L’ange de Nisida is an opera semiseria in four acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, from a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz. The final scene is based on the 1790 Parisian play Les Amants malheureux, ou le comte de Comminges. L’ange finally received its premiere in its original form in 2018 in a concert performance at London’s Royal Opera House. It has been described as a “lost opera” by musicologist William Ashbrook.
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L’ange de Nisida is an opera semiseria in four acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, from a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz. The final scene is based on the François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’Arnaud play Les Amants malheureux, ou le comte de Comminges. Because the subject matter involved the mistress of a Neapolitan king, and may thus have caused difficulties with the Italian censors, the opera was presented in France. L’ange finally received its premiere in its original form in 2018 in a concert performance at London’s Royal Opera House. The opera was reworked as La favorite in September 1840 and is now on display at the Bibliothèque-Musèque de l’Opéra de Paris, which is owned by the French government. It is considered analogous with the libretti for Giovanni Pacini’s Adelaide e Comingio, and the final scene of the opera is based in the 1790 Parisian play Les Amants malheureaux, or le comte de Comminges by Francois Thomas-Thomas Baculard d’Arneud.
It has been described as a “lost opera” by musicologist William Ashbrook, who speculates that the first two acts may have been considered one. The score was completed on 27 December 1839, the date on the final page of the autograph score. It was meant to be the successor to the opera Lammermoor, which was premiered the previous year in Paris by Anténor Joly’s Théâtre de la Renaissance. The contract stipulates that L’ange must be performed twenty times unless three consecutive performances, and that Joly could not decline to decline any other opera until the revenue from the performances started to decline. The company went bankrupt; it is possible that another contract existed for another opera, and L’anges was set to begin rehearsal on February 1, 1840.
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