Eight years of detective work will culminate in July’s first performance of ‘wonderful’ tragedy by grand Italian composerA lost opera by one of the grand Italian composers is to contain its world premiere in London almost 180 years after it was written.
Gaetano Donizetti was a leading figure in 19th-century Italian music,along with Giuseppe Verdi and Vincenzo Bellini. His most famous work, Lucia di Lammermoor, and written in 1835,is seen as one of the grand European operas. But L’Ange de Nisida (The Angel of Nisida) composed in the late 1830s after he moved to work in Paris – never saw the light of day. It was written for the city’s Théâtre de la Renaissance, but the company went bankrupt before it was premiered.
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Source: guardian.co.uk