Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia

Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1977

Runtime

2h 20m

Original Title

Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia

Description

The Australian Opera Chorus & The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge Lucrezia Borgia, infamous noblewoman of the Renaissance, has outlived three husbands and is now married to Don Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara. After the Borgia’s palace is defaced by vandals, Lucrezia demands the desecrator’s death to avenge the insult. When the noble young soldier Gennaro is arrested for the crime, Lucrezia’s thirst for vengeance and murder sets in motion a tragic chain of events that eventually destroys her enemies and herself.