Zaira

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Zaira is a popular female name in Mexico and Spain. It's main meanings are "princess" in Irish and Hebrew, "dawning" in Italian and "rose" in Arabic.

Zaira is also a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini (1829), from a libretto by Felice Romani based on the tragedy Zaïre (1732) by Voltaire.

It received its first performance at the Teatro Ducale, Parma, on the 16th May, 1829. The opera was a failure at its premiere and Bellini re-used substantial parts of it for his I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830).

The opera was revived in 1975 in a reconstruction by Rubino Profeta at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania with a cast including Renata Scotto and Giorgio Casellato Lamberti and again in 1990 with Katia Ricciarelli, Ramon Vargas and Simone Alaimo. Recordings exist of both these performances.


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