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La donna del lago ( English: The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) [1] based on the French translation [2] of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the ...
Feb 23, 2015 · La Donna del Lago is the first of many operas that borrowed their subject from a work by the famous Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). The exaltation of individual passions, the feeling for nature and the use of local colour are all elements typical of the rising Romantic aesthetic.
La donna del lago is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola based on the French translation of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the image of the romantic Scottish Highlands.
Rossini’s La donna del lago, based on Sir Walter Scott’s poem, is a relatively late work in his brief and unbelievably industrious period of operatic composition. It has its passionate...
Feb 18, 2015 · To unravel the plot of this opera, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott, Elena is the daughter of Duglas d’Angus, a nobleman in 16th-century Scotland and a former tutor to James V, who has turned...
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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 Lady of the Lake, a poem by Sir Walter Scott. This opera was the first to be based on Scott's romantic works. By 1840, barely 20 years after La donna del lago, there were 25 Italian operas based on works by Scott (the ...
Composed for Naples in 1819, La donna del lago, another of Rossini’s serious operas, is based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott, whose appeal to Italian opera composers soon became rampant; the most famous is Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.
