Anne Boleyn by Donizetti, Ġim 11 Mar 2016, Minn (2016/2016), Immexxi minn Ivan Krejčí, Surmast Direttur Jakub Žídek, Antonín Dvořák Theatre, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Tragedia lirica in three acts from 1830 Libretto Felice Romani (​1788–1865) based on Ippolito Pindemont Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli Anna Bolena Anne Boleyn is a fittingly tragic figure – deeply wounded, yet constantly dignified and majestic, quite unlike the way history portrays her. The operatic story of an innocent English queen condemned to death by her insensitive husband, Henry VIII, who no longer loves her, moved the audience already at the time of its creation. By coincidence, however, this opera eventually fell into oblivion and was reborn only in the fifties of the last century in connection with the singing mastery of Marie Callas and, more recently, also thanks to the phenomenal singers Edita Gruberová and Anna Netrebko.