 La zingara

La zingara ("The Gypsy Girl") is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after "La petite bohémienne" ("The Little Gypsy") by Louis-Charles Caigniez, which was itself derived from a work of August von Kotzebue.It was Donizetti's first opera written for Naples, and the first performance of this "rescue opera" took place at the Teatro Nuovo on 12 May 1822.