First performance 2 August 1828 Librettist Domenico Gilardoni | Composer Gaetano Donizetti Language Italian | |
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Similar Otto mesi in due ore, Alahor in Granata, La lettera anonima, Il falegname di Livonia, Francesca di Foix | ||
Gaetano donizetti 1797 1848 gianni di calais 1828 sextet tu in grembo all innocenza
Gianni di Calais is a melodramma semiserio, a "semi-serious" opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1828), from a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, based on Jean de Paris by Louis-Charles Caigniez.
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- Gaetano donizetti 1797 1848 gianni di calais 1828 sextet tu in grembo all innocenza
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It was first performed on 2 August 1828 at the Teatro del Fondo, Naples.
Synopsis
Time: "The past" Place: PortugalThe Duchess Adelina meets a masked woman with a child on the beach at night. The stranger turns out to be her friend, Princess Matilde, the king's daughter, fleeing to avoid having to marry the courtier Rogiero. During her flight she had fallen into the hands of pirates, but had been rescued by the ship-owner Gianni di Calais, who later became her husband. No one knows that the woman is the king's daughter except Gianni's faithful friend, Rustano. Gianni arrives with the sails of his ship showing images of his wife and son. He has been called to court by the king in order to search for his daughter. It is at this point that Gianni realizes the identity of his wife, and she appears at that moment. When the furious Rogiero sees her, he plans his revenge by kidnapping Gianni's and Matilde's son, but the boy is immediately rescued by Rustano. The king punishes Rogiero, and Gianni is accepted as Matlide's wife.