La romanziera e l'uomo nero

La romanziera e l'uomo nero
Farsa by Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti c. 1835
LibrettistDomenico Gilardoni
LanguageItalian
Premiere
18 June 1831 (1831-06-18)

La romanziera e l'uomo nero (also known as La romanzesca e l'uomo nero) is an 1831 one-act farsa with music by Gaetano Donizetti and an Italian libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, possibly based on the 1819 play La donna dei romanzi by Augusto Bon. Other suggested sources include L'homme noir (1820) by Eugene Scribe and Jean-Henri Dupin and Le coiffeur et le perruquier (1824) by Scribe, Édouard-Joseph-Ennemond Mazères and Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent.