Doña Francisquita

Doña Francisquita
Zarzuela by Amadeo Vives
Poster
Librettist
LanguageSpanish
Based onLope de Vega's La discreta enamorada
Premiere
17 October 1923 (1923-10-17)
Teatro Apolo, Madrid

Doña Francisquita is a zarzuela in three acts composed by Amadeo Vives to a Spanish libretto by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández-Shaw and based on Lope de Vega's play La discreta enamorada (The Ingenious Lover). With its colourful score and comic story of multiple love triangles which ends happily for the young lovers, Francisquita and Fernando, Doña Francisquita is considered a classic of the zarzuela genre, and Vives' masterpiece.