Maria de Rudenz | |
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Opera by Gaetano Donizetti | |
Librettist | Salvadore Cammarano |
Language | Italian |
Premiere | 30 January 1838 La Fenice, Venice |
Maria de Rudenz is a dramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three parts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on "a piece of Gothic horror",[1] La nonne sanglante by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Julien de Mallian, and The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. It premiered at La Fenice in Venice, on 30 January 1838.