 Gianni di Parigi

Gianni di Parigi is an 1839 "melodramma comico" ("opera buffa") in two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, which had previously been set by Francesco Morlacchi in 1818 and by Giovanni Antonio Speranza in 1836.It is derived from "Jean de Paris", an 1812 opera by François-Adrien Boïeldieu with a libretto by Claude Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just, which had been performed in Naples in 1816.