Anna Bolena [SEP] country of origin
after this success did Donizetti's teacher, Johann Simon Mayr, "address his former pupil as Maestro." The composer had begun "to emerge as one of three most luminous names in the world of Italian opera", alongside Bellini and Rossini.
Performance history.
19th century
After its opening performances in Italy in 1830, "Anna Bolena" was first given in London at the King's Theatre on 8 July 1831. Its first US performance was given in French (as "Anne de Boulen")
Anna Bolena
Anna Bolena is a tragic opera ("tragedia lirica") in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's "Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena" and Alessandro Pepoli's "Anna Bolena", both recounting the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII.
It is one of four operas by Donizetti dealing with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, "Il castello di Kenilworth" (1829), "