Donizetti's first major international operatic success - and yet his 30th opera - is heard in a performance recorded last year at the Munich Opera. The two-act work, revived this century by Maria Callas , tells the tragic tale of Henry VIII 's second wife
Anne Boleyn , who in this version of her life is portrayed as an innocent heroine driven to her death by an unfeeling husband who no longer loves her. Introduced by Paul Guinery in conversation with Lady Antonia Fraser , author of a book on the wives of Henry VIII. Sung in Italian.
Munich Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Fabio Loisi