 Francesca di Foix

Francesca di Foix is a "melodramma giocoso" (comic opera) in one act by Gaetano Donizetti with a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni based on one by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Mercier-Dupaty for Henri Montan Berton's 3-act opéra-comique "Françoise de Foix", inspired by the life of Françoise de Foix.It received its first performance on 30 May 1831 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.