Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux

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  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 16, 1998

Runtime

2h 16m

Genres

Music

User Score

10%

Original Title

Roberto Devereux

Production Companies

Progetto Italia, Image Entertainment

Director

Alberto Fassini

Description

A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereux was composed in the summer of 1837, the year, according to biographers, in which Donizetti seems to have suffered most, having lost his third son and his adored wife Virginia Vasselli. The opera made its debut at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples on October 28th in the same year and was a great success. The rehearsals of the original performance were postponed for a month due to censorship of the decapitation scene of the leading actor.