page_title: Il castello di Kenilworth
section_title: Roles
hierarchical_section_title: Il castello di Kenilworth / Roles
caption_attribution_description: Georg Saal: Schloss in England, (bezeichnet „England“), Öl auf Leinwand, 36,5 x 48 cm
context_page_description: Il castello di Kenilworth is a melodramma serio or tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto after Victor Hugo's play Amy Robsart and Eugene Scribe's play Leicester, both of which following from Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth. Daniel Auber composed another opera on the same subject, Leicester, ou Le chateau de Kenilworth in 1823.
  This opera was the first of Donizetti's excursions into the Tudor period of English history, and it was followed in 1830 by Anna Bolena, then by Maria Stuarda which appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835. All represented the interests of many Italian composers of the era, Donizetti's included, in the character of Elizabeth I, whose life he was to explore further in 1837 in his opera Roberto Devereux The leading female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux are often referred to as the "Three Donizetti Queens."
  As Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth the opera received its first performance on 6 July 1829 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples and, in a revised version at the same house, as Il castello di Kenilworth on 24 June 1830.
caption: Georg Saal, Kenilworth Castle, 1866
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