Enrico di Borgogna (título original en italiano; en español, Enrique de Borgoña) es una ópera en dos actos con música de Gaetano Donizetti y libreto en italiano de Bartolomeo Merelli. Se estrenó en el Teatro San Luca de Venecia el 14 de noviembre de 1818.
Enrico di Borgogna marked Donizetti's debut as an operatic composer. It was staged by the Zanela opera company at the Teatro San Luca in Venice on November 14, 1818. The original reviews of Donizetti's music were quite positive, and speak of his expressive writing and fluent melodies. The production received a great deal of criticism, however. The lead soprano, Adelaide Catalani, fainted from stage fright during the premiere, and had to be replaced for the third act. Moreover, the orchestra drowned out the singers on stage much of the time. But the moderate success of the work led to another commission for Donizetti from the Zanela company, and his career was off to a modest beginning. The libretto for Enrico di Borgogna is by Bartolomeo Merelli, and based on the libretto to August von Kotzebue's Der Graf von Burgund.
Enrico is a full-length, two-act work, which was also a first for the young composer. It is termed an opera eroica, even though Donizetti included a buffo role in the cast. In terms of Donizetti's own compositional history, this score contains one piece of interest. The cabaletta for Enrico in the first act is based on the same, famous melody as that to Anna Bolena's "Al dolce guidami," composed some 12 years later. The score shows the influence of Rossini, both in its formal treatment and its use of musical conventions. The operatic ensembles are strong and the melodies fluent.
By Rita Laurance
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