Anna Bolena
anne boleyn
['odysseus', 'rocky', 'prometheus', 'oceanus', 'iseult', 'bacchic', 'king david', 'foghorn leghorn', 'tardis', 'catherine linton', 'marge simpson', 'cassio', 'queequeg', 'macduff', 'shem', 'fairy godmother', 'oedipus', 'merlin', 'batman', 'talking cricket', 'king miraz', 'desdemona', 'cardinal richelieu', 'anita blake', 'fantasio', 'socrates', 'aphrodite', 'jimmy kudo', 'thetis', 'dante alighieri', 'prince hamlet', 'evil queen', 'samuel wilberforce', 'shylock', 'pallas athena', 'ilmarinen', 'bilbo baggins', 'ron weasley', 'bagheera', 'ismene', 'sita', 'armida', 'romeo', 'poseidon', 'eros', 'trimalchio', 'snuffleupagus', 'sir henry merrivale', 'podarces', 'three witches', 'leto', 'patrick star', 'obelix', 'bella swan', 'bullwinkle', 'squidward tentacles', 'simba', 'goliath', 'glados', 'iago', 'queen elizabeth i', 'bethuel', 'israel', 'easter beagle', 'jules maigret', 'chief wiggum', 'forty thieves', 'huck finn', 'ostap bender', 'solomon', 'terah', 'jesse', 'yseult', 'apollo', 'yoshi', 'morgoth', 'anselm', 'caliban', 'seetha', 'samus aran', 'yhwh', 'christos papadimitriou', 'theseus', 'aragorn', 'oceanids', 'ulysses', 'harry palmer', 'prince rilian', 'hagar', 'elmo', 'jason bourne', 'president josiah bartlet', 'oliver cromwell', 'captain haddock', 'holofernes', 'jehoshua', 'judas', 'lucy', 'moe']
Roberto Devereux
Roberto Devereux (or Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex [Robert Devereux, or the Earl of Essex]) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre (1829), and based as well on the Historie secrete des amours d'Elisabeth et du comte d'Essex (1787) by Jacques Lescéne des Maisons, although Devereux was the subject of at least two other French plays: Le Comte d'Essex by Thomas Corneille and Le Comte d'Essex by Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède. The opera is loosely based on the life of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, an influential member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The plot of Roberto Devereux was hardly original, mainly derived from Felice Romani's libretto Il Conte d'Essex of 1833, originally set by Saverio Mercadante. Romani's widow charged Cammarano with plagiarism, although the practice of stealing plots was very common between rival Italian opera houses. It is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history and include Anna Bolena (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen of Scots) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Elisabetta are often referred to as the "Three Donizetti Queens." They earned some degree of fame in the 1970s, when the American soprano Beverly Sills promoted them as a series at New York City Opera. It has been noted that, "although the plot plays fast and loose with history, the opera carries its own brand of dramatic conviction".