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Undoubtedly Authentic
Rossini's 'La Donna del lago'
delights MARIA NOCKIN
La donna del lago ('The Lady of the Lake') is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French translation of Sir Walter Scott's 1810 narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, it was the first Italian opera to romanticize the Scottish highlands. La donna was deeply influential in the development of Italian romantic opera. Two decades later, there were twenty-five Italian operas based on Scott's works, the most famous of which is Donizetti's 1835 Lucia di Lammermoor...
Copyright © 30 March 2015
Maria Nockin,
Arizona USA
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