Anna Bolena - Wiener Staatsoper

About Anna Bolena - Wiener Staatsoper

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the personal rather than the political in this fictionalized Tudor tale: Henry VIII of England wants to get rid of his second wife, Anne Boleyn, so that he can marry her lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour. He brings Lord Richard Percy, Anne's first love, back from exile so that he can find an excuse to accus…

Brian Large and Éric Génovèse directed Anna Bolena - Wiener Staatsoper, a 2011 music film. Released in April 2011, it runs 194 minutes.

Its themes are tragedy, opera, opera live performance, and tudor.

Ildebrando d'Arcangelo takes the lead as Enrico VIII, Anna Netrebko as Anna Bolena, Elīna Garanča as Giovanna Seymour, and Dan Paul Dumitrescu as Lord Rochefort. The screenplay is by Felice Romani. In the United States it streams on Carnegie Hall+ Amazon Channel and Carnegie Hall+ Apple TV channel.

Anne of the Thousand Days, Henry VIII and His Six Wives, and The Other Boleyn Girl make useful companions to Anna Bolena - Wiener Staatsoper, all filed under anne boleyn and henry viii.