Belisario
Sign in to saveBelisario (Belisarius) is a tragedia lirica (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, Belisarius, first staged in Munich in 1820 and then (in Italian) in Naples in 1826. The plot is loosely based on the life of the famous general Belisarius of the 6th century Byzantine Empire.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Belisario
- Opera.composer
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Opera.image
- Gaetano Donizetti - Belisario - title page of the libretto - Venice 1836.png
- Opera.caption
- Title page of the 1836 libretto
- Opera.librettist
- Salvadore Cammarano
- Opera.language
- Italian
- Opera.premiere_location
- Teatro La Fenice, Venice
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- Composition history
- Performance history
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Recordings
- References
- Further reading
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Belisario (Belisarius) is a tragedia lirica (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, Belisarius, first staged in Munich in 1820 and then (in Italian) in Naples in 1826. The plot is loosely based on the life of the famous general Belisarius of the 6th century Byzantine Empire.
It premiered to critical and popular success on 4 February 1836 at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, and was given many additional performances that season, although Donizetti scholar William Ashbrook notes that there would have been more had the opera not been presented so late in the season.
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1836 operasByzantine Empire in art and cultureCultural depictions of BelisariusCultural depictions of Justinian IItalian-language operasOperasOperas based on playsOperas by Gaetano DonizettiOpera world premieres at La FeniceWorks set in the 6th centuryWorks set in the Byzantine EmpireWorks with IMSLP links