I gioielli della Madonna

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I gioielli della Madonna (English: The Jewels of the Madonna) is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Carlo Zangarini and Enrico Golisciani, based on news accounts of a real event. First performance: Kurfürstnoper, Berlin, 1911.

The premier of this opera was in German, but now it is performed in Italian.

I gioielli della Madonna is not part of the standard operatic repertory. There is a recording of it. It is occasionally performed today.