Fedora

Fedora was an opera in three acts with a score by Umberto Giordano and a libretto by A. Colautti based upon the play by Victorien Sardou . It had its world premiere at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 17 November 1898 with Gemma Bellincioni in the title role and Enrico Caruso as her sweetheart and husband Loris. It was booked into the Théâtre Italien in Paris in 1905, but only its second act was produced at the Opéra on 20 October 1910, when it was part of a gala program organized to raise money…