Zaira (opera)

Zaira (opera)

Zaira is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini (1829), from a libretto by Felice Romani based on the tragedy "Zaïre" (1732) by Voltaire.

Performance history

It received its first performance at the Teatro Ducale, Parma, on the 16th May, 1829. The opera was a failure at its premiere and Bellini re-used substantial parts of it for his "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" (1830).

The opera was revived in 1975 in a reconstruction by Rubino Profeta at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania with a cast including Renata Scotto and Giorgio Casellato Lamberti and again in 1990 with Katia Ricciarelli, Ramon Vargas and Simone Alaimo. Recordings exist of both these performances.

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