Set partly at the palace of Alfonso d'Este and based on a play by Victor Hugo, FTP, name this opera by Gaetano Donizetti, which is titled for an infamous daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
During one aria, the male lead relates that, as a youth, he was raised by a fisherman until one day he was led away by a man who gave him weapons, a horse, and a letter from his real mother who was in hiding to escape persecution. That aria, "Di pescatore ignobile," prompts the title character to respond that he should always love his mother, drawing the aria "Ama tua madre." The first act opens with Rustighello busting through a door with a group of thugs as part of a kidnapping plot, while the second and final act opens with the brindisi "Il segreto per esser felice," sung at a party at Princess Negroni's palace. There, it is revealed that Gennaro and five others have been poisoned - the title character implores him to drink an antidote for the second time, but he refuses, even after she tells him that he's her son. Set partly at the palace of Alfonso d'Este and based on a play by Victor Hugo, FTP, name this opera by Gaetano Donizetti, which is titled for an infamous daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
During one aria, the male lead relates that, as a youth, he was raised by a fisherman until one day he was led away by a man who gave him weapons, a horse, and a letter from his real mother who was in hiding to escape persecution.
{Lucrezia Borgia}