Felice Romani

Italian poet

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collaboration with Bellini

  • Vincenzo Bellini
    In Vincenzo Bellini

    …theatre poet of the day, Felice Romani, with whom he collaborated in his next six operas. The most important of these were I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830), based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; La sonnambula (1831; The Sleepwalker); and Norma (1831). La sonnambula, an opera semiseria (serious but with…

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libretto for “L’elisir d’amore”

  • Donizetti, Gaetano
    In L’elisir d’amore

    Gaetano Donizetti (Italian libretto by Felice Romani, after a French libretto by Eugène Scribe for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s Le Philtre, 1831) that premiered in Milan on May 12, 1832.

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