female characters of the latter three operas are often referred to as "the Three Donizetti Queens."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anna Bolena” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.