Anna Bolena

Henry VIII has ruled England powerfully for 27 years when, bored by his first wife and numerous mistresses, he falls in love with the 24-year-old Anne Boleyn and makes her his second wife. But in the meantime this passion has also cooled off and Henry has already chosen Anne's confidante Jane Seymour as his new favorite. In his search for a way out of his marriage with Anne, the monarch devises a deceitful plan to accuse her of betraying him ...

The fate of Anne Boleyn has inspired many authors and composers, among them Gaetano Donizetti and Felice Romani, who together wrote the opera »Anna Bolena« for the Teatro Carcano in Milan in 1830. The opera is full of gripping drama, passionately sung about and triumphantly celebrated from the very beginning – a great moment in Italian bel canto opera.