La straniera (The Foreign Woman) is an opera in two acts with music by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on the novel L'Étrangère (2 vols, 1825) by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt, although writer Herbert Weinstock also adds that it is "more likely [based on] a dramatization of [that novel] in Italian by Giovan Carlo, barone di Cosenza" since he then quotes a letter from Bellini to his friend Francesco Florimo in which he says that Romani "certainly will not follow the play" [suggesting then that they were aware of its existence.]
| Original Name | La straniera |
| Librettist | Felice Romani (Based on Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt's novel L'Étrangère) |
| Premiered | 1829, February 18th (Teatro alla Scala) in Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy |
| First published | 1829 |
| Type | Opera |
| Spoken language | Italian |
| Instruments |
Orchestra
Chorus/Choir Voice (Soprano) - Alaide, the stranger Voice (Tenor) - Arturo, Count of Ravenstel Voice (Baritone) - Valdeburgo, Baron, secret brother of Alaide Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Isoletta, fiancée of Arturo Voice (Tenor) - Osburgo, confidant of Arturo Voice (Bass) - Il signore di Montolino, father of Isoletta Voice (Bass) - Il Priore degli Spedalieri |
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| Autotranslations beta |
Vincenzo Bellini: The Foreign Woman Vincenzo Bellini: The Foreign Woman Vincenzo Bellini: The Foreign Woman |