Donna Bianca
Set in Portugal during the 13th-century Reconquista of the Algarve from the Moors, the opera recounts the tragic love story between Afonso III’s daughter Dona Branca and Moorish ruler Aben-Afan.
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Set in Portugal during the 13th-century Reconquista of the Algarve from the Moors, the opera recounts the tragic love story between Afonso III’s daughter Dona Branca and Moorish ruler Aben-Afan.
Madalena de Vilhena, whose first husband was presumed dead, lives with her second husband Manuel de Sousa Coutinho and their frail daughter Maria. When an old pilgrim reveals that the first husband may still be alive, Madalena and Manuel face the possibility that their marriage is invalid; the returned man conceals his identity to spare them, but Maria dies during her parents' convent vows.
Set in Portugal during the 13th-century Reconquista of the Algarve from the Moors, the opera recounts the tragic love story between Afonso III’s daughter Dona Branca and Moorish ruler Aben-Afan.
Madalena de Vilhena, whose first husband was presumed dead, lives with her second husband Manuel de Sousa Coutinho and their frail daughter Maria. When an old pilgrim reveals that the first husband may still be alive, Madalena and Manuel face the possibility that their marriage is invalid; the returned man conceals his identity to spare them, but Maria dies during her parents' convent vows.