Title: Gaetano Donizetti
Content:  Florence.  After the successful staging of Lucrezia Borgia in 1833, his reputation was further consolidated, and Donizetti followed the paths of both Rossini and Bellini by visiting Paris, where his Marin Faliero was given at the Théâtre-Italien in March 1835. However, it suffered by comparison to Bellini's I puritani which appeared at the same time. Donizetti returned from Paris to oversee the staging of Lucia di Lammermoor on 26 September 1835. It was set to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, the first of eight for the composer. The opera was based on The Bride of Lammermoor, the novel by Sir Walter Scott, 
Title: Belisario
Content:  With the success of Lucia di Lammermoor in September 1835, Donizetti moved on to stagings of Maria Stuarda, the first under that name at La Scala in late 1835. He had signed the contract in July 1835 to present Belisario in Venice, for what would be the first visit to that city since 1819, but it was not until October that the subject was finally agreed upon. There followed discussions with impresario Natale Fabbrici about employing a Venetian librettist, Pietro Beltrame. However, not only did the composer prefer to work with a librettist known to him and with whom he could work in close proximity, but he had already begun working with Cammarano who was 
Title: Russian opera
Content:  Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre). Domenico Cimarosa, (1749–1801) another famous Neapolitan composer, singer, violinist, harpsichordist, conductor ant teacher, who composed about 75 operas, was a maestro di cappella in Russia for five years (1787–1791), where he wrote: La felicità inaspettata (1788 Hermitage Theatre), ''La vergine del sol'e (1788? Hermitage Theatre; 1789 Saint Petersburg, Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre) and La Cleopatra (Cleopatra e Marc Antonio 1789 Hermitage Theatre) Vicente Martín y Soler (1754–1806) a Spanish organist and composer of 21 operas and 5 ballets, he settled in Russia c1788, where he was called "Martini". He wrote there: Gore-Bogatyr Kosometovich (libretto by Catherine II of Russia, 1789 Hermitage Theatre) 
Title: Almerindo Spadetta
Content:  I due mariti (commedia lirica in 3 acts); composed by Nicola D'Arienzo; premiered Teatro Bellini, Naples, 1 February 1866 ; Tizio, Cajo e Sempronio (opera buffa in 3 acts); composed by Alfonso Buonomo; premiered Teatro Fenice, Naples, 1867 ; Le rose (commedia lirica in 3 acts); composed by Nicola D'Arienzo; premiered Teatro Bellini, Naples, February 1868 ; Il cacciatore delle Alpi (azione semiseria in 1 act); composed by Nicola D'Arienzo; premiered Teatrino del Collegio dei Nobili, Naples, 23 June 1870 ; Zorilla (melodramma giocoso in 3 acts); composed by Antonio Nani; premiered Teatro Rossini, Naples, 1872 ; Il cuoco e il segretario (opera buffa in 3 acts, after Eugène Scribe); composed by Nicola D'Arienzo; premiered Teatro Rossini, Naples, 11 January 1873 ; I viaggi (commedia lirica in 3 acts); composed by Nicola D'Arienzo; premiered Teatro Castelli, Milan, 23 June 1875. Spadetta's libretti include:
Title: L'incantesimo
Content:  L'incantesimo is a short opera in one act by Italian composer Italo Montemezzi. Its libretto was written by playwright Sem Benelli who had previously collaborated with the composer on his most famous opera, L'amore dei tre re. Benelli finished the text in 1933, and Montemezzi started work on the score, but the composer's unpleasant relationship with Mussolini's government made Italy inconducive to creative work. Montemezzi resumed work on L'incantesimo during the summer of 1943 in Beverly Hills, his home during a 10-year sojourn in the United States. Upon completion of the score, he offered it to the NBC Symphony, professing admiration for their orchestra.
Title: Carlo Lombardo
Content: La Regina del Fonografo (The Queen of the Phonograph), music Carlo Lombardo (Leon Bard), libretto Carlo Lombardo e Gil Blas, ca. 1915 ; La duchessa del Bal Tabarin, 1917 ; Madama di Tebe, libretto and music by Lombardo, Milan, 7 March 1918 ; Sì, music by Pietro Mascagni, Rome, Teatro Quirino, 13 December 1919 ; Il re di Chez-Maxim, music Mario Pasquale Costa, 1919 ; La danza delle libellule, music by Franz Lehár and Carlo Lombardo, Milan 3 May 1922 ; Scugnizza, music Mario Pasquale Costa, Turin, 16 December 1922 ; Il paese dei campanelli (operetta), music Virgilio Ranzato and Carlo Lombardo, Milan, Teatro Lirico, 23 November 1923 ; Cin Ci La, music Virgilio Ranzato, Milan, 18 December 1925 ; La casa innamorata, libretto Renato Simoni 1929 
Title: Domenico Cimarosa
Content:  Domenico Cimarosa (17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan school and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is Il matrimonio segreto (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and church music. Cimarosa was principally based in Naples, but spent some of his career in various other parts of Italy, composing for the opera houses of Rome, Venice, Florence and elsewhere. He was engaged by the empress of Russia Catherine the Great as her court composer and conductor between 1787 and 1791. In his later years, returning to Naples, he backed the losing side in the struggle to overthrow the monarchy there, and was imprisoned and then exiled. He died in Venice at the age of 51.
Title: Arturo Buzzi-Peccia
Content:  Re Harfagar received critical acclaim when it premiered at La Scala in 1888. The 1897 premiere in Turin of Buzzi-Peccia's only opera, Forza d'Amore, was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. One of his best-known works is "Lolita: Serenata spagnola" (1892), recorded by many singers over the years including Enrico Caruso, Titta Ruffo, and Franco Corelli. His "Mal d'Amore" was sung by Joseph Schmidt in the 1934 film My Song Goes Round the World. Most of his songs were written in Italian, but he also wrote lyrics in French and English. His most famous novelty song, "La Cigarette du Paradis" (Song of 
Title: In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa
Content:  Wolfgang Fortner composed the opera on a commission of the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SR) for the opening of the 1962 Schwetzingen Festival. The festival has a tradition of opening with a new work, such as Werner Egk's Der Revisor in 1957, Gerhard Wimberger's La Battaglia in 1960, and Hans Werner Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende in 1961. The composer chose again a play by Federico García Lorca, as he had done already in Bluthochzeit. The opera's subtitle alludes to the play's subtitle, "Aleluya erotica en un prologo y tres escenas" ("An erotic lace-paper valentine in a prologue and three scenes"). It is in German "Vier Bilder eines erotischen Bilderbogens in der Art eines Kammerspiels von Federico García Lorca" (Four images of an erotic valentine in the way of a chamber play by F. G. Lorca), characterizing it as a chamber opera. In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa premiered at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen on 10 May 1962 in a production of the Cologne Opera, staged by Oscar Fritz Schuh and with Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting choir and orchestra of the SR.
Title: Enzo Sordello
Content: Madama Butterfly - Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Coro e Orchestra dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin - (Decca, 1958) ; La fanciulla del West - Birgit Nilsson, Joao Gibin, Andrea Mongelli, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Lovro von Matačić - (EMI, 1958) ; L'amore dei tre re - Luisa Malagrida, Pierre Duval, Ezio Flagello, Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Richard Karp - (Delphi, 1969) 

Question: Who was the composer of La bella dormente nel bosco?
Answer: Ottorino Respighi.