La Forza del Destino

The Power of Fate

• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave (additions to revised version by Antonio Ghislanzoni)
• Source: Don Alvaro, ó La Fuerza del Sino, drama by Angel de Saavedra Ramirez de Banquedano, Duke of Rivas
• First performance: Bolshoi Theatre, St. Petersburg, 10 November 1862 (o.s.?)
• First performance of revised version: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 27 February 1869
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