La romanzesca e l’uomo nero

'A real discovery and a wholly enjoyable disc' Richard Law, Opera

A one-act opera buffa written for Naples. Donizetti's La romanzesca e l'uomo nero dates from the same period as Anna Bolena and L’elisir d’amore when the composer’s genius was in full flood. The plot satirises the 1830s obsession in Italy with the Gothic and centres on Antonia and her fantasies about the mysterious Man in Black.