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Referring to this opera as La favorite is perfectly correct, however it is normally performed under the title La favorita (the Italian version). How can we provide a link connecting La favorita with La favorite? - - Kleinzach 14:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Done. --Jdiazch 12:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Arrangement

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Currently we say: "Antonio Pasculli arranged the work for oboe and piano/orchestra". Presumably this is a reference to this. Which is very nice. But clearly not the whole opera ;-) Could someone tell me which parts of the opera this work is drawing on? almost-instinct 13:35, 16 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

It's a "Concerto sopra motivi dell'opera La favorita [sic] di Donizetti", so may actually be somewhat longer than the Youtube clip. There seems to be a downloadable file here but my computer doesn't like the look of it. The big numbers in the opera are "Ange si pur"/"Spirto gentil" for the tenor and "O mon Fernand"/"O mio Fernando" for the mezzo. --GuillaumeTell 17:34, 16 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

File:Gilbert Duprez & Rosine Stoltz in Donizetti's La Favorite.jpg scheduled for POTD

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Hello! This is to let editors know that the featured picture File:Gilbert Duprez & Rosine Stoltz in Donizetti's La Favorite.jpg, which is used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for December 2, 2020. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2020-12-02. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:57, 10 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

La favorite 

La favorite (The Favourite) is a grand opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play Le comte de Comminges by Baculard d'Arnaud. The plot revolves around a love triangle involving Alphonse (Alfonso XI), King of Castile; his mistress Léonor (Leonora), the titular favourite; and her lover Fernand (Fernando). The story unfolds against the background of Moorish Spain and power struggles between church and state. The opera premiered in Paris in 1840, with further performances being staged in England, Italy, the United States and elsewhere. This lithograph, forming the frontispiece to the first-edition vocal score of La favorite, depicts Rosine Stoltz as Léonor and Gilbert Duprez as Fernand.

Lithograph credit: Émile Desmaisons, after François-Gabriel Lépaulle; restored by Adam Cuerden

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